You’re a bit confused there, dude. I was responding to your “Ha ha ha” about The Reader winning Best Original Screenplay. I never said a thing about Best Picture.
Nobody who I’ve talked to in person about Tropic Thunder liked it. My dad even complained that it was too violent…
and for the record, I thought Crash was a MUCH better movie than Brokeback Mountain, and I picked it as my favorite movie of the year on Jan 1, before the nominees were even announced. And while I wouldn’t say Shakespeare in Love was my favorite movie of 1998, I greatly preferred it over Saving Private Ryan, which was nowhere near the best picture of that year (everybody seems to forget that like Full Metal Jacket, it’s a great 30 minute war movie, but there’s so much dreck in the rest of the film that it brought it down significantly). One of the reasons that I really hate award shows is because some people have nothing better to do than to complain about who won and who didn’t. Entertainment Weekly did an AWFUL and INSULTING article a couple weeks ago about who SHOULD have won the awards a couple years ago, and it seemed to be written only to complain about Shakespeare and Crash again (and Renee Zelwinger)…
Six years ago is still pretty recent in my reckoning. I don’t consider anything to belong to the true past until at least the Reagan administration – at least as far as annual events such as the Oscars are concerned. I guess I measure time differently than you.
Ed
:smack: You’re absolutely right. I apologize.
Well, I guess this list is quite definitively proven wrong! 
I am sure a case can be made that the leaked list is correct but the televised awards were wrong.