Last week, Scorsese won the Best Director Golden Globe award for “Gangs of New York,” which received five nominations.
“He is known for putting a really personal touch on all his films,” O’Leary said. “Each one is an elaborately constructed cinematic piece of art.”
The Pudding established the Woman of the Year award in 1951 and the Man of the Year award in 1963.
Sarah Jessica Parker and Bruce Willis received pudding pots last year. Other past winners include Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Julia Roberts, Clint Eastwood, Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford.
Written, directed, and acted by undergraduates, “It’s A Wonderful Afterlife” is the 155th Pudding show.
The 13-member cast will perform the 40 times in a run that takes them from Cambridge to New York and Bermuda.
—Staff writer Faryl W. Ury can be reached at ury@fas.harvard.edu.