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"Brokeback" takes four prizes in London
(AP)
Updated: 2006-02-20 09:30
"Brokeback Mountain" took four awards including best picture Sunday at the
British Academy Film Awards, boosting its hopes for the Oscars in two weeks'
time.
Jake Gyllenhaal,
left, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, Ang Lee and James Schamus with
their award for best film Brokeback Mountain, at the British Academy of
Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards in London Sunday Feb. 19, 2006.
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The film beat out a literary biopic "Capote," L.A. story "Crash," 1950s drama
"Good Night, and Good Luck" and the British favorite "The Constant Gardener."
"The Constant Gardener," a spy thriller and love story, went into the
ceremony with 10 nominations, but 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.
Gyllenhaal said onstage that the movie, whose commercial success is
unprecedented for a gay-themed film, "means even more to me socially than it
does artistically."
"I've had a lot of people say to me after the film, to my surprise, 'Thank
you for making it,'" Gyllenhaal told reporters backstage. "It's made a social
impression, and that social impression to me is the aftermath of an artistic
impression, and so much more important."
Lee thanked the British people for their support.
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