The only person ornery enough to gripe a little about his movie's Best Picture loss was Larry McMurtry, who shared the Best Adapted Screenplay award for Brokeback Mountain with Diana Ossana. He attributed Crash's victory over Brokeback not to a liberal-conservative divide, or straight-gay, but rather to a city-country schism. ''Members of the Academy are mostly urban people,'' he said. ''We are an urban nation. We're not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made. And in the four instances that I have had, Hud, The Last Picture Show, Brokeback Mountain, and Terms of Endearment, the urban story won, and the three rural stories didn't.'' (Sounding like a true country boy, McMurtry explained his casual attire by saying, ''I always wear jeans.'')
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