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Paul Haggis, who conceived, co-wrote and directed Crash--and who wrote the script for last year's Oscar winner, Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby--dismisses the anti-Canada theory. "This time of year," he says, "everyone tries hard to come up with angles, to make life interesting for...
If Crash wins on Oscar night next Sunday, Haggis, 52, will have achieved a unique honor: he'll be the first man to write two consecutive Best Pictures. That should make him smile. So should the notion that Crash was helped by an anti-Canada vote--for Haggis is a...
Haggis has to consider himself lucky that his film has even a chance at Best Picture, considering the odds against it. Crash was shot in late 2003 and early 2004 on a pinchpenny $6.5 million budget--a pretty amazing bang for the buck, given its handsome look, huge cast and...
The film's title announces its intentions. It's a collision, an L.A. pileup, of people and prejudices. The dozen-plus major characters include cops, thugs, politicians, strugglers and stragglers, the rich and the poor of all ethnicities--the melting pot that bubbles over in the film's schematic, 36...
That would be Haggis, the Canadian abroad. "After living in L.A. half my life," he says, "I now feel like an outsider in both communities. And that's a good thing in my line of work. With Crash, I thought it important to be a part of that world--because...