Despite the drop on popularity of the romantic dramas, some of them have enjoyed big box office and critical success, as the controversial, groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ) for example, that won several awards and Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), a critically acclaimed romantic-drama that has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, and went on to win eight of them, including Best Picture.

Others have been made into short films, often rewritten by other people, and even as feature length films, such is the case of Children of the Corn, The Birds, Brokeback Mountain, Who Goes There ?, Duel, A sound of thunder, The Body, The Lawnmower Man, and Hearts in Atlantis.

Larry McMurtry is the only person who has won ( for Brokeback Mountain ) for adapting someone else's work and whose work has been adapted by someone else resulting in a win, Terms of Endearment.

Ang Lee is the only Asian ( and non-Caucasian ) to have won the prize, for 2005's Brokeback Mountain.

: Examples include Hud starring Paul Newman ( 1963 ); Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway ( 1972 ) and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia ( 1974 ); Simon Wincer's Quigley Down Under ; Robert Rodríguez's El Mariachi ( 1992 ); John Sayles ' Lone Star ( 1996 ); Tommy Lee Jones ' The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada ( 2005 ); Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ); Wim Wenders ' Don't Come Knocking ( 2005 ); and the Coen brothers Academy Award – winning No Country For Old Men ( 2007 ).

In her essay " What Nature Allows the Jealous Laws Forbid " literary critic Mary Aswell Doll compares the love between the two male protagonists of Annie Proulx ' book Brokeback Mountain ( 1997 ) with the love Myrrha has for her father in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

* Ennis Del Mar, a fictional character in Brokeback Mountain

Day-Lewis received the Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor-Motion Picture Drama, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role-Motion Picture ( which he dedicated to Heath Ledger, saying that he was inspired by Ledger's acting and calling the actor's performance in Brokeback Mountain " unique, perfect "), and a variety of film critics ' circle awards for the role.

Some of the movies he's been " featured " in include Bourne Ultimatum, Munich, Brokeback Mountain, Spider-Man 3, The Simpsons Movie, and Jumper

He is known for his 1975 novel Terms of Endearment, his 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove, a historical saga that follows ex-Texas Rangers as they drive their cattle from the Rio Grande to a new home in the frontier of Montana, and for co-writing the adapted screenplay for Brokeback Mountain.

Lonesome Dove was adapted into a television miniseries and both the films of Terms of Endearment and Brokeback Mountain won Academy Awards.

In 2006, he was co-winner ( with Diana Ossana ) of both the Best Screenplay Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Brokeback Mountain.

He accepted his Oscar wearing jeans and cowboy boots along with his dinner jacket and used his speech to promote books by reminding his audience that " Brokeback Mountain " was a short story by E. Annie Proulx before it was a movie.

* 2005: Brokeback Mountain ( with Diana Ossana )— Oscar-winning screenplay ( adapted from the short story by E. Annie Proulx )

The motion picture Brokeback Mountain portrays this lifestyle in the first act of the story, in which the shepherds take their sheep into BLM lands.

Quaid also won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of U. S. President Lyndon Johnson in LBJ: The Early Years, but he's perhaps best known for his roles in the National Lampoon's Vacation movies as well as Brokeback Mountain and Independence Day.

Quaid had a pivotal supporting role in Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ) as an insensitive rancher.

These euphemistic terms were used to describe behaviors, not identities ( recently some fashionable young Chinese tend to euphemistically use the term " brokeback ," 斷背 duanbei to refer to homosexual men, from the success of director Ang Lee's film Brokeback Mountain ).

** Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ): Best Picture and Director

In 2012 Wuorinen completed work on an opera begun in 2008 based on Annie Proulx ’ s Brokeback Mountain, with a libretto by Proulx.

* Brokeback Mountain, The Opera Charles Wuorinen interviewd by Peter Dobrin, ArtsWatch: PhillyNews. com, June 9, 2008

* A recording by " Philharmonia Slavonica " featured in the film Brokeback Mountain ( 2006 ).

* Ang Lee: Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 )

* Jack Twist, a character from the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain

Critics like Paula Nechak have called the film a " bold cautionary tale ", with references to the pressure of conformity and acceptance, and some critics even cite parallels to Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ).

In the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain, Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar entranced audiences " like no other romance in recent years ".

A career highlight was Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ), a movie about a male-male relationship in the 1960s, which earned Williams a Best Supporting Actress nomination from the Academy Awards for her role as the wife of one of the men.

The Brothers Grimm was shown at the 62nd Venice International Film Festival on September 4, 2005, while in competition for the Golden Lion, but lost to Brokeback Mountain, also starring Ledger.

The festival has also had the American premiere of films such as My Dinner With Andre ( Louis Malle, 1981 ), Stranger than Paradise ( Jim Jarmusch, 1984 ), Blue Velvet ( David Lynch, 1986 ), The Civil War ( Ken Burns, 1990 ), The Crying Game ( Neil Jordan, 1992 ), Mulholland Drive ( David Lynch, 2001 ), and Brokeback Mountain ( Ang Lee, 2005 ).

Successful examples would be: Mädchen in Uniform, Germany ( 1931 ); The Leather Boys, UK ( 1964 ); Scorpio Rising, U. S. A. ( 1964 ); The Naked Civil Servant, UK ( 1975 ); Outrageous !, Canada ( 1977 ); My Beautiful Laundrette, UK ( 1985 ); Maurice, UK ( 1985 ); Summer Vacation 1999, Japan, ( 1988 ); Germany, New Zealand and the U. S. A., ( 2003 ), Brokeback Mountain, U. S. A. ( 2005 ); and most recently Black Swan, U. S. A. ( 2010 ).

2005: " A Love That Will Never Grow Old " Lyrics by Bernie Taupin, Music by Gustavo Santaolalla, performed by Emmylou Harris – Brokeback Mountain ( not an Oscar nominee )

* Nominated: Best Picture, Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 )

* Won: Best Film, Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 )

The story was the basis for Ang Lee's 2005 film, Brokeback Mountain, starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.

James Schamus is an award-winning screenwriter The Ice Storm and producer Brokeback Mountain, and is CEO of Focus Features, the motion picture production, financing, and worldwide distribution company whose films have included Lost in Translation, Milk, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Pianist, Coraline, and The Kids Are All Right.

View of the Annapolis Valley as viewed from North Mountain ( Nova Scotia ) | North Mountain looking southwest from The Lookoff, Nova Scotia | The Lookoff, north of Canning, Nova Scotia | Canning, in October 2005.

He contributed back-up vocals on TV on the Radio's song " Province " for their album Return to Cookie Mountain, made a commercial with Snoop Dogg for XM Satellite Radio, and joined with Lou Reed on Danish alt-rockers Kashmir's 2005 album No Balance Palace.

* The Mountain Laurel ( 2005 ).

* 2004 – 2005 Rocky Mountain Edition

* Coors Light Mountain Jam ( 2005 )

The Taoist Manual ( Honolulu: Sacred Mountain Press, 2005 ).

" When the Purple Mountain Burns: A Novel " San Francisco: Long River Press, 2005.

In July 2005, UNESCO added the Nilgiri Mountain Railway as an extension to the World Heritage Site of Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, the site then became known as " Mountain Railways of India.

Mountain Brook is the hometown of actors Wayne Rogers, Kate Jackson, and Courteney Cox, and former Green Bay Packers quarterback Bart Starr, and Natalee Holloway, a high school graduate who disappeared while on a graduation trip to Aruba on May 30, 2005, in a well-publicized missing persons case.

In more recent years, Sutherland was noted for his role as Reverend Monroe in the Civil War drama Cold Mountain ( 2003 ), in the remake of The Italian Job ( 2003 ), in the TV series Commander in Chief ( 2005 – 2006 ), in the movie Fierce People ( 2005 ) with Diane Lane and Anton Yelchin, and as Mr. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice ( 2005 ), starring alongside Keira Knightley.

Two-hundred-fifty Logan High students took the ACT in 2005 and 593 Mountain Crest / Sky View / Cache High students ( in Cache County School District ) took the test in 2005.

In 2005, Tim Robinson displayed his own Meccano differential analyser at the Computer History Museum, at Mountain View, California, USA, and Robinson has also built and exhibited two models of Charles Babbage's difference engine, also using Meccano.

The river is the subject of the multimedia performance " Falling Mountain " ( 2005 Mountain Festival ), a reference to the mountain in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park from which the river rises.

Recorded: February 14, 2005 at Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California

Participant in a triathlon at Catoctin Mountain in 2005