The Departed is Best Picture!

Not only that, but the film also won Martin Scorcese his first Oscar. Forest Whitaker won Best Actor for his role in The Last King of Scotland. Best Actress was won by the shoe-in – Helen Mirren for The Queen. But everyone knew she’d win that. Melissa Etheridge’s song I Need to Wake Up from An Inconvenient Truth won for Best Original Song. We worried about that once since three songs from the movie Dreamgirls dominated that category, but our rocker chick pulled through for us.

The Trailer for The Departed


Speaking of An Inconvenient Truth, that was Al Gore’s movie. Gore was in attendance and was inconveniently interrupted by the orchestra while about to announce what we can only guess was a presidential bid or something else boring and political. See the video below.