It not only won Best Picture, it also earned Martin Scorsese his long-awaited Best Director Oscar
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Rebecca" was not only Hitchcock's first American film, but also his only one to win 
a best ... Nobody at Warner Bros. expected this movie, based on an... [DOC] [TLE] Martin Scorsese Profile - TCM.com [PAR] With his seminal films Taxi Driver (1976) and Raging Bull (1980), Scorsese firmly 
... Five times nominated for Best Director, he failed to win an Academy Award 
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