Awards
2006 Oscar winner: Best Director (Ang Lee); Best Adapted Screenplay (Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana); Best Original Score (Gustavo Santaolalla)
2006 Oscar Nominations: Best Picture; Best Actor (Heath Ledger); Best Supporting Actor (Jake Gyllenhaal); Best Supporting Actress (Michelle Williams); Best Cinematography
2006 Independent Spirit Awards: Best Director: Ang Lee
2006 Independent Spirit Awards: Best Feature
2006 BAFTA: Best Film
2006 BAFTA: Best Direction: Ang Lee
2006 BAFTA: Best Supporting Actor: Jake Gyllenhaal
Synopses & Reviews
Brokeback Mountain is a sweeping epic that explores the lives of two young men, a ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection. The complications, joys and heartbreak they experience provide a testament to the endurance and power of love. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal deliver emotionally charged, remarkably moving performances in "a movie that is destined to become one of the great classics of our time" (Clay Smith, The Insider).
Review
"Brokeback Mountain is that rare thing, a big Hollywood weeper with a beautiful ache at its center. It's a modern-age Western that turns into a quietly revolutionary love story. (Grade: A)" Entertainment Weekly
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"The filmmakers have focused so intently and with such feeling on Jack and Ennis that the movie is as observant as work by Bergman." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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"Annie Proulx's heartbreaking story of two cowboys who fall in love has been faithfully translated onto the screen in Ang Lee's landmark film." Stephen Holden, The New York Times
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"The reason to see Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, and see it you should, isn't its hot-button topicality or its cultural cachet but simply that it's a very good movie, with a staggeringly fine performance by Heath Ledger." Boston Globe
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"It's a deeply felt, emotional love story that deals with the uncharted, mysterious ways of the human heart just as so many mainstream films have before it. The two lovers here just happen to be men." Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
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"Brokeback Mountain takes great pains to be a compassionate love story; but the filmmaking itself, self-consciously restrained and desiccated, is inert and inexpressive." Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
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"Ang Lee's unmissable and unforgettable Brokeback Mountain hits you like a shot in the heart. It's a landmark film and a triumph for Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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"For all its brave beginnings and real achievements its assault on western mythology, its discovery of a subversive sexual honesty in an unexpected locale Brokeback Mountain finally fails to fully engage our emotions." Richard Schickel, Time Magazine
Description
Special Features:
On Being a Cowboy
Directing from the Heart: Ang Lee
From Script to Screen: Interviews with Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana
Sharing the Story: The Making of Brokeback Mountain