Willie Nelson has paid tribute to his “great friend” and former Highwaymen bandmate Kris Kristofferson, saying he “hated to lose him”.The country legend died on September 28 at the age of 88, four years after announcing his retirement from the entertainment industry. Known for songs like ‘Me and Bobby McGee’ and ‘Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down’, he was also a celebrated actor, starring in films including A Star Is Born and Heaven’s Gate.Kristofferson was also a founding member of the influential outlaw country supergroup The Highwaymen, alongside Nelson, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings, who released three albums between 1985 and 1995.In an interview with Associated Press, Nelson said: “He was a great songwriter. He left a lot of fantastic songs around for the rest of us to sing, for as long as we’re here.
Martin Charles Scorsese Italian (born November 17, 1942) is an American filmmaker and actor, whose career spans more than 50 years. Part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and influential filmmakers in cinematic history. Scorsese's body of work explores such themes as Italian-American identity, Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption? faith, machismo, modern crime, and gang conflict. Many of his films are also known for their depiction of violence and liberal use of profanity. In 1990, he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation. He is a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema, and has won an Academy Award, a Palme d'Or, Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award, Silver Lion, Grammy Award, Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and Directors Guild of America Awards.