Boston film critics really like Boston

Here’s a shock: “The Departed,” Martin Scorsese’s hit about Boston mobsters and the cops they corrupt, was a hit with the Boston Society of Film Critics, too. The thriller was voted best picture and, the society named Scorsese best director and William Monahan’s adaptation of the Hong Kong cat-and-mouse picture from which “The Departed” has been adapted, best screenplay. (The group doesn’t distinguish between original and adapted scripts.) Mark Wahlberg, as a hot-blooded police sergeant in the film, was named best supporting actor. Alec Baldwin, who played a comically stressed out state police detective in the film, was the runner-up.

“United 93,” a re-imagining of the doomed flights on September 11th, came in second for picture, and the movie’s director, Paul Greengrass, was second to Scorsese. Its cast was also was voted best ensemble. (The cast of “The Departed” came in second.) The screenplay runner-up was Peter Morgan’s script for the “The Queen,” which dramatized the aftermath of Princess Diana’s death from the points of view of Queen Elizabeth and Tony Blair. Michael Sheen, playing Blair, was the other runner-up in the supporting actor category.

That film’s star, Helen Mirren, was voted best actress for work in the title role. Her fellow dame, Judi Dench, came in second for her un-damely performance as a schoolteacher infatuated with a co-worker in “Notes on a Scandal.”

Forest Whitaker was voted best actor for his performance as the Ugandan tyrant Idi Amin in “The Last King of Scotland.” Ryan Gosling, as the crack addicted history in “Half Nelson,” was the runner-up.

Gosling’s co-star, Shareeka Epps won best supporting actress for her performance as a steely middle schooler. The first-time actor beat out runner-up Meryl Streep, who played the domineering magazine editor in “The Devil Wears Prada.”

The foreign film winner was Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth,” a dark fantasy set in Spain not along after Franco’s rise to power. Pedro Almodovar’s “Volver,” about several generation of Spanish women, came in second. Del Toro’s director of photography, Guillermo Navarro, won the cinematography award.

The director of “Half Nelson,” Ryan Fleck, also won the society’s new filmmaker award. The documentary award was a tie between “Shut Up & Sing,” Barbara Kopple’s look at the Dixie Chicks under siege, and Amy Berg’s “Deliver Us From Evil,” about a pedophile priest and his victims. The runner-up was “51 Birch Street,” Doug Block’s examination of his parents’ crumbling marriage.

The Boston Society of Film Critics also recognized the area’s best film series, and best discovered/rediscovered films. The film series winners were: “At Home and Abroad: The Vietnam War on Film/ From Both Sides: The Korean War on Film/ On All Fronts: World War II on Film,” at the Harvard Film Archive; “Centennial Starlets: Anna May Wong and Janet Gaynor,” at the Harvard Film Archive; “50 Year of Janus Films,” at the Brattle; “Major and Minor Notes: A Billy Wilder Centennial,” at the Harvard Film Archive; and “Man in the Dunes: Hiroshi Teshigahara,” at the Brattle.

The discovered/rediscovered film winners were: “Army of Shadows”; “The Fallen Idol”; “Lucky Star”; “The Phantom Carriage”; and “The Red Badge of Courage.”

The society also bestowed commendations to Ted Barron, who served as the Harvard Film Archive’s interim curator and to the local filmmaker, curator, and scholar John Gianvato, for his book “Tarkovsky: Interviews.”