It's been nearly a decade that the movie "Crash" has won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2006 and it was directed by an Emmy and Oscar-winning writer and sometime director Paul Haggis, and recently even the film became perhaps the most controversial and intensely disliked Academy Award winner for Best Picture of all time. Paul Haggis said that he wouldn't have voted for his film to win the Oscar.
Paul Haggis, who also won Best Original Screenplay for Crash in 2006, said in a recent interview, "Was it the best film of the year? I don't think so," Paul Haggis also said, "There were great films that year. Good Night and Good Luck, amazing film. Capote, terrific film. Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, great film. And Spielberg's Munich... Crash for some reason affected people, it touched people. And you can't judge these films like that. I'm very glad to have those Oscars. But you shouldn't ask me what the best film of the year was because I wouldn't be voting for Crash, only because I saw the artistry that was in the other films."
Paul Haggis is clearly still proud of the movie 'Crash" as it starred a multiethnic ensemble cast, that includes Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, and Don Cheadle. Paul Haggis said with a plot about race in Los Angeles, the film touched a lot of people.
Haggis stated that because of the film's heavy-handed handling of racial issues, the victory of the film still got an extremely strong reaction of anger from people.
And also, the strong and adverse reaction that contributed to the film was the fact that it defeated Brokeback Mountain in the Oscars which is a great superior movie about the love story of two closeted cowboys, played by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. Earlier this year, from a survey of Oscar voters, most of the voters said they would now give the Best Picture statue to the film Brokeback Mountain.
