With the Oscars just around the corner, it is The
Aviator star, Leonardo DiCaprio who's receiving the recognition
of a lifetime.
DiCaprio Gets Lifetime Achievement
DiCaprio was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Sunday. The award commemorated the Festivals 20th anniversary. How does one receive a lifetime achievement award when one is only thirty years old? Well when you have had a successful seventeen-year career, it doesn't matter how old you are.
The award was presented by Martin Scorsese whom directed DiCaprio in this
years eleven Oscar Nomination film, The Aviator, 2002's Gang's
of New York, (Which also received numerous Oscar Nomination's), and
is also casting him in upcoming crime drama, The Departed.
"It's a lifetime achievement award, which is completely and utterly surreal, given I'm only 30 years old, but, you know, what has it been? Almost 17 years now. I've done quite a few films. But what's really exciting, for me, is that this is what I really love doing. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life" DiCaprio comments.
Shall we dare think that having star director Scorsese stand on the stage to present the award to DiCaprio was intended to give him a glimpse of what it is like to stand on that stage in front of thousands of people-a bit of foreshadowing maybe?
Being young can take a lifetime.
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