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...runaway hit (it's the first time in ages that none of the five nominees for Best Picture has grossed anywhere near $100 million), forecasters are asking themselves: Do Oscar voters want the gay movie or the race movie? For if there are two front runners, they are Brokeback Mountain, the sad love story of two cowpokes (and the women they ignore), and Crash, a drama about racial, social and sexual tensions that is as sprawling and congested as a big-city freeway system...
...members live in or near Los Angeles, and actors make up the largest voting contingent. A long-standing grievance of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is "runaway productions": movies shot abroad, especially in Canada, that ship jobs out of the U.S. Thus there may be some protectionist resentment against Brokeback, which is set in Wyoming and Texas but was shot mostly in Alberta. This would tilt the Best Picture vote to Crash, a low-budget, L.A.-made movie that has--as one of its stars and producers, Don Cheadle, boasted a month ago when the film won the sag ensemble...
...That the likeliest contenders for Oscar's grand prize have significant Canadian content is one sign of the sizable role the country plays in Hollywood's most vaunted movies. Another is the high percentage of Oscar-nominated pictures that were launched at last September's Toronto International Film Festival. Brokeback was there, as was Capote. TIFF showcased three of the movies whose stars are up for Best Actor, and all five Best Actress films. It's commonly said that the Oscar season starts in Toronto. This year, by all indications, Canada will be there at the finish...
...praised the film “Brokeback Mountain” when asked about his Oscar picks and when asked who his own Man of the Year would be, he responded that it would be “someone like Bill Gates,” due to Gates’ philanthropic work...
...Virtues Critic Richard Corliss's piece "How the West Was Won Over" described the critical acclaim received by the movie Brokeback Mountain [Jan. 30]. I only wish we could hear someone at the Academy Awards announce, "The Oscar goes to Brokeback Mountain for showing how virility, strong-mindedness and self-confidence are not inconsistent with being gay, and for enabling us to understand how truth, love and freedom are the only ideals anyone ought to aspire to." Davide Locuratolo Potenza, Italy...