It was definitely not your godfather’s Oscars. The grand finale of Mafia films, Martin Scorsese’s three-and-a-half hour epic, The Irishman, garnered 10 Oscar nominations, including for best picture and best director. Yet The Irishman won no awards. The Mafia genre – once ground-breaking in the early 1970s – has now concluded.
Oscar didn’t reward The Irishman.
The nominations were a nod of respect for a proud tradition of Mafia films, and its leading lights – Scorsese, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci. The whole gang got together for one last hit.
