It should have been Pan's Labyrinth ...

I mean, it wasn't even nominated. But The Departed? Please. Although tight, tense and clever, it's hardly Best Film material? It's a concilatory prize - Marty should have won for Goodfellas, or Mean Streets, or Taxi Driver, or Raging Bull, or any other of his consistently astounding films, not for an overlong remake which turned into a paint-by-numbers (albeit classy) gangster flick. Marty deserved Best Director, because he is the Best Director, but Best Film? It should have been Pan's Labyrinth, or if it had to be one of the nominees, why not Little Miss Sunshine or Babel?

Disappointed, but not terribly surprised. And also it's hard to begrude him - he's so cute and happy.