However, people involved in "Brokeback Mountain" production aren't surprised that the movie lost.
"Perhaps the truth really is, Americans don't want cowboys to be gay," said screen writer Larry McMurtry, who earned an Oscar for best adapted screenplay for "Brokeback."
None of cowboy characters, Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, won any Oscar honors for their impressive performance.
Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan also saw "Brokeback's" failure as a sign that Hollywood was not yet ready to accept the topic of homosexual love.
"Despite all the magazine covers it graced, despite (or maybe because of) all the jokes late-night talk show hosts made about it, you could not take the pulse of the industry without realizing that Brokeback Mountain made a number of people distinctly uncomfortable," he added, according to Reuters.
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