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...None of the nominees for Best Picture - Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Crash, Munich and Good Night, and Good Luck - have yet earned as much as $80 million at the North American box office. In fact, one of the finalists for Best Documentary Feature (March of the Penguins) has made more money than any of them...
...Three of the five Best Picture films (Crash, Capote, Good Night) cost less than $10 million to make, and a fourth cost less than $15 million - this in a business where the average big-studio picture costs about $80 million (which was the budget for Munich...
...week, I go tête à tête with former Arts Chair Ben B. Chung ’06 over this year’s controversial slate of nominated films: “Syriana,” “Brokeback Mountain,” “Crash,” “Munich,” “Good Night, and Good Luck,” and “Paradise Now,” among others...
...Crash earned some rave reviews--notably from Roger Ebert, who recently said the movie ranks with the best Dickens novels. He has pegged it to win the top Oscar. Other reviews read like hate mail. Fueled in part by that stark critical contrast, Crash became, as Cheadle puts it, "the quintessential watercooler movie. It also gave people a way into a discussion that most people don't want to reference. No one wants to say, 'You know I was yelling at this Chinese guy in the store the other day ... ' or 'This person called me a name...
...year's end, Crash earned no major critics' prizes, not even a Golden Globe nomination for best picture. (Not since 1983 has a film won the top Oscar without a Globe citation.) But Lions Gate, the indie distributor that picked Crash up, sent out an astonishing 130,000 dvds of the film, rightly figuring that anyone who saw it would, at least, not forget it. The tactic paid off with the SAG award and Oscar nominations for Best Picture and for Haggis as director and writer (with Bobby Moresco...