Three Oscars---for score, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana's script and Ang Lee's brilliant direction---went to this heartbreaking and powerful yarn about a long-running, forbidden affair between two gay cowboys (Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal). Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway play their wives. The screenplay was based on a 12-page magazine story by E. Annie Proulx. Randy Quaid, Linda Cardellini, Anna Faris.