And the Crash producer had to speak the entire time because Paul Haggis had previously embarassed himself on worldwide television, and precluded his fellow winning screenwriter from speaking, by rambling on and on incoherently through intense nervousness - and then proceeding to ramble about his intense nervousness.
Contrast that, if you will, with Ang Lee's eloquent, beautiful, substantive and gracious acceptance speech for best director ... and you have, if I may be so bold, yet another example of the ways in which Brokeback Mountain outshines Crash in class and style and quality.
Bah to the Academy. But business as usual, if you look at most of the Best Picture choices through the years.
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