The Berlin Film Festival will honor legendary director Martin Scorsese with a lifetime achievement Golden Bear honor.
Scorsese, whose latest drama, Killers of the Flower Moon, is an award-season favorite, will receive the honor at a ceremony at the Berlinale Palast on Feb. 20, 2024.
“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,” said Berlin Film Festival co-directors Mariëtte Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian. “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.”
Scorsese has been to Berlin many times before, including with Raging Bull, Gangs of New York and Shutter Island, all of which screened out of competition at the festival, and with Berlinale competition entry Cape Fear in 1992. His Rolling Stones concert film Shine a Light was the opening night film of the 2008 Berlinale. Scorsese’s HBO documentary about the New York Review of Books, The 50 Year Argument, was first presented as a work in progress in Berlin in 2014.
The 74th Berlin International Film Festival runs Feb. 15-25, 2024.
