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'Crash' Pulls Off Best-Picture Oscar
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| 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: 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)
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posted on
03/05/2006 8:56:25 PM PST
by
blake6900
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To: jocon307
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posted on
03/05/2006 8:56:44 PM PST
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Self appointed RNC Press Secretary for Smarmy Sound Bites.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Hustle and FlowWell, it won one Oscar: Best Original Song.
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posted on
03/05/2006 8:56:48 PM PST
by
paudio
To: paudio
"Brokeback Mountain," which had been the front-runner.How could it have been the front-runner if the ballots are secret?
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posted on
03/05/2006 8:56:55 PM PST
by
quantim
(If the Constitution were perfect, it wouldn't have included the Senate.)
To: Kozak
Looks like Brokeback got rear ended.....Great, now I have to clean my screen after spraying it with hot cocoa!! LOL
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posted on
03/05/2006 8:57:02 PM PST
by
JRios1968
(A DUmmie troll's motto: "Non cogito, ergo zot")
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.
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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.)
To: Kozak
LOL.. you had to say that, didn't you!
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posted on
03/05/2006 8:57:27 PM PST
by
Ronin
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.
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posted on
03/05/2006 8:57:44 PM PST
by
RepoGirl
("That boy just ain't right..." Hank Hill)
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.
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posted on
03/05/2006 8:58:00 PM PST
by
Hildy
To: gov_bean_ counter
Best Score??? By who? Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score Winner: Brokeback Mountain (2005) - Gustavo Santaolalla
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posted on
03/05/2006 8:58:01 PM PST
by
paudio
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.
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posted on
03/05/2006 8:58:01 PM PST
by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
To: rodeo-mamma
They were sheepherders. :-)
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posted on
03/05/2006 8:58:08 PM PST
by
jazusamo
(:Gregory was riled while Hume smiled:)
To: gov_bean_ counter
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posted on
03/05/2006 8:58:20 PM PST
by
Ronin
To: Kozak
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.
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posted on
03/05/2006 8:58:29 PM PST
by
jocon307
(The Silent Majority - silent no longer)
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.
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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.)
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!!
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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.)
To: Kozak
Oh Gosh HAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
03/05/2006 8:58:56 PM PST
by
therut
To: gov_bean_ counter
There is a monkey joke in there somewhere...
Don't go there!!!
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posted on
03/05/2006 8:58:58 PM PST
by
JRios1968
(A DUmmie troll's motto: "Non cogito, ergo zot")
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.
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