Brokeback Mountain Brokeback Mountain Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 American romantic drama film directed by Ang Lee and produced by Diana Ossana and James Schamus. Adapted from the 1997 short story of the same name by Annie Proulx, the screenplay was written by Ossana and Larry McMurtry. The film stars Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, and Michelle Williams, and depicts the complex emotional and sexual relationship between Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist in the American West from 1963 to 1983. The film received critical acclaim and commercial success. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Best Picture
Jake Gyllenhaal Bauman. He starred in Paul Dano's drama "Wildlife" and the western "The Sisters Brothers". Gyllenhaal's next role will be comic book supervillain Mysterio/Quentin Beck in the sequel to "", "", set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe set for release in 2019. Gyllenhaal's New York Off-Broadway debut occurred in 2012 in Nick Payne's "If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet" at the Roundabout Theatre Company's Laura Pels Theatre. Gyllenhaal debuted on Broadway in 2014 in Payne's "Constellations" at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre opposite Ruth Wilson, also in her Broadway debut. Gyllenhaal joined John Mauceri and David Denby in Adam