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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Good, the movie suck. It's your typical Hollywood liberal portrayal of race in America.
No pudding at the after-Oscar parties tonight?
"Hollywood" got cold feet. At the end of the day, the liberal Democrat vermin pushed the fudge packers of "Brokeback Mountain" overboard. Jon Stewart was an utterly complete failure as ahost and should be selling bagels in the Bronx, NY. I said the movie "Brokeback Mountain" will cause more damage to gays then it will benefit them. This fact is now coming into focus!!!
It would be nice if it comes out in another language so I can buy the DVD, can't stomach Morgan Freeman, leftist. Otherwise, it was a masterpiece.
Do NOT refer to those PERSONS as "cowgirls" or I shall be forced to call the Saddle Club Thread folks on you.
(glares fiercely)
Not sheepherders...they were gerbil ranchers
Best Picture: "Crash."
Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Capote."
Actress: Reese Witherspoon, "Walk the Line."
Supporting Actor: George Clooney, "Syriana."
Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz, "The Constant Gardener."
Director: Ang Lee, "Brokeback Mountain."
Foreign Film: "Tsotsi," South Africa.
Adapted Screenplay: Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, "Brokeback Mountain."
Original Screenplay: Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco, "Crash."
Animated Feature Film: "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit."
Art Direction: "Memoirs of a Geisha."
Cinematography: "Memoirs of a Geisha."
Sound Mixing: "King Kong."
Sound Editing: "King Kong."
Original Score: "Brokeback Mountain," Gustavo Santaolalla.
Original Song: "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp" from "Hustle & Flow," Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman and Paul Beauregard.
Costume: "Memoirs of a Geisha."
Documentary Feature: "March of the Penguins."
Documentary (short subject): "A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin."
Film Editing: "Crash."
Makeup: "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."
Animated Short Film: "The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation."
Live Action Short Film: "Six Shooter."
Visual Effects: "King Kong."
I think the Academy got it right.
Let the, "Oh that'th thimply ridiculeth!", wails of the sodomy community begin.
Yeah, but somehow the term "sheepboy love story" just doesn't have the same pazazz.
Check out Amazon Canada. Perhaps they have the French version of it, the original language the movie was made in.
My neighbor is a screen write/adapter...he worked on Crash...and gave me a DVD to watch...
I hate pretty much everything that comes out of Hollywood...should I bother watching it?
The 3 facts to pay attention here that make the Academy Awards absolutely pointless:
1. No award has ever been given to Martin Scorsese
2. The Passion of The Christ received no awards and no major nominations.
3. Joaquin Phoenix did not win Best Actor and Walk The Line was not nominated for Best Picture.
Total B.S. on all levels.
Point well taken...I think. Shall we find a "middle of the road," mutually agreeable name for the very-light-in-the-boots sheepherders from Brokebutt Mount?
It's liberal wet dream on race relations.
Yes, their saddles weren't exactly blazing tonight.
I thought Stewert was pretty funny. He made a few good cracks about the clueless idealism of Hollywood and the democrats. He also made fun of that atrocious rap performance.
Unfortunately BBM won the best musical score award. Since I did not see the movie, I can't evaluate the musical score. 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. I purchased the CD of it shortly after seeing the movie. It is the first time I have ever purchased a CD of a soundtrack for a "non-musical" movie. It is so pretty that it almost makes you think you are listening to new Beethoven or Mozart music. I had to go out to Amazon to find it.
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