Bulletin of the Martin Scorsese Fan Support Group
The Oscar voters will finally hand Martin Scorsese the statuette because
1. It’s long overdue.
2. It’s become too obvious to non-voters that they dislike him. They always pick an actor-director over him—Robert Redford, Kevin Costner (?!), Clint Eastwood. (Actors are the biggest voting bloc in the Academy. Also, most actor-voters are underemployed or retired.)
3. The Departed is Scorsese’s most “Hollywood” movie: star-studded, action-packed, crowd-pleasing, villains get their just desserts, “good” triumphs over “evil”. Ignore the irony that it’s based on a Hong Kong thriller.
4. No one gets an Oscar for their best work anyway, it’s acknowledgment or reparation.
5. They want to demonstrate that they are cooler than their elders who passed him over many times before.
The Oscar voters will not give Martin Scorsese the statuette because
1. They don’t like him. (Too New York.)
2. He never calls, he never writes.
3. The Departed is a genre film.
4. They will give it to Clint Eastwood, the All-American Hero. (He even looks the part: tall, lean, laconic, rugged. Marty is short, talks too fast, and is all eyebrows.)
5. “Where are the good old American values in his movies? Why do they have to cuss so much?” (Here’s an impression of Joe Pesci in Goodfellas: They fucking nominate him so they can fuck him over again.)
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
January 24th, 2007 at 20:59
The best movie I’ve seen last year. The man definitely deserves an Oscar.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:37
Don’t forget our “favorite” blood and gore actor-director, ever in the news Mel Gibson.
Marty should return the favor snub the Oscars. He doesn’t need any Oscar or award.
January 25th, 2007 at 16:13
among the nominees, my choice for best pic is little miss sunshine. but because i badly want marty to win an oscar, i’ll be rooting for departed all the way.
but then, i don’t always agree when oscar gives awards for reasons of being long overdue. hell denzel washington didn’t deserve that award!
January 25th, 2007 at 22:20
At this point in his career, I don’t think Martin Scorsese cares about winning an oscar, much less about his nth time nomination. If he were gay, he’d probably say, ‘kever sa mga chakang academy voters’. The Departed is so Hollywood, Oscar voters’d probably give it to the likes of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu whose film Babel is exactly the type of movie that wins Oscars. It’s the anti-Departed, long, ponderous, hard to digest and anti-audience.
January 26th, 2007 at 14:20
Many have touted this is the closest that Marty gets to Goodfellas and Mean Streets. Which is why the Academy should give him the Oscars, say critics. But even Fellas and Streets, didn’t got much love it deserved during their time at Oscars. They might prolly give it to Clint. Maybe they couldn’t just get Marty. If he doesn’t win this, they might just giving the Lifetime Achievement shit, which is bull, like the one they did with Altman. The Departed kicks ass like no other movies this year. It’s friggin’ delish it doesn’t need an Oscar. But then again, I’d love to see all the cast go up the stage.
February 26th, 2007 at 13:18
scorsese and the departed won! I’m so happy!!!