Bitan on Instagram: "When the film won the Oscar for Best Picture, Martin Scorsese said that he was surprised the film had won. Scorsese said that because the film is such a tough, nasty, and violent film, he never thought about the idea of awards while he was filming it. Martin Scorsese won Best Picture and Best Director Oscars over Clint Eastwood nominated for Letters from Iwo Jima (2006). The two competed two years earlier when Scorsese was nominated in both categories for The Aviator (2004)