Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 romantic drama film directed by Ang Lee. It is a film adaptation of the 1997 short story of the same name by Annie Proulx with the screenplay written by Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry. The film stars Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway and Michelle Williams and depicts the complex romantic and sexual relationship between two men in the American West from 1963 to 1983. Brokeback Mountain won the Golden Lion a... More
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  • Dec 9, 2005

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R (USA)

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  • 2 h 14 min

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Also known as:

  • Brokeback Mountain,
  • Secreto en la montaña

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Ang Lee

Ang Lee (Chinese: 李安; Pinyin: Lǐ Ān; born October 23, 1954) is a Taiwanese American film director. Lee has directed a diverse set of films such as Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), Sense and Sensibility (1995), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language...

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  • Love Is A Force Of Nature

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  • Dec 6, 2005
  • Nov 30, 2005
  • Sep 3, 2005
  • Dec 9, 2005
  • Dec 16, 2005
  • Nov 19, 2005
  • Apr 4, 2006
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  • 2 h 14 min

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  • 14,000,000

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Year Award Award Nominee
  • 2005
  • 2005
  • 2005
  • 2005
  • 2005
  • 2005
  • 2005
  • 2005
  • 2005
  • 2005
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Year Award Award Winner Notes/Description
  • 2005
  • 2006
  • 2005
  • 2005
  • 2005
  • 2006
  • 2005
  • 2005
  • 10th Satellite Awards
  • 2005
  • 10th Satellite Awards
  • 2005
  • tie with Amy Adams
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  • 100

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Adapted From

Brokeback Mountain

"Brokeback Mountain" is a short story by American author Annie Proulx. It was originally published in The New Yorker on October 13, 1997, and was subsequently published in a slightly expanded version in Proulx's 1999 collection of short stories, Close Range: Wyoming Stories. The story won an O....

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