On February 20, 2024, the 74th Berlin International Film Festival awarded Martin Scorsese ’64, ’68, Hon. ’92, Dean's Council with the prestigious Honorary Golden Bear for his lifetime achievement.
“For anyone who considers cinema as the art of shaping a story in such a way that is both completely personal and universal, Martin Scorsese is an unmatched role model. His films have accompanied our history as spectators and human beings, his characters have lived and grown within us, his view of history and mankind has helped us to understand and question who we are and where we come from.
Killers of the Flower Moon, his latest film, is one of his greatest achievements. As Scorsese himself so eloquently has said, the film is an ‘offering that acknowledges the extent of the terror the Osage community experienced, and one that might also give some kind of solace’. It is a great pleasure to welcome once more a good friend of the festival and offer him our most prestigious prize of honour,“ says the Berlinale director duo Mariëtte Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian.
Director, producer and screenwriter Martin Scorsese ’64, ’68, Hon. ’92, Dean's Council, is an Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Emmy Award winning filmmaker who has made over 30 highly influential and critically acclaimed feature films over the past 50 years.
In 2021, NYU Tisch School of the Arts received a major gift from the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation to establish the Martin Scorsese Institute of Global Cinematic Arts, an academic and production institute encompassing a new, state-of-the-art Martin Scorsese Virtual Production Center, the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies, and support for student scholarships.