Ang Lee has been told that Brokeback Mountain is likely to win Best Picture

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Ang Lee once again looked back Brokeback MountainBest loss memorable image for Crashes At the 2006 Academy Awards.

Talk to IndieWirethe director shared that after winning Best Director for a modern-day weird Western, the theater manager asked him to stay backstage, as the film was expected to also take home the Academy Award for Best Picture.

“I got my prize, which was (second) to the grand prize, and as I was leaving the stage, they called me and said, ‘Stay here.’ This is your mark. Everyone assumes you’re going to win, so stay at this mark.

Lee continued: “Right next to the stage was the curtain. Next up was Best Picture. “Stay here, just stay here.” I saw Jack Nicholson’s file, his personal file, and he opened the envelope, and I said, “Oh my God, oh my God.” It took about 10 seconds before he announced, and then he said:Crashes“.”

While announcing the winner, Nicholson appeared to be just as surprised as Lee, appearing to utter “wow” after saying the name of the Paul Haggis film.

He spoke to me previously Hollywood Reporter About “being on the side of the stage” to hear the Best Picture announcement. He was disappointed when he heard Nicholson say Crashes.

“As a director, you can’t just be happy for yourself,” he said. You have a lot of hopes for the crew and cast. “You just want everyone to win, because it’s the Oscars, and the world is watching.”

when THR After hundreds of Academy members were polled and asked to recount their votes in historic and contentious races in 2015, several members said they would vote for Brokeback Mountain more Crashes. at the time of Brokeback MountainAfter the film lost, many decried the Academy’s decision, calling the snub as clear homophobia.

When asked if he believed… Brokeback Mountain Lee lost the Best Picture award due to the Academy’s discrimination against a same-sex romance, to which she replied, “I think so, yes.”

“at that time, (Brokeback Mountain) It had a roof. “We’ve had a lot of support – this much,” he added. “He has that feeling. I wasn’t holding a grudge or anything. It was just the way they were.”

Besides winning Best Director, the film starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal also took home Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay (it is based on the Annie Proulx short story of the same name) and Best Original Score.

Lee later won his second Academy Award for Best Director in 2013 for his film Life of Pi.