Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 film directed by Ang Lee as well as a short story by E. Annie Proulx, upon which the film is based. The screenplay was written by Diana Ossana and Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurtry. The story tells of two cowboys who meet on a sheep herding job in the mountains of Wyoming in the early 1960s and fall in love. Over the next 20 years the story follows their lives and their continuing but complex relationship, including marriages, births and deaths.

The film stars Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal and also features Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway. It is planned for released in December 2005. The film has already recieved heavy Oscar buzz, and is a main candidate on many Oscar prediction sites for Best Picture.