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Golden Globe Best Director - Motion Picture 2007 · Winner
Academy Award Film Editing 2007 · Winner
Academy Award Best Picture 2007 · Winner
Academy Award Writing (Adapted Screenplay) 2007 · Winner
Academy Award Directing 2007 · Winner
Amandaprisen Best Foreign Film 2007 · Winner
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture 2007 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Film 2007 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Adapted Screenplay 2007 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts David Lean Award 2007 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Screenplay - Motion Picture 2007 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture 2007 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Actor in a Leading Role 2007 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Editing 2007 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Actor in a Supporting Role 2007 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama 2007 · Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role 2007 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Motion Picture - Drama 2007 · Nominated
Academy Award Actor in a Supporting Role 2007 · Nominated
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Golden Globe Awards: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama: Leonardo DiCaprio Nominated Best Director – Motion Picture: Martin Scorsese Won Best Motion Picture – Drama: Nominated Best Screenplay – Motion Picture: William Monahan Best Supporting Actor: Jack Nicholson Mark Wahlberg Grammy Awards: Best Score Soundtrack Album
The Departed is a crime thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, and Matt Damon. It won four Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay, and received many other awards and nominations.
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The Departed, American crime film, released in 2006, that was directed by Martin Scorsese and won four Academy Awards, including best picture. A tense action thriller with an all-star cast, it was one of Scorsese’s biggest hits at the box office.
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The Departed is set in Boston. Colin Sullivan (played by Matt Damon) is a protégé of Irish American crime boss Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson), and he joins the state police force as a mole for Costello. Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a police recruit who is chosen by Captain Queenan (Martin Sheen) and Staff Sgt. Sean Dignam (Mark Wahlberg) as an undercover officer, known only to them, assigned to infiltrate Costello’s organization. Both Sullivan and Costigan have a relationship with police psychiatrist Madolyn Madden (Vera Farmiga). As each organization becomes aware that it has been infiltrated, Sullivan and Costigan work to determine the identity of the mole while trying to keep their own duplicity from being found out. They engage in a game of cat-and-mouse in which each is often within a hair’s breadth of discovering the other. In an extra twist, it emerges that Costello is also an FBI informant. Upon learning of this, Sullivan kills Costello. Costigan then attempts to give up his undercover role, thus revealing himself to Sullivan, but he discovers that Sullivan was Costello’s mole. In a violent climax, Costigan is killed by a second dirty cop, and Sullivan kills that cop and walks away free. He returns to his home, only to be ambushed and killed by Dignam.
The Departed was a remake of the popular Hong Kong film Mou gaan dou (2002; Infernal Affairs). It was the first movie for which Scorsese, one of the industry’s most respected directors, won a best director Oscar. Nicholson’s portrayal of Costello was loosely based on real-life crime boss Whitey Bulger and was often improvised.
•Studios: Warner Bros., Plan B Entertainment, Initial Entertainment Group, and Vertigo Entertainment
•Director: Martin Scorsese
•Writer: William Monahan, based on a screenplay by Alan Mak and Felix Chong
•Music: Howard Shore
•Leonardo DiCaprio (Billy Costigan)
•Matt Damon (Colin Sullivan)
•Jack Nicholson (Frank Costello)
•Martin Sheen (Captain Queenan)
•Mark Wahlberg (Staff Sgt. Sean Dignam)
•Vera Farmiga (Madolyn Madden)
- Pat Bauer
At the 79th Academy Awards on February 25, 2007, The Departed won four Academy Awards: Best Picture (Graham King), Best Director (Martin Scorsese), Best Film Editing (Thelma Schoonmaker), and Best Adapted Screenplay Writing (William Monahan).
Feb 26, 2007 · William Monahan won best adapted screenplay for “The Departed,” his transplantation of the movie “Infernal Affairs” from Hong Kong to South Boston. An Oscar also went to Thelma Schoonmaker ...
The Departed won additional Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film Editing to go with the Best Picture And Best Director Oscars for Scorsese. Leonardo DiCaprio had a career year, he might have been nominated himself if he wasn't up for Best Actor in Blood Diamond.
