If ‘Oppenheimer’ Wins Best Picture, This Will Be Why

Oscar night, 2006. I still feel foolish about it. The award for Best Picture was widely assumed to be a two-horse race between Brokeback Mountain, Ang Lee’s devastating neo-Western about a pair of gay cowboys and their doomed love affair, and Crash, a tapestry of intersecting stories about race and reconciliation in modern-day Los Angeles. […]