The Producers Guild of America has introduced Martin Scorsese because the recipient of the David O. Selznick Achievement Award for his six a long time of manufacturing. Scorsese will settle for the dignity on the PGA Awards on Feb. 25.
The David O. Selznick Achievement Awards acknowledges producers for his or her excellent physique of labor in movement footage, with earlier honorees together with Steven Spielberg, Barbara Broccoli, Mary Parent, Tom Cruise, Brian Grazer, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, and George Lucas.
“Marty’s trailblazing career as a producer, marked by decades of bold, breakthrough projects, demands to be celebrated,”stated PGA Presidents Donald De Line and Stephanie Allain in an announcement. “His mastery and unwavering commitment to the craft are truly unparalleled. We are proud to honor him and his many filmmaking achievements this year at the PGA Awards.”
Scorsese stated, “In March 1965, I was flown out to Los Angeles by the PGA to receive an award for my student film ‘It’s Not Just You, Murray!’ I was 22 at the time. At the same event, a much older filmmaker was also being honored. His name was Alfred Hitchcock.”
“58 years later, I’m proud to say that I am now the much older filmmaker. And I’m touched and extremely honored to be receiving an award named after a true legend among producers, David O. Selznick. It makes me feel like I’ve come full circle.”
Over his six-decade profession, Scorsese has produced greater than 50 movies together with this 12 months’s “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
His has earned three PGA nominations and received one for his work on “Boardwalk Empire,” in addition to 14 Academy Award nominations and one of the best director win for “The Departed.”
Among his different credit as a producer are “The Irishman,” “Silence,” “Shutter Island,” “Hugo,” “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “Personality Crisis: One Night Only” and “George Harrison: Living in the Material World.”