This list details the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people who have been nominated for or received Academy Awards and/or cis-hetero actors who have been nominated for or won for playing queer characters. Individuals are identified as queer, though they may not have publicly or personally identified at the time of their nomination.
Best Actor in a Leading Role | |||||||||
Year | Name | Film | Role | Status | Actor's Demographic | Out at the time? | Observation | Reference | |
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1951 | Marlon Brando | A Streetcar Named Desire | Stanley Kowalski | Nominated | Cisgender Bisexual | No | Brando spoke more openly on his bisexuality later on in life, including a list of affairs he had with other celebrities, both men and women. On his greatest love affair, he [stated], “If Wally Cox had been a woman, I would have married him and we would have lived happily ever after.“ | [1][2][3][4] | |
1952 | Viva Zapata! | Emiliano Zapata | Nominated | ||||||
1953 | Julius Caesar | Mark Antony | Nominated | ||||||
1954 | On the Waterfront | Terry Malloy | Won | ||||||
1957 | Sayonara | Major Lloyd 'Ace' Gruver, USAF | Nominated | ||||||
1968 | Alan Bates | The Fixer | Yakov Bok | Nominated | Bates was attached to several men privately, behind the heterosexual marriage facade, such as ice skater, John Curry, and British TV sleuth, Peter Wyngarde. | [5] | |||
1972 | Marlon Brando | The Godfather | Vito Corleone | Won (declined) | Brando did not attend the ceremony, choosing instead to have himself represented by Sacheen Littlefeather (a.k.a. Maria Cruz), who identified as Apache Native American. She stated that Brando refused the award due to the poor treatment of American Indians in entertainment, as well as the recent Wounded Knee Occupation. | [1][2][3][6][4] | |||
Paul Winfield | Sounder | Nathan Lee Morgan | Nominated | Cisgender Homosexual | Yes | First Black gay actor nominated in an acting category. In relationship with architect Charles Gillan Jr., until his 2002 death. Also, he was the first openly gay actor to be nominated for Best Actor and the first openly gay actor nominated in any category to have been out on their own terms. | [7] | ||
1973 | Marlon Brando | Last Tango in Paris | Paul | Nominated | Cisgender Bisexual | No | (See note above) | [1][2][3] | |
1984 | Tom Hulce | Amadeus | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Nominated | Cisgender Homosexual | In an interview with Seattle Gay News, Tom Hulce acknowledged his status as a gay actor, although he emphasized the word "actor" is less applicable due to inactivity. | [8] | ||
1994 | Nigel Hawthorne | The Madness of King George | King George III of the United Kingdom | Nominated | Yes (outed) | Hawthorne was outed as gay in 1995 due to the attention his nomination at the 67th Academy Awards had gathered, but nonetheless he attended the ceremony with his long-time partner Trevor Bentham. He also spoke openly about his sexuality in interviews and in his autobiography Straight Face. | [9] | ||
1998 | Ian McKellen | Gods and Monsters | James Whale | Nominated | Yes | For each of his nominations (Gods and Monsters in 1998 and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in 2001), the star said he had speeches prepared beginning with the line: "'I’m proud to be the first openly gay man to win the Oscar.' I’ve had to put it back in my pocket twice." | [10] | ||
1999 | Kevin Spacey | American Beauty | Lester Burnham | Won | No | Spacey came out as a gay man in his statement addressing a sexual misconduct accusation by actor Anthony Rapp in 2017. | [11][12] | ||
2023 | Colman Domingo | Rustin | Bayard Rustin | Nominated | Yes | First openly gay Black and Afro-Latino actor to be nominated for Best Actor. | [13] |
The following list is composed of actors who have been claimed to be LGBT by others. They have been outed by a third party either while alive or after their death. However, they never publicly came out.
Best Actress in a Leading Role | |||||||||
Year | Name | Film | Role | Status | Actor's Demographic | Out at the time? | Observation | Reference | |
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1930/31 | Marlene Dietrich | Morocco | Mademoiselle Amy Jolly | Nominated | Cisgender Bisexual | No | Morocco marks the first time in cinema history that two women share a kiss on screen (Dietrich and an uncredited actress). | [57] | |
1981 | Susan Sarandon | Atlantic City | Sally Matthews | Nominated | |||||
1988 | Jodie Foster | The Accused | Sarah Tobias | Won | Cisgender Unspecified | Foster has acknowledged her romantic relationships with women, but has not identified as a specific sexuality. | [58] | ||
1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Clarice Starling | Won | ||||||
Susan Sarandon | Thelma & Louise | Louise Sawyer | Nominated | Cisgender Bisexual | |||||
1992 | Lorenzo's Oil | Michaela Odone | Nominated | ||||||
1994 | Jodie Foster | Nell | Nell Kellty | Nominated | Cisgender Unspecified | ||||
Susan Sarandon | The Client | Regina "Reggie" Love | Nominated | Cisgender Bisexual | |||||
1995 | Dead Man Walking | Sister Helen Prejean | Won | ||||||
2007 | Elliot Page (as Ellen Page) |
Juno | Juno MacGuff | Nominated | Transgender Non-Binary & Queer | Assigned female at birth, Page was nominated in the Leading Actress category before publicly coming out as transgender a decade later. | [59] | ||
2008 | Angelina Jolie | Changeling | Christine Collins | Nominated | Cisgender Bisexual | Yes | [60][61][62] | ||
2018 | Lady Gaga | A Star Is Born | Ally Maine | Nominated | [63] | ||||
2019 | Cynthia Erivo | Harriet | Harriet Tubman | Nominated | No | [64] | |||
2021 | Kristen Stewart | Spencer | Diana, Princess of Wales | Nominated | Yes | [65] | |||
2023 | Lily Gladstone | Killers of the Flower Moon | Mollie Burkhart | Nominated | Two-Spirit and Queer | Yes | [66] |
The following list is composed of actresses who have been claimed to be LGBT by others. They have been outed by a third party either while alive or after their death. However, they never publicly came out.
Academy Award for Best Actress | ||||||
Year | Name | Film | Role | Status | Alleged demographic | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1927/28 | Janet Gaynor | 7th Heaven | Diane | Won | Lesbian or Bisexual | [67][68] |
Street Angel | Angela | |||||
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | The Wife | |||||
1929/30 | Greta Garbo | Anna Christie | Anna Christie | Nominated | [69][70][71][72][73] | |
Romance | Rita Cavallini | |||||
1932/33 | Katharine Hepburn | Morning Glory | Eva Lovelace | Won | [79] | |
1935 | Alice Adams | Alice Adams | Nominated | |||
1937 | Greta Garbo | Camille | Marguerite Gautier | Nominated | [69][70][71][72][73] | |
Janet Gaynor | A Star Is Born | Esther Blodgett / Vicki Lester |
Nominated | [68][67] | ||
1939 | Greta Garbo | Ninotchka | Nina Ivanovna 'Ninotchka' Yakushova | Nominated | [69][70][71][72][73] | |
1940 | Katharine Hepburn | The Philadelphia Story | Tracy Samantha Lord | Nominated | [79] | |
1942 | Woman of the Year | Tess Harding | Nominated | |||
1951 | The African Queen | Rose Sayer | Nominated | |||
1955 | Summertime | Jane Hudson | Nominated | |||
1956 | The Rainmaker | Lizzie Curry | Nominated | |||
1959 | Suddenly, Last Summer | Catherine Holly | Nominated | |||
1962 | Long Day's Journey into Night | Mary Tyrone | Nominated | |||
1967 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? | Christina Drayton | Won | |||
1968 | The Lion in Winter | Eleanor of Aquitaine | Won | |||
1981 | On Golden Pond | Ethel Thayer | Won |
Best Actor in a Supporting Role | |||||||||
Year | Name | Film | Role | Status | Actor's Demographic | Out at the time? | Observation | Reference | |
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1955 | Sal Mineo | Rebel Without a Cause | John 'Plato' Crawford | Nominated | Cisgender Homosexual or Bisexual | No | Mineo confirmed his bisexuality slightly over a decade after his second nomination, in a 1972 interview with Boze Hadleigh—four years prior to his murder. | [95][96][97][98][99] | |
1960 | Exodus | Dov Landau | Nominated | ||||||
1964 | John Gielgud | Becket | King Louis VII of France | Nominated | Cisgender Homosexual | Yes (outed) | In 1953, Gielgud was arrested in Chelsea for cottaging (cruising for public sex), as homosexuality had not yet been decriminalized in the U.K. until the late 1960s. Gielgud was the first openly gay actor nominated in any category. | [100] | |
1971 | Leonard Frey | Fiddler on the Roof | Motel Kamzoil | Nominated | Yes | [101] | |||
1972 | Joel Grey | Cabaret | Master of Ceremonies | Won | No | Although once married (with children, including Jennifer Grey), Joel later acknowledged his orientation in 2015. | [102][103] | ||
1978 | Christopher Walken | The Deer Hunter | Nikonar "Nick" Chevotarevich | Won | Cisgender Bisexual | Yes | [104] | ||
1981 | John Gielgud | Arthur | Hobson | Won | Cisgender Homosexual | Yes (outed) | (See note above with 1964 nom.). Gielgud was also the first openly LGBTQ actor to win an Oscar. | [100] | |
1989 | Marlon Brando | A Dry White Season | Ian McKenzie | Nominated | Cisgender Bisexual | Yes | [1][2][3] | ||
1992 | Jaye Davidson | The Crying Game | Dil | Nominated | Cisgender Homosexual | Felt that his "androgynous look alienated him from the gay community"; Davidson has since quit acting. | [105] | ||
1995 | Kevin Spacey | The Usual Suspects | Roger 'Verbal' Kint | Won | No | Spacey came out as a gay man in his statement addressing a sexual misconduct accusation by actor Anthony Rapp in 2017. | [12][106] | ||
2001 | Ian McKellen | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Gandalf | Nominated | Yes | [107] | |||
2002 | Christopher Walken | Catch Me If You Can | Frank Abagnale Sr. | Nominated | Cisgender Bisexual | Yes | [104] |
The following list is composed of actors who have been claimed to be LGBT by others. They have been outed by a third party either while alive or after their death. However, they never publicly came out.
Best Actor in a Supporting Role | ||||||
Year | Name | Film | Role | Status | Alleged Demographic | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1944 | Clifton Webb | Laura | Waldo Lydecker | Nominated | Gay | [25] |
Monty Woolley | Since You Went Away | Colonel William G. Smollett | Nominated | [20][21][22] | ||
1945 | John Dall | The Corn is Green | Morgan Evans | Nominated | [108] | |
1946 | Clifton Webb | The Razor's Edge | Elliott Templeton | Nominated | [25] | |
1956 | Anthony Perkins | Friendly Persuasion | Josh Birdwell | Nominated | Gay or Bisexual | [109][110] |
1961 | Montgomery Clift | Judgment at Nuremberg | Rudolph Peterson | Nominated | Bisexual | [24] |
1962 | Victor Buono | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | Edwin Flagg | Nominated | Gay | [111] |
1981 | James Coco | Only When I Laugh | Jimmy Perrino | Nominated | [112] | |
Howard E. Rollins, Jr. | Ragtime | Coalhouse Walker, Jr. | Nominated | [113] | ||
1986 | Denholm Elliott | A Room with a View | Mr. Emerson | Nominated | Bisexual | [114][115] |
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress | ||||||||
Year | Name | Film | Role | Status | Actor's Demographic | Out at the time? | Observation | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1949 | Ethel Waters | Pinky | Dicey Johnson | Nominated | Cisgender Bisexual | No | [121] | |
1973 | Tatum O'Neal | Paper Moon | Addie Loggins | Won | [122] | |||
1975 | Lily Tomlin | Nashville | Linnea Reese | Nominated | Cisgender Lesbian | [123][124][125][126][127] | ||
1976 | Jodie Foster | Taxi Driver | Iris 'Easy' Steensma | Nominated | Cisgender Unspecified | (See note on Best Actress table.) | [58] | |
1980 | Eva Le Gallienne | Resurrection | Pearl | Nominated | Cisgender Lesbian | Yes | [128] | |
1983 | Linda Hunt | The Year of Living Dangerously | Billy Kwan | Won | Hunt portrayed a character who was a cisgender male, and was the first person to win an Oscar for playing a member of the opposite gender. | [129][130][131][132] | ||
1993 | Anna Paquin | The Piano | Flora McGrath | Won | Cisgender Bisexual | No | [133] | |
1999 | Angelina Jolie | Girl, Interrupted | Lisa Rowe | Won | Yes | [60][61][62] | ||
2002 | Queen Latifah | Chicago | Matron 'Mama' Morton | Nominated | Cisgender Unspecified | No | Latifah hasn't identified her sexual orientation, but during her speech at the BET Awards 2021, she referenced Eboni Nichols as her partner. | [134] |
2007 | Tilda Swinton | Michael Clayton | Karen Crowder | Won | Cisgender Queer | [135] | ||
2009 | Mo'Nique | Precious | Mary Lee Johnston | Won | [136] | |||
2021 | Ariana DeBose | West Side Story | Anita | Won | Yes | DeBose is the first openly queer actor of color to win an Oscar, in any category. | [137] | |
Aunjanue Ellis | King Richard | Oracene Price | Nominated | Cisgender Bisexual | No | [138] | ||
2022 | Stephanie Hsu | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Joy Wang / Jobu Tupaki | Nominated | Cisgender Queer | Yes | [139][better source needed] | |
2023 | Jodie Foster | Nyad | Bonnie Stoll | Nominated | Cisgender Unspecified | Yes | (See note on Best Actress table.) | [58] |
The following list is composed of actresses who have been claimed to be LGBT by others. They have been outed by a third party either while alive or after their death. However, they never publicly came out.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress | ||||||
Year | Name | Film | Role | Status | Alleged demographic | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1938 | Spring Byington | You Can't Take It with You | Penelope 'Penny' Sycamore | Nominated | Lesbian | [140][141][142][143][144] |
1947 | Marjorie Main | The Egg and I | Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle | Nominated | Bisexual | [144] |
1966 | Sandy Dennis | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Honey | Won | [145][146][147][148] |
Academy Award for Best Animated Feature | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Nominee's Demographic | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2008 | Byron Howard | Bolt | Nominated | Cisgender Homosexual | [149] |
2010 | Dean DeBlois | How to Train Your Dragon | Nominated | [150] | |
Lee Unkrich | Toy Story 3 | Won | Cisgender Bisexual | [151] | |
2012 | Chris Butler | ParaNorman | Nominated | Cisgender Homosexual | [152] |
2014 | Dean DeBlois | How to Train Your Dragon 2 | Nominated | [150] | |
2016 | Byron Howard | Zootopia | Won | [149] | |
2017 | Darla K. Anderson | Coco | Won | Cisgender Lesbian | [153] |
Lee Unkrich | Won | Cisgender Bisexual | [151] | ||
2018 | Scott Rudin | Isle of Dogs | Nominated | Cisgender Homosexual | [154] |
2019 | Chris Butler | Missing Link | Nominated | [152] | |
Dean DeBlois | How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | Nominated | [150] | ||
2020 | Kori Rae | Onward | Nominated | Cisgender Lesbian | [155] |
2021 | Byron Howard | Encanto | Won | Cisgender Homosexual |
Year | Title | Status | Relevant Theme | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|
2007 | Persepolis | Nominated | Gay | |
2012 | ParaNorman | Nominated | ||
2017 | The Breadwinner | Nominated | Non-binary | |
2021 | Flee | Nominated | Gay | |
The Mitchells vs. the Machines | Nominated | Queer | ||
2023 | Nimona | Nominated | Gay |
Academy Award for Best Cinematography | ||||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone | Demographic | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1978 | Néstor Almendros | Days of Heaven | Won | Cisgender Homosexual | [156] | |
1979 | Kramer vs. Kramer | Nominated | ||||
1980 | The Blue Lagoon | Nominated | ||||
James Crabe | The Formula | Nominated | [157] | |||
1982 | Néstor Almendros | Sophie's Choice | Nominated | [156] | ||
1985 | David Watkin | Out of Africa | Won | [158] | ||
2017 | Rachel Morrison | Mudbound | Nominated | First female nominee for Best Cinematography | Cisgender Lesbian | [159] |
Academy Award for Best Director | ||||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Director's Demographic | Observation | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1932/33 | George Cukor | Little Women | Nominated | Cisgender Homosexual | [175] | |
1940 | The Philadelphia Story | Nominated | ||||
1947 | A Double Life | Nominated | ||||
1950 | Born Yesterday | Nominated | ||||
1951 | Vincente Minnelli | An American in Paris | Nominated | Cisgender Homosexual or Bisexual | [176] | |
1953 | Charles Walters | Lili | Nominated | Cisgender Homosexual | [177] | |
1958 | Vincente Minnelli | Gigi | Won | Cisgender Homosexual or Bisexual | [176] | |
1961 | Jerome Robbins | West Side Story | Won | Cisgender Bisexual | [178] | |
1963 | Tony Richardson | Tom Jones | Won | [27] | ||
1964 | George Cukor | My Fair Lady | Won | Cisgender Homosexual | [175] | |
Peter Glenville | Becket | Nominated | [179] | |||
1965 | John Schlesinger | Darling | Nominated | [180] | ||
1968 | Franco Zeffirelli | Romeo and Juliet | Nominated | [181] | ||
1969 | John Schlesinger | Midnight Cowboy | Won | [180] | ||
1971 | Sunday Bloody Sunday | Nominated | ||||
1986 | James Ivory | A Room with a View | Nominated | [182] | ||
1992 | Howards End | Nominated | ||||
1993 | The Remains of the Day | Nominated | ||||
1997 | Gus Van Sant | Good Will Hunting | Nominated | [183] | ||
2000 | Stephen Daldry | Billy Elliot | Nominated | [184] | ||
2002 | Pedro Almodóvar | Talk to Her | Nominated | 2002 marked the first time ever that 3 out the 5 directors nominated for Best Director were gay. | [185] | |
Stephen Daldry | The Hours | Nominated | [184] | |||
Rob Marshall | Chicago | Nominated | [186] | |||
2008 | Stephen Daldry | The Reader | Nominated | [184] | ||
Gus Van Sant | Milk | Nominated | [183] | |||
2009 | Lee Daniels | Precious | Nominated | First Black gay man nominee for Best Director | [187] |
The following list is composed of directors who have been claimed to be LGBT by others. They have been outed by a third party either while alive or after their death. However, they never publicly came out.
Academy Award for Best Director | ||||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Alleged demographic | Reference | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1978 | Michael Cimino | The Deer Hunter | Won | Transgender or Non-binary | [188][189] |
Academy Award for Best International Feature Film | |||||
Year | Director | Film | Status | Demographic | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1977 | Ettore Scola | A Special Day | Nominated | Gay | Italy |
1993 | Fernando Trueba | Belle Époque | Nominated | Lesbian | Spain |
Chen Kaige | Farewell My Concubine | Nominated | Gay | China | |
Ang Lee | The Wedding Banquet | Nominated | Taiwan | ||
1994 | {co-directed by} Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Juan Carlos Tabío |
Strawberry and Chocolate | Nominated | Cuba | |
1995 | Marleen Gorris | Antonia's Line | Won | Lesbian | Netherlands |
1999 | Pedro Almodovar | All About My Mother | Won | Transgender | Spain |
2017 | Sebastián Lelio | A Fantastic Woman | Won | Chile | |
2019 | Pedro Almodovar | Pain and Glory | Nominated | Gay | Spain |
2021 | Joachim Trier | The Worst Person in the World | Nominated | Bisexual | Norway |
Jonas Poher Rasmussen | Flee | Nominated | Gay | Denmark | |
2022 | Lukas Dhont | Close | Nominated | Belgium |
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|
1952 | Norman McLaren | Neighbours | Won | [200] |
1991 | Debra Chasnoff | Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment | Won | [201] |
1994 | Dee Mosbacher | Straight from the Heart | Nominated | [193] |
Frances Reid | Nominated | |||
2002 | Robert Houston | Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks | Nominated | [202] |
2004 | Mighty Times: The Children's March | Won | ||
2018 | Rob Epstein | End Game | Nominated | [190] [203] |
Jeffrey Friedman | Nominated |
Academy Award for Best Film Editing | ||||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Demographic | Reference | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1961 | William H. Reynolds | Fanny | Nominated | Cisgender Homosexual | [157] | |
1965 | The Sound of Music | Won | ||||
1966 | The Sand Pebbles | Nominated | ||||
1969 | Hello, Dolly! | Nominated | ||||
1972 | The Godfather | Nominated | ||||
1973 | The Sting | Won | ||||
1977 | The Turning Point | Nominated | ||||
2017 | Tatiana S. Riegel | I, Tonya | Nominated | Cisgender Lesbian | [204] | |
2018 | John Ottman | Bohemian Rhapsody | Won | Cisgender Homosexual | [205] |
Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Demographic | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1992 | Matthew W. Mungle | Bram Stoker's Dracula | Won | Gay | [206] |
1993 | Schindler's List | Nominated | |||
1996 | Ghosts of Mississippi | Nominated | |||
2002 | John E. Jackson | Frida | Won | ||
2005 | Tami Lane | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Won | Lesbian | [207] |
2011 | J. Roy Helland | The Iron Lady | Won | Gay | [208] |
2011 | Matthew W. Mungle | Albert Nobbs | Nominated | [206] | |
2012 | Tami Lane | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Nominated | Lesbian | [207] |
2020 | Matthew W. Mungle | Hillbilly Elegy | Nominated | Gay | [206] |
Sergio Lopez-Rivera | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Won | [209] | ||
2021 | Frederic Aspiras | House of Gucci | Nominated | [210] |
Academy Award for Best Original Score | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|
1939 | Aaron Copland | Of Mice and Men | Nominated | [211] |
1940 | Our Town | Nominated | ||
1943 | The North Star | Nominated | ||
1949 | The Heiress | Won | ||
1954 | Leonard Bernstein | On the Waterfront | Nominated | [212] |
1965 | Jacques Demy | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | Nominated | [213] |
1967 | Richard Rodney Bennett | Far from the Madding Crowd | Nominated | [214] |
1971 | Nicholas and Alexandra | Nominated | ||
1974 | Murder on the Orient Express | Nominated | ||
1980 | John Corigliano | Altered States | Nominated | [154] |
1992 | Richard Robbins | Howards End | Nominated | [215] |
1993 | The Remains of the Day | Nominated | ||
1995 | Marc Shaiman | The American President | Nominated | [216] |
1996 | The First Wives Club | Nominated | ||
1998 | Patch Adams | Nominated | ||
1999 | John Corigliano | The Red Violin | Won | [154] |
2013 | Owen Pallett | Her | Nominated | [217] |
2016 | Mica Levi | Jackie | Nominated | [218] |
2018 | Marc Shaiman | Mary Poppins Returns | Nominated | [216] |
2023 | Laura Karpman | American Fiction | Nominated |
Original Song Score or Adaptation | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1939 | Aaron Copland | Of Mice and Men | Nominated | [211] | |
Roger Edens | Babes in Arms | Nominated | [219] | ||
1940 | Aaron Copland | Our Town | Nominated | [211] | |
Roger Edens | Strike Up the Band | Nominated | [219] | ||
1942 | For Me and My Gal | Nominated | |||
1948 | Easter Parade | Won | Only composer to win three consecutive awards in this category. | ||
1949 | On the Town | Won | |||
1950 | Annie Get Your Gun | Won | |||
1952 | Gian Carlo Menotti | The Medium | Nominated | [220] | |
1968 | Jacques Demy | The Young Girls of Rochefort | Nominated | [213] | |
1970 | Rod McKuen | A Boy Named Charlie Brown | Nominated | [221] | |
1972 | Ralph Burns | Cabaret | Won | [222] | |
1974 | Frederick Loewe | The Little Prince | Nominated | [223] | |
Angela Morley | Nominated | First openly transgender Academy Award nominee | [224] | ||
1977 | The Slipper and the Rose—The Story of Cinderella | Nominated | |||
1979 | Ralph Burns | All That Jazz | Won | [222] | |
1982 | Annie | Nominated |
Year | Title | Status | Relevant Theme | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|
1969 | Midnight Cowboy | Won | Bisexual | [250] |
1975 | Dog Day Afternoon | Nominated | Transgender | [251] |
1985 | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Nominated | Gay | [252] |
1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Won | Transgender | [253] |
1992 | The Crying Game | Nominated | [254] | |
1999 | American Beauty | Won | Gay | [255] |
2002 | The Hours | Nominated | Lesbian and Gay | [256] |
2005 | Brokeback Mountain | Nominated | Gay | [257] |
Capote | Nominated | [258] | ||
2008 | Milk | Nominated | [259] | |
2010 | Black Swan | Nominated | Bisexual | [260] |
The Kids Are All Right | Nominated | Lesbian | ||
2013 | Dallas Buyers Club | Nominated | Queer Transgender |
[261] |
2014 | The Imitation Game | Nominated | Gay | [262] |
2016 | Moonlight | Won | [263] | |
2017 | Call Me by Your Name | Nominated | Bisexual | [264] |
2018 | Bohemian Rhapsody | Nominated | [265] | |
The Favourite | Nominated | Lesbian and Bisexual | [266] | |
2021 | The Power of the Dog | Nominated | Queer | [267] |
2022 | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Won | Lesbian and Bisexual | [268][269] |
Tár | Nominated | [270][271] | ||
2023 | American Fiction | Nominated | Gay | |
Anatomy of a Fall | Nominated | Bisexual | ||
Maestro | Nominated |
The following list is composed of producers who have been claimed to be LGBT by others. They have been outed by a third party either alive or after their death. However, they never publicly came out.
Academy Award for Best Picture | ||||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Alleged demographic | Reference | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1978 | Michael Cimino | The Deer Hunter | Won | Transgender or Non-binary | [272][189] |
Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Demographic | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1969 | Ryan Larkin | Walking | Nominated | Bisexual | [277] |
2003 | Adam Elliot | Harvie Krumpet | Won | Gay | [278] |
2020 | Adrien Merigeau | Genius Loci | Nominated | Non-Binary | [279] |
Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Demographic | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1952 | Norman McLaren | Neighbours | Nominated | Gay | [200] |
1957 | A Chairy Tale | Nominated | |||
1960 | Ismail Merchant | The Creation of Woman | Nominated | [182] | |
1992 | Christian Taylor | The Lady in Waiting | Nominated | [280] | |
1994 | Randy Stone | Trevor | Won | [281] | |
2020 | Travon Free | Two Distant Strangers | Won | Bisexual | [282] |
Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Demographic | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2008 | Lora Hirschberg | The Dark Knight | Nominated | Lesbian | [244] |
2010 | Inception | Won |
The following list is composed of writers who have been claimed to be LGBT by others. They have been outed by a third party either alive or after their death. However, they never publicly came out.
Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) | ||||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Alleged demographic | Reference | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1978 | Michael Cimino | The Deer Hunter | Nominated | Transgender or Non-binary | [309][189] |
Academy Award for Best Original Story | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Demographic | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1946 | John Patrick | The Strange Love of Martha Ivers | Nominated | Gay | [157] |
1950 | Leonard Spigelgass | Mystery Street | Nominated | ||
1951 | James Bernard | Seven Days to Noon | Won | [310] | |
Paul Dehn | Won | [288] | |||
1955 | Nicholas Ray | Rebel Without a Cause | Nominated | Bisexual | [311] |
The Governors Awards are an annual ceremony hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences dedicated to honor actors and filmmakers with lifetime achievement awards. Three awards are given: the Academy Honorary Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. Unlike the Academy Awards, the nominations and voting for these awards are restricted to members of the Board of Governors of AMPAS.
The Academy Honorary Award honors exceptional career achievements, contributions to the motion picture industry, and service to the academy.[312] The Academy Honorary Award is often awarded in preference to those with noted achievements in motion pictures who have nevertheless never won an Academy Award. Thus, many of its recipients are Classic Hollywood stars, such as Lillian Gish, Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas, and Lauren Bacall.
Among its Honorary Awards for acting, the academy also presents deserving young actors with the Special Juvenile Academy Award. (Most of those are not listed here; some of the early "Special Awards" that later became known in that acting category as the "Special Juvenile Academy Award" are listed with "Special Award" added parenthetically.)[313]
The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award honors an individual's outstanding contributions to humanitarian causes.
The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award honors creative producers, whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production.
Governors Awards | |||||
Year | Name | Award | Achievement | Demographic | Reference |
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1942 | Noël Coward | Academy Honorary Award | For his outstanding production achievement in In Which We Serve. (Certificate of Merit) | Gay | [299] |
1954 | Greta Garbo | For her unforgettable screen performances. (Statuette) | Bisexual (Alleged) | [314] | |
1961 | Jerome Robbins | For his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film. (Statuette) | Bisexual | [178] | |
1969 | Cary Grant | For his unique mastery of the art of screen acting with the respect and affection of his colleagues. (Statuette) | Bisexual (Alleged) | [18][19] | |
1973 | Henri Langlois | For his devotion to the art of film, his massive contributions in preserving its past and his unswerving faith in its future. (Statuette) | Gay | [315] | |
2013 | Piero Tosi | A visionary whose incomparable costume designs shaped timeless, living art in motion pictures. (Statuette) | Gay | [165] | |
2014 | Angelina Jolie | Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award | Outstanding contributions to humanitarian causes. (Statuette) | Bisexual | [60][61][62] |