20 years after it lost Best Picture at the Oscars toCrash, Michelle Williams still thinks thatBrokeback Mountainwas wronged by the Academy. In an interview onWatch What Happens Live?, Williams discussed the movies famous Best Picture loss and even took a dig at the movie that beat it.

I mean, what wasCrash? Williams said during the interview.

Recommended Videos People were so open about it, the five-time Oscar nominee added. I just remember doing the junket. You dont really get an opportunity to see a lot of grown men cry. That was the moment that I think that we all knew that it was going to be special.

Should Brokeback Mountain Have Won The Best Picture Oscar? | WWHL The film, which starred Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as a pair of cowhands who started a 20-year love affair while herding sheep together in Montana, earned widespread acclaim at the time of its release. At the time, Brokebacks Best Picture loss was considered to be, at least partially, a response to the movies overtly gay story at a time when Hollywood was still hesitant to embrace the LGBTQ+ community.

Ang Lee, the films director, toldIndiewirethat the movies gay themes meant that winning the top prize was going to be impossible, at least at the time. Back then, [Brokeback Mountain] had a ceiling, he told IndieWire. We got a lot of support up to that much. It has that feeling. I wasnt holding a grudge or anything. Its just how they were.

Williams earned her first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress in the film, playing Ledgers wife Alma. Although it didnt earn the top prize, Lee was honored for his direction of the movie.