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"Brokeback Mountain" star of UK film awards
Reuters via Yahoo! ^ | 02/19/06 | Paul Majendie

Posted on 02/19/2006 6:16:37 PM PST by peyton randolph

"Brokeback Mountain," already a hot favorite for next month's Hollywood Oscars, was the big star of the night at the British Film Academy awards on Sunday, scooping four BAFTAs.

The gay cowboy love story won the coveted Best Film Award, Ang Lee was picked as Best Director, Jake Gyllenhaal was chosen as Best Supporting Actor and it also won the Best Adapted Screenplay statuette.

"I didn't have a specific message. I wasn't trying to push any political issues. We are dealing here with love," Lee told Reuters Television before accepting his award.

Gyllenhaal, flabbergasted by his triumph, shook his head in astonishment and said: "Who would have thought this would happen."

"It moved me like no other love story I have ever seen," he said of the film for which he is also Oscar-nominated.

The film, which had taken Lee seven years to bring to the screen, faced tough competition in a strong year from "Capote," "The Constant Gardener," "Crash" and "Good Night, and Good Luck" to be picked as Best Film.

Philip Seymour Hoffman took home the Best Actor BAFTA for his mesmerising portrayal of writer Truman Capote in "Capote" and Reese Witherspoon was selected as Best Actress for her role in the Johnny Cash biopic "Walk The Line."

Accepting his award, Hoffman thanked his girlfriend Mimi O'Donnell, saying "I want to say I love her and she looks really hot tonight."

The Best Supporting Actress award went to British star Thandie Newton for her role in the low-budget racial drama "Crash."

"This is the highest high ever," she said afterwards. "I don't expect it to get any higher."

The British film industry had great hopes for the stylish political thriller "The Constant Gardener" which garnered 10 nominations but its stars Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz went home empty-handed.

Another disappointed star was George Clooney who had been nominated four times in recognition of his directing, acting and writing skills in the McCarthy era drama "Goodnight, and Good Luck" and the Middle East thriller "Syriana."

"Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit," another in line for Oscar glory in Hollywood next month, was chosen as The Best British Film of the Year, much to the delight of Nick Park, creator of the two plasticine pals.

The BAFTAs were shifted in 2001 from April to February to fall between the Golden Globes and the Oscars with organizers hoping to capture some Hollywood glitter in the packed awards calendar.

But winning a top UK film industry award is certainly no guarantee of Oscar success.

Last year, Clint Eastwood's boxing drama "Million Dollar Baby" swept the board at the Oscars but failed to score at the BAFTAs after distributors refused to send out copies of the film to voters amid fears of piracy.


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: buggered; gerbils; pillowbiters; poofters; pudding; sheepherders

1 posted on 02/19/2006 6:16:39 PM PST by peyton randolph
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To: peyton randolph

Brokeback Mountain, a favorite at the Oscars, and the British film awards, but a flop in theaters everywhere.


2 posted on 02/19/2006 6:19:20 PM PST by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: coconutt2000

$107 million worldwide on a $14 million investment? That's some flop.


3 posted on 02/19/2006 6:23:21 PM PST by Darkwolf377
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To: peyton randolph
"It moved me like no other love story I have ever seen," he said of the film for which he is also Oscar-nominated.

I bet it did!!!!

4 posted on 02/19/2006 6:24:09 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: peyton randolph

The oscars tv show is going to be quite a revelation to the American people that watch.

Many will appreciate how "way out" hollywood is for the first time...and they won't like it.


5 posted on 02/19/2006 6:25:48 PM PST by Positive (Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
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To: peyton randolph

I'm actually going to go see it tonight. Some female friends of mine really want to so ... here we go. I expect to guffaw through most of it, but we'll see.


6 posted on 02/19/2006 6:26:50 PM PST by wizardoz
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To: Positive
The oscars tv show is going to be quite a revelation to the American people that watch.

They will have their smallest audience ever!

7 posted on 02/19/2006 6:31:07 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: wizardoz
I'm waiting for the sequel - OKLAHOMO!
8 posted on 02/19/2006 6:31:41 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: peyton randolph

It may be really well made, but to me it looks like a really well made parody of romance movies. I was laughing at the trailer when I first saw it.


9 posted on 02/19/2006 6:32:10 PM PST by Mr. Blonde (You know, Happy Time Harry, just being around you kinda makes me want to die.)
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To: Rummyfan
Link to the thread on Brokeback Mountain: The Sequel.
10 posted on 02/19/2006 6:45:09 PM PST by peyton randolph (As long is it does me no harm, I don't care if one worships Elmer Fudd.)
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To: Mr. Blonde
a really well made parody of romance movies.
I can't see how graphic sex between two guys constitutes a parody.

 

11 posted on 02/19/2006 6:46:44 PM PST by peyton randolph (As long is it does me no harm, I don't care if one worships Elmer Fudd.)
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parody - A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule

Seems to me like what Brokeback Mountain is doing for traditional romance movies. Especially the ridicule part.
12 posted on 02/19/2006 6:57:11 PM PST by Mr. Blonde (You know, Happy Time Harry, just being around you kinda makes me want to die.)
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To: wizardoz
"I'm actually going to go see it tonight. Some female friends of mine really want to so ... here we go. I expect to guffaw through most of it, but we'll see."

So here we go....weeeee!

Well at least you have your cover...

13 posted on 02/19/2006 7:01:52 PM PST by Positive (Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
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To: Positive

I think the Republican Party's poll numbers go up every year after the Oscars - the Oscars remind everyone of how demented and sick Hollywood/the Democrat party is.


14 posted on 02/19/2006 7:19:30 PM PST by GianniV
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To: Darkwolf377

I wonder how many of those ticket numbers are due to liberal and homosexual groups buying up open seats.

Liberals do this all the time. They buy their own books to increase their sales numbers and visibility on the bestseller and Amazon.com lists.


15 posted on 02/19/2006 9:21:37 PM PST by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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It wouldn't surprise me in the least. I've argued with many people here who refused to admit the movie DID make money, but at the same time I've argued with people I know in real life about the LIE that this movie is selling to straight audiences who aren't libs in New York and L.A. Some folks imply you're supporting the movie's message by reporting the truth about the box office numbers, but on the other hand people think you're attacking gays by pointing out that this thing is NOT selling to straight people no matter how hard the press spins it that way.

It turns out the story originated with the movie distributors, and the press just lapped it up. (Like pudding.) Funny, the same press that's always bemoaning the lies pushed by movie companies seemed to think the producers of this thing are somehow pure because they made a pro-gay movie. Gee, no bias there, huh?

16 posted on 02/19/2006 9:27:15 PM PST by Darkwolf377
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To: coconutt2000

BTW www.boxoffice.yahoo.com says it's 68m not 114m...but whats 46m amoung really really close friends.


17 posted on 02/20/2006 9:28:16 AM PST by Positive (Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
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Okay, well... I saw it. I'll say this for them: they didn't even try to make that sex scene anything other than a grunting grapple. I may have missed a few moments as I was cringing into my coat...


18 posted on 02/20/2006 11:53:18 AM PST by wizardoz
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