Los Angeles ? Hollywood honors are ganging up on Martin Scorsese.

The day after the filmmaker’s star was unveiled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Scorsese received a lifetime achievement honor Saturday at the annual Directors Guild Awards.

He also had been nominated for the group’s best-director prize for “Gangs of New York,” a brutal immigrant saga that he had tried to make since the 1970s. In the 55 years since the guild began presenting its top honor, the winner has gone on to receive the Academy Award for best director all but five times.

Scorsese, 60, has never won an Oscar. He also has never won the guild prize, although he was previously nominated for the 1976 drama “Taxi Driver,” 1980’s “Raging Bull,” 1990’s “GoodFellas” and 1993’s “The Age of Innocence.”

Other DGA nominees this year included Roman Polanski for “The Pianist,” the story of a Polish musician fleeing the Nazi invasion. Polanski has had two previous DGA nominations, for 1968’s “Rosemary’s Baby” and 1974’s “Chinatown.”

Polanski’s nomination was his first by the DGA since he pleaded guilty in 1976 to having sex with a 13-year-old girl, then fled the United States before his sentencing.

In a rare public appearance, Polanski told a group of Hollywood directors via satellite from Paris on Saturday that his Holocaust drama “The Pianist” was a way to show how the pursuit of art can overcome life’s horrors.

“I wanted to show survival is … (connected to) those positive forces that surround us,” he said. “In this case, the music and art, which help someone go through difficult, sometimes the greatest, adversities.”

Film director Martin Scorsese gets a kiss from his wife, Helen Morris, after he received the 2,217th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. His daughters Dominica, far left, and Cathy attended Friday's ceremony. Scorsese also received a lifetime achievement honor Saturday at the annual Directors Guild Awards.

Since fleeing Los Angeles for Paris in 1978 to evade sentencing, Polanski, now 69, has been unable to return to the United States and rarely gives interviews.

Other nominees were Stephen Daldry for “The Hours,” about three women from different eras with ties to the work of author Virginia Woolf; Peter Jackson for “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers,” the second installment of the J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy trilogy; and first-time feature director Rob Marshall for the musical “Chicago.”

All but Jackson are up for best director at the upcoming Oscar ceremony March 23, with “Talk to Her” filmmaker Pedro Almodovar taking up the fifth spot.

Among other awards at the ceremony, director Guy Ferland won in the children’s television category for the Showtime drama “Bang, Bang, You’re Dead,” a morality play about school violence. Scott McKinsey won in the daytime serial class for his work on the ABC soap opera “Port Charles.”