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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...
...considered an upset that the big serioso Steven Spielberg film snagged a Best Picture nomination. (His Munich was a relative long shot; Walk the Line had been favored to nab that last slot...
...impossible to dissociate “Munich” with the U.S. thanks to the closing shot of the Twin Towers. I admit that I am completely perplexed as to what happened with “Munich.” Spielberg’s previously Academy-ignored flirtations with controversy also include “Amistad” (I’m still trying to figure out how the “Full Monty” director got nominated above Steven) and, yes, “The Color Purple.” But I optimistically assumed a movie this emotionally...
It’s best to just look at the video as spectacle and not statement. While it’s possible that there is some sort of connection between its elements (perhaps it’s about the Munich Olympics?), odds are that the band just wanted a video that would make people go, “Ooh, cool,” happened to see some freeze-frame photos of athletes, and thought it would distract their fans from the fact that they sound exactly like The Bravery...