Helen O'Hara unveils some of the most baffling wins and omissions in Oscar history
Even Crash director Paul Haggis doesn’t think his film should have beaten Ang Lee’s delicate, tragic cowboy romance. And yet the Academy went for the fragmentary ensemble piece rather than the heartbreaker. Maybe they weren’t ready for a film about a gay couple; maybe the voters thought it was more “important” in some way to reward a film about race issues in LA . But whenever people gather together to moan about bad Oscar choices, this will be mentioned within the first five minutes.
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