Jake and his BAFTA

Congratulations to Jake Gyllenhaal for his Best Supporting Actor from the British Academy! Much deserved. And so good to hear him say, in accepting, that Brokeback Mountain means more to him "socially than artistically" - recognizing the social impact and importance of this movie. As reported by Yahoo:

Jake Gyllenhaal won the best supporting actor prize for playing Jack Twist, one of two cowpokes who fall in love over the course of a Wyoming summer.

Gyllenhaal said onstage that the movie, whose commercial success is unprecedented for a gay-themed film, "means even more to me socially than it does artistically."

"I've had a lot of people say to me after the film, to my surprise, 'Thank you for making it,'" Gyllenhaal told reporters backstage. "It's made a social impression, and that social impression to me is the aftermath of an artistic impression, and so much more important."