Ang Lee has won best director Oscar for his gay cowboy movie "Brokeback Mountain," the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Sunday evening in Hollywood.

The film has won Oscars for best original score and best adapted screenplay at the 78th annual Academy Awards ceremony at the Kondak Theatre.

Based on Annie Proulx's 30-page short story of the same name, the film roughly traverses two decades in the lives of two cowboys, Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar, who befriend each other on the Wyoming mountain with the now-iconic name, and discover feelings they never knew existed.

For all the visual bravado and the overreaching scale of the effort, Lee "masterfully keeps the film itself in tight, extreme close-up," film reviwers said.

Source: Xinhua