Martin Scorsese
It is interesting to note that two honorary awards were announced in close proximity to one another and they draw an interesting distinction between the Golden Globes and Academy Awards.
Martin Scorsese will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award from the Golden Globes and storied Cinematographer Gordon Willis, best known from his work on the Godfather series and many of Woody Allen's best films, will receive an honorary Oscar.
Scorsese has been nominated for the Golden Globe as Best Director 7 times and won twice for Gangs of New York and The Departed. He was also nominated as a screenwriter. It is the Oscar that long eluded him and thankfully he got it. Meanwhile, Gordon Willis amongst the most revered men in his craft has only been nominated twice and never won.
There is a vast chasm between the importance assigned to each award given the respective natures of the Hollywood Foreign Press and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences but how come there are people that should have won in the past getting honorary Oscars and people who have already won are being honored at the Golden Globes? Food for thought.
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