Berlinale 2024
Star director Martin Scorsese receives the Honorary Golden Bear
Martin Scorsese will receive the Honorary Golden Bear in 2024 for his life’s work.
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Great honor for Martin Scorsese: The Berlinale’s Honorary Golden Bear in 2024 will go to the well-known US director.
The American star director Martin Scorsese (81) receives the Berlinale’s Honorary Golden Bear for his life’s work. The award ceremony will take place on February 20, 2024 in the Berlinale Palast, was announced in a statement. It says, among other things: “For anyone who sees film as the art of crafting a story so that it is both wholly personal and universal, Martin Scorsese is an unsurpassed role model.”
The Berlinale management duo Mariëtte Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian further explained: “Killers of the Flower Moon”, Scorsese’s latest film, is one of his greatest achievements: “As Scorsese himself so eloquently said, the film is a ‘recognition of the extent of terror that the Osage community has suffered, and could also provide some kind of consolation. It is a great pleasure for us to once again welcome a good friend of the festival and to award him our most important honorary award.”
The Berlinale is scheduled to take place from February 15th to February 25th next year. Last year, Steven Spielberg (77) was awarded the Honorary Golden Bear for his life’s work.
Rain of awards for “Killers of the Flower Moon”?
With “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Martin Scorsese, who is considered one of the most important contemporary US filmmakers, can also hope for top-class awards. The late western just received a total of seven nominations at the Golden Globes, including for the director himself, leading actor Leonardo DiCaprio (49), supporting actor Robert De Niro (80) and leading actress Lily Gladstone (37).
Other well-known works by Martin Scorsese, who was born in New York City in 1942, include “Taxi Driver” (1976), “Like a Raging Bull” (1980), “Casino” (1995) and “Departed – Among Enemies ” (2006) – for this film he won the directing Oscar – and “The Wolf of Wall Street” (2013).