“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.
No that's "Shine" with Geoffrey Rush.
"The Pianist" was Adrian Brody hiding from the Nazis in wartime Warsaw.
I sort of defended "Chicago" here as harmless fun against people who saw it as symptomatic of social collapse.
But still, I don't think it was Best Picture material. IMHO, too much glitz and too little substance.