Home Entertainment Martin Scorsese, 81, reminisces about accepting his first ever award as 22-year-old student in front of Hollywood icons Cary Grant, Alfred Hitchcock and Janet Leigh as he’s honored at Producers Guild Awards 2024

Martin Scorsese, 81, reminisces about accepting his first ever award as 22-year-old student in front of Hollywood icons Cary Grant, Alfred Hitchcock and Janet Leigh as he’s honored at Producers Guild Awards 2024

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Martin Scorsese, 81, was honored with the David O. Selznick Award as part of the 35th Annual Producers Guild Awards ceremony at the Ray Dolby Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday.

Martin Scorsese was honored with the David O. Selznick Award as part of the 35th Annual Producers Guild Awards ceremony at the Ray Dolby Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday.

The 81-year-old film icon joined a vaunted group of colleagues who have received the honors in the past, which the Producers Guild says it aims to recognize “a producer or production team for extraordinary work on films.”

Previous honorees include Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, Clint Eastwood, Jerry Bruckheimer and Tom Cruise.

The New York City native mentioned names from Hollywood lore, as he recalled the podium in the room when he first accepted a guild award for his student film It’s Not Just You, Murray! at the age of 22 in 1965.

‘On stage, Alfred Hitchcock, James Stewart, Jack Benny, Samuel Goldwyn, Jack Warner and Norman Lear, Lew Wasserman, Julie Stein, Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer and David O. Selznick ” Scorsese said, according to Deadline.

Martin Scorsese, 81, was honored with the David O. Selznick Award as part of the 35th Annual Producers Guild Awards ceremony at the Ray Dolby Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday.

Martin Scorsese, 81, was honored with the David O. Selznick Award as part of the 35th Annual Producers Guild Awards ceremony at the Ray Dolby Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday.

Previous honorees include Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, Clint Eastwood, Jerry Bruckheimer and Tom Cruise.

Previous honorees include Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, Clint Eastwood, Jerry Bruckheimer and Tom Cruise.

Previous honorees include Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, Clint Eastwood, Jerry Bruckheimer and Tom Cruise.

The Oscar-winning director said the show took place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on March 8, 1965, when it was called the Milestone Awards Dinner, and was in its 13th year.

‘At the end of the stand I was; I was there until the end,” the director of classics such as Goodfellas, Cape Fear, Casino, Raging Bull and The Departed told the audience. ‘I was receiving the Jesse L. Laskey intercollegiate award for a film I made at New York University, when I was 22 years old.

‘I’m up here with all these people. Cary Grant was very kind to me. Many of the others were friendly too. When Elke Summer gave me the award she didn’t know what to do. I look over my right shoulder and Cary Grant says “Kiss her!” So I did it.

Scorsese added: ‘I must tell you that the Milestone Award that night was presented to Alfred Hitchcock, who stood up to speak after a 34-minute clip. It was a shorter evening, but it lasted 34 minutes!’

Scorsese, nominated for an Oscar for Best Director for his last film, Killers of the Flower Moon, recalled the changing cinematic landscape of that time.

“The word past, it speaks of a bygone era as they used to say, it was really the 13th edition of this event,” Scorsese said. ‘It was another world. Over the hill are Bonnie and Clyde, Easy Rider and Wild Bunch just around the corner.

“So, in a way, we were the ones making the movies. The history in that room, Warner, Goldwyn, Selznick, those incredible actors.

Scorsese spoke about the award’s namesake, saying he was four years old when his beloved late mother Catherine took him to the theater to see the 1946 Western romance Duel in the Sun: “It was condemned by the Catholic church and my mother wanted to see it. She said The boy likes Western movies, I’ll take him.

The filmmaker posed with his Killers of the Flower Moon collaborator Lily Gladstone.

The filmmaker posed with his Killers of the Flower Moon collaborator Lily Gladstone.

The filmmaker posed with his Killers of the Flower Moon collaborator Lily Gladstone.

Scorsese is nominated for an Oscar for best direction for Killers of the Flower Moon, while Gladstone is nominated for best performance by an actress in a leading role.

Scorsese is nominated for an Oscar for best direction for Killers of the Flower Moon, while Gladstone is nominated for best performance by an actress in a leading role.

Scorsese is nominated for an Oscar for best direction for Killers of the Flower Moon, while Gladstone is nominated for best performance by an actress in a leading role.

Scorsese posed with fellow Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro at the event

Scorsese posed with fellow Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro at the event

Scorsese posed with fellow Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro at the event

The director of classics such as Goodfellas, Cape Fear, Casino and The Departed was also photographed with PGA presidents Donald De Line and Stephanie Allain.

The director of classics such as Goodfellas, Cape Fear, Casino and The Departed was also photographed with PGA presidents Donald De Line and Stephanie Allain.

The director of classics such as Goodfellas, Cape Fear, Casino and The Departed was also photographed with PGA presidents Donald De Line and Stephanie Allain.

2024 PGA Winners: AT A GLANCE

MOVIE

Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Best Theatrical Film Producer: Oppenheimer

Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Films Award: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Award for Best Documentary Film Producer: American Symphony

PGA Innovation Award: Body of Mine

Oppenheimer was the big winner of the night, taking home the award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture Producer.

Oppenheimer was the big winner of the night, taking home the award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture Producer.

Oppenheimer was the big winner of the night, taking home the award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture Producer.

TELEVISION

Norman Felton Award for Best Episodic Television Producer – Drama: Succession

Danny Thomas Award for Best Episodic Television Producer – Comedy: The Bear

David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Limited or Anthology Television Series: BEEF

Award for best producer of televised or streamed films: Black Mirror: Beyond the Sea

Outstanding Non-Fiction Television Producer Award: Welcome to Wrexham

Outstanding Game and Competition Television Producer Award: RuPaul’s Drag Race

Award for Outstanding Television Producer of Live Entertainment, Variety, Sketches, Standup and Talk: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Outstanding Children’s Program Award: Sesame Street

Most Outstanding Short Program Award: Succession: Controlling the Narrative

Outstanding Sports Program Award: Beckham

And he added: ‘It’s the first movie I remember seeing by title. So, for me, the first impact of classic Hollywood cinema begins there.

‘Color carvings, movement, landscapes, dazzling scenes like the dancing in the cantina, the approaching horsemen lined up against the railway, the mysticism of the film mixed with the profane. It takes place on a gigantic screen and stars gigantic actors.

He recalled a moment of dialogue in the film that had a subsequent impact on him decades later.

“At one point Lionel Barrymore says, ‘There’s a strange glow in the sky tonight,'” Scorsese said. ‘Those figures of him in the stroller are silhouetted against a red sky.

“The year was 1946 and I was sure that those figures would end up in my film The Killers of the Flower Moon, the sequence of the meadow on fire at night. He stayed with me all those years.

Scorsese concluded by saying, “Tonight I feel like it’s really extraordinary, like I’m coming full circle.” I was 22 when Cary Grant told me to kiss Ekle Sommer; I’m 81 now and I’m glad I kissed her.

2024 PGA Awards Winners

Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Best Theatrical Film Producer

American fiction

Anatomy of a fall

Barbie

The remains

Flower Moon Killers

Teacher

Oppenheimer – WINNER

Past Lives

poor things

The area of ​​interest

Award for Best Producer of Animated Theatrical Films

The boy and the heron

Elementary

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – WINNER

The Super Mario Bros. movie

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Norman Felton Award for Best Episodic Television Producer – Drama

The crown

The diplomat

The last of us

The morning program

Succession – WINNER

Danny Thomas Award for Best Episodic Television Producer – Comedy

Barry

The Bear – WINNER

jury service

Only murders in the building

Ted Lasso

David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Limited or Anthology Television Series

All the light we can’t see

BEEF – WINNER

Daisy Jones and the Six

fargo

chemistry lessons

Award for Outstanding Producer of Televised or Streamed Films

Black Mirror: Beyond the Sea – WINNER

The Last Case of Mr. Monk: A Monk Film

quiz lady

Reality

Red, white and royal blue

Award for Best Non-Fiction Television Producer

60 minutes

The 1619 Project

Albert Brooks: defending my life

Being Mary Tyler Moore

Welcome to Wrexham – WINNER

Outstanding Television Producer Award for Live Entertainment, Variety, Sketches, Standup and Talk

Carol Burnett: 90 years of laughter + love

Chris Rock: selective outrage

Dave Chappelle: The Dreamer

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver – WINNER

Saturday night live

Outstanding Gaming and Competition Television Producer Award

The amazing race

RuPaul’s Drag Race – WINNER

The squid game: the challenge

The best chef

The voice

Award for Best Documentary Film Producer

20 days in Mariupol

American Symphony – WINNER

Beyond utopia

The disappearance of Shere Hite

The mother of all lies

Smoke Sauna Brotherhood

Squaring the circle (The history of hypognosis)

Outstanding Sports Program Award

100 foot wave

Beckham – WINNER

Formula 1: Drive to survive

Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the New York Jets

Shaun White: The Last Race

Outstanding Children’s Program Award

Goosebumps

Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai

Sesame Street – WINNER

Star Wars: The Bad Batch

The corduroy rabbit

The Outstanding Short Form Program Award

Karaoke in a shared car: the series

I think you should go with Tim Robinson

The Last of Us: Inside the episode

Only murders in the building: a killer question

Succession: Control the Narrative – WINNER

PGA Innovation Award

My body – WINNER

The eye and me

JFK souvenir

Drancy Letters

MLK: Now is the time

Ocean of Light: VR Dolphins

Our Ocean Our Future

Out of scale, a Kurzgesagt adventure

reinvented

Space Explorers: Blue Marble Trilogy

Wallace and Gromit in The Great Escape

The largest tailgate in the world

Barbie is nominated for the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Best Theatrical Film Producer

Barbie is nominated for the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Best Theatrical Film Producer

Barbie is nominated for the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Best Theatrical Film Producer

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