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Brokeback scales the BAFTAs summit
Monday 20 February 2006
The story of the love between two cowboys took the award for Best Film, with Lee winning the David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction.
The film's star, Jake Gyllenhaal, won the award for Best Supporting Actor with Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana winning the award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Philip Seymour Hoffman was named Best Actor for 'Capote', with Reese Witherspoon winning Best Actress for her performance in 'Walk the Line'.
Thandie Newton was named Best Supporting Actress for her performance in 'Crash' while the film's writer-director Paul Haggis and co-writer Bobby Moresco won the award for Best Original Screenplay.
The Alexander Korda Award for the Outstanding British Film of the Year went to 'Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit'.
'The Constant Gardener', which had been nominated in 10 categories, won in just one: Best Editing (Claire Simpson).
The Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer in their First Feature Film went to 'Pride & Prejudice' director Joe Wright.
'The Beat My Heart Skipped' ('De Battre Mon Coeur S'est Arrêté') won Best Foreign Film.
There were awards in the technical categories for 'Memoirs of a Geisha', 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire', 'Walk the Line', 'King Kong' and 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'.
The Anthony Asquith Award for Achievement in Film Music went to John Williams for his score for 'Memoirs of a Geisha'.
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