Out of its eight Academy Awards nominations, Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Joe Pesci), Best Supporting Actress (Cathy Moriarty), Best Director (Martin Scorsese), Best Cinematography (Michael Chapman), and Best Sound, it only won two Oscars: Best Actor (De Niro), and Best Film Editing (Thelma Schoonmaker).The self-interested and jaded femme fatale Lorraine undoubtedly saw Leo’s entrapment as a convenient way to exit from her unhappy marriage.Many viewers were hrilled by the love affair between Northern and Southern characters and the climactic rescue scene.Popil would let Lecter go if he would share everything he knew about Grutas, so that he could be legally captured and tried.