They didn’t vote for it

Ang Lee, director of Brokeback Mountain, seems to be the only person around with a logical reason as to why his film didn’t win the Oscar for best picture.

“They didn’t vote for it.” Ang Lee. But for some reason, the press feels that it is necesary to try to explain in 50 different ways why the film didn’t win. People aren’t ready for a film like this to win. Crash took place in L.A., and most of the members of the Academy live in L.A. Every response is wrong. People acted on their prejudices in the voting booths.

Only director Ang Lee gets it right. “They didn’t vote for it.”