" When questioned by them about what he knows, being the last one to see Joey alive, Terry pleads ignorance:I don""t know nothin"", I ain""t seen nothin"", I""m not sayin"" nothin"".Although the film was nominated for four Academy Awards nominations (without recognition for director Scorsese, screenwriter Paul Schrader, or cinematographer Michael Chapman): Best Picture, Best Actor (Robert De Niro), Best Supporting Actress (Jodie Foster), and Best Original Score (Bernard Herrmann, nominated posthumously -- Herrmann passed away shortly after completing his work in this film) - all were unrewarded.Wearing a dark ninja outfit and black cap/mask, he disrupted an armed robbery in progress, although the thieves regarded him only as a "clown" and "Mr.As a point of reference, it rivaled he scene of the monolith""s emergence to the strains of composer Richard Strauss"" "Thus Spake Zarathustra" inKubrick""s2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).