It Would Sure Be Embarassing if Marty Scorsese Lost Best Director



Nikki Finke opened her Deadline Hollywood Daily column with this interesting spoiler that seems to foreshadow Martin Scorsese finally getting the Oscar love he so richly deserves:

"Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, and George Lucas together will be presenting the Best Director award this too-long telecast. What a gimmick. It'll be interesting for Hollywood to watch the interplay among them."

And, we imagine, the soul crushing silence if Marty once again comes up ... short -- no pun intended and Clint Eastwood gets his, like, billionth Oscar. We're rooting hard for Marty, of course, despite the fact that he had Jack Nicholson drop the N*bomb (What is it with Italian-American directors and the felt-need for organic authenticity by casually dropping the N*word in their films; Does it have to do with lingering hostilities at the North African Moors invasion of Italy?). Besides, Eastwood has so many Oscars he practically re-gifts those fuckers to his pals.