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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at oscars.movies.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: crash; hollywood; nopuddingforyou; oscars
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Hustle and Flow should've won best picture. That movie almost made me go out and get a turntable and a microphone and commence rapping (windows breaking in background, alley cats howling)

...which may explain why it lost. (heh, heh)

21 posted on 03/05/2006 8:56:25 PM PST by blake6900 (YOUR AD HERE)
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To: jocon307
Best score???

By who?

22 posted on 03/05/2006 8:56:44 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Self appointed RNC Press Secretary for Smarmy Sound Bites.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Hustle and Flow

Well, it won one Oscar: Best Original Song.

23 posted on 03/05/2006 8:56:48 PM PST by paudio
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To: paudio
"Brokeback Mountain," which had been the front-runner.

How could it have been the front-runner if the ballots are secret?

24 posted on 03/05/2006 8:56:55 PM PST by quantim (If the Constitution were perfect, it wouldn't have included the Senate.)
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To: Kozak
Looks like Brokeback got rear ended.....

Great, now I have to clean my screen after spraying it with hot cocoa!! LOL

25 posted on 03/05/2006 8:57:02 PM PST by JRios1968 (A DUmmie troll's motto: "Non cogito, ergo zot")
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To: indcons

So, just the one Oscar for Best Makeup? It was pretty darn good makeup. I was hoping it might win a few others.


26 posted on 03/05/2006 8:57:13 PM PST by Choose Ye This Day (Read any book you want on child discipline and you'll find they're all in favor of bud-nipping.)
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To: Kozak

LOL.. you had to say that, didn't you!


27 posted on 03/05/2006 8:57:27 PM PST by Ronin
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To: paudio
Personally, I felt Kong should have swept the Oscars--all categories, in fact. In fact, it should have been an ALL King Kong Oscar ceremony. I loved the film.

The only one in the running for best movie that I saw was Crash. I expected to hate it, but ended up enjoying it. At least Gay Cowboys Eating Pudding didn't win, that would have been insufferable.

28 posted on 03/05/2006 8:57:44 PM PST by RepoGirl ("That boy just ain't right..." Hank Hill)
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To: rodeo-mamma

No...the best part was the Palestinian movie, PARADISE NOW lost. We wondered how all the Jews in the audience would sit and clap about a movie glorifying suicide bombers. But I'm happily surprised at Hollywood for doing the right thing.


29 posted on 03/05/2006 8:58:00 PM PST by Hildy
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To: gov_bean_ counter
Best Score??? By who?

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score Winner: Brokeback Mountain (2005) - Gustavo Santaolalla

30 posted on 03/05/2006 8:58:01 PM PST by paudio
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To: rodeo-mamma
since when does someone from China know anything about being a cowboy?

Keep an eye out for the sequel - Ten-a-men Mountin.

31 posted on 03/05/2006 8:58:01 PM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: rodeo-mamma


They were sheepherders. :-)


32 posted on 03/05/2006 8:58:08 PM PST by jazusamo (:Gregory was riled while Hume smiled:)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Triple inuendo!!!


33 posted on 03/05/2006 8:58:20 PM PST by Ronin
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To: Kozak

OUCH !!!!!!!!!!!!!


34 posted on 03/05/2006 8:58:21 PM PST by binkdeville
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

"Hustle and Flow should've won best picture"

It's supposed to be really good, but that musical number they perfomed was just awful. AWFUL. The song may be good, but the performance tonight was embarisingly bad.


35 posted on 03/05/2006 8:58:29 PM PST by jocon307 (The Silent Majority - silent no longer)
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To: rodeo-mamma

Martin Scorsese didn't want to do Raging Bull because he didn't understand boxing. Still seems he pulled that off pretty well.


36 posted on 03/05/2006 8:58:38 PM PST by Mr. Blonde (You know, Happy Time Harry, just being around you kinda makes me want to die.)
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To: JRios1968

>>>Please tell me the light-on-the-loafers cow"boy" movie went home empty-handed...please, please!!<<<

Recount!! Exit-polls said Brokeback would win by a butt-load!! Recount!! Call David Boises!!


37 posted on 03/05/2006 8:58:38 PM PST by Keith in Iowa (New SeeBS-News promo theme: If the facts don't fit, we'll make up sh*t.)
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To: Kozak

Oh Gosh HAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!


38 posted on 03/05/2006 8:58:56 PM PST by therut
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To: gov_bean_ counter
There is a monkey joke in there somewhere...

Don't go there!!!

39 posted on 03/05/2006 8:58:58 PM PST by JRios1968 (A DUmmie troll's motto: "Non cogito, ergo zot")
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To: paudio
There were persistent rumors that many AMPAS voters were a bit nervous voting for Brokeback Mountain because of its subject matter. It appears the rumors are true given the win for Crash.
40 posted on 03/05/2006 8:59:10 PM PST by RayChuang88
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