Scorsese’s Real Oscar Superpower

Martin Scorsese makes movies about men—rapacious men, unstable men, alluring men, Irish men. But as Mark Harris points out in Vanity Fair’s latest special awards issue, Scorsese also has a rather under-the-radar Oscar superpower: The women in his movies tend to get nominated for Academy Awards. A full 10 of his leading and supporting ladies have been selected for film’s highest honors, and two of them have won. “Scorsese has always used women in his movies, and he’s never been reluctant to let them talk,” Harris writes. “Examined as a group, the 10 female performances that he sent to the Oscars are not a collection of types; they’re strong, individual, and mostly indelible characters.”
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