Monday, February 26, 2007
Ahead of His Time
So the Academy finally did it. After a half dozen nominations, they finally bestowed a Best Director Academy Award to Martin Scorsese. As a fan of Mean Streets and Goodfellas, and, I'll admit it, Gangs of New York, I think it was long overdue. Not that I had any doubt that he would win when I saw Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg step on stage as a group to present the statuette.
That and the fact that only an Oscar winning director would garner respect from the New York Times at the end of the 21st century.
(The text above has not been altered. The Times, it seems, was not prepared for Y2K.)
So the Academy finally did it. After a half dozen nominations, they finally bestowed a Best Director Academy Award to Martin Scorsese. As a fan of Mean Streets and Goodfellas, and, I'll admit it, Gangs of New York, I think it was long overdue. Not that I had any doubt that he would win when I saw Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg step on stage as a group to present the statuette.
That and the fact that only an Oscar winning director would garner respect from the New York Times at the end of the 21st century.
(The text above has not been altered. The Times, it seems, was not prepared for Y2K.)
