Martin Scorsese will be honoured with the Multicultural Motion Picture Association's (MPAA) humanitarian award this month.
Scorsese will be the second ever recipient of the honour, which was presented to Clint Eastwood last year.
The Jack Valenti Humanitarian Award is given to an "individual working in the motion picture industry whose contributions and commitment to service exemplify compassion, humanitarianism and dedication to community embodied in the award's namesake", according to the MPAA.
The Goodfellas filmmaker will take home the prize during a daylong conference held at Washington, D.C.'s Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture on 21 April.
The prestigious award is just one of many Scorsese has been honoured with during his 40-year career in film. In 2007, he scooped two Oscars for crime-thriller The Departed.
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