# 78th Oscars Thread (unboxed spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 6, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198 "2006-03-06T00:07:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/281 "2006-03-06T04:23:51Z")
And the best picture is… CRASH ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/282 "2006-03-06T04:24:00Z")
WOW! Upset! CRASH WINS! ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/283 "2006-03-06T04:24:09Z")
OK, OK, I see big mo for BROKEBACK. Oh, Jack–Ca-po-tay? What is with the teleprompters tonight? drum roll… **CRASH!!** YEEESSSSS! WOO HOO! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/284 "2006-03-06T04:24:35Z")
**NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!** I thought that was the most overrated movie of the year (PLUS it came out in 2004)! ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/285 "2006-03-06T04:24:42Z")
Best Picture: **Crash** WHAT AN UPSET! I am really surprised. Holy shit. Really. I guess some folks saw this coming, but not me. I liked both, but Brokeback Mountain was my pick. Damn. Thanks, everyone, for watching the Oscars with me. You made it all a hell of a lot more fun than it would have been if I were sitting here watching it all alone. The SDMB rocks! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/286 "2006-03-06T04:24:45Z")
Crash, Cool ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/287 "2006-03-06T04:24:53Z")
I read someone predicting Crash would win, because it’s about racial issues and Los Angeles, and that would appeal to members of the academy. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/288 "2006-03-06T04:24:53Z")
Wow…that was unexpected (well, at least to me). I figured it’d be either Brokeback or Munich. ---
**Author:** ![edwino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@edwino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwino)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/289 "2006-03-06T04:25:17Z")
Holy shit look at the guns on that lady. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/290 "2006-03-06T04:25:32Z")
What a bunch of bullshit. _Crash_ was not even the third best movie nominated. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/291 "2006-03-06T04:25:40Z")
Crash, ugh. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. This is “Dances With Wolves” bad. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/292 "2006-03-06T04:25:54Z")
The fifth best movie won. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/293 "2006-03-06T04:26:10Z")
Hmm…Crash was a 11/10 bet, while Brokeback Mountain was a 1/6 bet. Interesting. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/294 "2006-03-06T04:26:23Z")
This has been suprising. Stewart wasn’t particulary funny, and Brokeback didn’t win Best Picture. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/295 "2006-03-06T04:26:35Z")
Cathy Schulman, STFU! Her partner didn’t even get to talk. I hope he kicks her in the shin as soon as they get offstage. ---
**Author:** ![liirogue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/296 "2006-03-06T04:26:39Z")
Any of the others nominated I wouldn’t have disagreed with… but Crash??? And did they just cut her mic off? ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/297 "2006-03-06T04:27:44Z")
_ **Crash** _ is the only one of the nominated Best Picture movies that I saw…and I thought it was laughably bad. Over-wrought, painfully ‘sincere,’ and totally unbelievable. It was like the worst kind of “Oprah Book Club” movie. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/298 "2006-03-06T04:27:45Z")
> [@Dewey Finn](#): > > I read someone predicting Crash would win, because it’s about racial issues and Los Angeles, and that would appeal to members of the academy. Next year they’ll do one about an interracial street gangmembers having a gay affair in South Central LA and it’ll be a shoe-in. My picks for best picture were (in order of most deserving to least [and I totally concede it’s purely subjective]): Good Night/Good Luck Brokeback Mountain Capote Munich Crash (And it was odd seeing the Israeli Olympic team get murdered while talking about _Munich_- footage got a little off synch there.) ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/299 "2006-03-06T04:29:25Z")
> [@BobT](#): > > Crash, ugh. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. > > This is “Dances With Wolves” bad. This is the first year in over a decade that I can’t even fathom what the academy was thinking in the Best Picture category. That it even got nominated was a travesty, in my opinion. It would have made a great after school special, though. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/300 "2006-03-06T04:29:31Z")
I thought it was amusing when Ang Lee said he made the movie mostly for his recently deceased father. I have to wonder how an old world Taiwanese man would regard a movie about American cowboys humping each other. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198.md?page=16)