MARTIN SCORSESE at the National Museum of Cinema

October 7, 2024

7:30PM, Museo Nazionale del Cinema - Award ceremony in the Temple Hall of the Mole Antonelliana

October 8, 2024

5:30PM – Mole Antonelliana, via Montebello - Red Carpet
6:00PM – Cinema Massimo - Martin Scorsese’s Masterclass
8:00PM – Cinema Massimo - Introduction to retrospective and movie screening

The legendary Maestro who crafted some of the most memorable, celebrated movies in film history will be recognized with the Stella della Mole Award on a gala night in the Temple Hall of the Mole Antonelliana. Scorsese will meet the audience on the occasion of a Masterclass and a retrospective.

Few of the major figures of the New Hollywood era, if any, continue to dazzle audiences around the world as Martin Scorsese does more than 60 years after making his debut. Widely regarded as one of the most influential directors of all time and arguably the greatest American living filmmaker, Scorsese has shaped and strongly influenced the artistic and aesthetic foundations of contemporary cinematography, contributing to renewing genres and star system. The Museo Nazionale del Cinema in Torino (Italy) pays tribute to the legendary Maestro who crafted some of the most memorable, celebrated movies in film history and became himself the embodiment of cinematic classics by illustrating with masterly technique the imagery of American society.

The winner of every prestigious film award has often credited Italian Neorealism as a significant influence on his work and, in 2006, wrote the introduction to the volume Cabiria & Cabiria, published by the Museo Nazionale del Cinema on the occasion of the restoration of Giovanni Pastrone’s epic Cabiria: Scorsese will now finally meet the audience in Torino to be recognized for his extraordinary directorial achievement on the occasion of a gala night on October 7, 2024 at 7:30PM in the Temple Hall of the Mole Antonelliana, where the Museum’s President Enzo Ghigo and Director Domenico De Gaetano will present him with the Stella della Mole Award for Lifetime Achievement (the Italian cultural institution’s highest honour that has been awarded to the leading figures of world cinema over the years, including Scorsese’s frequent collaborators Paul Schrader, Dante Ferretti e Francesca Lo Schiavo).

The most-nominated living director at the Academy Awards – who won the Oscar for the best picture-winning thriller The Departed – on October 8, 2024 at 6:00PM, will meet the audience at Cinema Massimo on the occasion of a Masterclass that will be preceded by a public red carpet at 5:30PM.  Cinema Massimo will also dedicate him a retrospective that will be introduced by the Maestro himself at 8:00PM, before a special screening of one of his beloved classics. Martin Scorsese was one of the key figures behind the groundbreaking shift that marked the beginning of New Hollywood in the 1960s and this retrospective pays a tribute to that period. Martin Scorsese’s attendance and the two-day events in Torino mark the globally acclaimed filmmaker’s first historic visit to the Museo Nazionale del Cinema, which produced an exhibition devoted to him in collaboration with the Deutsche Kinemathek in 2013 and features the original costumes from Gangs of New York in its permanent exhibition path.