It’s pretty early in the award season to place your bets on any winners, but there’s one person who is already a winner at the 2010 Golden Globes; Martin Scorsese. The Oscar-Award Winning auteur will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award for his 40 year contribution to the world of cinema. Ironically, Scorsese presented last year’s DeMille Award to Steven Spielberg. Scorsese has been honored twice for Best Director at the Golden Globes for Gangs of New York and The Departed, which earned him the Academy Award for directing.I am a true Scorsese fan; watching his films always leaves me speechless and mesmerized. I remember seeing him finally receive the Oscar in 2007 and shouting with joy as if the Red Sox won the World Series. Now that I got that off my chest, I’m overjoyed that Scorsese is being honored by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. A few months ago, I was eagerly waiting to see Scorsese’s new film, Shutter Island. Unfortunately, Paramount pushed the film back to February 2010. Needless to say, I was livid and my hopes of seeing the film and its filmmaker get nominated were dashed. After hearing today’s news, I exhaled a breath of relief.
In the Sixties, Scorsese channeled the French New Wave filmmakers, mixed with the grit of New York City, with Who's That Knocking at My Door ?, It’s Not Just You, Murray!, and The Big Shave. In 1973, Scorsese looked at the criminal underworld of Little Italy with Mean Streets. Stripping away the operatic structure of organized crime that made The Godfather a success, Scorsese’s tale of street thugs through the guerilla-styled filmmaking became a hit at the New York Film Festival. Scorsese raised the bar on the crime genre with GoodFellas, Casino, Gangs of New York, and The Departed.
Scorsese is synonymous within the world of music with his celebrated documentaries like The Last Waltz, Bob Dylan: No Direction Home, and Shine A Light. As a film historian and lover, he has made it a mission to preserve film and restore it to a new audience. At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Scorsese premiered the restoration of Powell/Pressburger’s 1948 classic, The Red Shoes.
Forty years of film and many more, Scorsese rightly deserves the honor of being a recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
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