The Worst Academy Award Winner Ever

Rating: 1/10 (10 April 2006)

Anerican Beauty scores a close second as the worst academy award winner ever. In that case the real best picture, The Cyder House Rules, was defeated because it had a pro choice theme. This year the real best picture (BrokeBack Mountain)was defeated because it had a gay theme and because it didn't send out free DVDs of the movie to the academy members just before the vote. The scope of Brokeback Mountain is beyond anything I can remember seeing on film - the cinematography, the script, the music, the theme and the acting. The movie still haunts me, though I saw it a month ago. Did you notice the symbolism of the shirts. When Ennis first finds them in the closet in Jake's childhood home Jack's shirt is on top and Ennis's is tucked inside. However, in the last scene when Ennis opens his own closet we see the shirts again but Ennis has reversed the order so that his shirt is on the outside to protect Jack's memory. And the last line. Jack, I swear... What a powerful ending to one of the best films ever made. 50 years from now it will still be regarded as a classic.