Michelle Williams shades rival Oscar-winning film 20 years after Brokeback Mountain’s Best Picture loss

By ASHLEIGH GRAY FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Published: 04:53 BST, 5 April 2025 | Updated: 05:03 BST, 5 April 2025

Michelle Williams still has hard feelings over Brokeback Mountain’s 2006 Best Picture Academy Award loss. 

The 2005 drama starring her, Heath Ledger, and Jake Gyllenhaal lost the honor to Crash.

While appearing on Watch What Happens Live this week, host Andy Cohen said the movie is still one of his top two favorites.

‘I mean, what was Crash?’ the 44-year-old Dying For Sex star quipped when Cohen brought it up.

Cohen also asked if the Dawson’s Creek alum knew the impact Brokeback Mountain’s gay love story would have on audiences.

‘Yes, because people were so open about it,’ she said. ‘I remember doing the junket. You know, you don’t really get an opportunity to see a lot of grown men cry. That was the moment that I think that we all knew it was going to be special to people.’

Michelle Williams still has hard feelings over Brokeback Mountain’s 2006 Best Picture Academy Award loss

The 2005 drama starring her, Heath Ledger, and Jake Gyllenhaal lost the 2006 Academy Award for Best Picture to Crash

The film collected eight total nominations at the 2006 Oscars, with Williams earning a Best Supporting Actress nod.

Meanwhile, Heath was nominated for Best Actor and Jake for Best Supporting Actor. Anne Hathaway also appeared in the Ang Lee-directed movie.

It went on to win Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Score.

Michelle met and fell in love with Heath while shooting the memorable movie, and the two later welcomed daughter Matilda, who is now 19-years-old.

Heath tragically died in January 2008 after overdosing on a cocktail of drugs.

For Matilda’s 18th birthday in October 2023, she received a sentimental gift from the paternal side of her family.

The Ledgers gifted her Heath’s Best Supporting Actor Oscar, which he won posthumously for his role as The Joker in The Dark Knight.

Heath’s parents Kim and Sally Ledger and his older sister Kate accepted the trophy on his behalf during the 2009 Oscars.

The film collected eight total nominations at the 2006 Oscars, with Williams earning a Best Supporting Actress nod

Williams pictured at the 78th Academy Awards on March 5, 2006

Williams, who was in a relationship with Heath from 2004 to 2007 after meeting on the set of Brokeback Mountain, chose to raise Matilda away from the spotlight.

She moved to Upstate New York and said that the move came from her desire to provide ‘a sane home environment’ for her daughter.

She told the New York Post in June 2016: ‘We moved — we left Brooklyn and lived in the country for six years because it was an intolerable state of existence.’

Years later, Michelle returned to the city. 

The star married director Thomas Kail in 2020 and they share three kids — son Hart, four, and two more children whose identities have not been publicly revealed.

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Michelle Williams shades rival Oscar-winning film 20 years after Brokeback Mountain’s Best Picture loss

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