Even Paul Haggis doesn’t think Crash deserved Best Picture
Many film fans consider Paul Haggis’ Crash to be one of the worst Best Picture winners of all time, and it turns out that not even the writer-director himself would have voted for it at the 2006 Academy Awards. In an interview with HitFix discussing HBO’s Show Me A Hero (a miniseries directed by Haggis and written by The Wire’s David Simon), Haggis spoke at length about his embattled Oscar winner:
Was it the best film of the year? I don’t think so. There were great films that year. Good Night And Good Luck, amazing film. Capote, terrific film. Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, great film. And Spielberg’s Munich. I mean please, what a year. Crash for some reason affected people, it touched people. And you can’t judge these films like that. I’m very glad to have those Oscars. They’re lovely things. But you shouldn’t ask me what the best film of the year was because I wouldn’t be voting for Crash, only because I saw the artistry that was in the other films.