Oscars End with a 'Crash'

And so it happened. The Oscars has managed to pull the biggest upset of the year by denying Brokeback Mountain the Best Picture award. The small-budget film Crash took home the top prize instead.

Before that, everything else were purely predictable i.e. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Reese Witherspoon getting the top acting accolades. Oh wait, George Clooney was another surprise winner. Loved his speech too.

I've never had much respect for George in his sexiest man alive days, but he's been getting his brain out there so I kinda like him now.

But Ang Lee won Best Director, and this is something I don't quite understand. For me if you win Best Director it should be a total shoo-in that your movie will win Best Picture. Because you're the director and you are the god of your pic, everything in it is your call ('xcept when the producers meddle with it). Therefore if they say you're the best then you're movie's gotta be the best too.

Same with the nominations. I remember a few years back when Baz Luhrmann (did i spell that right) wasn't nominated for Best Director but Moulin Rouge was in the best pic list. I say bets pic and best director nominations should match.

Well anyway, I'm not a Film Academy voter so I have no say in all of these.

Now many are coming up with theories why Brokeback failed to win the Oscar nod. The film's writer, Larry McMurtry thinks Hollywood has finally shown its true face regarding homosexuality: "Perhaps the truth really is, Americans don't want cowboys to be gay..."

Another critic says, "So for people who were discomfited by 'Brokeback Mountain' but wanted to be able to look themselves in the mirror and feel like they were good, productive liberals, 'Crash' provided the perfect safe harbor."

Ouch. That kinda hurt. I wasn't able to see Brokeback yet but I did watch Crash on video. And I can say that the film is deserving to be the Best Pic winner. And that goes for all the other 4 nominees as well.

If Brokeback didn't win this one award doesn't mean all is lost. That its message was snubbed. Maybe it's just a matter of a difference in opinion on who should win a popularity contest.

Besides, isn't it an honor enough to be nominated? Ok, that's really a load of crap...