Brokeback Mountain Wins Venice Golden Lion For Ang Lee

Ang Lee's gay cowboy film Brokeback Mountain has won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
The film is adapted from a short story by Annie Proulx and stars Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as love-struck cowboys who have a 20-year affair.
Lee beat off competition from 18 other films, such as George Clooney's favoured Good Night, Good Luck.
Lee, maker of Oscar-winner Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has won a global reputation as an eclectic film-maker.
His other films include the comic book blockbuster The Hulk, released last year, and Sense and Sensibility, an adaptation of the classic Jane Austen novel.
George Clooney's film Good Night, Good Luck had been the hot favourite among film critics to take the Golden Lion on the last night of the 11-day annual festival.
The McCarthy era film directed and featuring Clooney won best screenplay.
Its star David Strathairn won the best actor prize for his portrayal of journalist Edward R Murrow.
The award for best actress went to Italian actress Giovanna Mezzogiorno for her role in the movie La Bestia nel Cuore, a tale of adult siblings scarred by child abuse.

She beat competitors French star Isabelle Huppert and her film Gabrielle and Gwyneth Paltrow, star of the film Proof.
However, Huppert was awarded a special Lion for her outstanding contribution to cinema.
US director Abel Ferrara won the Jury Grand Prix for Mary, starring Juliette Binoche as an actress haunted by the figure of Mary Magdalene after having played her on screen.
France's Philippe Garrel won the Silver Lion prize for best director with his Les Amants Reguliers, a story of love in bohemian Paris after the May 1968 riots.
The film's photographer William Lubtchanski also took the trophy for outstanding technical contribution:
The Marcello Mastroianni award for the best young actor or actress went to Menothy Cesar for Heading South.
On Friday Japan's Hayao Miyazaki was awarded a lifetime achievement award at the festival.
The festival finale was a screening of Hong Kong director Peter Chan Ho-sun's Perhaps Love, a rare Chinese musical starring some of Asia's biggest names, including Jacky Cheung and Takeshi Kaneshiro.
from BBC News