The Hollywood Foreign Press Assnociation's choice of Martin Scorsese to receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the upcoming Golden Globes ceremony next January 17 has been greeted with great enthusiasm by those who know and have worked with him.

Two-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis, who worked with the director on The Age Of Innocence and The Gangs of New York, said: "He is and remains, for most actors working today, a man of the most supremely indescribably gifts as a director. Taxi Driver was a seminal film for all of us when I was a kid and living at that time in South East London. Me and all my mates went to see that movie four or five times in the first week it came out. We wanted to know every single thing, not just about those people in the world he was describing, but about the man behind the story---Scorsese.

     "Long before I ever got to meet him he'd already ready taken on almost fearful proportions in my imagination. One of the great joys which I had never expected in my life was to meet that man and get to work with him. And then get to work with him again. That will always remain one of the great, great joys of my life. There's nobody like him."