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WHAT ITS MAKERS ARE SAYING: An executive at Lionsgate, Crash's distributor, thought the tough job for his picture was getting it nominated. He was convinced that once voters saw it, Crash would have a good shot. So its Oscar campaign has consisted largely of a DVD blizzard of unprecedented...
For Oscar this year, cheap is chic. Four of the five films nominated for Best Picture cost under $15 million to make, less than a fifth of the average Hollywood budget. Of them, the very cheapest was Crash, which cost $6.5 million and earned six Oscar nods, including three for...
When the execs at Lionsgate Films told Haggis several months ago that they were aiming for Best Picture, he literally laughed at them. As Haggis recalls, "I told them, 'Please, don't embarrass me by even saying things like that.'"
But Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain is still the favorite for the top awards. At least Haggis thinks so: "We all know that George [Clooney] and Bennett [Miller] and I and Steven [Spielberg] are going to be in the audience applauding Ang. But one always hopes we'll be up...
BEST DIRECTOR Ang Lee, Brokeback Bennett Miller, Capote Paul Haggis, Crash George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck Steven Spielberg, Munich