Martin Scorsese to Receive Kirk Douglas Award From Santa

Martin Scorsese will obtain the 14th annual Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, SBIFF organizers introduced on Monday.

The award can be introduced on Nov. 14 on the Ritz Carlton Bacara in Santa Barbara throughout a black-tie fundraising dinner benefiting the competition’s year-round applications.

Scorsese is predicted to be within the thick of this yr’s awards race with “The Irishman,” his upcoming Netflix movie starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci. Earlier this yr Netflix additionally launched Scorsese’s documentary-style Bob Dylan movie “Rolling Thunder Revue.”

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Scorsese will change into the second full-time director to obtain the award, after Quentin Tarantino in 2009. Actor-directors De Niro and Warren Beatty have additionally received the award, which generally goes to an actor or actress.

Apart from “The Irishman,” which can premiere on the New York Film Festival in late September, Scorsese’s different movies embrace “Mean Streets,” “Taxi Driver,” “Raging Bull,” “Goodfellas,” “Gangs of New York,” “Hugo,” “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “The Departed,” the one movie of his to win the Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director.

Other previous recipients of the Kirk Douglas Award embrace Hugh Jackman, Judi Dench, Warren Beatty, Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas and Harrison Ford. Tarantino and De Niro are the one recipients who’ve landed Oscar nominations for his or her work throughout the yr wherein they obtained the SBIFF honor.

The Kirk Douglas Award gala will happen two months earlier than the beginning of the 2020 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which can run from Jan. 15-25 within the coastal city 100 miles north of Los Angeles.