Martin Scorsese to Receive High Honours

Scorsese will receive the Cecil B. DeMile award for his lifetime achievement in film at the upcoming event.

The director, who will turn 67 on November 17, will take the podium once again. In the past, he earned two Golden Globe trophies for his films Gangs of New York (2002) and The Departed (2006), which also won him a Best Director Oscar.

Scorsese was also nominated many times at both the Golden Globes and the Oscars for such films as Raging Bull (1980), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Goodfellas (1990) and The Aviator (2004).

The Cecil B. DeMile prize was already awarded to Steven Spielberg, Warren Beatty, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Douglas and Robin Williams.

The nominees for the Golden Globes will be announced on December 15, and the event, which is the second most important ceremony after the Oscars, will take place on January 17, 2010.

In the meantime, Martin Scorsese’s upcoming film is Shutter Island starring Leonardo DiCaprio, which hits theatres on February 19, 2010. The director is also working on a production on the life of Frank Sinatra, due out in 2011.