Jake Gyllenhaal alongside his older sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal. He subsequently appeared in another indie film, "The Good Girl" (2002) and the climate fiction-disaster film "The Day After Tomorrow" (2004), portraying a student caught in a cataclysmic climate event. In 2005, Gyllenhaal portrayed Anthony "Swoff" Swofford in "Jarhead", Harold Dobbs in "Proof", and Jack Twist in Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain." For his performance in "Brokeback Mountain," he received critical acclaim and won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role, the
Jake Gyllenhaal positive reviews, with Roger Ebert saying that ""End of Watch" is one of the best police movies in recent years, a virtuoso fusion of performances and often startling action", and Salon.com's Andrew O'Hehir stating that the film was "at least the best cop movie since James Gray's "We Own the Night", and very likely since Antoine Fuqua's memorable "Training Day" (which, not coincidentally, was written by Ayer)". To train for the role, Gyllenhaal took tactical training and participated in actual police drives with co-star Michael Peña to help establish the language of the characters. Gyllenhaal appeared in two films directed