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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It is bad enough that Hollywood continue to create anti-American war / spy movies. Now they attack or moral sensibilities.
I own that movie now. My wife reminded me that since my daughter is 10 months old, my days of watching those sort of movies at home are quickly coming to an end. º I love that bit with Baldwin talking about ¡§The Fag Way¡¨. Here¡¦s hoping for a part 2 as well. Maybe take on environmental terrorists and the anti-globalist groups that give them support?
Love that one! Is Fox and Friends a daytime show?
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