Will be Scorsese be blacklisted again?

During the Academy Awards tonight I'll be most intent on seeing if the Academy voters blacklist Martin Scorsese again tonight. He is one of the nominees for "Best Director" for his work on the Howard Hughes biopic "The Aviator."

Scorsese, who was honored by the American Film Institute in 1997, has produced and directed more than 40 critically acclaimed films including Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Casino, Gangs of New York and Cape Fear. Depite the hundreds of millions earned by Scorsese's films, he has yet to garner a "Best Director" nod from the Academy.

Moreover Scorsese has been shutout of recent awards by Hollywood insiders since his support of mentor and friend Elia Kazan when Kazan received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy in 1999. Considering the power of the leftists in Hollywood, one can't help but wonder if Scorsese's support of Kazan is the reason for the shunning. (For full details on why Elia Kazan is hated by Hollywood leftists, select the hyperlink on his name.)

If he doesn't make it again this year, maybe he should kowtow to the leftist cinematic ideal with a film on turn of the century chain-smoking alcoholic drug-addicted suicidal transgendered lesbian socialist Eurotrash artists. With a premise like that, it'd be a surefire winner among the Hollywood elite these days.

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22:35 CST UPDATE: Yep, Scorsese got snubbed. Again. "The Aviator" nabbed five awards but Scorsese still got snubbed. 'Nuff said. Award for Best Director/Achievement in Directing went to Clint Eastwood, who starred in and directed "Million Dollar Baby."

I like Clint Eastwood. "Bronco Billy" gave me the warm fuzzies, "Dirty Harry" made my day, and I felt the pain of age in "Unforgiven." I broke up with an ex-girlfriend/almost fiancee over that movie. When she said she didn't like Eastwood or cowboy movies but that "Unforgiven" was okay, that was the final straw. I knew we'd never make it until "death do us part" unless she shot me or I shot her. We were just too different. Don't think so? She ended up marrying a guy named Zen. Q.E.D.

But Eastwood didn't deserve the Oscar this time. He got it because "Million Dollar Baby" is another man bites dog film loved by the Hollyweird -- the story of a female boxer who dies at the end, euthanized by Eastwood's character. And the title role of that film is played by Hillary Swank, star of cross-dressing lesbian film "Boys Don't Cry." Guess what? Swank won the award for Best Actress for "Boys Don't Cry" and again this year. Surprise? Not!

(BTW, has anyone noticed that actresses refer to themselves as "actors" until it's Academy Award time and they are up for "Actress in Leading Role?" I guess politically correct unisex terms go only so far ...)