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Well it look like the now senond broing awards show next to the Grammys which was almost two weeks ago, The 79th Annual Academy Awards is over running 3h:49m [it ended at about 12:21 AM Detroit time] and tonight show was just like the Nonammed was werid to say the Leased.

The Big Surpried was the winner of Best picture now near the end every one was picking between "bable" and “Little Miss Sunshine but in a stunner but the surprize winner was "The Departed" it took home best picture and also took home best director, Giving Martin Scorsese his first ever Oscar win in Seven tried it also toook home two other awards.

It Took home Best adapted screenplay and Best film editing

as Expect the Two Best main Preformer in a film got there Oscar, Helen Mirren won best actress for her portrayal of a conflicted Queen Elizabeth II in the days following the death of Princess Diana in “The Queen, and Forrest Whitaker took home best actor for playing the murderous dictator Idi Amin in “The Last King of Scotland

Dream Girls got a spilt in the best Surporting plarers awards Jennifer Hudson won on the best Female side whield Eddie Murphy was upset by Alan Arkin for his portrayal of a heroin-snorting, embittered grandpa in “Little Miss Sunshine as he won Best surrporting Actor.

The Other Big Winner beside the Departed was the Al Gore global warming documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” as it won best documentary feature and no he did not annouced if he was going to run in 2008. Darn it!

It also won for Best original song for ("I Need To Wake Up")Melissa Etheridge

And the World Best Film came out of Germany as "The Lives of Others" won best Foring Film

Now i did watch The Oscar but i was not paying attenyion becase i was setting up the gig gudie and still tring to hook up the thrid and Final Day of the Hamtramck Blowout so I was Buzy.

And Just Before i Wrap for the night, and Show the Winner List

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Here Are the Winner list of tonight Oscar:

Best motion picture of the year: "The Departed" -- Graham King
Best achievement in directing: Martin Scorsese -- "The Departed"
Best performance by an actor in a leading role: Forest Whitaker -- "The Last King of Scotland"
Best performance by an actress in a leading role: Helen Mirren -- "The Queen"
Best performance by an actress in a supporting role: Jennifer Hudson -- "Dreamgirls"
Best performance by an actor in a supporting role: Alan Arkin -- "Little Miss Sunshine"
Best animated feature film of the year: "Happy Feet" -- George Miller
Best writing, screenplay -- adapted: "The Departed" -- William Monahan
Best writing, screenplay -- original: "Little Miss Sunshine" -- Michael Arndt
Best foreign language film of the year: "Lives of Others" (Germany)
Best documentary, features: "An Inconvenient Truth" -- Al Gore, Davis Guggenheim
Best achievement in film editing: "The Departed" -- Thelma Schoonmaker
Best achievement in costume design: "Marie Antoinette" -- Milena Canonero
Best achievement in cinematography: "Pan's Labyrinth" -- Guillermo Navarro
Best achievement in sound mixing: "Dreamgirls" -- Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer and Willie D. Burton
Best achievement in sound editing: "Letters from Iwo Jima" --
Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
Best achievement in art direction: "Pan's Labyrinth" -- Eugenio Caballero, Pilar Revuelta
Best achievement in makeup: "Pan's Labyrinth" -- David Martí, Montse Ribé
Best achievement in visual effects: "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"-- John Knoll, Hal T. Hickel, Charles Gibson, Allen Hall
Best achievement in music, original song: "An Inconvenient Truth" -- Melissa Etheridge ("I Need To Wake Up")
Best achievement in music, original score: "Babel" -- Gustavo Santaolalla
Lifetime achievement: Ennio Morricone
Best documentary, short subjects: "The Blood of Yingzhou District" -- Ruby Yang, Thomas Lennon
Best short film -- live action: "West Bank Story" -- Ari Sandel
Best short film -- animated: "The Danish Poet" -- Torill Kove