and the award goes to...

" Short Note: I haven't been watching much movie since the last one - Pathfinder, in January 2007. I just watched Protégé and Ghost Rider. Might do a quick review later on. But in case I don't, here's the verdict: Protégé = Good, Ghost Rider = Bad. "

The recently concluded Academy Awards , also known as the Oscars, has seen The Departed as the biggest winner for the night.

Here are the winners for the 79th edition Oscars:-
Actor in Leading Role
Forest Whittaker [The Last King of Scotland]

Actor in Supporting Role
Alan Arkin [Little Miss Sunshine]

Actress in Leading Role
Helen Mirren [The Queen]

Actress in Supporting Role
Jennifer Hudson [Dreamgirls]

Animated Featured Film
Happy Feet

Art Direction
Pan's Labyrinth

Cinematography
Pan's Labyrinth

Costume Design
Marie Antionette

Directing
The Departed [Martin Scorsese]

Documentary Feature
An Inconvenient Truth

Documentary Short
The Blood of YingZhou District

Film Editing
The Departed

Foreign Language Film
The Lives of Others

Makeup
Pan's Labyrinth

Music (Score)
Babel

Music (Song)
An Inconvenient Truth ["I Need to Wake Up" Music and Lyric by Melissa Etheridge]

Best Picture
The Departed

Short Film (Animated)
The Danish Poet

Short Film (Live Action)
West Bank Story

Sound Editing
Letters from Iwo Jima

Sound Mixing
Dreamgirls

Visual Effects
Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Departed

Writing (Original Screenplay)
Little Miss Sunshine

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