Quote Originally Posted by desslock
I disagree.. Had it not won any awards (like Good Night and Good Luck, by the way) that would have been a real snub. You have to admit, the competition was very strong.

Plus, the message and impact is like letting the genie out of the bottle..... its made money playing in places like Waco, Texas. It is provoking straight people to stop and see why our love is exactly like theirs.

Resist the easy temptation to find something wrong with the awards. Good grief... you can't have everything.

Steve
I know what you mean, Steve, and I think it's great that Brokeback has achieved all that it has, but like I said before, when you give a film Best Adapted Screenplay AND Best Director, but give the Best Picture award to a film that had only one acting nomination in a supporting category (which it lost) and did NOT win Best Director, it's a snub. Add to that the fact that Brokeback snagged the top honors in not only the Golden Globe Awards, the BAFTAS (British Oscars) and the Independent Spirit Awards, not to mention that Crash was for all intents and purposes, a last-minute upset, and it just comes off to me as Hollywood making some kind of a statement. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.