Finally! After leaving empty handed with 5 Best Director (and 4 Best Picture) nominations… one of the greatest film directors of all-time, the God of pure cinema, Martin Scorsese, finally gets to go home with Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director. The Departed, his 2006 crime epic starring half of Hollywood seemed like the perfect vehicle to get him to the finish line… But at the same time, it’s a little bittersweet because in many people’s minds because The Departed might not have been the best movie of the year — and is nowhere near the best film Scorsese has ever made over his long and storied career. In fact, as we inspect this year’s Oscar awards — we discover a lot of nominations rewarding good people for their not best work. (And a few who deliver career benchmark performances!) Join us as we hash through a year that is equal parts rewarding and confounding and try to discover whether there was a ‘rat’ in the Academy who had it in the bag for a legend. As always, thanks for listening and supporting the show!

Movies Mentioned

(*Recommended)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

*Night at the Museum

Cars

X-Men: The Last Stand

The DaVinci Code

Superman Returns

Happy Feet

Ice Age: The Meltdown

*Casino Royale

*The Pursuit of Happiness

*Dreamgirls

Babel

*Pan’s Labyrinth

*The Queen

Blood Diamond

*The Departed

*Letters From Iwo Jima

*Little Miss Sunshine

*Notes on a Scandal

*Flags of Our Fathers

**Children of Men

*Apocalypto

*Inside Man

*The Prestige

The Illusionist

*United 93

*Little Children

*Volver

*The Last King of Scotland

Half Nelson

*Venus

*The Devil Wears Prada

*Borat

*An Inconvenient Truth

*1917

**The Lives of Others

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