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‘Brokeback Mountain’ Writer Predicted Oscar Loss After Being Told Clint Eastwood ‘Hasn’t Seen Your Movie’: ‘Like Somebody Kicked Me in the Stomach’
The writer of 'Brokeback Mountain' knew the movie would lose the Oscar for best picture after being told Clint Eastwood never watched the movie.
“Brokeback Mountain” infamously lost best picture to “Crash” on Oscar night, despite winning the most best film prizes of awards season beforehand (including at the Golden Globes and BAFTAs). The performers said they would not watch “Brokeback,” with Curtis saying in an interview that contemporaries like “Howard Hughes and John Wayne wouldn’t like it” and “this picture is not as important as we make it. Ossana told The Times that she traveled to theaters in Missouri, South Dakota and Colorado when “Brokeback Mountain” opened nationwide to see how audiences would react to the movie.
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