Los Angeles Times - 26.11.2019

»If the director scores an Academy Award

nomination for “The Irishman,” he will become

the second-most-nominated director ever,

leapfrogging over Billy Wilder to land

below all-time leader William Wyler. If he wins,

Scorsese will be the oldest directing winner.

Wyler’s record

number of directing

nominations.

He won three times.

Directing nominations

for Wilder,

and for Scorsese,

so far. Wilder won

twice; Scorsese

once, for

“The Departed.”

Eastwood’s age when

he won for “Baby,”

making him the oldest

directing winner in

history.

Age Scorsese will

be when the 2020

Oscars take place.

— Carla Meyer

Kirsten Ulve

For The Times

WHO’S COUNTING?

MARTIN

SCORSESE

IN GENERAL

»“ ‘Sweet Smell of Success’

(Alexander Mackendrick), ‘The

Apartment’ (Billy Wilder),

‘Raiders of the Lost Ark,’ ‘Jaws’

(Steven Spielberg).”

FOR THIS MOVIE

»“ ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sun-

dance Kid’ [pictured]. Because I

recognized that this [race car]

genre had been laden with a kind

of posturing. Even in movies like

‘Grand Prix’ (1966) and ‘Le Mans’

(1971), I felt like there was a kind

of solemnity, a lack of humor. I

felt like one thing so beautiful

about George Roy Hill’s film was

the humor and the ease and the

sense of masculine friendship,

and I wanted to make sure that,

despite all the muscularity and

the dynamism of the cars, the

movie had a sense of ease about

it, a sense of hanging out, and

that was really important.”

INFLUENCES

JAMES

MANGOLD

We asked the director

of “Ford v Ferrari”

which films have

influenced his own.

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BIG

DATES

“Antonio Banderas

in ‘Pain and Glory,’

a courageous

performance

deepened by his

age and by

his longtime

connection with

filmmaker Pedro

Almodóvar.

I’d never seen him

like this.”

THE QUOTE

John Lithgow

ACTOR

“BOMBSHELL”

Was there a

performance

that had an

impact on you

this year?

Sony Pictures Classics

That’s a Wrap

(The names and numbers that matter this awards season)

74

8

12 3

77

Popular movie stars

who took a shot

behind the camera

have beaten out

Scorsese for this

Oscar: Robert

Redford won for

1980’s “Ordinary

People” (over

Scorsese’s “Raging

Bull”); 10 years later,

Kevin Costner’s

“Dances With

Wolves” took the

directing award (over

“Goodfellas”) and

Clint Eastwood’s

“Million Dollar Baby”

from 2004 triumphed

over “The Aviator.”