I know that you are probably waiting with baited breath, wanting to know what I think of Brokeback Mountain NOT winning best picture, and here it is: honestly, I am not surprised. This honestly was a typical move of the Academy, and it shows that they are predictable year after year. Films that the public usually believes should win often do not, and especially when films have sensitive or controversial subject matter, they run the risk of being shunned. So fucking what it didn’t win, it won like 100 Golden Globes (including best picture); and let us not forget that it also pretty much sweeped every award show for like the last 5 months, so, this one isn’t really that big of a deal in my eyes. Sure, it would be nice to have a story that truly portrays love between two men as the “best picture” of the year (according to the elite Academy, remember); but I honestly believe that the potential for bad press (from the “fundies” as Amber called them) and potential backlashes steered them clear of actually giving it to Brokeback, and so they settled on a nomination. I do applaud Phillip Seymour Hoffman for his win (which was long overdue) which is a victory for the gays; and don’t forget that Brokeback still won 3 Oscars, two of which were actually very important (adapted screenplay and director), and the effect will hopefully signal more wonderful films like this in the future.
Yeah, we were robbed, you can definitely look at it that way, but don’t forget that it is an honor to just be nominated, right? And hey, who isn’t going to want to at least put “Oscar nominated…” on their resume/dvd box? I honestly just cannot get over the fact that they gave it to Crash… yuck, almost any of the other ones, but not Crash. Again, it goes to show you that the Academy is on another world when it comes to this stuff, so whatever, right?
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