In 2006 Ang Lee won the Best Director Oscar for his work on ‘Brokeback Mountain’ On this day in 2006 Taiwanese director Ang Lee won the Best Director statue at the Academy Awards for his work on the film Brokeback Mountain The love story about two cowboys spending time together tending cattle and their subsequent […]
Brokeback Mountain was released on this day in 2005 The movie Brokeback Mountain had its first screening on this day in 2005. The film had its premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The movie went on to win Director Ang Lee an Academy Award. The love story about two cowboys spending time together tending cattle and their […]
Author Larry McMurty has died aged 84. His books The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment were turned into Oscar winning films. McMurty won an Academy Award of his own when he co-wrote the screenplay for Brokeback Mountain, adapting E. Annie Proulx’s short story for the screen. Remembered for his depictions of the American West, he also wrote the […]
Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain is one of 25 films that have been added to the US Library of Congress. Each year a new selection of films that have been judged to be of cultural, historic and aesthetic importance to the USA’s film heritage. Ang Lee’s film which was released in 2005 is the newest film among this years […]
Francis Lee’s debut film God’s Own Country (★★★★★) has been described as a mix of Brokeback Mountain and All Creatures Great and Small. But there’s nothing romantic or endearing about the rugged, bleak Yorkshire moors or the harsh realities of livestock farming in this film. Director Lee grew up in West Yorkshire and maintains that […]
