On Saturday night, when Martin Scorsese received the gold medal — an honor given by the DGA to all five feature film nominees — he thanked the cast and crew and Apple for their support in making the film. Moonflower KillersBut he emphasized his thanks to the Osage Nation for their essential role in the making of the film and its success.
“First and foremost, I must reach out and thank the Osage nation itself,” he said. “I got out there before COVID, just a couple of times, and I got to know them a little bit, and I realized I had to change the whole scenario… Without the Osage, without them in front of the camera, and I gotta tell you, behind the camera, around us all the time, it definitely wouldn’t This is the picture you see today.
Surprisingly, this is Scorsese’s 13th special medal, and host Judd Apatow joked: “I don’t think it’s special to him anymore.”
Flower killers mon Inspired by the systematic, real-life murders of members of the oil-rich Osage Nation for their money, starring Academy Award nominee Lily Gladstone as Molly Burkhart and Leonardo DiCaprio as her cheating husband Ernest.
Scorsese said his experience working with Oklahoma’s beautiful landscape was new to him as well, and credited the “relentless” cast and crew for not only braving the 105-degree heat and donning three-piece suits and blankets, but also helping with Recreating nature. And capture the external parts of such a scene.
“I’m a New Yorker, so for me, to take a picture in Oklahoma, the land and the light…for me, the exterior shot is a long hallway with a light bulb in it,” Scorsese said as the audience laughed. “Waayyy downtown.”
Jonah Hill presented the medal to Scorsese and joked, “When the greatest director of all time asks you to give him an award, you say one thing: How much?”