'Killers of the Flower Moon' Gets 9-Minute Standing Ovation After Premiering at Cannes Film Festival

etonline.com:

 got a boisterous 9-minute standing ovation after the three-hour epic premiered Saturday at the 76th annual Cannes Film Festival.Leonardo DiCaprio, director Martin Scorsese and the rest of the cast soaked up every second of the ovation displayed at Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France.

posted a snippet of the thunderous applause, and outlet's co-editor-in-chief, Ramin Setoodeh, reports that the nine-minute standing ovation is «the biggest and loudest» of the film festival so far.According to, Scorsese took the mic after the ovation and addressed the excited crowd.«Thank you to the Osages,» he said. «Everyone connected with the picture.

My old pals Bob and Leo, and Jesse and Lily. We shot this a couple of years ago in Oklahoma. It’s taken it’s time to come around but Apple did so great by us.

There was lots of grass. I’m a New Yorker. I was very surprised. This was an amazing experience. We lived in that world.»It was a sweet welcome for Scorsese, who returned to the famed film festival for the first time since premiered in the South of France in 1985.