Practically twenty years after one of many greatest Finest Image upsets in Oscar historical past, “Crash” profitable over “Brokeback Mountain,” the latter’s director Ang Lee says the choice got here all the way down to discrimination towards a homosexual love story.
Talking with IndieWire not too long ago, Lee stated of the Academy of Movement Photos Arts & Sciences on the time: “Again then, [‘Brokeback Mountain’] had a ceiling. We received a number of help – as much as that a lot. It has that feeling. I wasn’t holding a grudge or something. It’s simply how they had been.”
The movie did gained Finest Director for Lee, Finest Tailored Screenplay and Finest Rating on the Oscars. It was the simple favourite to take the Finest Image honor forward of the ceremony, however misplaced to arguably the weakest of the 5 nominees – “Crash” (the opposite three being “Munich,” “Capote” and “Good Evening and Good Luck”).
Lee additionally says even these on the bottom had been anticipating the movie to win that the stage administrators had him standing close by after he collected his directing Oscar:
“I received my award, which was [second to] final to the massive one, and I used to be strolling off the stage, they known as me down, and stated, keep right here. That’s your mark. All people assumes you’ll win, so keep at that mark.
Proper subsequent to the stage was the curtain. The following was Finest Image. Keep right here, simply keep right here. I noticed Jack Nicholson, his profile, he opened the envelope, and I am going, ‘Oh my god, oh my god.’ It took like 10 seconds earlier than he introduced, after which he went, ‘Crash.’”
Nicholson himself was visibly shocked studying out “Crash” and so started the largest outrage over a Finest Image winner since “Shakespeare in Love” defeated “Saving Personal Ryan” practically a decade prior.
Requested in regards to the attraction of the movie now, he says all of it comes all the way down to repression and feeling like an outsider and the movie superbly conveys that feeling no matter sexuality:
“I at all times really feel like an outsider. Repressed characters, I suppose, these tales entice me. ‘Brokeback Mountain’ is simply so lovely. You’ve learn the brief story. I’ve nothing in widespread with Wyoming homosexual cowboys. However why did I cry? It’s haunting. It’s only a lovely story.”
Lee has gained Finest Director for a second time since with “Lifetime of Pi,” while his 2000 movie “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon” gained 4 Academy Awards together with Finest Worldwide Function.