It's pretty amazing, especially having it be alongside the great Martin Scorsese.
They're one of the most successful duos in Hollywood, so it's not surprise they've been
awarded for all their hard work. Yeah, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio have been awarded
the Vanguard gong at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
The fact that I've gotten to do five films with him now is pretty mind boggling. You
know, I was a young actor only dreaming of being able to do one film with him. I remember
being 15 years old and wishing I could just be up there once with him, and now it's been
five so it's especially meaningful to get this here tonight, but to have it be alongside
him is even more so.
Fresh off their success of The Wolf of Wall Street, the actor and director, who have worked
together on five films attended the event in Santa Barbara to receive the honour, presented
to them by Wolf co-star Jonah Hill.
So honoured, you know, even to have met these guys, let alone to work for my hero Martin Scorsese
and Leo, one of the best actors in the world, you know, I'm just incredibly nervous and
honoured to even present them with an award.
Before receiving their awards, the pair sat down for a Q&A session, and the director revealed
the tip he received from Robert De Niro about young Leonardo.
Marty, when did you first see this guy on screen?
I think it was some scenes from This Boy's Life, but it was after Robert De Niro told
me by the way, I'm working with this young kid. He's really good. You should work with
him sometime. His name is DiCaprio. And I said okay. He doesn't usually, especially
at that time... When was that? How many years ago? What was it? 1993 or so. Right around
that time, you know. It was the last collaboration I did there with De Niro was Casino, so after
Casino it's been different in a sense, so we don't see each other that often and that
sort of thing, so for him to recommend somebody out of the blue that way to me on a phone
call was something very, very - very, very special.
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival runs until tomorrow.