BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The gay cowboy romance "Brokeback Mountain" led the Golden Globes on Monday with four prizes, including best dramatic film and the directing honor for Ang Lee.
It was a triumphant night for films dealing with homosexuality and transsexuality. Along with the victories for "Brokeback Mountain," acting honors went to Felicity Huffman in a gender-bending role as a man preparing for sex-change surgery in "Transamerica" and Philip Seymour Hoffman as gay author Truman Capote in "Capote."
The Johnny Cash biography "Walk the Line" won the Globe for best musical or comedy film and earned acting honors for stars Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon.
Lee's "Brokeback Mountain," the story of two rugged Western family men (Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal) concealing their affair, has emerged as a front-runner for the Oscars — which occasionally have handed out top acting prizes for performers in homosexual or gender-bending roles but have never given the best-picture Oscar to a gay-themed film.
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George Clooney, who was among the directing nominees for "Good Night, and Good Luck," won the supporting-actor Globe for the oil-industry thriller "Syriana."
A partial list of winners at Monday's 63rd annual Golden Globes, presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association:
Picture, Musical or Comedy: "Walk the Line"
Actress, Musical or Comedy: Reese Witherspoon, "Walk the Line"
Actor, Musical or Comedy: Joaquin Phoenix, "Walk the Line"
Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz, "The Constant Gardener"
Supporting Actor: George Clooney, "Syriana"
Director: Ang Lee, "Brokeback Mountain"
Screenplay: Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, "Brokeback Mountain"
Foreign Language: "Paradise Now," Palestine
Original Score: John Williams, "Memoirs of a Geisha"
Original Song: "A Love That Will Never Grow Old" from "Brokeback Mountain"
Actress, Drama: Geena Davis, "Commander in Chief"
Actor, Drama: Hugh Laurie, "House"
Series, Musical or Comedy: "Desperate Housewives," ABC
Actress, Musical or Comedy: Mary-Louise Parker, "Weeds"
Actor, Musical or Comedy: Steve Carell, "The Office"
Miniseries or Movie: "Empire Falls," HBO
Actress, Miniseries or Movie: S. Epatha Merkerson, "Lackawanna Blues"
Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, "Elvis"
Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Sandra Oh, "Grey's Anatomy"
Supporting Actor, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Paul Newman, "Empire Falls"
Golden Globe winner previously announced this year:
Cecil B. DeMille Award: Anthony Hopkins.
The Associated Press
