They were the people on the dais at the 13th edition of this event on March 8, 1965.
That dinner was called the Milestone Awards Dinner and presented at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
I was all the way on the end.
Lily Gladstone and Martin Scorsese on the ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ setCourtesy ot Apple
Im up here with all these people.
Cary Grant was so gracious to me.
Many of the others were gracious too.
When Elke Summer gave me the award, I didnt know what to do.
I look over my right shoulder, and Cary Grant goes, Kiss her!
It was a shorter evening, but 34 minutes!
It really was the 13th edition of this event.
It was another world.
Coming over the hill isBonnie and Clyde, Easy Rider, Wild Bunch, right around the corner.
Then somehow, we were the ones who were making the movies.
The history in that room Warner, Goldwyn, Selznick, those incredible actors.
Scorsese shared with the ballroom how Selznick and Hitchcock were always at odds.
The thing about these guys, they cared.
This is a keyword obsessed by the cinema.
They both lived their obsessions.
Selznick dictated those infamous memos.
Thats what the memos were about, the obsession.
TheRaging BullandThe Departeddirector remembered when he first saw the Selznick productionDuel in the Sunwhen he was 4.
It was condemned by the Catholic church, and my mother wanted to see it, he said.
She said, The kid likes westerns, Im taking him.'
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He continued: Its the first film I can remember seeing by title.
So the very first impact of classic Hollywood cinema starts right there for me.
Its played out on a larger-than-life screen by larger-than-life actors.
At one point, Lionel Barrymore says, Theres a strange glow in the sky tonight.
Those figures of him in the buggy are silhouetted against a red sky.
It stayed with me all those years.
Summed up Scorsese: Tonight I feel like its really extraordinary, like Im coming full circle.
I was 22 when Cary Grant told me to kiss Ekle Sommer.
Now Im 81, and Im glad I kissed her.
The David O. Selznick award recognizes producers for their outstanding body of work in motion pictures.
