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1971
Peter Finch
Best Actor in a Leading Role, Sunday Bloody Sunday
Role: Dr. Daniel Hirsh, who is competing with a woman for the affections of a bisexual artist.
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1975
Al Pacino
Best Actor in a Leading Role, Dog Day Afternoon
Role: Sonny Wortzik, a man who robs a bank to pay for his male lover’s gender-reassignment surgery.
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1975
Chris Sarandon
Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Dog Day Afternoon
Role: Leon Shermer, a pre-op trans woman who is in love with a bank robber. ![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBTam_LL9triyN1FTcR9D2Pmh06vIuGqn10wRUca-4_G_r3QiiKBwp9zcDqbtvb_inF6mkbQR_RZBgX19yCPdsBrLqNKHKrxRlEo_du9l3X96OwvBup2FxFDO-NJfiZd6hNftY/s200/MARCELLO-MASTROIANNI.jpg)
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1977
Marcello Mastroianni
Best Actor in a Leading Role, A Special Day
Role: Gabriele, a gay man repulsed by fascism who strikes up a friendship with a neighbor (Sophia Loren) on the day Hitler travels to Rome to meet with Mussolini in 1938.
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1981
James Coco
Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Only When I Laugh
Role: Jimmy Perino, a gay theater actor relegated to supporting roles in off-off-Broadway shows.
John Lithgow
Best Actor in a Supporting Role, The World According to Garp
Role: Roberta Muldoon, a transsexual ex-football player who becomes best friends with Garp (Robin Williams).
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1982
Robert Preston
Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Victor/Victoria
Role: Carroll “Toddy” Todd, owner of a tawdry nightclub who poses as struggling female impersonator Victoria’s (Julie Andrews) gay lover.
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Cher
1992
1997
1998
Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Silkwood
Role: Dolly Pelliker, the lesbian best friend and coworker of plutonium plant whistle-blower Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep).
1985
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William Hurt
Best Actor in a Leading Role, Kiss of the Spider Woman
Role: Luis Molina, a man in prison for having sex with an underage boy. Hurt won the Oscar for his work.
1990
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Bruce Davison
Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Longtime Companion
Role: David, an affluent gay man living in New York in the 1980s, who loses his lover to AIDS.
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1991
Tommy Lee Jones
Best Actor in a Supporting Role, JFK
Role: Clay Shaw, a New Orleans businessman who is sleeping with a male hustler (Kevin Bacon) and is alleged to have participated in the conspiracy to assassinate JFK.
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Jaye Davidson
Best Actor in a Supporting Role, The Crying Game
Role (SPOILER ALERT): Dil, the girlfriend of a murdered British soldier who, in the film’s big reveal, turns out to be a man.
1993
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Tom Hanks
Best Actor in a Leading Role, Philadelphia
Role: Andrew Beckett, a gay lawyer who successfully sues his former employer in one of the first AIDS discrimination suits. Hanks won the Oscar for his work
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Greg Kinnear
Best Actor in a Supporting Role, As Good as It Gets
Role: Simon Bishop, a gay artist who forms an unlikely bond with his homophobic neighbor (Jack Nicholson).
1998
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Ian McKellen
Best Actor in a Leading Role, Gods and Monsters
Role: James Whale, the gay director of Frankenstein who befriends (and ultimately becomes obsessed with) his gardener (Brendan Fraser).
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Kathy Bates
Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Primary Colors
Role: Libby Holden, a nutty campaign adviser to a fictional presidential candidate based on Bill Clinton (John Travolta).
2002
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1999
Hilary Swank
Best Actress in a Leading Role, Boys Don't Cry
Role: Brandon Teena, a trans man who was raped and murdered by his friends after they found out he was born female. Swank won the Oscar for her work.
Javier Bardem
Best Actor in a Leading Role, Before Night Falls
Role: Reinaldo Arenas, a Cuban poet and novelist who is imprisoned for being gay.
2002
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Ed Harris
Best Actor in a Supporting Role, The Hours
Role: Richard Brown, a writer dying of AIDS struggling to stay alive for a dinner party his friend Clarissa (Meryl Streep) is throwing in his honor.
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Nicole Kidman
Best Actress in a Leading Role, The Hours
Role: Novelist Virginia Woolf, who was known for her many relationships with women; the film chronicles her life and eventual suicide. Kidman won the Oscar for her work.
2003
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2002
Julianne Moore
Best Actress in a Supporting Role, The Hours
Role: Laura Brown, a deeply unhappy suburban housewife on the verge of suicide, who has feelings for women.
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Charlize Theron
Best Actress in a Leading Role, Monster
Role: Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute and rape victim turned serial killer who nonetheless finds love with Selby (Christina Ricci). Theron won the Oscar for her work
2005
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
Best Actor in a Leading Role, Capote
Role: Truman Capote, the flamboyant gay author of the best-selling true-crime book In Cold Blood. Hoffman won the Oscar for his work.
2005
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2005
Felicity Huffman
Best Actress in a Leading Role, Transamerica
Role: Bree Osbourne, a pre-op trans woman who goes on a road trip with her long-lost son (Kevin Zegers).![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_azUtdSZhfF7kpMxr9mJ3rVDjV84w7I_i7XmYESehXzhLGOW4GJiOWEr9cLaS_h6O0Wo0u5QhGk2WvJTCJn7y6iG6hnOlM5qefSsQbw3sOH22Wh0X8R1Ceci4EMmiHI6qw-dC/s200/heathledger_brokeback.gif)
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2005
Heath Ledger
Best Actor in a Leading Role, Brokeback Mountain
Role: Ennis Del Mar, a ranch hand who falls in love and carries on a secret relationship with a rodeo cowboy (Jake Gyllenhaal).
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Jake Gyllenhaal
Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Brokeback Mountain
Role: Jack Twist, a rodeo cowboy who falls in love and carries on a secret relationship with ranch hand Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger).
Judi Dench
Best Actress in a Leading Role, Notes on a Scandal
Role: Barbara Covett, a bitter schoolteacher who forms an unhealthy obsession with a new young art instructor (Cate Blanchett).
Sean Penn
Best Actor in a Leading Role, Milk
Role: Harvey Milk, the San Francisco politician who kick-started the city’s gay rights movement before being assassinated in 1978. Penn won the Oscar for his work.
Penélope Cruz
Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Role: Maria Elena, a mentally unbalanced woman who, with her ex-husband (Javier Bardem), takes a lover (Scarlett Johansson).
Colin Firth
Best Actor in a Leading Role, A Single Man
Role: George Falconer, a gay British university professor struggling to find his way after the death of his lover (Matthew Goode).
it's a lot, wish there could be more
ReplyDeleteGreat walk down Memory Lane, Bob. There are a few of these movies I haven't seen, am now am curious to see them.
ReplyDeleteThanks for this reminiscence.
What a great list! Thanks for sharing that.
ReplyDeleteLeave it too you to put this together! Thank you! While I have seen most of these movies, and all the performances were good ones, Bruce Davidson I feel gave one of the best. I just think of his role and get chill bumps and tears! Happy Oscar night Bob!
ReplyDeleteObviously a little late in reading but cool post. There are two films on the list I have not seen. Thanks
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