Scorsese to get Golden Globe honour
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Martin Scorsese | Martin Scorsese (pix) will be honoured at the Golden Globe Awards on Jan 17 with the Cecil B. DeMille award in recognition of his ‘outstanding contribution’ to entertainment, organisers said.
Scorsese, 66, was born in New York in 1942. He has directed movies such as Taxi Driver and Raging Bull and won an Oscar and Golden Globe for The Departed as well as a Golden Globe for Gangs of New York.
Some of his other works include The Last Temptation of Christ, Kundun, Casino, Cape Fear and the music documentaries No Direction Home: Bob Dylan and Shine a Light, a Rolling Stones concert film.
Recent past winners include Steven Spielberg, Warren Beatty, Anthony Hopkins and Michael Douglas. Barbra Streisand is the only woman to have won the award.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association runs the Golden Globes which will be seen in over 160 countries. – dpa
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