Scorsese Finally Wins Oscar for Director and Picture

Martin Scorsese won the Oscar for Best Director and Best Picture for The Departed. Finally. After not getting the award for Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, or Goodfellas -- three of the finest films ever made -- it was about time the Academy recognize his brilliance.

The night's other winners included:

BEST PICTURE: "The Departed," Graham King, producer

BEST DIRECTOR: Martin Scorsese, "The Departed"

BEST ACTOR: Forest Whitaker, "The Last King of Scotland"

BEST ACTRESS: Helen Mirren, "The Queen"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Alan Arkin, "Little Miss Sunshine"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Jennifer Hudson, "Dreamgirls"

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: "Little Miss Sunshine," Michael Arndt

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: "The Departed," William Monahan

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM: "An Inconvenient Truth," Davis Guggenheim, director; Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, producers

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: "The Lives of Others," Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

ANIMATED FEATURE: "Happy Feet," George Miller, director

ORIGINAL SCORE: "Babel," Gustavo Santaolalla

ORIGINAL SONG: "I Need to Wake Up," Melissa Etheridge (from "An Inconvenient Truth")

ANIMATED SHORT FILM: "The Danish Poet," Torill Kove, director

ART DIRECTION: "Pan's Labyrinth," Eugenio Caballero, art direction; Pilar Revuelta, set decoration

CINEMATOGRAPHY: "Pan's Labyrinth," Guillermo Navarro

COSTUME DESIGN: "Marie Antoinette," Milena Canonero

DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM: "The Blood of Yingzhou District," Ruby Yang, Thomas Lennon

FILM EDITING: "The Departed," Thelma Schoonmaker

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM: "West Bank Story," Ari Sandel, director

MAKEUP: "Pan's Labyrinth," David Marti, Montse Ribe

SOUND EDITING: "Letters From Iwo Jima," Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman

SOUND MIXING: "Dreamgirls," Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer, Willie Burton

VISUAL EFFECTS: "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson, Allen Hall

Tags: The Oscars, Martin Scorsese, The Departed