Scorsese Has Been Robbed

This is not a news story that just broke involving the legendary director having his home burglarized or car taken from him. This is about his lack of an Academy Award.
I am doing research into the man's past in preparation of a movie column for Monday. Since his new film, "The Departed," is being released this weekend I figured I would discuss his failure to enter the winner's circle at any Academy Awards presentation. During said research I have decided he was robbed of a statue in 2005 for "The Aviator."
You may disagree that "The Aviator" is not as good of a film as "Million Dollar Baby," which took home the Oscar, or the other nominees, including "Ray," "Sideways" or "Vera Drake." Well, you are wrong. Especially if you think "Vera Drake" should have won.
This goes against my original thinking at the time of the presentation that Eastwood deserved the win for Director and "The Aviator" should have won for Best Picture, but I have since changed my mind. Scorsese deserved both categories.
The only true opposition Scorsese had for the Best Director category was Clint Eastwood for "Million Dollar Baby." Although "Ray" and "Sideways" are good movies and shined in certain areas, such as acting and writing, they lacked in the other areas necessary for a Best Director win.
The same could be said for "Million Dollar Baby." Eastwood was able to pull out some great acting from this devastating story about a female boxer and her trainer, but besides the acting "Million Dollar Baby" couldn't produce any wins, besides the two most coveted categories of director and picture.
"The Aviator" was nominated in 11 categories and won for five of them. They were Supporting Actress, Art Direction, Cinematography, Costume Design and Film Editing. Where it lost was the aforementioned Director and Picture, along with Actor and Supporting Actor (which I would agree that those weren't the best in those categories, although Leonardo DiCaprio did a better than fine job with his performance), Sound Mixing and Original Screenplay.
The director is in charge of the entire production of the movie, from the acting and camera work to the lighting and costuming. Although Scorsese only produced one winner in the acting group, which Eastwood did for two of the three nominations he had in acting categories, it is my belief that he still got great performances out of DiCaprio and Alan Alda and the wins in five other categories should have made him the clear winner that year.
This is all my opinion of course and there is nothing that can be done now, but if Scorsese didn't win in 2005 for a clear winner then I don't think he will ever win. Hopefully "The Departed" will finally be his success, but I don't see how he can possibly do a better job than he did with "The Aviator."