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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.
Every Quentin Tarantino Film Ranked From Worst to Best (Photos)
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10. “Once Upon a Time in … Hollywood” (2019)
Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) is a meaningless footnote in her personal life story in Quentin Tarantino’s baffling and insulting ode to 1960s Hollywood. Robbie is criminally underutilized, taking a backseat to a fictional, mediocre actor (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stunt double (Brad Pitt). They fear about their careers and mock Bruce Lee for 2 hours, till the movie builds to a merciless, misogynistic Manson Family climax that lastly reveals the true motive the movie exists: to be a shameless self-insert fantasy. “Once Upon a Time” is by far Tarantino’s most immature movie, a nonstop nostalgia fetish parade with no demonstrable respect for the real-life tragedies it portrays.
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9. “The Hateful Eight” (2015)
Quentin Tarantino’s 70mm one-location parlor thriller is chockablock with wonderful performances and his signature, glowing dialogue. But he appears all too keen to take advantage of the horrors of hatred and all too reticent to come back to any significant conclusions about them. The ugly story follows despicable human beings trapped in a Wild West relaxation cease. The dynamite ensemble — Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bruce Dern, et al — makes a meal of the screenplay, however all we’re left with is a mean-spirited punchline, which recommend that males can solely overcome their racism by discovering widespread floor in misogyny.
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8. “Kill Bill: Vol. 2” (2004)
The second installment of Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” — which was launched theatrically in two components, in order that’s how we’ll overview it — is gutsier than the primary, but additionally much less cohesive. The Bride (Uma Thurman) continues her roaring rampage of revenge with…