Sam Smh Wrong; Not First Openly Gay Osr Wner | Amy Awards 2016 – The Hollywood Reporter

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• HERE ARE 10 OPENLY GAY PEOPLE WHO WON OSRS BEFORE SAM SMH
• SAM SMH, THE ONLY OPENLY GAY OSR WNER? NOT REALLY
• OSRS: SAM SMH ISN’T THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO W

HERE ARE 10 OPENLY GAY PEOPLE WHO WON OSRS BEFORE SAM SMH

Smh, who intifi as gay and non-bary, wrote a song lled "Wrg's on the Wall" for the 2015 Jam Bond movie, "Spectre, " wh fellow songwrer Jimmy Nap.

"I stand here as a proud, gay man and I hope one day we n all stand as equals, " Smh said their speech.

While acceptg the Amy Award, Smh wrongly said they were the first gay person to w an Osr, which was met wh backlash on social media. Ball, an openly gay man, wrote "Amerin Bety, " which follows a suburban father who be terted his dghter's bt iend. Black wrote the 2008 movie "Milk, " which starred Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, a lol polician San Francis who fought for gay rights before beg assassated.

SAM SMH, THE ONLY OPENLY GAY OSR WNER? NOT REALLY

"To all the gay and lbian kids out there tonight who have been told they are ls than by their church or by ernment or by their fai, you are betiful, wonrful creatur, " he add. The openly gay filmmaker won another Amy Award 2003 for bt origal screenplay for his film "Talk to Her. In 1985, Epste won the Amy Award for directg "The Tim of Harvey Milk, " a documentary that follows the gay polician's life before his assassatn.

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.

OSRS: SAM SMH ISN’T THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO W

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. 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. 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.

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. Her sophomore effort was the HBO movie Bsie, a bpic on the legendary Blu sger and bisexual in Bsie Smh. One of the earlit openly gay directors, John Waters boasts a prolific body of work, most of which clus inic mils and cult edi.

Benedict Cumberbatch is a Bt Actor nomee this year for his fe turn as Alan Turg, the brilliant gay cryptologist who broke the Nazis' Enigma , helped the Alli to w World War II, and vented what we now ll the puter, The Imatn jos a long le of actors who've been Osr-nomated for playg LGBT characters, cludg Peter Fch, who was the first to be nomated, for his role as a gay doctor the 1971 film Sunday Bloody Sunday, and William Hurt, who was the first to w, for his performance as an rcerated gay man 1985's Kiss of the Spir the 44 years sce Fch's tone nomatn, 37 actors have been nomated for LGBT rol and 11 of them have won. Ian McKellen Gods and Monsters (1998)Before the brilliant Br beme a hoehold name as Mago and Gandalf, McKellen starred as Jam Whale, the gay film director behd Frankenste, whose last days ( this fictnal tellg) were nsumed by an obssn wh his hunky garner (Brendan Fraser).

Robert Prton Victor/Victoria (1982)The Mic Man himself earned his only Osr nomatn as a flamboyantly gay nightclub entertaer 1930s Paris who transforms Julie Andrews's starvg songstrs to a drag queen superstar. Jared Leto Dallas Buyers Club (2013)Leto pletely disappears to the role of Rayon, a transgenr woman wh HIV, who jos forc wh Matthew McConghey's homophobic n man to get lifavg dgs to those who need them durg the early days of the AIDS epimic.

Ang Lee earned a Bt Director Osr for this masterpiece that forever changed the image of gay characters film. The fact that Brokeback lost Bt Picture to Crash is nsired by many to be one of the most glarg jtic Osr the Osr went actors who won the Osr for portrayg gay, lbian, transgenr, bisexual (or bi-cur) characters are: William Hurt for Kiss of the Spir Woman (1985), Tom Hanks for Philalphia (1993), Hilary Swank for Boys Don't Cry (1999), Nile Kidman for The Hours (2002), Charlize Theron for Monster (2003), Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote (2005), Sean Penn for Milk (2008), Penelope Cz for Vicky Crista Barcelona (2008), Natalie Portman for Black Swan (2010), Christopher Plummer for Begners (2010), and Jared Leto for Dallas Buyers Club (2013). Crilly-acclaimed movi like "Milk, " "Brokeback Mounta, " "Boys Don't Cry, " and "Philalphia" all told stori of LGBTQ characters — some real, some fictnal — who fought agast or suffered om of the LGBTQ nome ever snagged the Bt Picture award, though three of the four mentned above rulted actg awards for straight actors who took on gay or transgenr rol.

Olson said she was "sadned" to see Cate Blanchett lose the Bt Actrs award, notg that was rare to see a leadg Hollywood actrs portray a lbian character who don't die at the end of the only do "Moonlight" end on an upliftg note, the film breaks barriers by prentg the largely tobgraphil story of a livg, black, gay man told his own words. Tarell Alv McCraney, whose script "In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue" was the basis for the film, also took an Amy Award for Bt Adapted Screenplay on Alv McCraney (right) livers a speech on stage next to Barry Jenks after they won the Bt Adapted Screenplay Osr for "Moonlight" at the 89th annual Amy Awards on Febary 26, 2017Mark Ralston / AFP/Getty ImagIn October, McCraney told NBC Out "Moonlight" isn't jt a "gay film" or a "black film, " that would be "disgenuo" to lim the story to jt one tegory.

"For so long people thought bee the story is black or gay then that means 's not mastream, " Onuorah said.

Sunday night's diverse crop of wners — along wh the Amy's recent vatn to hundreds of women and people of lor to jo s homogeno ranks last year — uld potentially help overe that reputatn. Mahershala Ali livers a speech on stage after wng the Osr bt supportg actor "Moonlight" at the 89th Adamy Awards on Febary 26, 2017 Los Ralston / AFP/Getty ImagFor Bahamian-born filmmaker Sekiya Dorsett, 's important to intify "Moonlight" as the barrier-burstg black, gay film that is, bee that means the stori of queer people of lor have a reach like never before.