It should’ve won best picture too but the Academy was being PC and was too scared to award it.
I don’t think you’re using “PC” the right way.
Political correctness goes both ways. Giving Brokeback Mountain best picture would’ve pissed a lot of people off and offended the dumb masses so they decided to just give it to something else to avoid all that. It’s PC enough to be called PC in my mind.
That’s not what happened though. Many members of the Academy we’re legitimately homophobic and didn’t vote for it because of that.
But going with Crash was very calculated because it was a slightly controversial subject matter, but not as much as Brokeback Mountain.
Crash was like throwing a bone. “Yeah we don’t like the cowboy butt sex stuff but here’s a movie about racism that we can pretend is good!”
Yes. It was all in an attempt to not offend anyone, but in the end everyone was pissed off.
Well, I disagree that it supposedly was done to “not offend anyone.” I think it didn’t win because voters were actually offended.