Lee Disappointed Over 'Brokeback' Loss

Ang Lee said promoting his Oscar-winning gay romance "Brokeback Mountain" was an arduous process and it was a disappointment not to win Oscar best picture.

"We've won every award since September, but missed out on the last one, the biggest one," Lee said in a post-Oscar news conference in Los Angeles that aired in Hong Kong Wednesday.

But he added that feeling disappointed "is human nature. And it wasn't for myself. I led a whole team of people."

"Brokeback Mountain" won Lee the best director Oscar, making him the first Asian winner of the prize. The film also won best musical score and best adapted screenplay, but lost the best picture award to "Crash" — a result considered a big upset.

Among the accolades "Brokeback" has racked up are the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, four Golden Globes, including best drama motion picture, and four British Academy Film Awards, also including best picture.

The Oscar best picture win by "Crash," which addresses racism, has stirred speculation that the U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the voting body for the OSCARS, has an American bias or that it wasn't prepared to give its top honor to a movie about gays.

Lee said the process of marketing "Brokeback" was tough.

"My work was really hard. I had to fight many battles. Personally, I don't like doing press, but once a film is on the Oscar track, for half a year you're fighting the same battle," he said.

Lee said he wasn't trying to make a social statement with "Brokeback," the love story between two ranch hands set in conservative Wyoming.

"For me, 'Brokeback' isn't rebellious at all. It's a very ordinary movie. People call it groundbreaking or what not. It puts a lot of pressure on me. But I didn't feel this way when I was making the movie. This is the way gays are. It's just that they have been distorted. When two people are in love and are scared, that's the way they are," Lee told reporters.

However, Lee said he is somewhat of a rebel at heart.

"I had to fight with my background ... but I also had to live in the general environment. People have to be categorized. That's very annoying. Don't you find that annoying? Life shouldn't be like that. The world isn't like that. There's a lot of complexity. There are exceptions," Lee said.

Lee faced resistance for pursuing a career in film when growing up in his native Taiwan, a traditional, academically oriented society that looks down on the entertainment business.

He said movies are a form of dissent.

"That's why we make movies. Otherwise, we just have a leader issue an order and we all follow. Why else would there be filmmakers like us? Why else would people lock themselves in a dark room and watch a movie together?" Lee said.

[此贴子已经被作者于2006-3-8 17:08:55编辑过]

在oscar专帖里贴过了，不过看了上面sweetpp的帖，觉得还是应该在这里再贴一下。

到目前为止，在oscar历史上，只有5个导演导演的影片同时获得了最佳导演，最佳影片，和最佳剧本三个大奖！本来李安会成为第6个的，可惜了！我是在imdb上biography for peter jackson里看到的：He is among an elite group of 5 Directors who have won Best Picture, Best Director & Best Screenplay (Orig/Adapted) for the same film. In 2004 he won all three for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). The other Directors are Leo McCarey, Billy Wilder, Francis Ford Coppola & James L. Brooks.

我去查了一下，具体如下：

leo mccarey: 《going my way》,1944.

billy wilder: 《the apartment》,1960.

francis ford coppola: 《the godfather: part II》,1974.

james l. brooks: 《terms of endearment》, 1983.

peter jackson: 《the lord of the ring: the return of the king》,2003.

baby blue eyes

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李安因為「斷背山」揚名國際，也讓他自己獲得奧斯卡最佳導演的肯定，但李安在典禮上講感言時，漏掉了主演「斷」片的兩位大功臣。這讓男主角希斯萊傑耿耿於懷，在奧斯卡會後派對上，他臉色不悅的窩在一角，抱怨李安得獎時沒感謝到他與傑克葛倫霍。

據港媒報導，李安以電影「斷背山」奪得奧斯卡最佳導演後，上臺領獎時多謝了不少人，包括「斷」片的原作者安妮普魯、兩位編劇、片中角色Jack與Ennis、電影公司高層、親人以及兩岸三地的華人，卻漏掉了片中的兩位男主角。

而男主角希思萊傑很在意這件事，他事後即與片中另一主角傑克葛倫霍均缺席李安設下的慶功宴，共赴另一個由《VanityFair》雜誌主辦的奧斯卡慶功宴。據悉，希思萊傑在《VanityFair》奧斯卡慶功宴上，與女友、即「斷」片女配角蜜雪兒威廉斯窩在一旁，臉色不悅。

報導指出，當「斷」片女編劇戴安娜奧珊娜上前搭訕，希思萊傑就趁機對戴安娜發洩說，李安竟然連感謝片中演員的一句話都沒有。雖然派對上人來人往熱鬧非凡，但據報，連華盛頓郵報的記者經過也都聽得到希思萊傑的抱怨，看來他的聲量也不小

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真的假的？不太相信。

heath应该是随便说说的吧！

这记者真是的，还说他们缺席李安设下的庆功宴是因为这个原因，那为什么那个女编剧也跟他们同在vanity fair的庆功宴上呢？

so hot!!!! drooling~~~~

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