Martin Scorsese connected another in a long line of accolades when he was honored at the 2023 WSJ Magazine Innovator Awards in New York City on Wednesday.
The 80-year-old Oscar-winning filmmaker made his appearance a family affair when he joined his daughter Francesca Scorsese, 23, and his wife Helen Morris, 76, who has battled Parkinson’s disease since her diagnosis in 1990.
Scorsese was being honored as the film innovator of the evening, and he received the award just weeks after the release in theaters of his latest film, the Western crime epic Killers Of The Flower Moon.
The director was also spotted catching up with Timothée Chalamet, who joked while introducing the veteran moviemaker that their first collaboration wasn’t for one of his acclaimed films, but instead on a Chanel commercial that Scorsese directed.
Scorsese, who is also one of the most influential film preservation advocates to have ever lived, looked distinguished in a charcoal three-piece suit, which he paired with black patent leather shoes and a gray, white and black striped tie.
Film legend: Martin Scorsese, 80, was joined by his daughter Francesca Scorsese, 23, and his wife Helen Morris, who has battled Parkinson’s disease for over 30 years, as he was honored at the 2023 WSJ Magazine Innovator Awards in NYC on Wednesday
Well deserved: The awards were given out based on various disciplines and art forms, and Scorsese — who is also a noted film preservation activist — was awarded with the evening’s award for film
Francesca, who is a rising filmmaker in her own right, rocked a sleeveless sack dress with chic punky black-and-white illustrations covering it.
Her long blond hair was turned up at the end as it rested on her shoulders, and she sported striking eye shadow.
Francesca is best known to cinephiles — and TikTok users — for a series of hilarious videos she films with her father that both poke fun at his knowledge — or lack thereof — of modern slang.
But the clips also give him another platform to defend the art of film, a passion that he has now passed on to Francesca, the youngest of his three daughters from different marriages.
His wife Helen, who has worked as a television producer, looked stylish in an all-white suit with large black buttons.
She used a wheelchair to get around with her family and carried a black striped handbag in her lap.
Scorsese has worked with numerous A-list stars throughout his six-decade career, and he rubbed elbows with another one, Timothée Chalamet, on the red carpet.
The 27-year-old Call Me By Your Name star wore a tasteful black suit with a tie-free black shirt.
Famous pals: Scorsese has worked with numerous A-list stars throughout his six-decade career, and he rubbed elbows with another one, Timothée Chalamet, on the red carpet
Back in black: The 27-year-old Call Me By Your Name star wore a tasteful black suit with a tie-free black shirt
First time together: According to the WSJ Magazine , Chalamet joked about working with Scorsese on one of his less-prestigious projects recently
Low rent: ‘Marty and I worked together for the first time this year — not on the sprawling epic American Western, Killers Of The Flower Moon,’ he said. ‘I am in a commercial he directed for Chanel’
Though Chalamet was at the ceremony to introduce the older artist, he also accompanied his girlfriend Kylie Jenner, who was honored with the Brand award.
According to the WSJ Magazine, Chalamet joked about working with Scorsese on one of his less-prestigious projects recently.
‘Marty and I worked together for the first time this year — not on the sprawling epic American Western, Killers Of The Flower Moon,’ he said. ‘I am in a commercial he directed for Chanel.’
According to the magazine, Scorsese highlighted how technological changes and advancements had transformed the film industry.
However, the director also warned that new technologies are merely a tool that shouldn’t become a creativity-limiting crutch.
‘The tool itself was not going to give me something new,’ he said. ‘I had to make it.’
Scorsese’s latest film, Killers Of The Flower, is based on David Grann’s non-fiction book of the same name, which traces the fate of the Osage Nation in the 1920s and ’30s.
After the tribe was pushed further and further west by the US government, they eventually settled on barren land in Oklahoma. However, the land turned out to be blessed — or cursed — with oil reserves, which the Osage became the owners of thanks to the language of contracts granting them the land.
Woman in white: His wife Helen, who has worked as a television producer, looked stylish in an all-white suit with large black buttons
Pals: Scorsese also caught up with Julia Louis-Dreyfus during the dinner portion. She was honored with the evening’s Entertainment award
Words of wisdom: Scorsese noted the importance of technological changes in his speech but urged young filmmakers not to let technology dictate their creative paths
Watching a master: Chalamet shared a photo of himself watching Scorsese deliver his acceptance speech to his Instagram Stories later in the evening
The members of the tribe because the richest people in the world per capita after oil drilling began, but then they began to mysteriously die in large numbers, while others were the victims of shootings and even bombings as white members of the community married the Osage before murdering them to collect their wealth and oil rights. The eventual investigation into the murders led to the creation of the FBI.
Leonardo DiCaprio stars as one of the conspirators who married — and slowly poisoned — the Osage woman Molly Burkhart (played by breakout star Lily Gladstone). Scorsese’s other regular collaborator, Robert De Niro, appears as a wealthy cattle baron who helps to instigate the scheme to murder and steal from the Osage.
The film has so far received rapturous critical praise and has grossed $87 million at the theatrical box office.
Following its theatrical run, Killers Of The Flower Moon will be available to stream on Apple TV+.