The Departed won the 79th Oscar award in which two renown Hollywood actors Leonardo and Madaman won nothing.Leonardo was nominated for Best Actor for his role in The Departed but the Best actor award goes to Forest Whitaker playing the murderous dictator Idi Amin in “The Last King of Scotland” and Helen Mirren best actress for her role in “The Queen”.Altogether the film(The Departed) won four Oscars of the five nominated.

The best part of the announcement being the Oscar winning by Martin Scorsese for the best Director of The Departed.After seven times shunned by Academy Award voters Scorsese finally won the Title.Writer of the same film William Monahan won for adapting the screenplay from the Hong Kong thriller, “Infernal Affairs,” and also Thelma Schoonmaker won for best editing.

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