BERLIN (AP) — Martin Scorsese will likely be honored for his lifetime achievement on the Berlin International Film Festival in February, organizers mentioned Thursday.

The 81-year-old director, whose in depth work ranges from decades-old classics similar to “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull” to this yr’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” will likely be given an honorary Golden Bear — the pageant’s prime award — on Feb. 20.

“For anyone who considers cinema as the art of shaping a story in such a way that is both completely personal and universal, Martin Scorsese is an unmatched role model,” pageant administrators Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian mentioned in a press release. They described Scorsese as “a good friend of the festival.”

The pageant famous that he “is also very committed to historical film heritage,” pointing to his assist of in depth restoration work with the Film Foundation.

Scorsese gained the most effective director Oscar in 2007 for “The Departed.”

The “Berlinale,” the primary of the yr’s main European movie festivals, will run from Feb. 15-25. Actor Lupita Nyong’o will head the pageant jury.

It would be the final version of the pageant below the duo of Rissenbeek and Chatrian. Germany’s tradition minister introduced final week that Tricia Tuttle, a former director of the London Film Festival, will take over as the brand new director in April.

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