Brokeback Leads With 8 Oscar Nominations

"Oscar came to the mountain Wedsday morning, with director Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain leading this year's list of Academy Award contenders, with eight nominations, including those for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor Heath Ledger and supporting players Jack Gyllenhaal and Michelle Williams.

Brokeback Mountain – a critical and, surprisingly given its storyline about two cowboys' love for one another, a commercial hit – has already claimed separate top prizes from the Producers and Directors Guilds, which strongly portend Oscar victories.

The 78th annual Academy Awards will be broadcast live on ABC from Hollywood's Kodak Theatre on Sunday, March 5th."