Hopefully Marty Will Finally Get His Oscar

Rating: 10/10 (29 December 2004)

There may be no person on earth ever more deserving of an Oscar than Martin Scorsese. This man has helped a ridiculous number of actors earn theirs and yet he goes unrewarded by the Academy.
The biggest problem is that Scorsese's movies tend to be working on such an amazing level, that most people don't even like them on their the first viewing... (see Paul Sorvino's comments about the first time he saw Goodfellas). Upon reflection many of these people also realize the films to be a tremendous achievement. This is often too late for Oscar but at least makes a showing on the IMDb top 250 and AFI top 100.
The Aviator may change all of this. This film was fantastic. No doubt about it, this film is a masterpiece. It also has a Forrest Gump quality working for it that will hopefully draw in the masses.
My fingers are crossed... again. I hope this time the Academy won't let me down. Good luck Marty.