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Hollywood veteran Martin Scorsese has won a pre-Oscars dog fight by securing an 11th hour nomination for the four-legged star of his latest movie in a canine contest.
Scorsese wrote an open letter to the Los Angeles Times at the weekend lamenting that Blackie, the snarling doberman from his top-Oscar tipped movie Hugo, had been left out of nominees for the Golden Collar award.
The frontrunner for the dog award is widely seen as Uggie, the cute trick-performing Jack Russell from silent movie The Artist, which is snapping at Scorsese’s heels with 10 nominations against 11 nods for Hugo.
Contest organisers Dog News Daily responded to Scorsese’s letter by promising to nominate Blackie if at least 500 people backed him by ‘liking’ its Facebook page.
A deluge of message calls for Blackie to be nominated followed – easily more than 500 in 24 hours, said a statement on the dog-friendly website.
The inaugural Golden Collar Awards ceremony will take place on February 13 in Los Angeles.
