In a year of unparalleled diversity and international muscle at Hollywood's film honors, the Academy Awards finished as a love fest for a long-overlooked American — Martin Scorsese. After Scorsese's five previous losses in the direction category, he won for mob epic "The Departed," which also won best picture. Awards watchers had viewed Scorsese as a lock to win at last, and while he clearly coveted an Oscar, the director said he had not counted on anything. Here's the complete list of winners at the 79th annual  Academy Awards, presented Sunday night at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles: Best Motion Picture: "The Departed" Lead Actor: Forest Whitaker, "The Last King of Scotland" Lead Actress: Helen Mirren, "The Queen" Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin, "Little Miss Sunshine" Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson, "Dreamgirls" Directing: Martin Scorsese, "The Departed" Foreign Language Film: "The Lives of Others," Germany Adapted Screenplay: William Monahan, "The Departed" Original Screenplay: Michael Arndt, "Little Miss Sunshine" Animated Feature Film: "Happy Feet" Art Direction: "Pan's Labyrinth" Cinematography: "Pan's Labyrinth" Sound Mixing: "Dreamgirls" Sound Editing: "Letters From Iwo Jima" Original Score: "Babel," Gustavo Santaolalla Original Song: "I Need to Wake Up" from "An Inconvenient Truth," Melissa Etheridge Costume: "Marie Antoinette" Documentary Feature: "An Inconvenient Truth" Documentary Short Subject: "The Blood of Yingzhou District" Film Editing: "The Departed" Makeup: "Pan's Labyrinth" Animated Short Film: "The Danish Poet" Live Action Short Film: "West Bank Story" Visual Effects: "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" Jean Hersholt Award (Oscar statuette): Sherry Lansing. Honorary Academy Award (Oscar statuette): Ennio Morricone.
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