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SCORSESE FINALLY SCORES AN OSCAR Monday, February 26 2007 
After
being
nominated
six
times
for
a
best
director
Oscar,
Martin
Scorsese
finally
held
the
award
in
his
hands
Sunday
night.
Moreover,
The
Departed,
the
film
that
he
won
it
for,
also
was
awarded
the
top
prize
as
best
picture,
which
was
accepted
by
producer
Graham
King.
"So
many
people
have
been
wishing
this
for
me
and
my
family,"
Scorsese
told
the
audience
at
the
Kodak
Theatre
in
Hollywood
and
a
worldwide
TV
audience.
"People
(more)DIRECTORS GUILD HONORS SCORSESE Monday, February 5 2007 Placing him into position as the frontrunner in this year's Oscar contest for best director, The Directors Guild of America on Saturday honored Martin Scorsese as filmmaker of the year. Although nominated seven times, this was Scorsese's first DGA win. Accepting the award, Scorsese observed that he realized that his film, The Departed, would become a hit when the studio showed him box-office sales graphs with huge spikes in certain key areas of the country. (more) |
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Martin Scorsese has disclosed that he is planning to direct a movie, set in 17th-century Japan, that may have implications related to the war in Iraq. In an interview with the Associated Press at the Cannes film festival, Scorsese said that his film, Silence, presumably based on the novel of the same name by Shusaku Endo and William Johnston about Portuguese Christian missionaries who arrived in Japan in feudal times, has parallels to America's role in Iraq. The Oscar-winning director (The Departed) said that he hopes to shoot the film in Japan, at least partially, beginning next summer. "It raises a lot of questions about foreign cultures coming in and imposing their way of thinking on another culture they know nothing about," Scorsese told the A.P.
