Whatever, Brokeback is a great movie and will always be!
who cares if it won best picture best actor or any other award.
If it won in your heart great!
If you hated it well that's your opinion keep all of you keep it to yourselves and stop this endless fighting and bickering. Haven't you got better things to do with you time and your lives?
~Gay Cowboy

I couldn't agree with you more, Tom. The subject matter of "Brokeback" should not have been the reason for its second-place showing in the Oscar race.

Like it or not, the "quit you" quote is going to be used to refer to it for years to come. One can only hope that those years will also produce a more mature attitude toward what is a truly superb and enduring film.

Thanks for not letting the AMPAS headline pass unnoticed.

Get over it Tom! Brokeback won all those awards because there were people like you out there willing to label anyone who didn't like the movie a homophobe, and people awarding it were embracing a social cause, not the movie. It was a terrible movie and the fact it won 3 Oscars is a testament to how grossly overrated that movie was. Hollywood will get its grandstanding gay production eventually, which will deserve to win Oscars, Brokeback on paper promised to be that, but ended up nowhere near its aspirations.
Heath Ledger didn't exactly win at the HFPA, the SAGs and plenty of other places where Hoffman, Phoenix or Stratharin triumphed. Are we gonna label that bigotry if Ledger wins now for a performance that actually deserves to win. And how about the SAGs where Brokeback got Zilch. Why aren't we labelling the Screen Actors Guild bigoted homophobes!
Its people like you Tom, who are the real problem because of your insistence to introduce racism, prejudice, homophobia into the simple choice of liking one performance over another.
By the way, if you really really wanted to rally behind a gay-themed movie that year, the Canadian film C.R,A.Z.Y would've been an infinitely worthier choice, but obviously this movie didn't have big stars or a renowned director behind it so ignorant morons like you probably didn't think it good enough to serve as a launching pad for gay-themed films on the Awards circuit.

Ugh...just when I thought I had finally moved on from what I consider to be the Black Sunday of this film decade. Though AMPAS has partially redeemed itself with two ballsy but great Best Pic choices in the two years since, it really makes me steamed how shameless they can be with their sudden embracing of the film. They had a chance to award a landmark film with their highest honor, and they blew it big time. If they really want to make amends, they'd better award Ledger with a posthumous Oscar, not only for his amazing work in TDK, but for his devastating performance in BBM.

Dear God, Tom, you're not trying to revive that tedious argument again, are you??? Get over it already!!

What next, another post about how tragic it is that Tom Cruise hasn't won an Oscar???

I am a gay man who loved Brokeback Mountain and thought that Crash was an interesting mess, but I don't find it necessary to cling endlessly to conspiracy theories about why Brokeback lost the Oscar. There's enough genuine homophobia in the world that we don't need to continue to obsess about it where it doesn't exist.

Brokeback won three Oscars and two major awards -- Director and Adapted Screenplay. It was nominated for many others. Overall, it did as well at its year's Oscars as any other film. If homophobia were so rampant in the voting members of the Academy, it would have been shut out of major nominations and major awards.

The Oscars often make no sense. There are lots of upsets, where the favourite loses because, by the time the awards come round, people are sick of the favourite and want to go for something new.

It's patehtic and embarrassing that people still need to whine about the utterly insignigicant and meaningless fact that Brokeback didn't win the Oscar.

I’m also gonna hop on the bandwagon and say “Yes, it is indeed and insult by AMPAS”, and as you mention Tom, it is not the first one either.

I actually find it insulting every time I look at my Brokeback Mountain DVD and read: “Winner of 3 Academy Awards”. The producers/distributors of Brokeback Mountain should instead have written on the cover of the DVD: “Named BEST PICTURE over 30 times around the world!” and not even mention the Academy Awards who have snubbed it for the ultimate prize it obviously deserved.

After that unprecedented, shocking, and scandalous debacle, frankly should we really care about the Oscars?!? In any case, I personally haven’t watched the Oscars since – I have indeed QUIT the Academy Awards.

I hope Heath Ledger gets Academy recognition for his unforgettable performance in The Dark Knight, although two years ago I hoped the same thing for his heartbreaking performance in Brokeback Mountain. But now it will be ironic, and bittersweet, and too late for Mr Ledger.

I have to laugh every time I hear grumbling about "liberal Hollywood," because we all expected Brokeback Mountain to be a shoo-in, given the huge number of precursor awards it garnered. I will never forget Jack Nicholson's shocked expression when he announced that Crash had won instead.

Dude get over, next you'll be dragging out nicole kidman's prosthetic nose.