The Year of "The Departed": Oscar Stats 2007
28 March 2007
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BA 2006: .625 (15/24)
BA since 2004: .792 (76/96)
A big hit to the Oscar Batting Average as I picked a geniunely great film in Babel over a solidly American one: The Departed. Well done to Martin Scorsese, both for getting his Oscar and for thanking the makers of Infernal Affairs for the creative basis that saved him from continued snubbery. Indie upstart "Little Miss Sunshine" pulls a nice and fitting surpise in Arkin and screenplay. Good work to voters for getting foreign language right on "The Lives of Others." Shame they're still having trouble recognizing the far more interesting worldviews expressed in films from other countries when it comes to the other categories. All told, "The Departed"s proved again that these are America's awards.