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Wicked and Dune got best film nominated because of the long-standing "Hollywood refuses to nominate normies blockbusters" stigma, that inevitably results in several normies blockbusters getting pity nominations to shut up people who complain about how every year, only obscure arthouse shit gets nominated/win awards.How the shit is Wicked a contender for bloody anyt...oh right, it's the annual Wankers mutual fellatio party for Hollywood's biggest asskissers.
Also, would not be shocked if there is an unofficial banning on Trump bashing at the show with nominees and presenters being warned they'll be blackballed if they do.
Crash actually completed against Brokeback Mountain and only won because Hollywood was terrified of a conservative backlash of BM won best picture. So Ang Lee won best director as a pity win because they had to give BM SOMETHING and Crash got best picture as a bit of a fuck you, especially since everyone knew it was a garbage film.There have been worse winners than Crash. Maybe not in the 2000's though. Crash wasn't competing against anything particularly great either.
On that note I still find it funny seeing the occasional article upset at Driving Miss Daisy winning while the thoroughly awful Do The Right Thing wasn't nominated for Best Picture at all and didn't win anything else.