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"Can you believe people think our show is an allegory for something? And that I'M the bad guy on it?"
WHY IS THIS HAPPENING
BEST SCREENPLAY 2005: Exuberant screenings at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals quickly put BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN on the fast track to awards season, the kind of mesmerizing intimacy that director Ang Lee always does so well that also brings the homoerotic subtext of traditional westerns (let's watch that scene in Red River again when Monty and John Ireland compare their guns!) to the fore. The film's surprise box office success was a cultural watershed moment that reignited poltiical conversations about gay rights a year after George W. Bush won his second term by stoking fears over gay marriage, and by February it was impossible to believe that any other film would win Best Picture. The night progressed and the film picked up awards, for Original Score, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for DIANA OSSANA (who was also nominated for producing the film) and LARRY McMURTRY, at that point most famous as the author of the novels that The Last Picture Show (the adaptation of which he had been nominated for in 1971) and Terms of Endearment were based on. Come the final moments of the show, and the final envelope revealed the winner to be CRASH, a multi-character saga that examines racial and economic relations in modern-day Los Angeles, and which had also won for editing and Best Original Screenplay for the film's producer/director PAUL HAGGIS and his co-writer BOBBY MORESCO. It was an upset so shocking that my friend Karie stood up in my living room, pointed at the television screen and screamed "WHAT?", and while there are plenty of (valid) theories as to why this preachy melodrama made it to the finish line (homophobia, a preference for hopeful endings over tragic ones), McMurtry himself opined that it was simply America's preference for urban stories over rural ones that was responsible. Thirteen years later, Lee went on to win a second directing Oscar, while Haggis never quite recaptured his success, making films that were progressively less appreciated (and one terrific cable miniseries, Show Me A Hero), before allegations made in January 2018 placed him on what Lainey Gossip referred to with brittle humour as the Sexual Predator Advent Calendar.
Thomas T. Moulton receives his fifth (and last) competitive Oscar for Best Sound for All About Eve from one of the film's stars, Marilyn Monroe. What's your favourite Marilyn movie? MyOldAddiction.com #MarilynMonroe #AllAboutEve #Oscars #Sound #SoundRecording
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