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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On another note, didn't you just want to gather Reese witherspoon up and hug her after that acceptance speech -- she is so cute and bubbly and full of life.
They had done polling. Sort of the like the exit polls from election 2004. :)
I was hoping Walk the Line would get more awards.
It is strange indeed. All I saw was a race-baiting, pandering excercise in simplemindedness that insultingly pretended to be this big 'great' epic.
I must say that if someone gave me 'Crash' as a gift, I'm not sure what I'd make of it...lol
Joaquin Phoenix was absolutely phenomenal in Walk the Line.
Yep. I think he should have won. Walk the Line was a great film.
I'm going to use your post since its the most recent one I read. I don't feel like going back through the thread to grab all the comments for this movie.
You brought up the 'layers' and that is it, exactly. Different people got different things from the movie. Its a movie that makes you THINK, which might be why it goes over the heads of some and they hated it.
"On another note, didn't you just want to gather Reese witherspoon up and hug her after that acceptance speech -- she is so cute and bubbly and full of life."
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Granted, Reese needs to eat a few cheeseburgers, but lay off the Nashville girl! From what I've seen, she's doing some great missionary work in LA, showing the native savages a better way to live.
Although she grew up here a littel rich girl, she actually seems to have retained some great Heartland values.
Was there anyone you wanted to hug because they were so cute, bubbly and full of life?
There was not one single film among those nominated that I would be interested in watching even for free.
I wondered why she was so special that she got to just keep going and going and going and going on and on and on and on long after they started playing the music to tell her to wind it up.
She's better than Gwyneth Paltrow, but reminds me of that same "aren't I just so precious?" look they both put on. And that Jeff Skilling furrowed brow ("hurt puppy") is just annoying.
I know she was happy and also on the verge of tears, and she won't have this first Oscar moment again in her life, but yeeesssh! Congrats to her, anyway.
Her acceptance speech just happened to be one of the few last things on the show that I saw, from the point when I tuned in--probably the last half-hour. I am soooo glad I missed that Three 6 Mafia junk. And as to "Crash," which I hadn't ever heard of, isn't it obvious the Hollywood set voted for "their hometown"?
I consider all of Hollywood, actors, they do very little that is not self-serving. I guess her recent campaign contribution to Hillary Clinton did it for me and spoke volumes.
Same here. That it was not even nominated for Best Picture was a travesty.
Only the kooks still doubt it. It's pretty clear now that Oswald did it, alone.
I have not seen Brokeback and I hated Crash. Lousy movie year.
Kevin Bacon wasn't nominated for Best Actor for 'Murder In The First'. An excellent movie. He should have won, but wasn't even nominated. I don't recall if the movie was nominated or not.
Walk the Line was awesome!
"I can definitely say that the score for Pride and Prejudice by Dario Marianelli (it was a nominne in this category) is a wonderful piece of music."
Thanks! Just reserved it from my library. Can't wait to hear it. :)
I imagine its a great documentary. I just meant that little kids might be adversely affected by it. I think at some point kids need to know what the real world is like for animals, regarding the 'food chain', but 4 year olds don't need it yet. I think my sister thought it was some animated film and it wasn't. She should have paid more attention. :)
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