Except that Hollywood turned out to be resistant to a film that brazenly sets a homosexual love story in the grand national - and decidedly heterosexual - narrative genre of the western. The Academy turned its back on the Mountain and instead gave its highest prize to Crash in one of the biggest Oscars upsets in years.
When Lee was asked what had happened to his film, which had been the favourite after sweeping all the big precursor awards, he could only shrug.
"You ask me the question, I don't know the answer," he said. "That was a surprise this for me, frankly.
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