Moonlight’s 2017 win is proof enough of how much the Oscars have changed since then, as is the fact that The Power of the Dog has made it this long without this kind of pushback.
The speculation about how Crash pulled off that upset continues to this day, but a plausible theory is that there were just too many voters like Curtis and Borgnine who weren’t ready for a sweeping romance about two men.
This is exactly what didn’t happen in 2006.
