I did not know that.. and I was glad 😮 thats a big miss.

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Oof that hurts to read

So does that mean its a bad film though?

I assume they are arguing the worst Best Picture, not the worst Best Picture snub assuming you think Shakespeare in Love is a better film than Crash. Forrest Gump over Pulp Fiction or The Shawshank Redemption is pretty bad and I like Forrest Gump.

Yeah thats what it seemed like

…and when the Green Book team went on stage to accept their award, they were literally all old white men 💀

The worst part of Crash is when the racist cop (Matt Dillon) who initially stops and frisks the Black married couple (Thandiwe Newton, Terrence Howard) and finger r*pes the wife, BUT gets a redemption plot at the end after saving the same woman in a car crash 🤮 Like seriously… wtf

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You look 12

Well, to be fair, a lot of social issues were touched upon using "ham fisted" methods at the time Crash came out. Or at least, most popular media did. They all bashed us over the head with a message (like Crash) rather than give us thought provoking, nuanced stories (like, say, Do the Right Thing.)

nobody want to watch gays shagging for 2 hours

No matter who wins , the voters often have a stake in further ticket sales . “Best” has little to do with it , its either : needy for ticket sales , agenda, greed , personal favorite of someone with “fringe taste”

2nd time it has happened to Spike Lee too. Do the Right Thing lost to Driving Miss Daisy, Do the Right Thing was not even nominated. It pissed me off because during that Oscar season Spike held his tongue with Green Book too. He did not want to comment on that movie because after he did with Driving Miss Daisy, he and performances in his movies were ignored by the Academy on so many great projects (Malcolm X, Jungle Fever, 4 Little Girls, and Inside Man).

Nah greenbook was fun

Why? Cause it's black and white? They didn't fall for the bait

Spike Lee just needs to make a great Oscar movie and stop relying on political history to try to boost his movie into contention.

BlackKklansman 100% didn't even deserve to be nominated. Spike Lee should have won for Do The Right Thing and that's it, everything he's done since that has paled in comparison.

Same.

Every year like clockwork someone makes a video like this explaining Crash winning best picture is the greatest tragedy in the history of mankind.

Yh, me too

You didnt miss anything.

A far more controversial choice would have been to give the acadamy award to Cronenberg's Crash in its time. Now that would have been worth experiencing.

I don't think its that anyone.

The thing is they can't satisfy everyone and art is subjective

Problem was the thin red line also came out that year and that split the votes for saving private Ryan. Which meant Shakespeare in love had a higher proportion of votes when separating the 2 war movies

No way Tom Hanks vs Hitler is the best war movie ever lol it's pure cia slop

I hope you are joking. If you consider this action filled trash "the greatest war movie ever", you might wanna watch less holywood in your free time.

@@joseanibalsantacruzamanzo2202 run along, little troll (and your sockpuppets)

I can't tell if this is sarcasm or an actual sincere comment. Tom hanks??? Have you ever watched Apocalypse Now??

No this comment does

@@blackguyofthesouth2161 no your comment does

I like the way you think

Love this idea!

That would make a good feature on a UKposts channel

Yes, bcs it took 10 years for ppl to realize Interstellar is actually masterpiece

@@BFG-hv2ml Interstellar is complete and utter nonsense!

Yeesh.. what a weak year

Or Capote.

Munich is absolutely underrated. I love Brokeback, but I would have been very satisfied with Munich winning.

@@user-df1ns1ob8y Munich was Spiellberg's best movie. Better than Schindler's List because it showed how there are shades of grey when it comes to good and evil.

​@@NeoConnor1hell yeah, Capote.

Those are from 1952, but I totally agree.

1952, but yeah. In fact, out of all of the nominations “Greatest Show” deserved it the 5th most.

How did that movie win? We don’t know. It also got nominated over the much better musical and feel good movie, Singin in the Rain.

"Greatest Show on Earth" was one of the weakest Best Picture winners of all time. Still better than Crash, though.

@@Lexivor It also has one of the lowest scores on Rotten Tomatoes for a Best Picture winner. What in God’s name were people smoking back in 1952?

Roddy McDowall, always screwed out of his deserved Oscars. :(

You do!! Because no one has heard about those movies😅😅

@@salmanALI-to3qh You never heard of Citizen Kane? Have you been living under a rock for the past 80ish years?

Never heard about these movies Btw I'm 21

​@salmanALI-to3qh this is truly a Citizen kane of bad comments

Absolutely! and see my posts above, thanks.

Not everyone back then wanted to watch degenerate smut, but that's no longer the case in 2024. Now HollyWEIRD will vote a movie as best picture precisely because it is about a black, transgender muslim woman in a wheelchair.

Exactly, this was a much better example for this video than Crash.

@@fthooper14so real. Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan and The Matrix is absurd.

@@Ez-Boi23 Life is Beautiful, too - if you haven't seen that movie, it's incredible and worth a watch

@@weston407 I’ll watch it! I’ve been wanting to!

@@Ez-Boi23 it’s amazing - so many emotions packed into one movie - you’ll love it - make sure to watch the original Italian language version

Same

Because they do it every year.

It’s the cliche example. I’m not a film buff, but I’ve heard about crash over and over from UKpostsrs in the last decade.

Same.

Same

I didn't think it should be "Crash" because there are other films in other years either in my youth or before that which were worse choices. Is "Crash" over "Brokeback Mountain" really a worse choice than "My Fair Lady" over "Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Came To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb)" or "Oliver!" over "2001: A Space Odyssey"?

Capote...I was so hyped. 3/4 into it... _Well, is anything going to happen? No? No? No!!!! Damnit. I want my money back._

@@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking Some good movies have anti climaxes. Capote is one of them. People wanted one thing but they got another. It's like when The Grey came out and everyone thought it would be Taken with wolves. Then it turned out to be a lot more quieter and quaint. Didn't stop audiences in theaters turning against it

@@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking Phillip Seymore Hoffman did win best actor

I actually liked capote better than brokeback crash Munich and goodnight and good luck. I am a rarity loved Capote.

I only remember being disappointed with Munich and why even bother with capote..the kind of film critics say they love so as note to be invalidated by the snooty intellectual crowd.

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_Heat_ is technically better made than anything else (not dramatically).

Agreed, listening to some of the dialogue I couldn't help think "man, people don't really talk like that. This feels written."

What's a dvd?

Jack Nicholason's reaction says it all. 😂

it is a terrible film

Disagree

well it did come out in 2006

it reminded me of American Fiction lol

Yes, but for all the wrong reasons. It is much more infamous than famous. And like most infamous things, not really as bad as described, just more shocking and underwhelming. It is a dated, mediocre, forgettable film with an A+ cast (especially for the era).

@jameydunne3920 Yes, those are valid observations. I was simply making a point that the video contradicts itself by stating the film is no longer part of the cultural conversation when it is, obviously for the wrong reasons, but still a talking point nonetheless.

@@liammiles2286 That's a valid break down. I just think Crash has the unfortunate reputation of a poor movie that became a cautionary tale or social "whipping boy". It probably should be forgotten since there are more interesting/ fun mediocre movies to think about.

@@liammiles2286I get your point but I think he’s more referring to the films merit. Of course it’s still talked about, but it’s often remembered as an upset at the Oscars, not because it was good. I guarantee you people are more likely to recognize Brokeback Mountain than Crash. It’s contributed far more to pop culture than Crash has so I think his point still stands.

@@liammiles2286What the f are you saying? IT ISN'T CONTRADICTING. And only reason we're talking about it is the F reward it got and that's why this video exist. Logic, little simp, logic.

I loved Slumdog Millionaire ngl. Great movie. Benjamin Button is up there too

Good Night and Good Luck was a good candidate as well.

Munich was average in absolutely every way. The whole year was crap.

I stopped watching the awards altogether when Zootopia won the 2017 Best Animated over Kubo and the Two Strings. It was clear the voters had not watched both films. One was a largely forgettable story that kinda botched it's own message, the other pushed the boundaries of it's own medium.

Puss in Boots:The last Wish should have won best picture, and Paddington 2 a few years before.

@@thelastowlbear8110Zootopia was copaganda.

“Every year”? What about “Spirited Away” and “The Boy and the Heron”, two masterpieces by Hayao Miyazaki that deserved their wins? I also think “Shrek”, Finding Nemo”, “The Incredibles”, “Ratatouille”, “WALL-E”, “Toy Story 3”, “Rango”, “Inside Out”, “Zootopia”, “Coco”, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”, “Toy Story 4”, “Soul”, and “Encanto” all deserved their wins in their respective years (even “Luca” was my personal favorite in 2021).

I don't know what the decision-makers were thinking about having Crash win Best Pictures. Yes, the themes that the movie explores themes like racism and racial profiling(both issues that are very important to address), but there are other movies that explored those themes better. Brokeback Mountain was basically about discovering your sexuality even if it meant being isolated from your community and hurting the people you care about. Even 19 years after its release and 16 years after Heath Ledger’s death, people still remember both of those things and I pray we don't see a remake because Heath was one of those actors like River Phoenix who drew in you through their aura.

I mean Munich or Capote were the next best films, not Brokeback Mountain

Fondly remembered by whom? It had less cultural permanence than Avatar.

Honestly for me it's the opposite. 'Crash' left an indelible impression on me, and still hits me hard to this day (no pun intended). I've watched it probably three times now and it grips me every time the woman has to be pulled out from under the car by the same guy who abused her. So many of the scenes and characters stick in my mind. 'Brokeback Mountain' on the other hand, for me, I watched it when it came out and the only thing I remember about it now is that the acting was great and it was a western romance with the twist (for the time it was a twist) that the romance was homosexual. All these years later and literally nothing else about the movie remains in my memory, which I suppose is why I've never been inspired to give it a second viewing... It really surprises me that 'Crash' seems to have gone out of fashion.

​@@gabrielseanwallace3979i think art is subjective,I connected much more with brokeback mountain than crash despite being a black man in America

Green Book was the better movie. I'm a huge fan of Alfonso Cuaron but for the category of best picture the right movie won. He won best director and best foreign film for Roma which was the more correct choice anyway.

SAG only awards actors so it wouldn’t apply to Best Picture. 😉

LOL, no that would be Crash that received top honors at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Brokeback went home empty handed my guy.

Fernanda Montenegro >>> Gwyneth Paltrow

Brazil huh?

Wut bout private ryan

@@65g4 Yeah, Salvando Private Ryaninho, one of the finest Brazilian films

@@65g4 in the best actress, it was for Fernanda Montenegro for her role on Central Station. Yes, we still hold that grudge and it's passed over generations

And the whole Hollywood industry.

Well yeah, but they are important and influential.

*insert buzz lightyear meme here*

Crash was one of THE movies of its year.

Such a brave and original take! 🙄

«Accidentally»? Im sure she wanted to see it no. She forgot you were with her? I dont understand

Entering the theater was an accident. Staying there for the entire film was not.

That's also funny because besides that "one scene" in the beginning, do these guys ever go beyond just kissing? 😅

Lol! Like the time I accidentally took a first date to 50 shades of gray when we actually got tix for Jupiter ascending. 😅😂

We left immediately when I realized we were at the wrong screen, and went back for the right one.

DUH! OBVIOUSLY! ALL COMPARISONS OF ENTERTAINMENT ARE IDIOTIC STUPID GARBAGE!

It's not ridiculous

its inherently subjective but it isnt dumb

Including the one who won Best Director that year and then again? Yeah, sure.

I was just a young teen then but I saw both films that year and loved them both. I have to say that Ordinary People was one of my favorites of all time. Saw it a few years ago and and it was just as good as I remembered it.

I also loved Ordinary People, and was so moved by the acting, especially, the young fellow, played by Timothy Hutton. I still have a copy of this great movie, but definitely a tear jerker. I thought Redford's direction was very good. I also saw Elephant Man, another powerful film, but much later, and didn't know it had been released at the same time as OP.

There are still reactors watching Ordinary People on UKposts today and loving it.

Usually it's thought that Gump robbed Pulp Fiction as Best Picture.

This to me seems more like it was just a stacked year and people were gonna be mad not matter what cuz all three of those films are considered great

I'm just going to say the ground breaking (for the time) VFX helped.

Forest Gump is a better movie than Shawshank.

At least Forrest Gump, while kind of corny in some aspects, it's actually a very enjoyable movie, perhaps not the best of that year but it made an impact. Watching Crash felt like a chore and forgot about it a day after I watched it

Out of Africa is one of the worst best picture winners bar none. A boring epic with a stale romance.

Rt.who the hell remembers slumdog..? Like it was chose for its quirky memorable title but I don't remember a thing about it..

Rich white people in the movie business are the last folk who should determine the best films about race relations.

@@jamesmeow3039They're not white, though.

I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying here

@@jordanleighton6893​​⁠ I think he’s saying that the choice to make a video about how Crash is the worst BP winner is itself predictable, since it’s a commonly held opinion by people who talk about Oscars history. I’ve seen this exact same take dozens of times before.

@@ziegfeldgirl99You got it, thanks. In truth, I didn’t express myself very well here.

Moonlight and La La Land were both excellent.

You never saw a much better film called Do The Right Thing?

I agree with you wholeheartedly. Brokeback was only groundbreaking in the sense that it was the first time that a mainstream film featured a gay couple, And to me that should not make a film oscar-worthy. Being controversial (at the time) does it make a film oscar-worthy. Personally I thought memoirs of a geisha should have won that year. The film told a story that was both tragic and beautiful, the visuals in the film were absolutely breathtaking, and the film itself had a rather satisfying ending. Heck, if you've read the book, the book had a very satisfying ending. Crash was not all that great either, But brokeback was definitely not in the category of any best film of all time. In fact most best film lists I've looked at doesn't list broke back anywhere. And I love going through best film lists and watching the films just to see if they do actually stand up to that title. It's funny how neither of the films that were talked about in this video have appeared on any major best film list that I've seen. Memoirs of a Geisha has, heck even the movie Munich has gotten mentioned on a few lists that I've seen.

It still tops yearly lists and is an acclaimed movie. Among the best of the year alongside Caché, Grizzly Man, Death of Mr. Lazarescu, The New World, Capote, Lady Vengeance and 49 Up..

Did you win

Why? You’re the issue.. I’m happy crash won

That some voting members didn't even watch Brokeback because of it's sexual nature would mean it would never win with those attitudes at the time.

SLP didn’t win Best Picture.

another excellent Ang Lee film.

That is kind the feat, since it didn't came out in those two years.