Why Doesn't Martin Scorsese Want WB To Buy Him An Oscar?

The bushy-browed auteur has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Director category six times but has never snagged a statuette. Now, sources close to him are saying Scorsese has requested that Warner Bros. not promote him for The Departed, the highest-grossing and, in the view of many critics, most audience-friendly film of his career.

My guess is that this is some sort of reverse psych move -- Miramax promoted the hell out of him twice and nothing came of it; now, maybe Marty figures he'll back as far away from Oscar campaigning as possible, and the statue will somehow fall in his lap. Hell, it worked for Roman Polanski...

Radar, via IFC Blog