Please do *not* read this as defending their pro-Crash Oscar campaigns or their post-Oscar comments, which disappointed me as much as anyone else.
But rewinding prior to all that B.S., they did both put BBM in their Top 10 lists for 2005 - and they only matched up on half of the films they each included (the others were Munich, Crash, Syriana, and Nine Lives, which I hadn't heard of). That still says a lot.
I'm only now starting to accept that not everyone is going to see this film and be touched to the level that we all have been, to where almost nothing else will ever hold a candle to it. But I do think E&R recognize the film as a quality piece of cinema worthy of recognition, even if it's not to the same degree that we and millions of others believe it should have been. And it's good to know that despite the post-Oscar backlash, that at least they can step back and still recommend the film.
