Some new kid named Martin Scorsese wins the best director Oscar. Damn this Hollywood youth culture. This is an award that thrills the entire room. There’s a standing ovation, cheers, taxi whistles. Onstage with Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, it’s like a 1970s Class Reunion, and that reinforces how long delayed this award has been. In a way it’s a consolation prize for not winning for “Raging Bull” or “The Last Temptation of Christ” or “Goodfellas” or “The Age of Innocence” or “The Gangs of New York” or “The Aviator.” And now “The Departed” takes best picture, announced by Diane Keaton and a bald Jack Nicholson, who apparently will next be starring in a biography of David Letterman’s bandleader, Paul Shaffer.

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