The hype surrounding Gangs of New York and Aviator were two films that people really wanted to be good enough to garner an Oscar, which would have been completely unnecessary if Scorsese would have won thirty years ago when he was first nominated. The little I've rewatched of Gangs and Aviator show films that are in my opinion near misses. However the more I've gotten to see of the Departed the more that film clearly stands out and is about as compulsively re-watchable as Goodfellas. Of course the argument for some is that Scorsese is repeating himself but I don't think this is the case at all. 

Back to Schrader's list, the Boetticher film is the only one I haven't seen but we've discussed elsewhere my ignorance regarding his work.