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Breaking no ground: Why 'Crash' won (LA Times)

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Phillip Dampier:
Sometimes you win by losing, and nothing has proved what a powerful, taboo-breaking, necessary film "Brokeback Mountain" was more than its loss Sunday night to "Crash" in the Oscar best picture category.

Despite all the magazine covers it graced, despite all the red-state theaters it made good money in, despite (or maybe because of) all the jokes late-night talk show hosts made about it, you could not take the pulse of the industry without realizing that this film made a number of people distinctly uncomfortable.

http://theenvelope.latimes.com/awards/oscars/env-turan5mar05,0,5359042.story

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