Brokeback Just Took Best Picture At British Academy Awards

[ruggerson]

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/02/19/british.awards.ap/

LONDON (AP) -- Gay cowboy romance "Brokeback Mountain" took four awards including best picture Sunday at the British Academy Film Awards, a result that boosts its hopes for the Oscars in two weeks' time.

The film beat a strong best-picture shortlist that included literary biopic "Capote," L.A. story "Crash," 1950s drama "Good Night, and Good Luck" and British favorite "The Constant Gardener."

"The Constant Gardener," a spy thriller and love story that went into the ceremony with 10 nominations, took only one award, for editing. "Memoirs of a Geisha" won three awards, for cinematography, music and costume design.

Ang Lee was named best director for "Brokeback," which is up for eight Academy Awards on March 5. Jake Gyllenhaal won the best supporting actor prize for playing Jack Twist, one of two cowpokes who fall in love over the course of a Wyoming summer.

[bigwillq]

1. WOO HOO!

I'm very happy with those selections.
I am really glad Jake won. He seemed to have gotten overshadowed by Heath but Jake was equally as good in it, imo.

[saltpoint]

2. Very good news. I think BROKEBACK is going to have a fine, fine

night on March 5 in Los Angeles also.

[xchrom]

3. let me give this a big ol' YEE-HAW!

:applause: :applause: :applause:

[redherring]

4. I hope Ang Lee wins best director

He deserves it!

[Rowdyboy]

5. Glad Gyllenhaal got some deserved recognition.....

Ledger was so exceptional that Gyllenhaal gets overlooked.

[TomClash]

6. Yawn

Brokeback Mountain is a boring, mediocre film with inert direction, tepid acting (Heath Ledger's fine and subtle performance notwithstanding) and a monotonous film score. It is spurred to the upper echelons of film only by its gay cowboy novelty.

[karlrschneider]

7. There's only note in the music?

Wow.

[TomClash]

11. ok "repetitive score" would have been more accurate

[karlrschneider]

13. So I was being a smartass. It's what I do.

:D

[Chipper Chat]

9. Citizen Kane and 8 1/2 sucked also.

n/t

[leftchick]

10. I wonder why I cried so hard then?

I must be a sucker for mediocre films. :eyes:

I also read the short story and cried like a baby then. The movie does the original story justice, it was an excellent adaptation.

[TomClash]

14. It was a Leftchick flick

:hi:

[IrishBloodEngHeart]

8. i preferred Crash and Hustle and Flow

personally, but Brokeback was a fine film.

I think Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams were brilliant

My picks:

Best Picture: Crash
Best Actor: Terrance Howard (hustle and flow)
Best Actress: Keira Knightly (Pride & Prejudice)
Best Supporting: Gylenhall in a weak field

Best Supporting Actress: Michelle Williams
Cinematography: The New World

[Tulum_Moon]

12. YES!!!

I bet it win's best pic.! I feel like it is our movie. Does anyone else feel like that? Maybe I am just being selfish. But the repukes do love to hate it.