It was a night filled with lots of emotion and little surprise at last night’s 79th Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker were the worthy recipients of the Best Actor statues, with Mirren thanking the Academy for “biggest and the best gold star that I have ever had in my life” and a visibly moved Whitaker, who played Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland, thanking everyone from his ancestors to the people of Uganda.

But perhaps the happiest person in the room was The Departed director Martin Scorsese. The mob drama won four awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Scorsese, who had been nominated – and lost – five times before.