The Departed Awards & Nominations

The action scenes aren't bad, its mostly the script that brings it down it has to be one of the stupidest scropts I've seen this year. Zwick is a little better then usual, but still the direction feels clumsy and the film doesn't know if it wants to be a fast paced action movie or a slower paced political thriller and it ends up making the transitions between the two which really makes it hard to focus on the movie. Who knows maybe you'll like it yourself, I recommend seeing it for the performances alone. Hmm, I just find it hard to believe that the script is so bad, especially when some of the lines I've heard are so good: "Sometime I wonder, will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize God left this place a long time ago." Sorry, but stuff like that is utterly poetic, poignant and just plain brilliant in my opinion... But I'll find out hopefully this tuesday if the film is somehow as bad as you say... or if people are being way too hard on this film for whatever reason. :roll:

The Departed is not one of AFI's top ten films of the year. :? From Variety, the list is: "Babel" "Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan" "The Devil Wears Prada" "Dreamgirls" "Half Nelson" "Happy Feet" "Inside Man" "Letters From Iwo Jima" "Little Miss Sunshine" "United 93"

Will Yes...just saw the list at Variety As always =different folks =different strokes.... but clearly their perception of what is excellence in film does not mirror mine

Boston Film Critics Boston Film Critic Awards The Departed Sweeps Boston Film Critics Best Picture: The Departed (United 93, runner-up) Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed (Paul Greengrass, United 93, runner-up) Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland (Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson, runner-up) Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen (Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal, runner-up) Best Supporting Actor: Mark Wahlberg, The Departed (TIE: Michael Sheen, The Queen; Alec Baldwin, The Departed/Running with Scissors/The Good Shepherd, runners-up) Best Supporting Actress: Shareeka Epps, Half Nelson (Meryl Streep, The Devil Wore Prada, runner-up) Extending "Congrats" to TD/Marty/Mark & Alec ! :) :) And more winners ....Congrats to William Monahan and "TD" Ensemble :) Best Ensemble Cast: United 93 (The Departed, runner-up) Best Screenplay: William Monahan, The Departed (Peter Morgan, The Queen, runner-up) Best Foreign Language Film: Pan's Labyrinth (Volver, runner-up) Best Documentary: TIE: Deliver Us From Evil/Shut Up & Sing (51 Birch Street, runner-up) Best New Filmmaker: Ryan Fleck, Half Nelson (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, Little Miss Sunshine, runners-up) Best Cinematography: Guillermo Navarro. Pan's Labyrinth (TIE: Stuart Dryburgh, The Painted Veil; Xiaoding Zhao, Curse of the Golden Flower, runners-up)

Thanks Peanut for some good news! :D Congrats to Scorsese and Wahlberg, and everybody else for making Best Picture!

Thanks Pea :D :D :D cograts to all, I'm thrilled with Mark's win 8) 8)

LA Film Critics Los Angeles Critics Association winners: Picture: "Letters From Iwo Jima" Runner-up: "The Queen" Director: Paul Greengrass, "United 93" Runner-up: Clint Eastwood, "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima" Actor: Sacha Baron Cohen, "Borat" and Forest Whitaker, "The Last King of Scotland" (tie) (no runner-up) Actress: Helen Mirren, "The Queen" Runner-up: Penelope Cruz, "Volver" Supporting actor: Michael Sheen, "The Queen" Runner-up: Sergi Lopez, "Pan's Labyrinth" Supporting actress: Luminita Gheorghiu, "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu" Runner-up: Jennifer Hudson, "Dreamgirls" Screenplay: Peter Morgan, "The Queen" Runner-up: Michael Arndt, "Little Miss Sunshine" Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, "Children of Men" Runner-up: Tom Stern, "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima" Production design: Eugenio Caballero, "Pan's Labyrinth" Runner-up: Jim Clay and Geoffrey Kirkland, "Children of Men" Music: Alexandre Desplat, "The Queen" and "The Painted Veil" Runner-up: Thomas Newman, "The Good German" and "Little Children" Foreign-language film: "The Lives of Others" Runner-up: "Volver" Documentary/non-fiction film: "An Inconvenient Truth" Runner-up: "Darwin's Nightmare" Animation: "Happy Feet" Runner-up: "Cars" Douglas Edwards experimental/independent film/video award: "Old Joy" (Kelly Reichardt) and "In Between Days" (So Yong Kim) New generation award: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris (directors) and Michael Arndt (screenwriter), "Little Miss Sunshine" Career achievement award (previously announced): Robert Mulligan

Thanks, peanut... The NY Online Film Critics had nothing for the Departed either.

Will Thanks for online list :) Yes....noticed they went big time for "The Queen".. Tomorra we have NYFC And...Thurs =The Globes.... So onward we go ..

No surprise there -- with obtuse critics like Ed Douglas chiming in (he really did not like The Departed), but their choices are generally different, anyhow. Still, The Queen was a good solid piece of work but I doubt most folks will remember it beyond Helen Mirren in a few years. It does smack of Mahs-tah-peece The-ah-Ta. The Departed is a different story.

Well, at least the NY Online Film Critics didn't name "Flags" or "Letters." As for the AFI, what the hell were they smoking? And more Clint love from the L.A. Critics. :evil: I hope there's a good movie I can watch on Oscar night. Wont "The Departed" DVD be out by then? Hmm, I just find it hard to believe that the script is so bad, especially when some of the lines I've heard are so good: "Sometime I wonder, will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize God left this place a long time ago." Sorry, but stuff like that is utterly poetic, poignant and just plain brilliant in my opinion... But I'll find out hopefully this tuesday if the film is somehow as bad as you say... or if people are being way too hard on this film for whatever reason. Art, I saw "Blood Diamond" on Friday. Leo is terrific. I really thought I was watching Danny Archer, not Leo. However, the script is pretty bad. Not as bad as some movies I've seen. And like you noted, it does have some great, poetic lines. In fact, the passage you quoted is particulary moving and appealed to my existential leanings. I also liked Danny's comment of "when is the world not in a mess" (or something like that). But there are too many times in the movie that you think -- there is no way that would happen. And near the ending, there are very poignent moments, and then it gets ruined by corny dialogue and the actors doing things that seem unreasonable given their circumstances. I'm probably not making sense but I don't want to give too much away. This being said, I recommend you see it, if only for Leo's performance.

oscar races are over for best actor and best actress. Whitaker and Mirren will take it at home. mirren and whitakerwon nbr, boston , LA and new york critics awards. If dicaprio is smart, he sticks with best supporting for the departed...like that he could have, at least, the chance to win something that he deserves since a long time (an oscar) even if his role was not supporting at all. That would be a stupid idea, and no Dicaprio doesn't have more chances in Supporting. If anyone from The Departed was to take it it would be Nicholson since he has gotten the majority of raves from critics plus AMPAS adores everything that man does. Leo should stick in Lead where he belongs and be happy with a nom.

Mantas : The role of whitaker is a supporting one but he goes lead. why dicaprio could not do the reverse thing ? I heard that clooney was lead in syriana but end up winning the oscar last year in the best supporting category. in training day : denzel was supporting, hawk was lead but they reverse the thing for the oscar. why dicaprio couldn't do it the same ?

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