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'Crash' Pulls Off Best-Picture Oscar
yahoo.com ^ | 3/5/06

Posted on 03/05/2006 8:49:15 PM PST by paudio

The ensemble drama "Crash" pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Academy Awards history, winning best picture Sunday over the cowboy romance "Brokeback Mountain," which had been the front-runner.

"Crash," featuring a huge cast in crisscrossing story lines over a chaotic 36-hour period in Los Angeles, rode a late surge of praise that lifted it past "Brokeback Mountain," a film that had won most other key Hollywood honors.

In a year of provocative films at the Oscars, "Crash" was one of the fiercest, a portrait of simmering racial and cultural tension among blacks, whites, Hispanics, Asians and Arabs.

The other best-picture nominees emerged either out of Hollywood studios or their art-house affiliates. But "Crash" was a true Oscar rarity, shot outside the system on a tiny $6.5 million budget, then acquired by independent distributor Lionsgate at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival, where the film premiered.

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: crash; hollywood; nopuddingforyou; oscars
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To: Checkers

Original Score: "Brokeback Mountain," Gustavo Santaolalla.


But, of course...


61 posted on 03/05/2006 9:04:13 PM PST by Checkers (Mort Kondracke: "Kennedy has been character assassinating Judicial nominees since...Haynesworth.")
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To: binkdeville

Better put some ice on that!


62 posted on 03/05/2006 9:04:21 PM PST by The Worthless Miracle
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To: paudio
HERE IS MY OSCAR WRAPUP

Semen and feces did not win.

A (c)RAP song beat Dolly Parton.

George Clooney looks like a human raccoon.

John Stewart is less funny than Will Farrell. (Farrell is not funny at all).

The only people that care about the Oscars are the people that are in the Oscars.

63 posted on 03/05/2006 9:04:56 PM PST by isthisnickcool (Jack Bauer: "By the time I'm finished with you you're going to wish you felt this good again".)
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To: JRios1968

We probably could, but if we posted it here we'd be suspended, if not banned.


64 posted on 03/05/2006 9:05:03 PM PST by PalestrinaGal0317 (We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity-Ann Coulter)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Yeah. I'm not even a fan of rap music, but I love this movie. It was stripped down, simple, and every character just howled off the screen. I've heard that this was the year of George Clooney, but in my mind it was Terrence Howard's.


65 posted on 03/05/2006 9:05:20 PM PST by Lochlainnach (If there was no death penalty, I'm pretty sure Jesus would still be alive today.)
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To: antaresequity
My neighbor is a screen write/adapter...he worked on Crash...and gave me a DVD to watch...

Please tell your neighbor he did a great job.

I bought the DVD the day it came out for sale.
If you like ironies, it's loaded.

66 posted on 03/05/2006 9:05:24 PM PST by b9 ("the [evil Marxist liberal socialist Democrat Party] alternative is unthinkable" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: quantim

Morgan Freeman can be a leftie, but he's also taken some very, very sane positions that make me applaud him. And he's a fantastic actor.

See thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1541176/posts


67 posted on 03/05/2006 9:05:32 PM PST by cammie
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To: Slump Tester

Penguins was dissapointment...over rated.


68 posted on 03/05/2006 9:05:45 PM PST by zarf (It's time for a college football playoff system.)
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To: paudio
"Crash" was one of the fiercest, a portrait of simmering racial and cultural tension among blacks, whites, Hispanics, Asians and Arabs

No, it wasn't. It was a "portrait" of a white Democrat city councilman (excuse me: "councilperson") who runs all around the place insisting he's "sensitive" and a detective (who happens to be black) who is persuaded that he should suppress evidence that would exonerate a white cop facing prison because he is thought of as being "racist" (the message clearly delivered in the movie being that because he is "racist," he probably deserves to be in prison for that alone), among other similar plot lines.

Didn't watch the Oscars, but I'm not surprised to read that this piece of politically correct agitprop took the top honors...

69 posted on 03/05/2006 9:05:54 PM PST by A Jovial Cad ("If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting." -General Curtis LeMay)
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To: Gumdrop
Unfortunately BBM won the best musical score award.

Well, the light-in-the-boots crowd needed something to make them forget they were essentially watching gay porn...cue up the music! (BTW, I wonder if it goes "bo-chicki-bow-wow")

70 posted on 03/05/2006 9:06:06 PM PST by JRios1968 (A DUmmie troll's motto: "Non cogito, ergo zot")
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To: Hildy
Oh you mean the Stephen Spielberg movie? I am glad he lost too, the politics of the Oscars is the reason why I haven't watched the Oscars in years. Tonight was the first time I watched in years, and it was to see if Matt Dillion would win. I just love that Actor, there is something about him. He is so un-Hollywood, and I am glad that the movie he was in won best picture, just too bad he didn't get best supporting actor.
71 posted on 03/05/2006 9:06:10 PM PST by rodeo-mamma
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To: blake6900

"just doesn't have the same pazazz."

"Sheepboy Love Story" doesn't have the pazazz but it sure is more descriptive. :-)


72 posted on 03/05/2006 9:06:34 PM PST by jazusamo (:Gregory was riled while Hume smiled:)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Joaquin Phoenix was absolutely phenomenal in Walk the Line. It's a shame he didn't win Best Actor, but that wasn't surprising.


73 posted on 03/05/2006 9:06:34 PM PST by chpmass
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To: quantim
Yes, their saddles weren't exactly blazing tonight.

About the saddle. Will someone tell them the horn goes towards the front of the horse.

74 posted on 03/05/2006 9:06:49 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Self appointed RNC Press Secretary for Smarmy Sound Bites.)
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To: paudio
I refuse to watch anything to do with Hollywierd or celebrities. That said, "Crash" is one of the few films I saw this past year, and I think it was really great. Glad it got some recognition.
75 posted on 03/05/2006 9:06:49 PM PST by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: A Jovial Cad
Didn't watch the Oscars, but I'm not surprised to read that this piece of politically correct agitprop took the top honors..

Crash doesn't even rise to the level of 'agitprop'. It is tepid, predictable, and safe.

Perfect Oscar material.

76 posted on 03/05/2006 9:07:10 PM PST by Wormwood (Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
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To: rodeo-mamma

He doesn't need to know much. The writer does. It's Lee's job to put the film together and make it "feel" I guess would be the best word.

Honestly, I wasn't too impressed by any of the Best Picture nominees.


77 posted on 03/05/2006 9:07:50 PM PST by Lochlainnach (If there was no death penalty, I'm pretty sure Jesus would still be alive today.)
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To: PalestrinaGal0317
We probably could, but if we posted it here we'd be suspended, if not banned.

Tell you what, we'll use the Karl Rove "Thought Control-minator" to agree on one and it can be our little secret! But don't tell anyone on FR we're having this conversation!

78 posted on 03/05/2006 9:08:14 PM PST by JRios1968 (A DUmmie troll's motto: "Non cogito, ergo zot")
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

I haven't seen the movie (Brokeback), but what little bit I did see at tonight's Oscars was embarrassing, seeing two gay "cowboys" (yeah, right) talk about their "love" was a little bit like smelling someone's dirty laundry, it certainly wasn't Oscar-worthy, because it more on the order of a big embarrassment.


79 posted on 03/05/2006 9:09:32 PM PST by rodeo-mamma
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To: indcons

Brokeback is not a commercial failure. People that want do argue with the message of the film need to stop saying that, it makes them look like fools.

It cost 14 million to make, and has already made upwards of 70 million, and that's just in domestic, pre-DVD dollars.

Argue with the social message of the movie all you want, but don't make an ass out of yourself doing it.


80 posted on 03/05/2006 9:09:59 PM PST by zbigreddogz
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