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'Brokeback' Set to Ride Away With Oscar Nods
Fox News Online ^
| 1/31/2006
| Staff
Posted on 01/31/2006 5:02:51 AM PST by Red Badger
LOS ANGELES — It may have "Crashed" at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, but "Brokeback Mountain" is back in the saddle as the lead contender for Tuesday morning's Academy Award nominations.
"Brokeback Mountain," the story of two cowboys in love, has dominated earlier Hollywood honors, earning best dramatic film and three other prizes at the Golden Globes and winning top awards from key critics groups.
However, at Sunday night's Screen Actors Guild Awards, the ensemble drama "Crash" pulled off an upset win over "Brokeback" for the overall cast award.
But experts believe the film is still positioned to become the first gay-themed movie to win the best picture Oscar, while "Brokeback Mountain" filmmaker Ang Lee is a frontrunner for best director. Lee won the best director prize on Saturday from the Directors Guild of America.
"Once people saw the film, they understood that it was a film about a kind of epic greatness that can exist in anyone, anywhere, no matter who they are, no matter what their sexual orientation or class or historical circumstances," said "Brokeback" producer James Schamus.
For his performance as a married cowboy fighting his sexuality in "Brokeback," Heath Ledger has a virtual lock on a best actor nomination, though he faces serious competition from Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won the Golden Globe for lead actor in a drama as gay author Truman Capote in "Capote" and the Screen Actors Guild award for lead actor.
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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: buttcrackmountin; buttpokemountain; hollyweird; oscars; sissysheepherders; sodomites; wgas
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To: Red Badger
I want this thing promoted until it is the star attraction at the Oscars...so regular people will see what Hollywood wants them to buy, and leave in even bigger droves than they are now.
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posted on
01/31/2006 5:09:24 AM PST
by
50sDad
(It's not "diversity" for you to steal my Christmas.)
To: Red Badger
Another attempt by the academy to push a movie on us. It wins awards and the pop culture idiots and the empty heads want to see it. It is more carpet bombing of leftist ideals coming from Hollywood.
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posted on
01/31/2006 5:09:46 AM PST
by
satchmodog9
(Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
To: Red Badger
"Brokeback Mountain," the story of two cowboys in love,...
Okay, I'll be the first...
They were SHEEP HEARDERS!!!
There... glad that's out of the way! ;o)
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posted on
01/31/2006 5:12:20 AM PST
by
LIConFem
(A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
To: Red Badger
Best Supporting Actress: See above.
Best Supporting Actor: See above.
Best Actress: See above.
Best Actor: See above.
Best Screenplay: See above.
Best Director: See above.
Best Movie: See above.
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posted on
01/31/2006 5:14:35 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: Red Badger
To: Red Badger
I guess the academy is ready to bone up on their 'agenda' nominating.
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posted on
01/31/2006 5:20:50 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(time again for the Crusades.)
To: Red Badger
Something no one has mentioned is the Screen Actors Guild Awards giving their Lifetime Achievement Award to Shirley Temple Black.
As they gave her a standing ovation, I wish she would have said, "Do you people understand I am a life long Republican?"
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posted on
01/31/2006 5:21:43 AM PST
by
Bender2
(Stop doodling around... Read the first three chapters of my Science Fiction novel.)
To: Red Badger
My brother calls it "Poke-in-the-Back Mountain"
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posted on
01/31/2006 5:22:32 AM PST
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Learn from the past, don't live in it.)
To: Vaquero
Don't you know that picking one movie for an award over Brokeback Mountain is Homophobia?
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posted on
01/31/2006 5:26:40 AM PST
by
Sometimes A River
(allow Common Sense and Faith to trump Logic and Reason)
To: Red Badger
Which once again proves that Hollywood is the new Babylon.
To: Red Badger
Hollyweird and MSM to Brokeback Mountain...."I don't know hyow to quit yeew!"
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posted on
01/31/2006 5:31:52 AM PST
by
Frenetic
To: mewzilla
Coming soon to a theater near you!
Brokeback Iceberg!..........
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posted on
01/31/2006 5:33:12 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(...I will bless them that bless thee and those who curse thee I will turn into Liberals..........)
To: LIConFem
...and just what, exactly, did they "hear" from their sheep?.........
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posted on
01/31/2006 5:34:33 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(...I will bless them that bless thee and those who curse thee I will turn into Liberals..........)
To: Red Badger
Gay guys with sheep!
It's your typical Hollyweird love story!
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posted on
01/31/2006 5:35:09 AM PST
by
airborne
To: Red Badger
Brokeback Iceberg!.......... Grrrr....They'd better not importune any penguins!
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posted on
01/31/2006 5:35:32 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: 50sDad
Just wait 'til it's on TV............
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posted on
01/31/2006 5:36:01 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(...I will bless them that bless thee and those who curse thee I will turn into Liberals..........)
To: Red Badger
"...and just what, exactly, did they "hear" from their sheep?........."
Listen here, kid... I've been up since 0230 and I've only just started my first cup of coffee. It's gonna take at least three cups before I can spell beyond the third-grade level, so cut me a little slack, okay??
;o)
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posted on
01/31/2006 5:37:43 AM PST
by
LIConFem
(A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
To: Red Badger
Thuper. Just thuper. Thankths for athking.
Barf.
}:-)4
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posted on
01/31/2006 5:38:08 AM PST
by
Moose4
("I will shoulder my musket and brandish my sword/In defense of this land and the word of the Lord")
To: satchmodog9
Another attempt by the academy to push a movie on us.Yep, they are trying to shove another one down our throat!!!!
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