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| February 4, 2007 |
| Martin Scorsese Wins DGA Award; On Path To Oscar |
In a recent ap release, it was announced that Martin Scorsese won the top honor from the Directors Guild of America for his mob saga “The Departed,” helping to push his case to finally receive Hollywood’s biggest filmmaking prize at the Academy Awards.
After five prior nominations with no victories, Scorsese finally captured the award given by his peers. It is important to note that the guild winner usually goes on to win the best-director Oscar.
Scorsese said that he was pleased at the apparent success of the film, but that he only became convinced it was doing well when the studio called with box-office revenues from the first couple of weekends.
"If you look at the graph at the spikes at where the picture is doing really great figures, it’s like looking at a veritable map of the American underworld,” such as Boca Raton, Fla., Scorsese said. “Vegas, forget about it, it was amazing.”
“The Departed” is an adaptation of the Hong Kong crime thriller “Infernal Affairs”. The movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio as an undercover cop in a Boston crime outfit, Matt Damon as a mob mole who has infiltrated the police, and Jack Nicholson as the gang leader pulling everyone’s strings.
It has become Scorsese’s biggest commercial hit, and critics praised it as a welcome return to the vivid, bloody crime genre whose modern conventions the director helped pioneer in such films as “Taxi Driver” and “Goodfellas.”
“I started watching his work when I was 15 years old”, said DiCaprio, who has starred in Scorsese’s last three films and introduced the director to the guild audience earlier in the evening. “It was like entering a seamless cinematic reality.”
“The Departed” marked Scorsese’s sixth nomination for best director at the Academy Awards, an honor that also has eluded him. A sixth loss at the Oscars would put Scorsese in the record books as the filmmaker with the most nominations without winning. |
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