The Departed won four Academy Awards.
At the 79th Academy Awards, honoring films released in 2006, The Departed won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Film Editing. The winning recipients included producer Graham King, director Martin Scorsese, screenwriter William Monahan, and editor Thelma Schoonmaker.
The four-Oscar haul was especially significant for Scorsese. Although he had received several earlier nominations, this was his first personal Academy Award for directing. The Departed also marked his first Best Picture win as director, while the film became the ceremony’s most-awarded title.
The movie received five Oscar nominations in total. Mark Wahlberg was nominated for Best Supporting Actor but lost to Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine. The Departed was adapted from the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs and became Scorsese’s first film to win Best Picture, despite its Boston setting and ensemble crime-story structure.