13 Films You Won't Believe Turn 10 Years Old In 2015

5. Brokeback Mountain

The Movie: Ang Lee's tender, superbly-conceived western about two gay cowboys attracted much controversy and attention in 2005, but as a universally relatable tale about the ephemeral nature of love, it was much more modest than the press gave it credit for. Why It Doesn't Feel 10 Years Old: It truly doesn't feel like a decade since Brokeback Mountain was snubbed for the Academy Award for Best Picture in what is one of the most infamous snubbings in Oscar history (alongside Shakespeare in Love winning over Saving Private Ryan). The movie has been kept alive in part by the persistent consensus that Lee's film was the rightful winner over Paul Haggis' race drama Crash, which many believe leapt ahead due to inundating Oscar voters with screeners at the very last minute. Lee even won the Best Director Oscar, so when Jack Nicholson read the winning film at the ceremony, he could barely mask his surprise, declaring, "And the Oscar goes to...Crash!?" Any time the Oscar snub conversation comes up, Brokeback is consistently brought up, giving it a feeling of currency that Crash, with its pat dramatic truisms, definitely doesn't.