Martin Scorsese’s most recent film, Killers of the Flower Moon, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the Grande Theatre Lumiere and received a nine-minute standing ovation from the audience (Deadline). While longtime Scorsese collaborators Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio were praised within that applause, Lily Gladstone, who played opposite of DiCaprio, proved to hold her own against these actors, given the applause was hers.

After the film screening, Scorsese went on stage to say a few words: “It’s taken its time to come around, but Apple did so great by us, shooting out there … there was lots of grass — I’m a New Yorker… We also lived in that world with the Osage, we really did, and we really miss it… I don’t think I’ve ever experienced like this.”

Listen to a bit of Scorsese’s speech after ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ premiere in #Cannes. Lily Gladstone received the heartiest cheers and applause pic.twitter.com/jBhM1fWIiP

— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) May 20, 2023

The film focuses on the 1920s murders of wealthy members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. Due to success in the oil industry, some members of the Osage Nation became incredibly rich, and given jealousy and racial tensions, white swindlers attempted to steal the money through threats and manipulation before resulting in murder. Scorsese and Eric Roth based their film on David Grann’s 2017 book of the same name, which was about these events. Roth and Scorsese did create the fictional romance between a white man, Ernest Burkhart (DiCaprio), and a native woman, Mollie Kyle (Gladstone), as a device to tell the story.

The film is set to release in theaters under Paramount Pictures on October 6th and will later move to streaming on Apple TV+.