Ang Lee Shocked by 'Brokeback' Loss

Lee Shocked by 'Brokeback' Loss

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon director Ang Lee was devastated Brokeback
Mountain lost out on the Best Picture Oscar to Crash, but insists he is
still proud of the movie The director was disappointed that his film didn't
take home the top honor and is baffled as to why it didn't win. He explains,

eggs...

TBH, I haven't seen this flick, but I read the book several years ago.

Kathy...

Book? I thought it was a short story by Annie Proulx published in the
New Yorker.

Kathy

A friend gave it to me and said "Read this! It's about shepherds!
You'll love it!", but they didn't tell me it was a romance, so I got a
big surprise half way through. The book was very well written, but at
the end of the day it was a fairly standard romance novel that happened
to feature two guys instead of a guy and a girl. Unless they did a
whole lot more with the story in the movie than was in the wafer-thin
book, I'm not surprised it didn't win Best Movie. No one expected
Pretty Woman to win best movie, so why would they think Broke Back
Mountain would win?

Zeph...

It was first published as a short story and then sold as a short book.

Wild Monkshood...

I first read it in a collection of Short Stories and was very
impressed. When I was at Borders last week, I saw that they had
published it as a very slim book that was priced way out of line for the
content. As good a short story as it was, I think I would be
disappointed, if not bitter, at paying that price for such a few words,
regardless of the scope or quality of said words. Can't recall the exact
price, though.

Wild Monkshood

"I would do exactly the same. I'm so proud of the movie. They (the Academy)
didn't vote for it, I don't know (why)...I'm just glad the audience embraced
it. It was a surprise (not winning), quite frankly." In addition to Lee's
Oscar, the film also won awards for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Score.

I_I__I_I...

Joel Siegel during Oscar Countdown:

"Brokeback should have everything going for it. It won the directors guild,
it won the producers guild, it won the Indie Spirit Award. It has more
nominations than any other film. That usually wins. Biggest gross at the box
office. That usually wins. But for the last week, all I've been hearing is:
'Crash, Crash, Crash, Crash, Crash.' I've never been to an Oscar where there
wasn't a huge surprise. Tonight's big surprise might come at the end of the
show."