Martin Scorsese has a bone to pick with The Hollywood Reporter's coverage of the Golden Collar Awards.

During an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Scorsese mentioned THR's report from a source close to the awards who suggested Blackie -- the doberman he directed in Hugo -- was initially overlooked as a contender for the Feb. 13 ceremony because her facial expressions were enhanced with CGI.

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"I said, 'Wait a minute, did we CGI this dog? I don't remember that,'" he said on the show. "Called Rob -- Rob Legato, who's our special effects and visual effects (supervisor). He wrote a rebuttal (in) The Hollywood Reporter, explaining that there was not one shot of CGI!"

See Legato's remarks here.

Scorsese suspected a negative PR campaign was at play, implying to DeGeneres that the false CGI rumor might have been the handiwork of a competitor, aka Harvey Weinstein’s Oscar nominee, The Artist. The silent film's Jack Russell Uggie is up for two Golden Collars: one for The Artist, the other for his role in Water for Elephants co-starring Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson.

Check out Scorsese's Ellen interview below.