After watching the Oscars Sunday (a.k.a. getting highlights the next day because I passed-out somewhere in-between the awards for “Best Sock-Puppet in a foreign-short” and “Best Sock-Puppet Designer in a foreign-short”) it’s obvious that “make-up calls” aren’t exclusive to sports – they’ve made their way into the movies, too.

A make-up call in the sporting world occurs when “a referee makes an obvious mistake in penalizing a team or a player, and in an effort to rectify the irreversible screw-up, said referee arbitrarily hands-out an equally bad or worse penalty against the opposite team or player.”

Awarding “Best Picture” to The Departed and “Best Director” to its maker, Martin Scorsese, was a monster make-up call.