Let's look at the movies nominated for Best Picture:

Crash
Brokeback Mountain
Munich
Goodnight and Good Luck
Capote.


The first four of those were "social relevance pictures", albeit about different issues. So what? The Academy doesn't vote for "Most Important Picture" -- it votes for "Best Picture." What was the best movie as a movie.

(Every once in a while the Academy gets mixed up and doesn't vote for the best picture, instead going for the "Important" picture. Moulin Rouge was a better movie than A Beautiful Mind, for instance, although the latter won "Best Picture".)

I didn't see Crash. I haven't yet seen Brokeback Mountain, although I intend to. Or Munich, although I have seen Good Night and Good Luck and Capote. * I have no way of second guessing the Academy's choice here, nor does anyone who hasn't seen Crash, at least.

Just because someone has something important to say does not mean their movie is necessarily better than everybody else's.


*Of the two I did see, I would have to give the narrow edge to Good Night and Good Luck. Capote was an impressive movie, but somehow a very cold movie; Good Night and Good Luck engaged the heart as well as the mind. That said, I was delighted that Philip Seymour Hoffman won for his portrayal of Truman Capote. It was a tour de force.
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