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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.
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Best Actor in a Leading Role | |||||||||
Year | Name | Film | Role | Status | Demographic | Out at the Time? | Observation | References | |
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1968 | Alan Bates | The Fixer | Yakov Bok | Nominated | Bisexual | No | Bates was attached to several men privately, behind the heterosexual marriage facade, such as ice skater, John Curry, and British TV sleuth, Peter Wyngarde. | [1][2] | |
1951 | Marlon Brando | A Streetcar Named Desire | Stanley Kowalski | Nominated | 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. Regarding his greatest love affair: "If Wally Cox had been a woman, I would have married him and we would have lived happily ever after." | [3][4][5][6] [7][8][9] [10][11][12] | |||
1952 | Viva Zapata! | Emiliano Zapata | Nominated | ||||||
1953 | Julius Caesar | Mark Antony | Nominated | ||||||
1954 | On the Waterfront | Terry Malloy | Won | ||||||
1957 | Sayonara | Maj. Lloyd "Ace" Gruver, USAF | Nominated | ||||||
1972 | The Godfather | Don Vito Corleone | Won (declined) | Brando did not attend the 1973 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. | |||||
1973 | Last Tango in Paris | Paul | Nominated | ||||||
1948 | Montgomery Clift | The Search | Ralph "Steve" Stevenson | Nominated | Gay | Clift met Elizabeth Taylor while filming A Place in the Sun and remained best friends until his 1967 death. He seldom hid his orientation within Hollywood, despite gossip columnists being rebuffed in an effort to protect his image. | [6][13][14] [15][16][17] | ||
1951 | A Place in the Sun |
George Eastman | Nominated | ||||||
1953 | From Here to Eternity | Pvt. Robert E. Lee "Prew" Prewitt | Nominated | ||||||
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 Oscar nomination had gathered, but he nonetheless 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. | [18] | ||
1956 | Rock Hudson | Giant | Jordan "Bick" Benedict, Jr. | Nominated | No | Hudson became the first major celebrity to reveal his HIV/AIDS diagnosis to the public. His 1985 disclosure, shortly before his death, provoked widespread discussion and "gave a face to" the disease. | [6][19][20] [21][22][23] [24][25] | ||
1984 | Tom Hulce | Amadeus | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Nominated | In an interview with Seattle Gay News, Hulce confirmed his status as gay, although he emphasized the word "actor" is less applicable due to inactivity. | [26] | |||
1932/33 | Charles Laughton | The Private Life of Henry VIII |
King Henry VIII of England | Won | Laughton remained married to frequent co-star Elsa Lanchester until his death in 1962; veritable Hollywood pimp Scotty Bowers later alleged that Laughton's sex life was exclusively homosexual. | [6][27][28] [29][30] | |||
1935 | Mutiny on the Bounty |
V-Adm. William Bligh | Nominated | ||||||
1957 | Witness for the Prosecution |
Sir Wilfrid Robarts, Q.C. | Nominated | ||||||
1998 | Ian McKellen | Gods and Monsters | James Whale | Nominated | Yes | For each of McKellen's two nominations, 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." | [31][32] [33][34] | ||
1947 | Michael Redgrave | Mourning Becomes Electra | Orin Mannon | Nominated | Bisexual | No | Redgrave and his wife, Rachel Kempson, were the second generation of the Redgrave family acting dynasty, whose offspring consist of Lynn Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, & Corin Redgrave. | [35][36][37] | |
1999 | Kevin Spacey | American Beauty | Lester Burnham | Won | Gay | Spacey came out as a gay man in his statement addressing a sexual misconduct accusation by actor Anthony Rapp in 2017. A plethora of other LGBTQ+ celebrities and allies lambasted his timing as inappropriate. | [38][39] [40][41] | ||
1948 | Clifton Webb | Sitting Pretty | Lynn Aloysius Belvedere | Nominated | Yes | (See note below on his Best Supporting Actor observation.) | [16][42] [43][44] | ||
1972 | Paul Winfield | Sounder | Nathan Lee Morgan | Nominated | First Black gay actor nominated in an acting category. Winfield was in a relationship with architect Charles Gillan, Jr., until the latter's 2002 death. | [45] |
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 alive or after their death. However, they never publicly came out.
Best Actor in a Leading Role | ||||||||
Year | Role | Orientation Discrepancy | Film | Actor | Status | References | ||
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1940 | Pres. Abraham Lincoln | Note | Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Raymond Massey | Nominated | Refs | ||
2012 | Lincoln | Daniel Day-Lewis | Won | Refs | ||||
1967 | Clyde Barrow | Note | Bonnie and Clyde | Warren Beatty | Nominated | [114][115] | ||
1952 | Emiliano Zapata | Note | Viva Zapata! | Marlon Brando | Nominated | [116][117][118] | ||
2012 | Freddie Quell | Note | The Master | Joaquin Phoenix | Nominated | Refs | ||
2004 | Howard Hughes | Note | The Aviator | Leonardo DiCaprio | Nominated | Refs | ||
Sir J.M. Barrie | Note | Finding Neverland | Johnny Depp | Nominated | [119][120] | |||
2001 | John Forbes Nash, Jr. | Note | A Beautiful Mind | Russell Crowe | Nominated | [121] | ||
1959 | Judah Ben-Hur | Note | Ben-Hur | Charlton Heston | Won | citerefs | ||
2013 | Ron Woodroof | Note | Dallas Buyers Club | Matthew McConaughey | Won | [122][123] |
Best Actress in a Leading Role | |||||||||
Year | Name | Film | Role | Status | Demographic | Out at the Time? | Observation | References | |
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1930/31 | Marlene Dietrich | Morocco | Mlle. Amy Jolly |
Nominated | Bisexual | No | Dietrich's kiss (with an uncredited actress) in Morocco was the first featuring a leading lady. She later revealed other secret Hollywood lesbians, known as the "Sewing Circle". | [6][64][124] [125][126][127] [128][129] | |
2019 | Cynthia Erivo | Harriet | Harriet Tubman | Nominated | Erivo stated that LGBTQ+ people still feel an innate need to justify why we deserve equal treatment, "when really the only difference is that we love differently". | [130] | |||
1988 | Jodie Foster | The Accused | Sarah Tobias | Won | Lesbian | Foster is the only Best Actress winner to publicly come out as LGBT during her lifetime, albeit several years after winning (upon receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 70th Golden Globe Awards). | [131][132] | ||
1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Agent Clarice Starling |
Won | ||||||
1994 | Nell | Nell Kellty | Nominated | ||||||
1929/30 | Greta Garbo | Anna Christie | Anna Christie | Nominated | Garbo was notoriously reticent about her private life; but through research, biographers have linked her to several notable examples, including silent film actress Lilyan Tashman and poet Mercedes De Acosta. | [6][126][133] [134][135][136] [137][138][139] | |||
Romance | Rita Cavallini | ||||||||
1937 | Camille | Marguerite Gautier | Nominated | ||||||
1939 | Ninotchka | Nina Ivanovna "Ninotchka" Yakushova | Nominated | ||||||
2008 | Angelina Jolie | Changeling | Christine Collins | Nominated | Bisexual | Yes | (See note below on her Best Supporting Actress observation.) | [140][141] [142][143] | |
2018 | Lady Gaga | A Star Is Born | Ally Maine | Nominated | Gaga says that her song "Poker Face" is about her bisexuality, and she openly speaks about how her past boyfriends were uncomfortable with her sexual orientation. | [144] | |||
2007 | Elliot Page (as Ellen Page) |
Juno | Juno MacGuff | Nominated | Transgender Non-Binary & Queer | No | Assigned female at birth, Page was nominated in the Leading Actress category; initially presented as lesbian, before publicly coming out as transgender a half-decade later. | [145][146] [147][148] | |
2021 | Kristen Stewart | Spencer | Princess Diana of Wales | Nominated | Bisexual | Yes | Stewart attended the 94th Oscars ceremony with her fiancée, screenwriter Dylan Meyer (daughter of screenwriter Nicholas Meyer). | [149][150] |
The following list is composed of actress 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.
Best Actress in a Leading Role | ||||||||
Year | Role | Orientation Discrepancy | Film | Actor | Status | References | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1972 | Billie Holiday | Note | Lady Sings the Blues | Diana Ross | Nominated | [190] | ||
1950 | Eve Harrington | Note | All About Eve | Anne Baxter | Nominated | [191][192] | ||
2022 | Evelyn Quan Wang ("Hot Dog Fingers" Universe) |
Note | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Michelle Yeoh | Won | Refs | ||
1994 | Josephine "Jo" March | Note | Little Women | Winona Ryder | Nominated | [186] | ||
2011 | Norma Jeane Mortenson / Marilyn Monroe | Note | My Week with Marilyn | Michelle Williams | Nominated | Refs | ||
2022 | Blonde | Ana De Armas | Nominated | Refs | ||||
1991 | Louise Sawyer | Note | Thelma & Louise | Susan Sarandon | Nominated | Refs | ||
Thelma Dickinson | Geena Davis | Nominated |
Best Actor in a Supporting Role | |||||||||
Year | Name | Film | Role | Status | Demographic | Out at the Time? | Observation | References | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1989 | Marlon Brando | A Dry White Season | Ian McKenzie | Nominated | Bisexual | Yes | (See notes above on his Best Actor observations.) | [3][4][5][6][9] [10][11][12] | |
1961 | Montgomery Clift | Judgment at Nuremberg | Rudolph Peterson | Nominated | Gay | No | (See note above on his Best Actor observation.) | [6][13][14] [15][16][17] | |
1992 | Jaye Davidson | The Crying Game | Dil | Nominated | Yes | Felt that his "androgynous look alienated him from the gay community"; Davidson has since quit acting. | [193] | ||
1971 | Leonard Frey | Fiddler on the Roof | Motel Kamzoil | Nominated | Frey was part of the original cast of the groundbreaking gay play, The Boys in the Band (1968); he reprised his role in the 1970 film version, directed by William Friedkin. | [194] | |||
1964 | John Gielgud | Becket | King Louis VII of France | Nominated | Yes (outed) | In 1953, Gielgud was arrested in Chelsea for cottaging, as homosexuality had not yet been decriminalized in the U.K. until the late 1960s. Nonetheless, he and his partner, Martin Hensler, remained a couple from 1962 until their deaths—only 16 months apart. | [6][9][58] [195][196] | ||
1981 | Arthur | Hobson | Won | ||||||
1972 | Joel Grey | Cabaret | The Master of Ceremonies | Won | No | Although Grey was once married (with children, including Jennifer Grey), he later acknowledged his orientation in a 2015 periodical. | [197][198] | ||
2016 | Lucas Hedges | Manchester by the Sea | Patrick Chandler | Nominated | Unspecified | During publicity tours for Boy Erased (2018), Hedges revealed his sexual orientation exists on a spectrum (essentially the Kinsey scale), of which he elucidates: "Not totally straight, but also not gay, and not necessarily bisexual." | [199] | ||
2001 | Ian McKellen | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Gandalf the Grey | Nominated | Gay | Yes | McKellen remarked, "You don't have to be straight to play Gandalf. Anyway, who says that Gandalf isn't gay? I loved it when J. K. Rowling said that Dumbledore was gay." | [31][32] [33][34] | |
1955 | Sal Mineo | Rebel Without a Cause | John "Plato" Crawford | Nominated | Gay or Bisexual | No | Mineo confirmed his sexual preferences for men slightly over a decade after his second nomination, in a candid 1972 interview with Boze Hadleigh—four years prior to his murder. | [47][63][49] [200][201] | |
1960 | Exodus | Dov Landau | Nominated | ||||||
1956 | Anthony Perkins | Friendly Persuasion | Josh Birdwell | Nominated | Perkins had a discreet relationship with actor Tab Hunter in the late 1950s, which the former's studio dissolved in order to protect their asset's career. | [6][21][22][63] [202][203][204] | |||
1995 | Kevin Spacey | The Usual Suspects | Roger "Verbal" Kint | Won | Gay | (See note above on his Best Actor observation.) | [38][39] [40][41] | ||
1944 | Clifton Webb | Laura | Waldo Lydecker | Nominated | Yes | When director Jean Negulesco asked Webb if he was a homosexual, the latter replied, "Devoutly, my boy–Devout." | [16][42] [43][44] | ||
1946 | The Razor's Edge | Elliott Templeton | Nominated |
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 alive or after their death. However, they never publicly came out.
Best Actor in a Supporting Role | ||||||||
Year | Film | Role | Character's Demographic | Actor | Actor's Demographic | Status | References | |
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1946 | The Razor's Edge | Elliott Templeton | Gay | Clifton Webb | Cisgender Homosexual | Nominated | cite | |
1955 | Rebel Without a Cause | John "Plato" Crawford | Sal Mineo | Cisgender Bisexual | Nominated | [47][214][215] [216][217] | ||
1962 | Lawrence of Arabia | Sherif Ali Bin El Kharish | Omar Sharif | Cisgender Heterosexual | Nominated | [79][80][81] | ||
1968 | Star! | Sir Noël Coward | Daniel Massey | Nominated | cite | |||
1975 | Dog Day Afternoon | Leon Shermer | Transgender woman | Chris Sarandon | Nominated | [83][218] | ||
1981 | Only When I Laugh | Jimmy Perry | Gay | James Coco | Cisgender Homosexual | Nominated | cite | |
1982 | The World According to Garp | Roberta Muldoon | Transgender woman | John Lithgow | Cisgender Heterosexual | Nominated | cite | |
Victor/Victoria | Carroll "Toddy" Todd | Gay | Robert Preston | Nominated | cite | |||
1990 | Longtime Companion | David | Bruce Davison | Nominated | cite | |||
1991 | JFK | Clay Shaw | Tommy Lee Jones | Nominated | [219][220] | |||
1992 | The Crying Game | Dil | Transgender woman | Jaye Davidson | Cisgender Homosexual | Nominated | [88][89] [90][91] | |
1997 | As Good as It Gets | Simon Bishop | Gay | Greg Kinnear | Cisgender Heterosexual | Nominated | [221][222] | |
2002 | The Hours | Richard Brown | Ed Harris | Nominated | cite | |||
2005 | Brokeback Mountain | Jack Twist | Gay or Bisexual | Jake Gyllenhaal | Nominated | cite | ||
2011 | Beginners | Hal Fields | Gay | Christopher Plummer | Won | cite | ||
2013 | Dallas Buyers Club | Rayon | Transgender woman | Jared Leto | Won | cite | ||
2017 | The Shape of Water | Giles | Gay | Richard Jenkins | Nominated | cite | ||
2018 | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Jack Hock | Richard E. Grant | Nominated | [217] | |||
Green Book | Don Shirley | Mahershala Ali | Won | [223] |
Best Actor in a Supporting Role | ||||||||
Year | Role | Orientation Discrepancy | Film | Actor | Status | References | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1950 | Addison DeWitt | Note | All About Eve | George Sanders | Won | [44][191] [192][217] | ||
2008 | Fr. Brendan Flynn | Note | Doubt | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Nominated | Cite | ||
1967 | C.W. Moss | Note | Bonnie and Clyde | Michael J. Pollard | Nominated | citation | ||
1980 | Howard Hughes | Note | Melvin (and Howard) | Jason Robards, Jr. | Nominated | Refs | ||
1941 | Kasper "The Fat Man" Gutman | Note | The Maltese Falcon | Sydney Greenstreet | Nominated | [224][225][226] | ||
2012 | Lancaster Dodd | Note | The Master | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Nominated | Cite | ||
2011 | Laurence Olivier | Note | My Week with Marilyn | Kenneth Branagh | Nominated | refs | ||
1974 | "Lightfoot" | Note | Thunderbolt and Lightfoot | Jeff Bridges | Nominated | Refs | ||
1957 | Norman Page | Note | Peyton Place | Russ Tamblyn | Nominated | citation | ||
2021 | Peter Gordon | Note | The Power of the Dog | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Nominated | Refs |
Best Actress in a Supporting Role | ||||||||
Year | Name | Film | Role | Status | Demographic | Out at the Time? | Observation | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2021 | Ariana DeBose | West Side Story | Anita | Won | Queer | Yes | DeBose is the first openly queer actor of color to win an Oscar, in any acting category. | [227] |
Aunjanue Ellis | King Richard | Oracene "Brandy" Price | Nominated | Bisexual | No | Ellis says her Bible Belt family from Mississippi were a "work in progress" in their acceptance of her sexuality. But her mission as an actress is to "make Black women proud". | [228] | |
1976 | Jodie Foster | Taxi Driver | Iris "Easy" Steensma | Nominated | Lesbian | (See note above on her Best Actress observation.) | [131][132] | |
2022 | Stephanie Hsu | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Joy Wang / Jobu Tupaki | Nominated | Queer | Yes | Hsu is the first queer Asian person to receive a nomination in any acting category. | [229] |
1983 | Linda Hunt | The Year of Living Dangerously | Billy Kwan | Won | Lesbian | 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. | [230][231] [232][233] | |
1999 | Angelina Jolie | Girl, Interrupted | Lisa Rowe | Won | Bisexual | Upon winning her Oscar, Jolie shocked red carpet reporters by controversially kissing her brother, James Haven, on the lips. | [140][141] [142][143] | |
1980 | Eva Le Gallienne | Resurrection | Pearl | Nominated | Lesbian | Le Gallienne never concealed her sexual orientation; however, she contemplated a "front" marriage with Basil Rathbone. Notable affairs included actresses Alla Nazimova and Josephine Hutchinson, the latter of whose divorce scandal led Le Gallienne into a bout with alcoholism. | [234] | |
2009 | Mo'Nique | Precious | Mary Lee Johnston | Won | Queer | No | Mo'Nique shared in her new Netflix special, My Name Is Mo'Nique (2023), that she was afraid to reveal her attraction to females at the risk of fracturing her grandmother's love for her. | [235] |
1973 | Tatum O'Neal | Paper Moon | Addie Loggins | Won | Pansexual | O'Neal revealed that she started dating women in the '90s after divorcing her husband. As of 2015, she states she's been "dating mostly women recently". | [236] | |
1993 | Anna Paquin | The Piano | Flora McGrath | Won | Bisexual | Paquin, who has been married to True Blood co-star Stephen Moyer since 2010, declared on Instagram, "I'm a #proudbisexual who is married to a wonderful human who happens to be a man;" (retorting to a negative complaint regarding bisexual celebrity advocates in "conventional marriages"). | [237] | |
2002 | Queen Latifah | Chicago | Matron "Mama" Morton | Nominated | Unspecified | Latifah hasn't identified her sexual orientation, but during her speech at the BET Awards 2021, she referenced Eboni Nichols as her partner. | [238] | |
2007 | Tilda Swinton | Michael Clayton | Karen Crowder | Won | Queer | Swinton describes queer as an expansive, unorthodox sensibility: "I always felt I was queer — I was just looking for my queer circus, and I found it. And having found it, it's my world." She has exhibited this in several enigmatic roles, such as Orlando (1992), in which the lead character "traverses genders". | [239] | |
1975 | Lily Tomlin | Nashville | Linnea Reese | Nominated | Lesbian | Yes | Tomlin has been in a relationship with her wife, writer Jane Wagner, since 1971. (They married in 2013.) Tomlin has been a lifelong gay rights activist, including housing homeless LGBTQ+ youth and seniors. |
The following list is composed of actress 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.
Best Actress in a Supporting Role | ||||||
Year | Name | Film | Role | Status | Alleged Demographic | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1940 | Judith Anderson | Rebecca | Mrs. Danvers | Nominated | Unspecified | [151] |
1938 | Billie Burke | Merrily We Live | Emily Kilbourne | Nominated | Bisexual | [43] |
Spring Byington | You Can't Take It with You | Penelope "Penny" Sycamore | Nominated | Lesbian | [240][241][242] [243][244] | |
1966 | Sandy Dennis | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Honey | Won | Bisexual | [245][246] [247][248] |
1943 | Paulette Goddard | So Proudly We Hail! | Lt. Joan O'Doul | Nominated | Refs | |
1947 | Marjorie Main | The Egg and I | Phoebe "Ma" Kettle | Nominated | Lesbian or Bisexual | [244][249] |
1939 | Hattie McDaniel | Gone with the Wind | Mammy | Won | Bisexual | [250] |
1942 | Agnes Moorehead | The Magnificent Ambersons | Aunt Fanny Minafer | Nominated | Unspecified | [251] |
1944 | Mrs. Parkington | Bss. Aspasia Conti | Nominated | |||
1948 | Johnny Belinda | Aggie MacDonald | Nominated | |||
1964 | Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Velma Cruther | Nominated | |||
1939 | Edna May Oliver | Drums Along the Mohawk | Sarah McKlennar | Nominated | [249] |
Best Actress in a Supporting Role | |||||||
Year | Film | Role | Character's Demographic | Actor | Actor's Demographic | Status | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1940 | Rebecca | Mrs. Danvers | Lesbian | Judith Anderson | Cisgender Undetermined | Nominated | [252][253] |
1964 | The Night of the Iguana | Judith Fellowes | Grayson Hall | Cisgender Heterosexual | Nominated | cite | |
1968 | Rachel, Rachel | Calla Mackie | Estelle Parsons | Nominated | [217] | ||
1983 | Silkwood | Dolly Pelliker | Cher | Nominated | [217] | ||
1985 | The Color Purple | Shug Avery | Bisexual | Margaret Avery | Nominated | cite | |
1998 | Primary Colors | Libby Holden | Lesbian | Kathy Bates | Nominated | cite | |
1999 | Being John Malkovich | Maxine Lund | Bisexual | Catherine Keener | Nominated | cite | |
Girl, Interrupted | Lisa Rowe | Angelina Jolie | Cisgender Bisexual | Won | cite | ||
2001 | Iris | Iris Murdoch | Kate Winslet | Cisgender Heterosexual | Nominated | [180][181] | |
2008 | Vicky Cristina Barcelona | María Elena | Penélope Cruz | Won | Cite | ||
2011 | Albert Nobbs | Hubert Page | Transgender man | Janet McTeer | Nominated | Cite | |
2015 | Carol | Therese Belivet | Lesbian | Rooney Mara | Nominated | Cite | |
The Danish Girl | Gerda Wegener | Polysexual | Alicia Vikander | Won | Refs | ||
2018 | The Favourite | Bss. Abigail Masham | Lesbian or Bisexual | Emma Stone | Nominated | Cite | |
Dss. Sarah Churchill of Marlborough |
Rachel Weisz | Nominated | Cite | ||||
2019 | Bombshell | Kayla Pospisil | Margot Robbie | Nominated | Cite | ||
2022 | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
Joy Wang / Jobu Tupaki | Lesbian | Stephanie Hsu | Cisgender Queer | Nominated | [229] |
Best Actress in a Supporting Role | ||||||||
Year | Role | Orientation Discrepancy | Film | Actor | Status | References | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2022 | Deirdre Beaubeirdre ("Hot Dog Fingers" Universe) |
Note | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Jamie Lee Curtis | Won | Cite | ||
1950 | Evelyn Harper | Note | Caged! | Hope Emerson | Nominated | Cite | ||
2005 | Harper Lee | Note | Capote | Catherine Keener | Nominated | REfs | ||
2004 | Katharine Hepburn | Note | The Aviator | Cate Blanchett | Won | Refs | ||
1999 | Lana Tisdel | Note | Boys Don't Cry | Chloë Sevigny | Nominated | citation | ||
2002 | Laura Brown | Note | The Hours | Julianne Moore | Nominated | citation | ||
1956 | Luz Benedict | Note | Giant | Mercedes McCambridge | Nominated | Cite | ||
1991 | Virginia "Ninny" Threadgoode | Note | Fried Green Tomatoes | Jessica Tandy | Nominated | Cite |
Academy Award for Best Animated Feature | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Demographic | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2008 | Byron Howard | Bolt | Nominated | Gay | [254] |
2010 | Dean DeBlois | How to Train Your Dragon | Nominated | [255] | |
2012 | Chris Butler | ParaNorman | Nominated | [256] | |
2014 | Dean DeBlois | How to Train Your Dragon 2 | Nominated | [255] | |
2016 | Byron Howard | Zootopia | Won | [254] | |
2017 | Darla K. Anderson | Coco | Won | Lesbian | [257] |
2018 | Scott Rudin | Isle of Dogs | Nominated | Gay | [258] |
2019 | Chris Butler | Missing Link | Nominated | [256] | |
Dean DeBlois | How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | Nominated | [255] | ||
2020 | Kori Rae | Onward | Nominated | Lesbian | [259] |
2021 | Byron Howard | Encanto | Won | Gay |
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 |
Academy Award for Best Cinematography | ||||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone | Demographic | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1978 | Néstor Almendros | Days of Heaven | Won | Gay | [260] | |
1979 | Kramer vs. Kramer | Nominated | ||||
1980 | The Blue Lagoon | Nominated | ||||
James Crabe | The Formula | Nominated | [261] | |||
1982 | Néstor Almendros | Sophie's Choice | Nominated | [260] | ||
1985 | David Watkin | Out of Africa | Won | [262] | ||
2017 | Rachel Morrison | Mudbound | Nominated | First female nominee for Best Cinematography | Lesbian | [263] |
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 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 | [292][293] |
Academy Award for Best International Feature Film | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Demographic | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1977 | Ettore Scola | A Special Day | Nominated | Gay | |
1993 | Chen Kaige | Farewell My Concubine | Nominated | ||
1994 | {co-directed by} Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Juan Carlos Tabío |
Strawberry and Chocolate | Nominated | ||
1999 | Pedro Almodovar | All About My Mother | Won | Transgender | |
2017 | Sebastián Lelio | A Fantastic Woman | Won | ||
2019 | Pedro Almodovar | Pain and Glory | Nominated | Gay | |
2021 | Joachim Trier | The Worst Person in the World | Nominated | Bisexual | |
2021 | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | Flee | Nominated | Gay | |
2022 | Lukas Dhont | Close | Nominated |
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|
1952 | Norman McLaren | Neighbours | Won | [304] |
1991 | Debra Chasnoff | Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment | Won | [305] |
1994 | Dee Mosbacher | Straight from the Heart | Nominated | [297] |
Frances Reid | Nominated | |||
2002 | Robert Houston | Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks | Nominated | [306] |
2004 | Mighty Times: The Children's March | Won | ||
2018 | Rob Epstein | End Game | Nominated | [294] [307] |
Jeffrey Friedman | Nominated |
Academy Award for Best Film Editing | ||||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Demographic | Reference | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1961 | William H. Reynolds | Fanny | Nominated | Gay | [261] | |
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 | Lesbian | [308] | |
2018 | John Ottman | Bohemian Rhapsody | Won | Gay | [309] |
Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Demographic | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1992 | Matthew W. Mungle | Bram Stoker's Dracula | Won | Gay | [310] |
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 | [311] |
2011 | J. Roy Helland | The Iron Lady | Won | Gay | [312] |
2011 | Matthew W. Mungle | Albert Nobbs | Nominated | [310] | |
2012 | Tami Lane | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Nominated | Lesbian | [311] |
2020 | Matthew W. Mungle | Hillbilly Elegy | Nominated | Gay | [310] |
Sergio Lopez-Rivera | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Won | [313] | ||
2021 | Frederic Aspiras | House of Gucci | Nominated | [314] |
Academy Award for Best Original Score | ||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|
1939 | Aaron Copland | Of Mice and Men | Nominated | [315] |
1940 | Our Town | Nominated | ||
1943 | The North Star | Nominated | ||
1949 | The Heiress | Won | ||
1954 | Leonard Bernstein | On the Waterfront | Nominated | [316] |
1965 | Jacques Demy | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | Nominated | [317] |
1967 | Richard Rodney Bennett | Far from the Madding Crowd | Nominated | [318] |
1971 | Nicholas and Alexandra | Nominated | ||
1974 | Murder on the Orient Express | Nominated | ||
1980 | John Corigliano | Altered States | Nominated | [258] |
1992 | Richard Robbins | Howards End | Nominated | [319] |
1993 | The Remains of the Day | Nominated | ||
1995 | Marc Shaiman | The American President | Nominated | [320] |
1996 | The First Wives Club | Nominated | ||
1998 | Patch Adams | Nominated | ||
1999 | John Corigliano | The Red Violin | Won | [258] |
2013 | Owen Pallett | Her | Nominated | [321] |
2016 | Mica Levi | Jackie | Nominated | [322] |
2018 | Marc Shaiman | Mary Poppins Returns | Nominated | [320] |
Original Song Score or Adaptation | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1939 | Aaron Copland | Of Mice and Men | Nominated | [315] | |
Roger Edens | Babes in Arms | Nominated | [323] | ||
1940 | Aaron Copland | Our Town | Nominated | [315] | |
Roger Edens | Strike Up the Band | Nominated | [323] | ||
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 | [324] | |
1968 | Jacques Demy | The Young Girls of Rochefort | Nominated | [317] | |
1970 | Rod McKuen | A Boy Named Charlie Brown | Nominated | [325] | |
1972 | Ralph Burns | Cabaret | Won | [326] | |
1974 | Frederick Loewe | The Little Prince | Nominated | [327] | |
Angela Morley | Nominated | First openly transgender Academy Award nominee | [328] | ||
1977 | The Slipper and the Rose—The Story of Cinderella | Nominated | |||
1979 | Ralph Burns | All That Jazz | Won | [326] | |
1982 | Annie | Nominated |
Academy Award for Best Original Song | |||||||
Year | Name | Film | Song | Status | Demographic | Observation | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1936 | Cole Porter | Born to Dance | "I've Got You Under My Skin" | Nominated | Gay | [68][329] | |
1940 | Roger Edens | Strike Up the Band | "Our Love Affair" | Nominated | [323] | ||
1941 | Cole Porter | You'll Never Get Rich | "Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye" | Nominated | [329] | ||
1943 | Something to Shout About | "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" | Nominated | ||||
1947 | Roger Edens | Good News | "Pass That Peace Pipe" | Nominated | [323] | ||
1956 | Cole Porter | High Society | "True Love" | Nominated | [329] | ||
1958 | Frederick Loewe | Gigi | "Gigi" | Won | [327] | ||
1960 | Manos Hatzidakis | Never on Sunday | "Never on Sunday" | Won | [330] | ||
1965 | Jacques Demy | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | "I Will Wait for You" | Nominated | Bisexual | [317] | |
1969 | Rod McKuen | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | "Jean" | Nominated | Queer | [325] | |
1974 | Frederick Loewe | The Little Prince | "Little Prince" | Nominated | Gay | [327] | |
1975 | John Kander | Funny Lady | "How Lucky Can You Get" | Nominated | [331] | ||
1978 | Paul Jabara | Thank God It's Friday | "Last Dance" | Won | [332] | ||
1980 | Lesley Gore | Fame | "Out Here on My Own" | Nominated | Lesbian | [333] | |
1982 | Peter Allen | Arthur | "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" | Won | Gay | [334] | |
1986 | Howard Ashman | Little Shop of Horrors | "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space" | Nominated | [21][258] | ||
1989 | The Little Mermaid | "Kiss the Girl" | Nominated | ||||
"Under the Sea" | Won | ||||||
1990 | Stephen Sondheim | Dick Tracy | "Sooner or Later" | Won | |||
1991 | Howard Ashman | Beauty and the Beast | "Be Our Guest" | Nominated | First AIDS person with to be given both a posthumous award and nominations.
First gay man to be awarded Best Original Song twice.[21] | ||
"Beauty and the Beast" | Won | ||||||
"Belle" | Nominated | ||||||
1992 | Aladdin | "Friend Like Me" | Nominated | ||||
1993 | Marc Shaiman | Sleepless in Seattle | "A Wink and a Smile" | Nominated | [320] | ||
1994 | Elton John | The Lion King | "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" | Won | [335] | ||
"Circle of Life" | Nominated | ||||||
"Hakuna Matata" | Nominated | ||||||
1999 | Marc Shaiman | South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut | "Blame Canada" | Nominated | [320] | ||
2002 | John Kander | Chicago | "I Move On" | Nominated | [331] | ||
2006 | Melissa Etheridge | An Inconvenient Truth | "I Need to Wake Up" | Won | Lesbian | First openly lesbian winner for Original Song | [258] |
Henry Krieger | Dreamgirls | "Listen" | Nominated | Gay | [336] | ||
"Love You I Do" | Nominated | ||||||
"Patience" | Nominated | ||||||
2015 | Anohni | Racing Extinction | "Manta Ray" | Nominated | Transgender | First openly transgender person nominated for Original Song | [337] |
Lady Gaga | The Hunting Ground | "Til It Happens to You" | Nominated | Bisexual | [144] | ||
Sam Smith | Spectre | "Writing's on the Wall" | Won | Gay and non-binary | Incorrectly pronounced themself as the first ever openly gay person to win an Oscar during their acceptance speech[338] after misinterpreting an interview where Sir Ian McKellen said no openly gay actor had ever won in the Leading Actor category.[339] They later apologized for the mistake and justified their point was to shine a light on the LGBTQ community.[340] | [335] | |
2016 | Benj Pasek | La La Land | "Audition (The Fools Who Dream)" | Nominated | Gay | All three songs co-written by Pasek and Paul songwriting duo (Pasek and Justin Paul). For La La Land, those songs were composed by Justin Hurwitz, who shared in the Oscar win. | [341] |
"City of Stars" | Won | ||||||
2017 | The Greatest Showman | "This Is Me" | Nominated | ||||
Sufjan Stevens | Call Me by Your Name | "Mystery of Love" | Nominated | Stevens came-out in an Instagram post, paying tribute to his late partner by dedicating his new album, Javelin, to his memory. In addition, the singer updated fans about his recovery from Guillain–Barré syndrome. | [342] | ||
2018 | Lady Gaga | A Star Is Born | "Shallow" | Won | Bisexual | [144] | |
Marc Shaiman | Mary Poppins Returns | "The Place Where Lost Things Go" | Nominated | Gay | [343] | ||
Scott Wittman | Nominated | ||||||
2019 | Elton John | Rocketman | "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" | Won | [335] | ||
Cynthia Erivo | Harriet | "Stand Up" | Nominated | Bisexual | [130] | ||
2022 | Lady Gaga | Top Gun: Maverick | "Hold My Hand" | Nominated | [144] |
Year | Title | Status | Relevant Theme | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|
1969 | Midnight Cowboy | Won | Bisexual | [352] |
1975 | Dog Day Afternoon | Nominated | Transgender | [353] |
1985 | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Nominated | Gay | [354] |
1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Won | Transgender | [355] |
1992 | The Crying Game | Nominated | [356] | |
1999 | American Beauty | Won | Gay | [357] |
2002 | The Hours | Nominated | Lesbian and Gay | [358] |
2005 | Brokeback Mountain | Nominated | Gay | [359] |
Capote | Nominated | [360] | ||
2008 | Milk | Nominated | [361] | |
2010 | Black Swan | Nominated | Bisexual | [362] |
The Kids Are All Right | Nominated | Lesbian | ||
2013 | Dallas Buyers Club | Nominated | Queer Transgender |
[363] |
2014 | The Imitation Game | Nominated | Gay | [364] |
2016 | Moonlight | Won | [365] | |
2017 | Call Me by Your Name | Nominated | Bisexual | [366] |
2018 | Bohemian Rhapsody | Nominated | [367] | |
The Favourite | Nominated | Lesbian | [368] | |
2021 | The Power of the Dog | Nominated | Queer | [369] |
2022 | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Won | Lesbian | [370][371] |
Tár | Nominated | [372][373] |
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 | [374][293] |
Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Demographic | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1969 | Ryan Larkin | Walking | Nominated | Bisexual | [380] |
2003 | Adam Elliot | Harvie Krumpet | Won | Gay | [381] |
2020 | Adrien Merigeau | Genius Loci | Nominated | [382] |
Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Demographic | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1952 | Norman McLaren | Neighbours | Nominated | Gay | [304] |
1957 | A Chairy Tale | Nominated | |||
1960 | Ismail Merchant | The Creation of Woman | Nominated | [286] | |
1992 | Christian Taylor | The Lady in Waiting | Nominated | [383] | |
1994 | Randy Stone | Trevor | Won | [384] | |
2020 | Travon Free | Two Distant Strangers | Won | Bisexual | [385] |
Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Demographic | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2008 | Lora Hirschberg | The Dark Knight | Nominated | Lesbian | [346] |
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 | [411][293] |
Academy Award for Best Original Story | |||||
Year | Name | Film | Status | Demographic | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1946 | John Patrick | The Strange Love of Martha Ivers | Nominated | Gay | [261] |
1950 | Leonard Spigelgass | Mystery Street | Nominated | ||
1951 | James Bernard | Seven Days to Noon | Won | [412] | |
Paul Dehn | Won | [391] | |||
1955 | Nicholas Ray | Rebel Without a Cause | Nominated | Bisexual | [214][215][216][413] |
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.[414] 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.)[415]
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1942 | Noël Coward | Academy Honorary Award | For his outstanding production achievement in In Which We Serve. (Certificate of Merit) | Gay | [402] |
1954 | Greta Garbo | For her unforgettable screen performances. (Statuette) | Bisexual (Alleged) | [6][126][133][134][135][136][137][138][139] | |
1961 | Jerome Robbins | For his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film. (Statuette) | Bisexual | [282] | |
1969 | Cary Grant | For his unique mastery of the art of screen acting with the respect and affection of his colleagues. (Statuette) | Bisexual (Alleged) | [6][9][24][54] [55][56][57] | |
1981 | Barbara Stanwyck | For superlative creativity and unique contribution to the art of screen acting. (Statuette) | [6][170][171] | ||
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 | [416] | |
1985 | Paul Newman | In recognition of his many and memorable compelling screen performances and for his personal integrity and dedication to his craft. (Statuette) | Bisexual (Alleged) | [9][10][11] [17][63][64] | |
1994 | Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award | Outstanding contributions to humanitarian causes. (Statuette) | |||
2013 | Piero Tosi | Academy Honorary Award | A visionary whose incomparable costume designs shaped timeless, living art in motion pictures. (Statuette) | Gay | [269] |
2014 | Angelina Jolie | Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award | Outstanding contributions to humanitarian causes. (Statuette) | Bisexual | [140][141] [142][143] |