Martin Scorsese Accepts David O. Selznick Award; Shares How Producer’s ‘Duel In The Sun’ Inspired Parts Of ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’
26.02.2024 - 05:35
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Martin Scorsese accepted the PGA’s David O. Selznick Achievement Award tonight and took the Hollywood & Highland Ovation Ballroom down memory lane — about 60 years ago, when he accepted a PGA award for his student film, It’s Not Just You, Murray!, at the ripe age of 22 years old.
Painting the scene, The Killers of the Flower Moon filmmaker said, “On the stage, Alfred Hitchcock, James Stewart, Jack Benny, Samuel Goldwyn, Jack Warner and Norman Lear, Lew Wasserman, Julie SteinCary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, Janel Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer and David O. Selznick.”
“They were the people on the dais at the 13th edition of this event March 8,1965. That dinner was called the Milestone Awards Dinner and presented at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.”
“At the very end of the dais was me. I was all the way on the end. I was receiving the Jesse L. Laskey intercollegiate award for a film I made at NYU, 22 years old. I’m up here with all these people. Cary Grant was so gracious to me. Many of the others were gracious too. When Elke Summer gave me the award, I didn’t know what to do. I look over my right shoulder and Cary Grant goes ‘Kiss her!’ So, I did. I gotta tell you, the Milestone Award that night was presented to Alfred Hitchcock who got up to speak after a 34-minute clip. It was a shorter evening but 34 minutes!”
“The word bygone, talk about a bygone era as they used to say, it really was the 13th edition of this event. It was another world. Coming over the hill is Bonnie and Clyde, Easy Rider, Wild Bunch right around the corner. Then somehow, we were the ones who were making the movies. The history in that room, Warner, Goldwyn, Selznick, those incredible actors,” regaled Scorsese.
Scorsese shared with the ballroom how