You likely didn't expect to see any movie in the top spot other than this one. Very early on in the list, we mentioned that Ang Lee would never be more closely associated with any gay film than this one, and that's because it's the best-known and most successful gay themed movie of all time. Made in 2005, 'Brokeback Mountain' broke box barriers and box office records.
By now you're all probably familiar with the central tale of forbidden love between two rural ranchers, played to perfection by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, so we'll talk about the awards instead. 'Brokeback Mountain' won the Oscar for 'Best Director,' 'Best Adapted Screenplay' and 'Best Original Score,' missing out to 'Crash' for 'Best Picture' in what many critics considered to be a robbery. In 2018 it was chosen to be preserved in the United States National Film Registry on the grounds that it was 'culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.' It is, by some distance, the most recently-made movie to receive that honor.