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U.K. BOOKMAKERS FAVOR THE DEPARTED Wednesday, January 24 2007 
Ladbrokes,
the
British
bookmaker,
has
given
10-to-11
odds
that
Martin
Scorsese's
The
Departed
will
win
the
Oscar
for
best
picture
this
year.
Babel
is
close
behind
with
9-4
odds.
Little
Miss
Sunshine
follows
at
4-1.
Dark
horses
are
The
Queen
with
8-1
odds
and
Letters
from
Iwo
Jima
at
12-1.
In
the
acting
category,
the
bookmaker
has
already
stopped
taking
bets
on
Helen
Mirren
in
the
best
actress
category,
who
is
regarded
as
a
shoo-in.
(more)CHINA SHUNS SCORSESE'S LATEST FILM Thursday, January 18 2007 
Martin
Scorsese,
who
outraged
the
Chinese
government
in
1997
with
his
film
Kundun,
about
the
country's
oppression
of
the
Tibetan
people,
has
done
it
again
with
The
Departed.
The
movie,
in
which
Chinese
characters
appear
briefly
as
villains,
has
been
rejected
by
the
state-owned
film
distributor,
China
Film
Group.
No
reason
was
given.
In
reporting
on
the
government's
rejection,
the
Associated
Press
commented
that
it
was
"unusual
in
that
the
importer
appears
to
have
rejected
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Placing him into position as the frontrunner in this year's Oscar contest for best director, The Directors Guild of America on Saturday honored Martin Scorsese as filmmaker of the year. Although nominated seven times, this was Scorsese's first DGA win. Accepting the award, Scorsese observed that he realized that his film, The Departed, would become a hit when the studio showed him box-office sales graphs with huge spikes in certain key areas of the country. It was, he said, "like looking at a veritable map of the American underworld. ... Vegas, forget about it. It was amazing."
