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#36. The Departed
(2006)




I'm a pretty big Martin Scorsese fan, and this movie is a good example of why. His movies are always entertaining and exciting, but they all also have some emotional or thought provoking significance to them. He always chooses intelligent scripts, and great actors, and helps all of that turn into an incredible movie. This was no exception. It was intense, suspsenseful, and extremely clever. It was also emotionally powerful. The whole cast was strong, but Leonardo DiCaprio did an incredible job as a the guy who lost his identity, and eventually, his life. It was absolutely a deserving winner for Best Picture. It should also be said that this is the first movie on the list that I think should have won a screenplay award, which is a pretty huge deal, because I consider that the most important part, so of any 2006 movie that was adapted, no movie mastered the most important element as well as The Departed did. I feel like I would be in suspense, and have a strong emotional reaction, even if I were just reading the script, and Martin Scorsese's directing, and the performances not only do the script justice, but even enchance it. Also, it should definitely have been nominated for Best Original Score, and I have no idea how it wasn't. I wouldn't have given it the Best Picture award, but it's a lot more deserving than our most recent winner.

Major awards it won or was nominated for:
Best Picture (won)
Best Director (won)
Mark Wahlberg for Best Supporting Actor (lost)
Best Adapted Screenplay (won)

Major awards / nominations I would've given it:
Best Picture (nomination)
Best Director (nomination)
Leonardo DiCaprio for Best Actor (nomination)
Best Adapted Screenplay (award)

Andr913 wrote:

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ilovekelly752 wrote:

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In 50 years, The Artist will be regarded just as How Green Was My Valley is today: good, but with no business beating a certain other movie for Best Picture. I won't say what Citizen Kane is in this situation yet.

All right, time for my Oscar thoughts, but I have to comment on this, and that is: WRONG, because How Green was my Valley was viewed as a bad choice by some parties even back then.

Also, remember my acting ballot that I posted? I have decided to make a change to the Actor category, because I saw Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy after making said ballot. Drop George Clooney for Gary Oldman. The ballot is now Dujardin-Fassbender-Gosling-Oldman-Pitt in alphabetical order. Winners will be announced when the ranking ends, along with my Top 25 of 2011. However, despite Oldman giving the better performance than Clooney, The Descendants is still the better movie by a lot.

Anyway, the actual Oscars:

-Hugo dominating the technical awards was not good. Yes, it deserved some technical awards, but FIVE? What the hell, Academy? I'm pretty sure HP8 (which was the best movie) deserved Visual Effects. The dome over Hogwarts > train crashing through a window, as awesome as that was.
-A Separation winning Foreign Film = YES!
-Rango winning Animated Film = YES!
-The ceremony as a whole was SO much better than last year, especially since Crystal seems like a nice guy and Franco comes across as a total c.unt. I particularly liked Billy Crystal saying what Nick Nolte was thinking and calling Jonah Hill fat.
-The BP montage at the end was lovely with great choice in music (Moneyball's theme is so great), and I particularly liked Extremely Loud getting little to no applause when they actually read the nominees. Tee hee.
-The opening montage with Crystal inserting himself into movies was good until they got into Tintin. That was random.
-I have no problem with Plummer winning S. Actor and Dujardin winning Actor. Spencer does not make my nominees, but I don't hate her win, and I'm really glad they chose one of her quieter scenes to play as her award clip.
-Streep winning Actress jolted me out of a slight stupor. She was shocked too, which made it funnier. As for the Streep/Davis debacle...I don't care too much. Yes, I think Davis was a little better than Streep, but that might be because The Help was a better movie, and Streep needed a 3rd Oscar at some point anyway. It's not like the nightmare that was the 1950 Best Actress award. To compare it to Survivor: it's like Australia, where I only prefer Colby beating Tina by a little.
-The Iron Lady being the only movie with more than one nomination to score 100% at the Oscars this year was pretty funny. That being said, the Makeup win sucked, especially when you consider the fact that they gave a makeup legend an Honorary Oscar.
-In Memoriam was good, although Steve Jobs being included was weird. Better than last year's mess.
-I feel so bad for Berenice Bejo, because I'm pretty sure her clip was about five seconds of her dancing. And playing the dream sequence for Dujardin was a bit of a cop out.
-2 nominees for Best Song-boo, especially since Real in Rio wasn't even that good. More Muppets songs! Life's a Happy Song deserved a nod.

BEST SPEECH IN A MAJOR CATEGORY: I really liked all the acting speeches. Whichever one you liked the most...just pretend that's the one I've chosen.
BEST SPEECH IN A MINOR CATEGORY: The Best Song guy. Unless you consider Foreign Film a minor category.
BEST PRESENTER: Either Chris Rock or Ferrell/Galifanakis. Emma Stone was good too.

And I think that's all I have to say! Congrats to all the winners and nominees!

PS-Apparently TWOP hated the ceremony, but they can be unbearable nowadays. The only part that really sucked was the Wizard of Oz bit, and that was so much better than last year's bit from Tom Hanks about the sound awards. Remember that? Ugh.