15 Times The BAFTAs Corrected Huge Oscar Mistakes

And finally, what is the most infamous Oscar injustice in modern history? That's easy: it's the 2006 Best Picture showdown between Brokeback Mountain and Crash. These two dramas both explored serious issues, those being homosexuality and racial themes, respectively.

One film is a brilliant work that tells a phenomenally powerful love story and sensitively explores its themes, while the other was an atrociously-written and cinematically flat mess of a movie that completely fluffed up its exploration of an incredibly important issue.

It's still hard to believe that the latter film was the one that won Best Picture, but yes, somehow this is what happened. What did the voters see in Crash when Brokeback Mountain was right there? Who even knows?

The one thing that makes this injustice easier to bear is that the BAFTAs (and certain other award ceremonies, such as the Golden Globes) recognized what was the superior of the two films and gave Brokeback Mountain the win it deserved. In another reality, Brokeback Mountain would've won the Oscar too, but the BAFTA is better than nothing.

Speaking of other realities, it seems likely that, this year, the BAFTAs will choose a better film than the Oscars yet again. The current frontrunner Everything Everywhere All at Once is a good movie, but it's also more flawed than its rather irritating fans seem prepared to admit, and it's certainly inferior to the stunning All Quiet on the Western Front, which won the latest BAFTA for Best Film.

Still, time will tell.