The film's historic w at the 89th annual Amy Awards giv hope to the black and gay muni.
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HERE ARE 10 OPENLY GAY PEOPLE WHO WON OSRS BEFORE SAM SMH
Comg of age drama about a gay black man feats hot favoure La La Land to w the Amy’s top award, after bacle which Damien Chazelle’s film read out as wner by Faye Dunaway * gay movie won oscar *
Hollywood has been slow to embrace the stori of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people, but over the years a number of LGBT-themed films have neverthels won the dtry’s hight honor: Osr.
William Hurt beme the first actor to w an Osr for playg a gay role, wng for playg an imprisoned wdow drser 1985’s “Kiss of the Spir Woman. Barry Jenks’s hntg film about a young boy stgglg to accept his sexualy sred a stunng upset for Bt Picture, beg the first wner this tegory to have a gay character as s protagonist. Benedict Cumberbatch stars this historil drama as Alan Turg, the Brish cryptanalyst who was nvicted of cency bee of his homosexualy.
Mike Mills’s semi-tobgraphil film stars Ewan McGregor as a man whose elrly father (Christopher Plummer) out as gay his 70s. Sean Penn plays the tle role G Van Sant’s bgraphil film about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office California. Philip Seymour Hoffman domated the awards season 2005 for his role as openly gay, larger-than-life wrer Tman Capote as he stggl to wre his masterpiece, “In Cold Blood.
Many members of the gay and lbian muny have enjoyed great succs the movie dtry. * gay movie won oscar *
Although this Osr-wng drama do not centrally foc on LGBT issu, do take a close look at the effects of homophobia. Chris Cooper plays a former Mare lonel whose rampant homophobia is actually a mask for his own reprsed sir, which leads him to a tragic teractn wh the film’s protagonist (played by Kev Spacey). Bill Condon’s drama follows the last days of director Jam Whale (Ian McKellan), the openly gay director of the classic horror films “Frankenste” and “Bri of Frankenste.
Tom Hanks stars as Andrew Beckett, a gay lawyer livg wh AIDS who su his former lawfirm after he is fired.
Denzel Washgton -stars as a homophobic lawyer who reprents Andrew urt. In this prison drama, a gay wdow drser (William Hurt) shar a Brazilian prison cell wh a revolutnary (Rl Julia), and the two beg a awkward iendship that velops to a sexual relatnship. Hurt beme the first actor to w an Osr for playg a gay role.
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This documentary tails the life of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office California, who was later murred along wh San Francis mayor Gee Mosne. ”Jenks said he hoped the film, which tells the story of a gay Ain Amerin boy growg up poverty Miami, would open doors for members of the LGBT shgged off the award bungle. " In the acceptance speech that followed, however, the sger-songwrer misquoted an terview wh Sir Ian McKellen, and implied that he was the first openly gay man to w an Amy Award.