The Departed wins Oscar for Best Picture
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''The Departed'' won the Academy Award for best picture Sunday.
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âAtonement,â adapted from the Ian McEwan novel and starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy as suffering lovers, was named best film at the British Academy of Film and Television Awards (popularly known as the Baftas) on Sunday night in London, The Associated Press reported. Daniel Day-Lewis, above, came away with best actor honors for his performance as the oilman in âThere Will Be Blood,â and Marion Cotillard was named best actress for her portrayal of Ãdith Piaf in âLa Vie en Rose.â Joel and Ethan Coen won the award for directing for âNo Country for Old Men,â and the prize for best original screenplay went to Diablo Cody for âJuno.â.
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The success of Martin Scorsese's "The Departed" at the Oscars caused some Hollywood hand-wringing on Monday over whether months of costly Oscar campaigning truly pays off.
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Forest Whitaker won the Academy Award as best actor on Sunday for his acclaimed portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland."
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A bleak portrayal of life on a Tibetan  plateau won the best film award at the Chinese-language version  of the Oscars on Saturday, becoming the first entry from China  to bag the top prize in Taiwan.
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Il grande autore newyorkese, che non aveva mai vinto, porta a casa anche la statuettaper la miglior regia. Tra gli attori il trionfo (scontato) di Helen Mirren e Forest Whitaker                                            Oscar 2007, la rivincita di Scorsese "The Departed" Ã¨ il miglior film                                                                                      Il premio consegnato dai suoi grandi amici Spielberg, Lucas e CoppolaDoppio successo italiano: oltre a Morricone, la costumista Milena Canonerodi CLAUDIA MORGOGLIONE
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The Coen brothers' No Country For Old Men wins another major award ahead of this month's Oscars.
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The success of Martin Scorsese's  "The Departed" at the Oscars caused some Hollywood  hand-wringing on Monday over whether months of costly Oscar  campaigning truly pays off.
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The victory of âThe Departedâ serves as an acknowledgment that stars not only make movies, they make the movie.
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Helen Mirren won the best actress Academy Award on Sunday for her role in ''The Queen.''
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LOS ANGELES  - Along with scoring six Golden Globe nominations last week, "The Departed" has landed a TV deal with FX.
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Veteran filmmaker Martin Scorsese took a giant step toward winning his first Oscar on Saturday when he was named the Directors Guild of America's best director for 2007 for his crime thriller "The Departed."
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NEW YORK &#151; "Wake up and smell the coffin." Venomously delivered by Jack Nicholson's character in "The Departed," this line was cut from the film but remains a deadly wake-up call for an unsettling number of the characters. Now that "The Departed" is nominated for five Oscars, including best picture, it's worth discussing the most troubling part of Martin Scorsese's morbid crime drama: the ending.
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"Eastern Promises," a Russian mob thriller directed by Canadian cult legend David Cronenberg, won the Toronto International Film Festival's top prize on Saturday, positioning itself as an early Oscar favorite.
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An Australian movie about life before Europeans arrived triumphs at the country's top awards.
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Martin Scorsese is honoured by the Directors Guild of America for his mob thriller The Departed.
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&#39;Sideways&#39; starring Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church and Virginia Madsen has emerged as a forerunner for the Oscars after bagging five Los Angeles Film Association awards, including that of Best Picture.