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Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain premiered in Los Angeles on this day in 2005. Based on the story by E. Annie Proulx, the film opened to a flood of controversy, echoing the gay marriage rights battle raging around the country. Yet it also heralded what many critics claimed was the entry of gay cinema into the mainstream, garnering eight Academy Award nominations and winning three of those.
Film Factoid: Keep an eye out for a cameo by cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, who came out from behind the camera to play a young Mexican prostitute picked up by Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal).
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