In this eighth in a series of episodes leading up to Oscar night 2022, rewind to early 2007 when the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences bestowed Best Picture honors to The Departed and finally gave Martin Scorsese his long-overdue Best Director award! Did he win for the right film? What was that year's competition? How would the three presenters have reacted if it had been another name in that envelope? And how does the cast measure up to the Boston dialect? Chris from the podcast The Movie Psycho joins me to tackle these and other questions!