Oscar will wind up wearing pink as gay and political films are dominating this year's Academy Awards.
Gay and political films are dominating this year's Academy Awards race with some experts expecting that Oscar will wind up wearing pink, either for left-leaning politics or sexual preference.
As Hollywood starts its annual awards season leading to the March 5 Oscars, key front-runners in main categories are either gay-themed or political films, with Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, a drama of love between cowboys, leading the pack in the all-important best picture race.
"It could be the gay Oscars this year because gay-themed movies could win almost all the major awards," said Tom O'Neill, show business awards columnist for The Envelope.Com, referring to the sudden dominance Brokeback Mountain has gained so early in the race.
"Brokeback is going to be hard to beat. Rarely do we have this kind of award consensus for a movie, and its director (Taiwan's Ang Lee) is long overdue for an Oscar," O'Neill said.
Brokeback, the first gay romance to make a bid for mainstream respectability, has already won the top awards handed out by critics in New York and Los Angeles and copped seven nominations for the January 16 Golden Globes, often a key indicator as to which way the Oscar wind might be blowing.
As for political films - the field is crowded with potential winners: Munich, Good Night, and Good Luck, Syriana, and The Constant Gardener.
Many experts predict that Brokeback's toughest competition could come from either George Clooney's Goodnight, and Good Luck, a steely-eyed examination of the McCarthy era, or Munich, Steven Spielberg's study of the price Israel paid for its reprisals for the murder of its athletes at the 1972 Olympics.
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