Scorsese
PARIS -- Martin Scorsese will be joining Woody Allen, David Lynch, Catherine Deneuve and a host of other international stars when he heads for the Croisette next month to top the Short Film and Cinefoundation Jury at the Cannes Film Festival.
Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" won the Palme D'Or at Cannes in 1976 and he copped the director award for "After Hours" in 1986.
This year, aided by four yet-to-be-chosen international artists, he'll award the Palme d'Or for Short Film and the three Cinefoundations awards, for best student, short and mid-length films.
Other directors who have had this honor include Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Thomas Vinterberg and Erick Zonca.
In 1998, Scorsese was the Cinefoundation's honorary president, and last year his "Il Mio Viaggio in Italia" was shown during Cannes' Transmission Day, a day when an established filmmaker relates his love of the medium to a new generation.
"I have never made any secret of my love for movie history," Scorsese said in Cannes last year. "For me it's inseparable from my moviemaking, and from my life as well. I try to do for others what my own teachers did for me – to help me find a pathway that I hadn't known was there and that I could then call my own."
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