Martin Scorsese to Receive Berlin Film Festival’s Honorary Golden Bear
variety.comMartin Scorsese, whose latest film “Killers of the Flower Moon” is one of the most buzzed about movies of this awards season, will receive the Honorary Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival on Feb.
20. The festival’s directors, Carlo Chatrian and Mariëtte Rissenbeek said Scorsese in “an unmatched role model” for “anyone who considers cinema as the art of shaping a story in such a way that is both completely personal and universal. “His films have accompanied our history as spectators and human beings, his characters have lived and grown within us, his view of history and mankind has helped us to understand and question who we are and where we come from,” Chatrian and Rissenbeek continued.
The duo, who will step down after the upcoming Berlinale edition when their mandate ends, said “Killers of the Flower Moon,” is one of Scorsese’s greatest achievements.
Scorsese has a long history with the Berlin festival, including notably providing the 2008 Rolling Stones concert film “Shine a Light,” which played as the event’s opening title.
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