Reply #11: I am SO SICK of hearing that Brokeback was "robbed"!! [View All]

Every one of the five films nominated was excellent and dealt with important social issues. Every single one of them. I'd have been happy no matter WHICH one won, and to suggest that homophobia had something to do with Crash's winning, or that Crash was in any way a bad movie, is just outrageously wrong. Hey, I thought "Syriana" was the best, most important movie of the year, but I got over it when it wasn't nominated for best picture. And I don't find it necessary to tear down the other films just because my favorite didn't win.

Brokeback was NOT robbed. The awards this year were spread out pretty democratically (all of the "important" movies were recognized in some way), which seems pretty fair to me. Roger Ebert's take on the Brokeback backlash (somebody linked to it here yesterday) was spot-on. And Annie Proulx diminishes herself by carping about it.