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\n\tMartin Scorsese<\/a> accepted the Producers Guild\u2019s David O. Selznick Achievement Award on the PGA Awards<\/a> tonight and took the Hollywood & Highland Ovation Ballroom down reminiscence lane \u2014 to about 60 years in the past, when he accepted a PGA nod for his scholar movie, It\u2019s Not Just You, Murray!<\/em> on the ripe age of twenty-two. <\/p>\n \n\tPainting the scene, the Killers of the Flower Moon<\/a> <\/em>filmmaker mentioned: \u201cOn the stage, Alfred Hitchcock, James Stewart, Jack Benny, Samuel Goldwyn, Jack Warner and Norman Lear, Lew Wasserman, Julie SteinCary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, Janel Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer and David O. Selznick. They had been the individuals on the dais on the thirteenth version of this occasion on March 8, 1965. That dinner was known as the Milestone Awards Dinner and offered on the Beverly Hilton Hotel.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cAt the very end of the dais was me,\u201d Scorsese continued. \u201cI was all the way on the end. I was receiving the Jesse L. Laskey intercollegiate award for a film I made at NYU, 22 years old. I\u2019m up here with all these people. Cary Grant was so gracious to me. Many of the others were gracious too. When Elke Summer gave me the award, I didn\u2019t know what to do. I look over my right shoulder, and Cary Grant goes, \u2018Kiss her!\u2019 So I did. I gotta tell you, the Milestone Award that night was presented to Alfred Hitchcock, who got up to speak after a 34-minute clip. It was a shorter evening, but 34 minutes!\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tRELATED:\u00a0Charles D. King Makes History With PGA Milestone Award; Ryan Coogler Extols Macro Founder As Producer Who Wills Projects \u201cTo Exist\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tThe honoree added: \u201cThe word bygone \u2014 talk about a bygone era, as they used to say. It really was the 13th edition of this event. It was another world. Coming over the hill is Bonnie and Clyde, Easy Rider, Wild Bunch<\/em>, right around the corner. Then somehow, we were the ones who were making the movies. The history in that room \u2014 Warner, Goldwyn, Selznick, those incredible actors.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tScorsese shared with the ballroom how Selznick and Hitchcock had been at all times at odds. \u201cThe thing about these guys, they cared. This is a keyword \u2014 obsessed \u2014 by the cinema. They both lived their obsessions. Selznick dictated those infamous memos. That\u2019s what the memos were about, the obsession.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tRELATED: Gail Berman Remembers Getting \u201cNo After No\u201d For \u2018Buffy The Vampire Slayer\u2019 Before She Got A Yes; Producer Talks \u201cResilience\u201d In Accepting PGA\u2019s Norman Lear Award<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tThe Raging Bull <\/em>and The Departed <\/em>director remembered when he first noticed the Selznick manufacturing Duel within the Sun <\/em>when he was 4. \u201cIt was condemned by the Catholic church, and my mother wanted to see it,\u201d he mentioned. \u201cShe said, \u2018The kid likes westerns, I\u2019m taking him.’\u201d ,<\/p>\n \n\tHe continued: \u201cIt\u2019s the primary movie I can keep in mind seeing by title. So the very first influence of basic Hollywood cinema begins proper there for me. Slashes of coloration, motion, the landscapes, beautiful set items just like the dance within the cantina, the approaching horsemen lining up towards the railroad, the mysticism of the movie blended with the profane. It\u2019s performed out on a larger-than-life display screen by larger-than-life actors.<\/p>\n \n\tRELATED: Victoria Alonso Among Producers Featured In PGA\u2019s \u201cPay It Forward\u201d PSA About The Producing Grind \u2013 PGA Awards<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \n\t\u201cAt one point, Lionel Barrymore says, \u2018There\u2019s a strange glow in the sky tonight.\u2019 Those figures of him in the buggy are silhouetted against a red sky. That\u2019s 1946, and I was sure that those figures wound up in my film Killers of the Flower Moon<\/em>, the sequence with the prairie on fire at night. It stayed with me all those years.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tRELATED:\u00a02024 Awards Season Calendar \u2013 Dates For Oscars, Guilds, Tonys & More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tSummed up Scorsese: \u201cTonight I feel like it\u2019s really extraordinary, like I\u2019m coming full circle. I was 22 when Cary Grant told me to kiss Ekle Sommer. Now I\u2019m 81, and I\u2019m glad I kissed her.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n