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Then, 3 hours 21 minutes into the telethon, Jack Nicholson announced the winner for Best Picture-which had at first been thought to be a lock, then a tight squeeze, for Brokeback. ?And the Oscar goes to... Crash.? Those famous eyebrows editorialized surprise, and Nicholson mouthed a ?Whoa.? Paul Haggis...
The irony here: Paul Haggis, the film?s director and co-writer, is a Canadian.
Cheadle, a producer of the film as well as one of its stars, seconds Haggis' insistence that Crash doesn't play the race card. "To say it is about race is reductive," he says, "and is the problem we have with race in this country. To me, it's really...
At 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...
Two years ago, Haggis was a successful but anonymous TV writer embarking on his first theatrical feature and suffering a heart attack for his pains. Now this Canadian Angeleno is the insider's outsider. Come next Sunday night, the man without a country could be the toast of two of...