With awards going to artists from around the globe, no one film dominated the Academy Awards this year
Martin Scorsese's mob epic The Departed won best picture at the Academy Awards and earned the filmmaker the directing prize that had long eluded him. Helen Mirren won best actress for playing the British queen, and Forest Whitaker earned best actor for his portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.

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Flush with an Oscar for his environmental jeremiad An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore faces growing speculation whether he might ride the winds of political climate change to a new bid for the presidency.

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