On May 9, French local time, the 75-year-old famous American director Martin Scorsese won the Golden Carriage Lifetime Achievement Award in the parallel unit of the Cannes Film Festival. In 1974, the young Martin Scorsese came to "Director's Week" with his film "Poor Streets and Bad Alleys" for its first appearance in Cannes.
"Poor Streets and Dark Alleys"
Martin Scorsese was also a four-time finalist in the main competition section of Cannes, and in 1976 his film Taxi Driver won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Taxi Driver
The Golden Carriage Award for Lifetime Achievement, founded in 2002 as part of the "Directors' Bi-Week" section of the Cannes Film Festival, is organized by the French Directors Guild and is named after the masterpiece "Golden Carriage" by French film master Jean Renoir, which aims to recognize "the most innovative, creative courageous and independent filmmakers in the world".
Then let's take a look at which four winners have been the last four years?
Jia Zhangke / Ling Daijun photography
►2015
Jia Zhangke / Jia Zhangke
A native of Fenyang, Shanxi, he is one of the representative figures of China's first contemporary directors. In 2006, he won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice International Film Festival for "The Good Man of the Three Gorges". In 2010, the Locarno International Film Festival awarded him the Golden Leopard Award for Lifetime Achievement, becoming the youngest filmmaker ever to receive the award. In 2013, he won the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the Director of the Year Award for the Youth Film Handbook in 2013 for "Destiny". In 2015, he won the Golden Carriage Award for "Director's Biweek" at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2016, he was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival with "Mountains and Rivers", and won the Best Original Screenplay Award at the 52nd Taiwan Golden Horse Awards.
The main directorial works include "Xiao Wu", "Platform", "Ren Xiaoyao", "The World", "The Good Man of the Three Gorges", "Twenty-Four Cities", "Legend of the Sea", "Destiny of Heaven", "The Old Man of Mountains and Rivers", "Children of the Rivers and Lakes" and so on. The French Film Handbook commented that his first feature film, Xiao Wu, broke away from the conventions of Chinese cinema and marked the revival and vitality of Chinese cinema.
►2016
<h1>Jean-Pierre Léaud</h1>
Jean-Pierre Lyod is an actor who grew up with French New Wave cinema. From the beginning of his debut film "Four Hundred Under" by François Truffaut, it was destined that the name would leave a strong mark on the French New Wave film movement. He has starred in films among several French New Wave film directors, mostly Truffaut and Godard, with whom he has collaborated eight times. From his youth, youth, to middle-aged and elderly, his "face" appeared in European art films, and in recent years he has also cooperated with director Cai Liangming on "Face" and "What Time Are You Over there". This is also the first time that the Golden Carriage Award has been awarded to such an important film actor in the history of French cinema.
►2017
Werner Herzog/ Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog was one of the most famous directors of the New German Film Movement, along with Fassbinder, Wenders and Schrondorff, and led the famous New German Film Movement in the history of cinema. Hertzog excelled at making small-budget films and was written and produced by him. His films are usually filmed on exotic frontiers and instilled a unique "hertzso format mystery". Herzog said: "Just because I am alone and will continue to work alone, it is difficult to attribute my films to a certain genre here. "The Mystery of Caspar Hauser" won the Grand Jury Prize at the 28th Cannes Film Festival; "Vojcek" was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the 32nd Cannes Film Festival; "Overland Boat" was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the 35th Cannes Film Festival; "Where green ants dream" was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the 37th Cannes Film Festival.
►2018
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese pretty much defined the state of contemporary American cinema from 1970 to 1980. Martin Scorsese's film style is a collection of classic Hollywood, the French New Wave and the New York underground film movement of the 60s and his own unique perspective, leaving a large number of its classic gangster-themed films in the history of cinema. Among them, "Once the Sea was Shipwrecked as Water", "Taxi Driver", "The King of Comedy", and "After Work" have all been shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival. "Raging Bull" has become a classic among classics.