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Not satisfied merely to report who won what irrelevant critics award and what they were wearing when they collected the prize, Reuters is quickly becoming the go to newswire for half-baked Oscar prognostications. Consider their analysis of last night's Broadcast Film Critics' Choice Awards:

Gay cowboy movie "Brokeback Mountain," the favorite in the Oscars race, roped in three Critics' Choice Awards on Monday, while darkhorse "Crash" showed unexpected strength — a sign perhaps of the fight to come.


The nation's broadcast film critics voted "Brokeback" its best picture at its 11th annual Critics' Choice Awards and also named the film's creator, Taiwanese-born Ang Lee, as the year's best director. Michelle Williams, who plays an emotionally ignored wife in the movie, tied for best supporting actress with Amy Adams of "Junebug."

But "Crash," a tale of endemic racism in America, took two major awards, an indication that this may be the film that could challenge Ang Lee's drama of forbidden love between two married men on the road to the March 5 Oscars.

There you have it: Oscar night will amount to a death match between the gay-lovers and the racist-haters, says Reuters, with GLAAD and friends cheering on bloody murder from the left side of the Kodak theater as the NAACP coalition returns the threats from the right, with only a thin human chain of bruised, bloody seat fillers strung along the center aisle keeping the two factions from tearing each other apart.