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Tony Curtis and Ernest Borgnine, ancient creaky bastards who hate fags, have admitted publicly that they did not watch Brokeback, that they refused to, and they are both Academy members. They didn't admit whether they voted for Best Pic or not, but if they did they broke the Academy's rules. And the Academy has no way and, apparently, no use for enforcing these rules.

Says the Academy's President,

"We can tell with a fair degree of certainty who's seen the five foreign film nominees, but it's difficult to verify," he says. "And to do it in every category is just not possible."

It's also not something the academy feels an impetus to do, despite the controversy over the "Crash" best picture victory.

"It's important to point out that 'Brokeback Mountain' got more nominations than any other film, and won Oscars in three major categories," he says. "And clearly, the best picture race was close, because Ang Lee won for best director."

In other words, the academy will not be scrutinizing this year's result any more closely than they would any other year.

"I think it's interesting," Davis adds, "that any time there's an upset like this, people analyze it in political and sociological terms: 'This must be at work, or that must be at work.' It's never that more people liked picture A than picture B. In this case, I think you had a very close race in which more people liked picture B."

Bullshit. Sign this petition here, and maybe we can help change the Academy's rules. That'd be an awesome legacy for Brokeback, on top of all it's already accomplished.