The Departed: 2006 Best Picture

“The Departed” was the Best Picture winner at the 79th Academy Awards, also picking up Best Director (Martin Scorsese). The other Best Picture nominees were “Babel”, “Letters from Iwo Jima”, “Little Miss Sunshine” and “The Queen”.

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Forest Whitaker took home the Best Actor Oscar for his uncanny portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in “The Last King of Scotland” and Helen Mirren won Best Actress for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in “The Queen”, marking two years in a row that the top acting awards went to roles portraying real people.

Alan Arkin won Best Supporting Actor for “Little Miss Sunshine” and Jennifer Hudson won Best Supporting Actress for “Dreamgirls”, her film debut.

The Top 10 box office hits: “Pirate’s of the Carribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”, “The Da Vinci Code”, “Ice Age: The Meltdown”, “Casino Royale”, “Night at the Museum”, “Cars”, “X-Men: The Last Stand”, “Mission: Impossible III”, “Superman Returns” and “Happy Feet”.

Other notable titles included: “United 59”, “Blood Diamond”, “Half Nelson”, “Volver” “Notes on a Scandal”, “The Devil Wears Prada”, “Little Children”, “Pan’s Labyrinth”, “Nanny McPhee”, “Akeelah and the Bee”, “Marie Antoinette” and “Charlotte’s Web”.

Jeopardy! clues on “The Departed”
MOVIE REMAKES $2000: This 2006 Oscar-winning film set in Boston was based on the Hong Kong crime film “Infernal Affairs”
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $800: This Best Picture winner for 2006 is Martin Scorsese’s highest-grossing film to date
THEY CO-STARRED WITH LEO DiCAPRIO $800: Jack Nicholson as a Boston gangster
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $400: It not only won Best Picture, it also earned Martin Scorsese his long-awaited Best Director Oscar

More 2006 film clues:
SUPPORTING ACTOR OSCARS $1600: 2006: Alan Arkin was the darker side of this film
“HAPPY” HOUR $800: Will Smith starred in this 2006 film about an aspiring stockbroker & his son
OF CLAY $600: A 2006 Oscar went to a film starring this claymation pair, an inventor & his faithful dog
SIMILES $1200: In this 2006 animated film, Mater says that he’s “happier ‘n a tornado in a trailer park”
SUPER $400: The 2006 film “Superman Returns” contains a dedication to this actor who died in 2004
ROYALTY ON FILM $400: Helen Mirren as this queen in “The Queen”
ACTORS’ MOVIE QUOTES $400: 2006: “We have to put a barrier between us & the snakes”
ROYALTY ON FILM $1200: Kirsten Dunst in 2006 as this title queen
SHOWING YOU THE ANNE HATHAWAY $400: Anne is the assistant to Miranda Priestly, editor of Runway Magazine, in this fashionable film
IN TOON $1000: An evil stepmother is out to ruin not just Cinderella’s storybook existence, but all fairy tales in this 2006 film
HISTORICAL ROLES $400: In 2006, Forest Whitaker played this man who led a coup in Uganda in 1971
FROM BOOK TO BIG SCREEN $600: This novel and its 2006 film version both start with a museum curator staggering through the Louvre
MOVIE PREMIERES $800: In 2006 the queen attended the world premiere of this James Bond film but skipped the premiere of “The Queen”
THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREEP $400: Meryl & Lily Tomlin played country duo Yolanda & Rhonda Johnson in this 2006 Robert Altman film
ANIMATED MOVIES $400: Elijah Wood provided the voice for Mumble, a tap-dancing penguin, in this 2006 film
MEXICAN MOVIE MAKERS $2000: Guillermo del Toro’s directing credits include “The Devil’s Backbone” & this 2006 Oscar-winning film
MEXICAN MOVIE MAKERS $3,500 (Daily Double): A shooting in Morocco touches off a story spanning 3 continents in this 2006 Gonzalez Inarritu film
COUNTRY MUSIC STARS ON FILM $1600: How do you like him now, now that he made his film debut in 2006 as fading country star Bo Price in “Broken Bridges”
OFF TO THE MOVIES $200: “And I am telling you I’m not going” to try & sing that song from this 2006 film; I’ll leave it to Jennifer Hudson
OFF TO THE MOVIES $1000: Jack Black wrestles with a problem & cooks up a scheme to save a monastery in this 2006 film
FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $200: James Bradley & Ron Powers’ book was the basis for this 2006 film about the 6 men who raised the flag on Iwo Jima
McLOVIN’ $1200: The tagline for this Emma Thompson film is “You’ll learn to love her. Warts and all”
MOVIES $1200: 5 kids traveling by themselves are stranded at a Chicago airport at Christmas in this 2006 film
FUNNYMEN $800: He toned down the funny for his role as singer James “Thunder” Early in “Dreamgirls”
CINEMA OF “BLOOD” $800: Leonardo DiCaprio’s African jewel smuggler gains a conscience in this film