Martin Scorsese breaks records!
On Tuesday, the 81-year-old director became the most nominated living director in Oscar history. Scorsese is only behind William Wyler, who holds the record with 12 nominations, according to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Wyler died in 1981 at the age of 79.
“It is a deep pleasure to receive this recognition from the Academy, for me and for so many of my colleagues at Killers of the Flower Moon,Scorsese said in a statement. “It was an extraordinary experience to make this film, to work together with the Osage community to tell the story of a true American tragedy, too long hidden in the shadows of official culture.”
“I only wish Robbie Robertson had lived to see his work recognized – our long friendship and Robbie’s growing awareness of his own Indigenous heritage played a key role in my desire to see this film on the screen,” he added of the film’s composer, who died two months before publication, aged 80.
Scorsese surpassed fellow Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg for Best Director nominations, bringing his total to 10 with work on Killers of the flower moon. The film is competing for a total of 10 Oscars this year, including Best Picture.
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Lily Gladstone, Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).
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With a win, Scorsese would earn his second Oscar statuette, having previously won Best Director for a leading role Dead (2006).
He is up against Justine Triet (Anatomy of a Fall), Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer), Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor people) and Jonathan Glazer (Zone of interest).
Among acting climates for Killers of the Flower Moon including one for Lily Gladstone in the Best Actress category and veteran Robert De Niro, who is in the Best Supporting Actor category.
Gladstone, 37, also made history as the first Indian actress to be nominated for an Oscar. She is the fourth Indigenous actress ever to receive a nomination in this category.
Killers of the Flower Moonbased on a true story, depicts the relationship of Ernest (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Molly Burkhart over several years in the 1920s, during which white settlers in Oklahoma orchestrate plots to kill numerous members of the Osage Nation in order to claim their rights to the tribe’s oil fields.
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Martin Scorsese in New York on January 11, 2024.
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Scorsese was recently honored at the National Board of Review Awards in New York, where retired actor Daniel Day-Lewis presented him with the award for best director.
While presenting the honor, Day-Lewis, 66, praised Scorsese for his vision and effort to create “mesmerizing” films, saying in part during the presentation, “Martin’s work — with light of his own making — illuminated unknown worlds that pulsed with dangerous, overwhelming energy, worlds that were mysterious and utterly enchanting to me.”
“He illuminated the endlessly beautiful landscape of what is possible in film and clarified for me what it is that a man must ask of himself, to work in faith,” he continued.
Day-Lewis — who starred in Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence (1993) and Gangs of New York (2002) — also shared a look at his close relationship with the revered director, noting that “one of the greatest joys and most unexpected privileges of my life was to one day work with him.”
The 96th Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, will be broadcast live on Sunday, March 10, from the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California, beginning at 7:00 PM ET.
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