Fur flies in snub of Scorsese Hugo dog

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It's no tip that during Hollywood's awards season, formidable impression roles mostly get ignored in welfare of some-more fortifying performances. But when

Martin Scorsese

saw such a slight succeed his "Hugo" star, he was not about to prowl divided with his tail between his legs.

The venerable filmmaker took a mount and barked aloud for that actor -- and now

Blackie

a Doberman is during a core of a exhilarated endowment campaign.

In an op-ed square in Sunday's Los Angeles Times, Scorsese -- whose 3D journey "Hugo" leads this year's Academy Awards competition with 11 nominations -- uttered his snub over a Doberman pinscher's repudiation from nominations for a initial

Golden Collar

Awards.

"How could she not be nominated?" he wrote, observant a dual nods -- two! -- for a heroic tiny terrier Uggie of "The Artist" fame. (Notably, a wordless film intrigue is second usually to "Hugo" in Oscar nods with 10.)

Oh, a injustice.

So Scorsese -- he of "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull" celebrity -- took a matter one step further, propelling a write-in

campaign

for Blackie.

Dog News Daily

, a online repository behind a Golden Collars, took adult a gauntlet Sunday, mouth-watering fans of Blackie to make their welfare known.

"We will do what Mr. Scorsese so eloquently requests of a LA Times readers as good as fans of

HUGO

and Dobermans everywhere," a site's editors wrote. "If Blackie receives 500 write-in 'NOMINATE HUGO'S BLACKIE' posts by Monday, Feb 6th on Dog News Daily's FACEBOOK PAGE afterwards a Golden Collar nominating cabinet will ask that a row of 14 judges supplement HUGO'S BLACKIE as a 6th Nominee in a Best Dog in a Theatrical Film category."

Should Blackie be combined to a ballot, she'll be competing with Uggie, arguably this year's highest-profile canine. The

Jack Russell terrier

perceived his Golden Collar nominations for performances in both "The Artist" and "Water for Elephants."

Uggie, too, is during a core of a amicable media campaign, instigated by Moveline on Facebook to titillate an Oscar curtsy for a terrier.

In a debate for Blackie, frequency a whimper. Until now. The muzzles are off and a dog competition is on.

Also opposed for tip dog during a Feb 13 Golden Collars are Cosmo ("Beginners"), Denver ("50/50") and Hummer ("Young Adult"). But Scorsese is insane about Blackie.

In his op-ed piece, Scorsese forked out a dynamics operative opposite actors of a Doberman persuasion. "Jack Russell terriers are tiny and cute," Scorsese reminded readers. "Dobermans are huge and -- handsome. More tellingly, Uggie plays a good tiny mascot who does tricks and saves his master's life in one of a films, while Blackie gives an formidable opening as a inhuman ensure dog who terrorizes children. I'm certain we can see what I'm pushing at.

"We all have lustful memories of Rin Tin Tin and Lassie, a large stars, a heroes, though what about a antiheroes? We have schooled to accept a tellurian antihero, though when it comes to dogs, we theory we still have a prolonged approach to go."

(Reporting by Sheri Linden; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

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