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Another one was “Sideways”, that was an OK movie (much better than Forrest Gump), but best picture, really? A couple of good performances, yes, but...best picture? I don’t think so.

"Sideways" won for Best Adapted Screenplay. "Million Dollar Baby" won Best Picture that year.

"Crash" didn't deserve to win. "Shakespeare in Love" certainly shouldn't have won. And how could "Chicago" beat out "The Pianist"? -- Okay, Roman Polanski, but come on, would "Chicago" really have been the best movie of any year?

The guy who wrote this complains that Bruce Beresford wasn't nominated for "Driving Miss Daisy," when the real scandal was that they gave "DMD" Best Picture.

[jocon307]

“And how could “Chicago” beat out “The Pianist”?

We love Chicago, it’s one of our faves. Hubby took me to see it when it came out (getting hubby to the theartre is a tall order - literraly - because he’s so tall he hates the seats!)

I never saw the pianist, but I think I sort of remember it.

Isn’t it about a man with some severe mental difficulties? I get it confused with “a beautiful mind”.

Thanks for explaining about “Sideways”, although knowing which other movie won I’d just as soon they’d given it to sideways.

Hubby wanted me to watch “million dollar baby” and I refused, I said I already know what that movie is about, it’s going to be a bunch of anti-Catholic propaganda. Finally he saw it and he said “you were right”, and hubby’s not even a cat-o-leek as his grandpa used to say.

[OddLane]

The Pianist was soporific, even by Polanksi's low standards..

I could barely get through five minutes of it.