Academy Awards, USA 2007

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Leonardo DiCaprio

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Djimon Hounsou

Best Achievement in Film Editing

Nominee Steven Rosenblum
Oscar
Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Andy Nelson
Anna Behlmer
Ivan Sharrock

Best Achievement in Sound Editing

Lon Bender

Golden Globes, USA 2007

Nominee Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Golden Globe Leonardo DiCaprio

Screen Actors Guild Awards 2007

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Leonardo DiCaprio
Nominee
Actor Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting
Role
Djimon Hounsou

Awards Circuit Community Awards 2006

Nominee Best Actor in a Leading Role
ACCA Leonardo DiCaprio

Black Reel Awards 2007

Winner Best Supporting Actor
Black Reel Djimon Hounsou

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2007

Best Picture

Nominee Best Actor

Critics Choice Award Leonardo DiCaprio

Best Supporting Actor

 Djimon Hounsou

Central Ohio Film Critics Association 2007

Actor of the Year
Nominee Leonardo DiCaprio
COFCA Award
For The Departed

Cinema Audio Society, USA 2007

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion
Pictures
Nominee Andy Nelson (re-recording mixer)
C.A.S. Award
Anna Behlmer (re-recording mixer)
Ivan Sharrock (production mixer)

Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards 2006

Best Picture

Best Supporting Actor

Nominee Djimon Hounsou
DFWFCA Award

Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio

Grammy Awards 2008

Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television
Nominee or Other Visual Media
Grammy
James Newton Howard

Image Awards 2007

Winner Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Image Award Djimon Hounsou

Nominee Outstanding Motion Picture

Image Award

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards 2006

Winner Best Supporting Actor
Sierra Award Djimon Hounsou

Nominee Best Picture

Sierra Award 6th place

Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA 2007

 Best Sound Editing in Sound Effects and Foley for a Feature
Film
Lon Bender (supervising sound editor)
Christopher Assells (sound effects editor)
Karen Vassar Triest (sound effects editor)
Harry Cohen (sound effects editor)
Nominee Craig S. Jaeger (foley editor)
Golden Reel Award
John Roesch (foley artist)
Alyson Dee Moore (foley artist)
David Lee Fein (foley artist)
Joseph T. Sabella (foley artist)
Pamela Kahn (foley artist)
Damien Smith (foley artist)

National Board of Review, USA 2006

Best Supporting Actor
Winner Djimon Hounsou
NBR Award
Top Ten Films

Political Film Society, USA 2007

Nominee Human Rights
PFS Award

Satellite Awards 2007

Nominee Best Overall DVD
Satellite Award

Satellite Awards 2006

Nominee Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
Satellite Award Leonardo DiCaprio

St. Louis Film Critics Association, US 2006

Winner Best Supporting Actor
SLFCA Award Djimon Hounsou

Best Film

Best Director
Edward Zwick
Nominee
SLFCA Award Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio

Best Cinematography
Eduardo Serra
Teen Choice Awards 2007
Nominee
Teen Choice Award
Choice Movie Actor: Drama
Leonardo DiCaprio
For The Departed

Utah Film Critics Association Awards 2006

Best Actor
Nominee Leonardo DiCaprio
UFCA Award
For The Departed

Visual Effects Society Awards 2007

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion Picture
Jeffrey A. Okun
Nominee Thomas Boland
VES Award
Tim Crosbie
Neil Greenberg

Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards 2006

Winner Best Supporting Actor
WAFCA Award Djimon Hounsou

Women Film Critics Circle Awards 2006

Winner Best Actor
WFCC Award Djimon Hounsou

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Di Caprio as an arms smuggler whose main goal is to obtain a seemingly
priceless diamond from a villager during the civil war in Sierra Leone. The
film, although it has been called mild in comparison to reality, depicts the
brutality that inhabitants of diamond villages were subjected to. The film
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The film marker is trying to raise awareness of the illicit conflict diamond
trade and reinforcing the Kimberley process1 and showing how it will stem
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work together to solve various problems. In the movie, Danny Archer had been forced to work together with
Solomon Vandy, but they grew in terms of mutual understanding even though they had different purposes for
finding the diamond (Danny- profit, Solomon- to find family). From our research, cooperation among Africans is
needed to effectively solve the flow of conflict diamonds. An African Union was set up to speak on behalf of the
African nations. Discouraging racism will always be important in Singapore not only because the local population
consists of many different races, but also because of the apparent pro-Bumiputra policies which have drawn flak
from some racial communities in Malaysia. Besides, the filmmaker wants to show how an ineffective government
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