Why did BBM "lose" the Oscars?

[baby_mouse]

Also, it was too long. And Jake's moustache looked funny.

[zulchzulu]

1. Other

They green-screened some of the river scenes when the cowboys were talking and it was just really distracting.

:sarcasm:

[BlueEyedSon]

2. The scenes with Ben Stiller's head?

[mattclearing]

3. Other: Crash was about LA, and the Academy is from Hollywood.

Also, many in the Academy likely didn't see Brokeback Mountain due to the subject matter.

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. "Crash" hit me the same way that "Traffic" did.

Crash is to racism and prejudice as Brokeback is to gay issues. And Crash was a much, much harder movie to write and create.

[SCDem]

5. I haven't seen Crash yet but I LOVED Traffic

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. Be prepared for that dark realism.

What I liked about Crash the most, was the theme, "What goes around, comes around." If it hadn't of been for that, I would have stopped watching it halfway because it is too realistic.

[realisticphish]

7. I voted

that the academy thought other movies were better.

To me, ignoring the gay stuff, and everything else: it's a romance. I generally don't like romances. Thus, I really don't want to see it. :shrug:

And I think that people who thought BBM got snubbed ought to realize that perhaps the academy was looking at it from the objective, issue-free persepctive: they felt other movies were better