79th Academy Awards

Highlights:

• The Departed wins four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Directing, giving director Martin Scorsese his first Academy Award.
• "An Inconvenient Truth" wins former Vice President Al Gore the first Oscar given to a senior politician
• Loved the performances by Celine Dion, Jennifer Hudson and Beyonce
• Ellen DeGeneres hosted the ceremony for the first time. She was funny... I enjoyed it.
• Forest Whitaker's speech was awesome!

Major winners

Feature films

Category	Winner	Producers/Country
Best motion picture	The Departed	Graham King
Best foreign language film	The Lives of Others	Germany
Best documentary feature	An Inconvenient Truth	Davis Guggenheim
Best animated feature film	Happy Feet	George Miller

Acting

Category	Winner	Film
Best actor in a leading role	Forest Whitaker	The Last King of Scotland
Best actress in a leading role	Helen Mirren	The Queen
Best actor in a supporting role	Alan Arkin	Little Miss Sunshine
Best actress in a supporting role	Jennifer Hudson	Dreamgirls

Complete list of winners