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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.

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Confirmed individuals

Sir Alan Bates, nominated for 1 Oscar.

Marlon Brando, nominated for 8 Oscars; won 2.

Montgomery Clift, nominated for 4 Oscars.

Rock Hudson, nominated for 1 Oscar.

Tom Hulce, nominated for 1 Oscar.

Charles Laughton, nominated for 3 Oscars; won 1.

Sir Ian McKellen, nominated for 2 Oscars.

Sir Michael Redgrave, nominated for 1 Oscar.

Kevin Spacey, won 2 Oscars.

Paul Winfield, nominated for 1 Oscar.

Yul Brynner, won 1 Oscar.

James Dean, posthumously nominated for 2 Oscars.

James Franco, nominated for 1 Oscar.

Cary Grant, nominated for 2 Oscars; received 1 honorary.

Sir Alec Guinness, nominated for 5 Oscars; won 1 + received 1 honorary.

Burt Lancaster, nominated for 4 Oscars; won 1.

Paul Newman, nominated for 10 Oscars; won 1 + received 2 honoraries.

Lord Baron Laurence Olivier, nominated for 13 Oscars; won 1 + received 2 honoraries.

Walter Pidgeon, nominated for 2 Oscars.

Spencer Tracy, nominated for 9 Oscars (once posthumously); won 2 consecutively.

John Travolta, nominated for 2 Oscars.

Monty Woolley, nominated for 2 Oscars.

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Year	Name	Film	Role	Status	Demographic	Out at the Time?	Observation	References
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
1948	Clifton Webb	Sitting Pretty	Lynn Aloysius Belvedere	Nominated		Yes	(See note below on his Best Supporting Actor observation.)
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.

Speculated to be LGBTQ

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	Name	Film	Role	Status	Alleged Demographic	References
1956	Yul Brynner	The King and I	King Mongkut of Siam	Won	Bisexual
1955	James Dean	East of Eden	Caleb Trask	Nominated
1956		Giant	Jett Rink	Nominated
2010	James Franco	127 Hours	Aron Ralston	Nominated	Unspecified
1941	Cary Grant	Penny Serenade	Roger Adams	Nominated	Gay
1944		None but the Lonely Heart	Ernie Mott	Nominated
1952	Alec Guinness	The Lavender Hill Mob	Henry "Dutch" Holland	Nominated	Bisexual
1957		The Bridge on the River Kwai	Lt. Col. Nicholson	Won
1959	Laurence Harvey	Room at the Top	Joe Lampton	Nominated	Gay
1953	Burt Lancaster	From Here to Eternity	1st Sgt. Milton Anthony "Milt" Warden	Nominated	Bisexual or Straight
1960		Elmer Gantry	Elmer Gantry	Won
1962		Birdman of Alcatraz	Robert Franklin Stroud	Nominated
1981		Atlantic City	Lou Pascal	Nominated
1958	Paul Newman	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	"Brick" Pollitt	Nominated
1961		The Hustler	"Fast Eddie" Felson	Nominated
1963		Hud	Hud Bannon	Nominated
1967		Cool Hand Luke	Lucas "Luke" Jackson	Nominated
1981		Absence of Malice	Michael Colin Gallagher	Nominated
1982		The Verdict	Atty. Frank Galvin, Esq.	Nominated
1986		The Color of Money	"Fast Eddie" Felson	Won
1994		Nobody's Fool	Donald J. "Sully" Sullivan	Nominated
1939	Laurence Olivier	Wuthering Heights	Heathcliff	Nominated
1940		Rebecca	George Fortescue Maximilian "Maxim" de Winter	Nominated
1946		Henry V	King Henry V of England	Nominated
1948		Hamlet	Prince Hamlet of Denmark	Won
1956		Richard III	King Richard III of England	Nominated
1960		The Entertainer	Archie Rice	Nominated
1965		Othello	Othello	Nominated
1972		Sleuth	Andrew Wyke	Nominated
1978		The Boys from Brazil	Ezra Lieberman	Nominated
1942	Walter Pidgeon	Mrs. Miniver	Clem Miniver	Nominated	Bisexual
1943		Madame Curie	Pierre Curie	Nominated
1936	Spencer Tracy	San Francisco	Fr. Tim Mullin	Nominated	Gay or Bisexual
1937		Captains Courageous	Manuel Fidello	Won
1938		Boys Town	Msgr. Edward J. Flanagan	Won
1950		Father of the Bride	Stanley T. Banks	Nominated
1955		Bad Day at Black Rock	John J. Macreedy	Nominated
1958		The Old Man and the Sea	The Old Man (Narrator)	Nominated
1960		Inherit the Wind	Henry Drummond	Nominated
1961		Judgment at Nuremberg	[Chief Justice] Dan Haywood	Nominated
1967		Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?	Matt Drayton	Nominated
1977	John Travolta	Saturday Night Fever	Anthony "Tony" Manero	Nominated
1994		Pulp Fiction	Vincent Vega	Nominated
1942	Monty Woolley	The Pied Piper	Howard	Nominated	Gay

Performances of LGBTQ+ characters nominated for or awarded Academy Award for Best Actor

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Year	Film	Role	Character's Demographic	Actor	Actor's Demographic	Status	References
1958	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	"Brick" Pollitt	Bi-Curious	Paul Newman	Cisgender Undetermined	Nominated
1962	Lawrence of Arabia	T. E. Lawrence	Queer	Peter O'Toole	Cisgender Heterosexual	Nominated
1971	Sunday Bloody Sunday	Dr. Daniel Hirsh	Gay	Peter Finch		Nominated
1975	Dog Day Afternoon	Sonny Wortzik	Pansexual	Al Pacino		Nominated
1977	A Special Day	Gabriele	Gay	Marcello Mastroianni		Nominated
1983	The Dresser	Norman		Tom Courtenay		Nominated
1985	Kiss of the Spider Woman	Luis Molina	Gay (& Genderqueer)	William Hurt		Won
1992	The Crying Game	Fergus / "Jimmie"	Pansexual	Stephen Rea		Nominated
1993	Philadelphia	Andrew "Andy" Beckett	Gay	Tom Hanks		Won
1998	Gods and Monsters	James Whale		Ian McKellen	Cisgender Homosexual	Nominated
2000	Before Night Falls	Reinaldo Arenas		Javier Bardem	Cisgender Heterosexual	Nominated
	Quills	Marquis de Sade	Omnisexual	Geoffrey Rush		Nominated
2005	Brokeback Mountain	Ennis Del Mar	Gay or Bisexual	Heath Ledger		Nominated
	Capote	Truman Capote	Gay	Philip Seymour Hoffman		Won
2008	Milk	Harvey Milk		Sean Penn		Won
2009	A Single Man	George Falconer		Colin Firth		Nominated
2014	Foxcatcher	John du Pont	Queer	Steve Carell		Nominated
	The Imitation Game	Alan Turing	Gay	Benedict Cumberbatch		Nominated
2015	The Danish Girl	Lili Elbe	Transgender woman	Eddie Redmayne		Nominated
2017	Call Me by Your Name	Elio Perlman	Bisexual	Timothée Chalamet		Nominated
2018	Bohemian Rhapsody	Freddie Mercury		Rami Malek		Won
2019	Pain and Glory	Salvador Mallo	Gay	Antonio Banderas		Nominated
2021	The Power of the Dog	Phil Burbank	Queer	Benedict Cumberbatch		Nominated
2022	The Whale	Charlie	Gay	Brendan Fraser		Won

Nominated or winning LGBTQ+ roles with concealed or questioned orientations

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Year	Role	Orientation Discrepancy	Film	Actor	Status	References
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
1952	Emiliano Zapata	Note	Viva Zapata!	Marlon Brando	Nominated
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
2001	John Forbes Nash, Jr.	Note	A Beautiful Mind	Russell Crowe	Nominated
1959	Judah Ben-Hur	Note	Ben-Hur	Charlton Heston	Won	citerefs
2013	Ron Woodroof	Note	Dallas Buyers Club	Matthew McConaughey	Won

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Confirmed individuals

Marlene Dietrich, nominated for 1 Oscar.

Cynthia Erivo, nominated for 2 Oscars.

Jodie Foster, nominated for 4 Oscars; won 2.

Greta Garbo, nominated for 3 Oscars; received 1 honorary.

Elliot Page, nominated for 1 Oscar.

Kristen Stewart, nominated for 1 Oscar.

Jean Arthur, nominated for 1 Oscar.

Joan Crawford, nominated for 3 Oscars; won 1.

Marie Dressler, nominated for 2 Oscars; won 1.

Ava Gardner, nominated for 1 Oscar.

Janet Gaynor, nominated for 2 Oscars; won 1.

Katharine Hepburn, nominated for 12 Oscars; won 4.

Barbara Stanwyck, nominated for 4 Oscars; received 1 honorary.

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Year	Name	Film	Role	Status	Demographic	Out at the Time?	Observation	References
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".
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".
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).
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.
		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.)
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.
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.
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).

Speculated to be LGBTQ

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	Name	Film	Role	Status	Alleged Demographic	References
1943	Jean Arthur	The More the Merrier	Constance "Connie" Milligan	Nominated	Lesbian
1935	Elisabeth Bergner	Escape Me Never	Gemma Jones	Nominated	Bisexual
1934	Claudette Colbert	It Happened One Night	Ellen "Ellie" Andrews	Won	Bisexual or Straight
1935		Private Worlds	Dr. Jane Everest	Nominated
1944		Since You Went Away	Mrs. Anne Hilton	Nominated
1945	Joan Crawford	Mildred Pierce	Mildred Pierce-Beragon	Won
1947		Possessed	Louise Howell	Nominated
1952		Sudden Fear!	Myra Hudson	Nominated
1930/31	Marie Dressler	Min and Bill	Min Divot	Won	Lesbian
1931/32		Emma	Emma (Thatcher) Smith	Nominated
1953	Ava Gardner	Mogambo	Eloise "Honey Bear" Kelly	Nominated	Bisexual
1927/28	Janet Gaynor	7th Heaven	Diane	Won	Lesbian or Bisexual
		Street Angel	Angela
		Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans	The Wife
1937		A Star Is Born	Esther Victoria Blodgett / Vicki Lester	Nominated
1932/33	Katharine Hepburn	Morning Glory	Eva Lovelace	Won
1935		Alice Adams	Alice Adams	Nominated
1940		The Philadelphia Story	Tracy Samantha Lord	Nominated
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	Dss. Eleanor of Aquitaine	Won
1981		On Golden Pond	Ethel Thayer	Won
1939	Vivien Leigh	Gone with the Wind	Scarlett O'Hara	Won	Bisexual
1951		A Streetcar Named Desire	Blanche DuBois	Won
1937	Barbara Stanwyck	Stella Dallas	Stella Dallas (née Martin)	Nominated
1941		Ball of Fire	Katherine "Sugarpuss" O'Shea	Nominated
1944		Double Indemnity	Phyllis Dietrichson	Nominated
1948		Sorry, Wrong Number	Leona Stevenson	Nominated

Performances of LGBTQ+ characters nominated for or awarded Best Actress in a Leading Role

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Year	Film	Role	Character's Demographic	Actor	Actor's Demographic	Status	References
1930/31	Morocco	Mlle. Amy Jolly	Queer	Marlene Dietrich	Cisgender Bisexual	Nominated
1968	Isadora	Isadora Duncan	Bisexual	Vanessa Redgrave	Cisgender Heterosexual	Nominated	Refs
1974	Lenny	Honey Bruce		Valerie Perrine		Nominated
1979	The Rose	Mary Rose "The Rose" Foster		Bette Midler		Nominated
1984	The Bostonians	Olive Chancellor	Sapiosexual	Vanessa Redgrave		Nominated
1985	The Color Purple	Celie Harris-Johnson	Lesbian	Whoopi Goldberg		Nominated
1999	Boys Don't Cry	Brandon Teena	Transgender man	Hilary Swank		Won
2001	Iris	Iris Murdoch	Bisexual	Judi Dench		Nominated
2002	Frida	Frida Kahlo		Salma Hayek		Nominated
	The Hours	Virginia Woolf	Lesbian	Nicole Kidman		Won
2003	Monster	Aileen Wuornos		Charlize Theron		Won
2005	TransAmerica	Sabrina "Bree" Osbourne	Transgender woman	Felicity Huffman		Nominated	Refs
2006	Notes on a Scandal	Barbara Covett	Lesbian	Judi Dench		Nominated	Refs
2008	Rachel Getting Married	Kym Buchman	Bisexual	Anne Hathaway		Nominated	Refs
2010	Black Swan	Nina Sayers		Natalie Portman		Won	Refs
	The Kids Are All Right	Nicole Allgood	Lesbian	Annette Bening		Nominated	Refs
2011	Albert Nobbs	Albert Nobbs	Transgender man	Glenn Close		Nominated	Refs
	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Lisbeth Salander	Bisexual	Rooney Mara		Nominated	Refs
2015	Carol	Carol Aird	Lesbian	Cate Blanchett		Nominated	Refs
2018	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	Lee Israel		Melissa McCarthy		Nominated	Refs
	The Favourite	Queen Anne of Great Britain		Olivia Colman		Won	Refs
2019	Little Women	Josephine "Jo" March	Demisexual	Saoirse Ronan		Nominated
2020/21	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Gertrude "Ma" Rainey	Bisexual	Viola Davis		Nominated	Refs
	The United States vs. Billie Holiday	Billie Holiday		Andra Day		Nominated
2021	Parallel Mothers	Janis Martínez Moreno		Penélope Cruz		Nominated	Refs
2022	TÁR	Lydia Tár	Lesbian	Cate Blanchett		Nominated	Refs

Nominated or winning LGBTQ+ roles with concealed or questioned orientations

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
1950	Eve Harrington	Note	All About Eve	Anne Baxter	Nominated
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
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

Confirmed individuals

Sir John Gielgud, nominated for 2 Oscars; won 1.

Joel Grey, won 1 Oscar.

Lucas Hedges, nominated for 1 Oscar.

Sal Mineo, nominated for 2 Oscars.

Anthony Perkins, nominated for 1 Oscar.

Clifton Webb, nominated for 3 Oscars.

Nick Adams, nominated for 1 Oscar.

George Chakiris, won 1 Oscar.

James Coco, nominated for 1 Oscar.

John Dall, nominated for 1 Oscar.

Brandon DeWilde, nominated for 1 Oscar.

Tom Hardy, nominated for 1 Oscar.

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.)
1961	Montgomery Clift	Judgment at Nuremberg	Rudolph Peterson	Nominated	Gay	No	(See note above on his Best Actor observation.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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."
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.
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.
1995	Kevin Spacey	The Usual Suspects	Roger "Verbal" Kint	Won	Gay		(See note above on his Best Actor observation.)
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."
1946		The Razor's Edge	Elliott Templeton	Nominated

Speculated to be LGBTQ

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	Name	Film	Role	Status	Alleged Demographic	References
1963	Nick Adams	Twilight of Honor	Ben Brown	Nominated	Bisexual
1962	Victor Buono	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?	Edwin Flagg	Nominated	Gay
1961	George Chakiris	West Side Story	Bernardo Nuñez	Won	Unclear
1981	James Coco	Only When I Laugh	Jimmy Perrino	Nominated	Gay
1945	John Dall	The Corn is Green	Morgan Evans	Nominated
1953	Brandon DeWilde	Shane	Joey Starrett	Nominated	Bisexual	refs
1986	Denholm Elliott	A Room with a View	Mr. Emerson	Nominated
1977	Alec Guinness	Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope	Obi-Wan Kenobi	Nominated
1988		Little Dorrit	William Dorrit	Nominated
2015	Tom Hardy	The Revenant	John S. Fitzgerald	Nominated		refs
2002	Paul Newman	Road to Perdition	John Rooney	Nominated	Bisexual or Straight
1976	Laurence Olivier	Marathon Man	Dr. Christian Szell	Nominated
1981	Howard E. Rollins, Jr.	Ragtime	Coalhouse Walker, Jr.	Nominated	Gay
1944	Monty Woolley	Since You Went Away	Col. William G. Smollett	Nominated

Performances of LGBTQ Characters Nominated for or Awarded Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Year	Film	Role	Character's Demographic	Actor	Actor's Demographic	Status	References
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
1962	Lawrence of Arabia	Sherif Ali Bin El Kharish		Omar Sharif	Cisgender Heterosexual	Nominated
1968	Star!	Sir Noël Coward		Daniel Massey		Nominated	cite
1975	Dog Day Afternoon	Leon Shermer	Transgender woman	Chris Sarandon		Nominated
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
1992	The Crying Game	Dil	Transgender woman	Jaye Davidson	Cisgender Homosexual	Nominated
1997	As Good as It Gets	Simon Bishop	Gay	Greg Kinnear	Cisgender Heterosexual	Nominated
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
	Green Book	Don Shirley		Mahershala Ali		Won

Nominated or winning LGBTQ+ roles with concealed or questioned orientations

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Year	Role	Orientation Discrepancy	Film	Actor	Status	References
1950	Addison DeWitt	Note	All About Eve	George Sanders	Won
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
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

Confirmed individuals

Ariana DeBose, won 1 Oscar.

Aunjanue Ellis, nominated for 1 Oscar.

Stephanie Hsu, nominated for 1 Oscar.

Linda Hunt, won 1 Oscar.

Angelina Jolie, nominated for 2 Oscars; won 1 + received 1 honorary.

Eva Le Gallienne, nominated for 1 Oscar.

Mo'Nique, won 1 Oscar.

Anna Paquin, won 1 Oscar.

Tilda Swinton, won 1 Oscar.

Lily Tomlin, nominated for 1 Oscar.

Dame Judith Anderson, nominated for 1 Oscar.

Billie Burke, nominated for 1 Oscar.

Spring Byington, nominated for 1 Oscar.

Marjorie Main, nominated for 1 Oscar.

Hattie McDaniel, won 1 Oscar.

Agnes Moorehead, nominated for 4 Oscars.

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.
	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".
1976	Jodie Foster	Taxi Driver	Iris "Easy" Steensma	Nominated	Lesbian		(See note above on her Best Actress observation.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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").
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.
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".
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.

Speculated to be LGBTQ

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
1938	Billie Burke	Merrily We Live	Emily Kilbourne	Nominated	Bisexual
	Spring Byington	You Can't Take It with You	Penelope "Penny" Sycamore	Nominated	Lesbian
1966	Sandy Dennis	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Honey	Won	Bisexual
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
1939	Hattie McDaniel	Gone with the Wind	Mammy	Won	Bisexual
1942	Agnes Moorehead	The Magnificent Ambersons	Aunt Fanny Minafer	Nominated	Unspecified
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

Performances of LGBTQ Characters Nominated for or Awarded Best Actress in a Supporting Role

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
1964	The Night of the Iguana	Judith Fellowes		Grayson Hall	Cisgender Heterosexual	Nominated	cite
1968	Rachel, Rachel	Calla Mackie		Estelle Parsons		Nominated
1983	Silkwood	Dolly Pelliker		Cher		Nominated
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
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

Nominated or winning LGBTQ+ roles with concealed or questioned orientations

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

Best Animated Feature

Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
Year	Name	Film	Status	Demographic	Reference
2008	Byron Howard	Bolt	Nominated	Gay
2010	Dean DeBlois	How to Train Your Dragon	Nominated
2012	Chris Butler	ParaNorman	Nominated
2014	Dean DeBlois	How to Train Your Dragon 2	Nominated
2016	Byron Howard	Zootopia	Won
2017	Darla K. Anderson	Coco	Won	Lesbian
2018	Scott Rudin	Isle of Dogs	Nominated	Gay
2019	Chris Butler	Missing Link	Nominated
	Dean DeBlois	How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World	Nominated
2020	Kori Rae	Onward	Nominated	Lesbian
2021	Byron Howard	Encanto	Won	Gay

Best Animated Feature winners and nominees with LGBTQ themes

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

Best Cinematography

Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone	Demographic	Reference
1978	Néstor Almendros	Days of Heaven	Won		Gay
1979		Kramer vs. Kramer	Nominated
1980		The Blue Lagoon	Nominated
	James Crabe	The Formula	Nominated
1982	Néstor Almendros	Sophie's Choice	Nominated
1985	David Watkin	Out of Africa	Won
2017	Rachel Morrison	Mudbound	Nominated	First female nominee for Best Cinematography	Lesbian

Best Costume Design

Academy Award for Best Costume Design
Year	Name	Film	Status	Reference
1950	Walter Plunkett	The Magnificent Yankee	Nominated
		That Forsyte Woman	Nominated
1951	Orry-Kelly	An American in Paris	Won
	Walter Plunkett		Won
		Kind Lady	Nominated
	Irene Sharaff	An American in Paris	Won
	Edward Stevenson	David and Bathsheba	Nominated
		The Mudlark	Nominated
1952	Miles White	The Greatest Show on Earth	Nominated
1953	Walter Plunkett	The Actress	Nominated
		Young Bess	Nominated
	Irene Sharaff	Call Me Madam	Nominated
1954		Brigadoon	Nominated
		A Star Is Born	Nominated
	Miles White	There's No Business Like Show Business	Nominated
1955	Irene Sharaff	Guys and Dolls	Nominated
1956		The King and I	Won
	Miles White	Around the World in 80 Days	Nominated
1957	Orry-Kelly	Les Girls	Won
	Walter Plunkett	Raintree County	Nominated
1958	Cecil Beaton	Gigi	Won
	Walter Plunkett	Some Came Running	Nominated
1959	Orry-Kelly	Some Like It Hot	Won
	Irene Sharaff	Porgy and Bess	Nominated
	Howard Shoup	The Young Philadelphians	Nominated
1960	Irene Sharaff	Can-Can	Nominated
	Howard Shoup	The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond	Nominated
	Edward Stevenson	The Facts of Life	Won
1961	Piero Gherardi	La Dolce Vita	Won
	Walter Plunkett	Pocketful of Miracles	Nominated
	Irene Sharaff	West Side Story	Won
	Howard Shoup	Claudelle Inglish	Nominated
1962	Orry-Kelly	Gypsy	Nominated
1963	Piero Gherardi	8½	Won
	Walter Plunkett	How the West Was Won	Nominated
	Irene Sharaff	Cleopatra	Won
	Piero Tosi	The Leopard	Nominated
1964	Cecil Beaton	My Fair Lady	Won
	Howard Shoup	Kisses for My President	Nominated
1965		A Rage to Live	Nominated
1966	Danilo Donati	The Gospel According to St. Matthew	Nominated
		Mandragola	Nominated
	Piero Gherardi	Juliet of the Spirits	Nominated
	Irene Sharaff	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Won
1967	Danilo Donati	The Taming of the Shrew	Nominated
	Irene Sharaff		Nominated
1968	Danilo Donati	Romeo and Juliet	Won
1969	Irene Sharaff	Hello, Dolly!	Nominated
1971	Piero Tosi	Death in Venice	Nominated
1972	Ray Aghayan	Lady Sings the Blues	Nominated
	Bob Mackie		Nominated
1973	Piero Tosi	Ludwig	Nominated
1975	Ray Aghayan	Funny Lady	Nominated
	Bob Mackie		Nominated
1976	Danilo Donati	Fellini's Casanova	Won
	William Ware Theiss	Bound for Glory	Nominated
1977	Florence Klotz	A Little Night Music	Nominated
	Burton Miller	Airport '77	Nominated
	Irene Sharaff	The Other Side of Midnight	Nominated
1979	William Ware Theiss	Butch and Sundance: The Early Days	Nominated
	Piero Tosi	La Cage aux Folles	Nominated
	Albert Wolsky	All That Jazz	Won
1981	Bob Mackie	Pennies from Heaven	Nominated
1982	Piero Tosi	La Traviata	Nominated
	Albert Wolsky	Sophie's Choice	Nominated
1983	William Ware Theiss	Heart Like a Wheel	Nominated
1985	Albert Wolsky	The Journey of Natty Gann	Nominated
1991	Richard Hornung	Barton Fink	Nominated
	Albert Wolsky	Bugsy	Won
1992		Toys	Nominated
1999	Gary Jones	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Nominated
2001	Angus Strathie	Moulin Rouge!	Won
2006	Patricia Field	The Devil Wears Prada	Nominated
2007	Albert Wolsky	Across the Universe	Nominated
2008	Danny Glicker	Milk	Nominated
	Albert Wolsky	Revolutionary Road	Nominated
2012	Paco Delgado	Les Misérables	Nominated
2015		The Danish Girl	Nominated

Best Director

Jerome Robbins, first openly LGBT winner for Best Director.

Pedro Almodóvar, gay, winner of 2 Oscars, nominated for 5.

Lee Daniels is first Black gay man nominated for Directing.

Academy Award for Best Director
Year	Name	Film	Status	Demographic	Observation	Reference
1932/33	George Cukor	Little Women	Nominated	Gay
1940		The Philadelphia Story	Nominated
1947		A Double Life	Nominated
1950		Born Yesterday	Nominated
1951	Vincente Minnelli	An American in Paris	Nominated	Gay or Bisexual
1953	Charles Walters	Lili	Nominated	Gay
1958	Vincente Minnelli	Gigi	Won	Gay or Bisexual
1961	Jerome Robbins	West Side Story	Won	Bisexual
1963	Tony Richardson	Tom Jones	Won
1964	George Cukor	My Fair Lady	Won	Gay
	Peter Glenville	Becket	Nominated
1965	John Schlesinger	Darling	Nominated
1968	Franco Zeffirelli	Romeo and Juliet	Nominated
1969	John Schlesinger	Midnight Cowboy	Won
1971		Sunday Bloody Sunday	Nominated
1986	James Ivory	A Room with a View	Nominated
1992		Howards End	Nominated
1993		The Remains of the Day	Nominated
1997	Gus Van Sant	Good Will Hunting	Nominated
2000	Stephen Daldry	Billy Elliot	Nominated
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.
	Stephen Daldry	The Hours	Nominated
	Rob Marshall	Chicago	Nominated
2008	Stephen Daldry	The Reader	Nominated
	Gus Van Sant	Milk	Nominated
2009	Lee Daniels	Precious	Nominated		First Black gay man nominee for Best Director

Speculated to be LGBTQ

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

Best International Feature Film

Best International Feature Film winners and nominees with LGBTQ themes

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

Best Documentary Feature

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone	Reference
1955	Nancy Hamilton	Helen Keller in Her Story	Won
1984	Rob Epstein	The Times of Harvey Milk	Won	First gay-themed film by openly gay filmmakers to win an Academy Award
	Richard Schmiechen		Won
1988	Bruce Weber	Let's Get Lost	Nominated
1989	Rob Epstein	Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt	Won
1992	David Haugland	Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker	Nominated
2000	Frances Reid	Long Night's Journey into Day	Nominated
2006	Laura Poitras	My Country, My Country	Nominated
2012	David France	How to Survive a Plague	Nominated
	Howard Gertler		Nominated
2014	Laura Poitras	Citizenfour	Won
	Joshua Oppenheimer	The Act of Killing	Nominated
2016	Joshua Oppenheimer	The Look of Silence	Nominated
2017	Yance Ford	Strong Island	Nominated	First openly transgender man to be nominated for an Academy Award
2022	Nan Goldin	All the Beauty and the Bloodshed	Nominated
	Laura Poitras

Best Documentary Short Subject

Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject
Year	Name	Film	Status	Reference
1952	Norman McLaren	Neighbours	Won
1991	Debra Chasnoff	Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment	Won
1994	Dee Mosbacher	Straight from the Heart	Nominated
	Frances Reid		Nominated
2002	Robert Houston	Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks	Nominated
2004		Mighty Times: The Children's March	Won
2018	Rob Epstein	End Game	Nominated
	Jeffrey Friedman		Nominated

Best Film Editing

Academy Award for Best Film Editing
Year	Name	Film	Status	Demographic	Reference
1961	William H. Reynolds	Fanny	Nominated	Gay
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
2018	John Ottman	Bohemian Rhapsody	Won	Gay

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Year	Name	Film	Status	Demographic	Reference
1992	Matthew W. Mungle	Bram Stoker's Dracula	Won	Gay
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
2011	J. Roy Helland	The Iron Lady	Won	Gay
2011	Matthew W. Mungle	Albert Nobbs	Nominated
2012	Tami Lane	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Nominated	Lesbian
2020	Matthew W. Mungle	Hillbilly Elegy	Nominated	Gay
	Sergio Lopez-Rivera	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Won
2021	Frederic Aspiras	House of Gucci	Nominated

Best Music, Original Score

Academy Award for Best Original Score
Year	Name	Film	Status	Reference
1939	Aaron Copland	Of Mice and Men	Nominated
1940		Our Town	Nominated
1943		The North Star	Nominated
1949		The Heiress	Won
1954	Leonard Bernstein	On the Waterfront	Nominated
1965	Jacques Demy	The Umbrellas of Cherbourg	Nominated
1967	Richard Rodney Bennett	Far from the Madding Crowd	Nominated
1971		Nicholas and Alexandra	Nominated
1974		Murder on the Orient Express	Nominated
1980	John Corigliano	Altered States	Nominated
1992	Richard Robbins	Howards End	Nominated
1993		The Remains of the Day	Nominated
1995	Marc Shaiman	The American President	Nominated
1996		The First Wives Club	Nominated
1998		Patch Adams	Nominated
1999	John Corigliano	The Red Violin	Won
2013	Owen Pallett	Her	Nominated
2016	Mica Levi	Jackie	Nominated
2018	Marc Shaiman	Mary Poppins Returns	Nominated

Best Music, Original Song Score or Adaptation

Original Song Score or Adaptation
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone	Reference
1939	Aaron Copland	Of Mice and Men	Nominated
	Roger Edens	Babes in Arms	Nominated
1940	Aaron Copland	Our Town	Nominated
	Roger Edens	Strike Up the Band	Nominated
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
1968	Jacques Demy	The Young Girls of Rochefort	Nominated
1970	Rod McKuen	A Boy Named Charlie Brown	Nominated
1972	Ralph Burns	Cabaret	Won
1974	Frederick Loewe	The Little Prince	Nominated
	Angela Morley		Nominated	First openly transgender Academy Award nominee
1977		The Slipper and the Rose—The Story of Cinderella	Nominated
1979	Ralph Burns	All That Jazz	Won
1982		Annie	Nominated

Best Music, Original Song

Elton John, gay, winner of 2 Oscars, nominated for 4.

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
1940	Roger Edens	Strike Up the Band	"Our Love Affair"	Nominated
1941	Cole Porter	You'll Never Get Rich	"Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye"	Nominated
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
1956	Cole Porter	High Society	"True Love"	Nominated
1958	Frederick Loewe	Gigi	"Gigi"	Won
1960	Manos Hatzidakis	Never on Sunday	"Never on Sunday"	Won
1965	Jacques Demy	The Umbrellas of Cherbourg	"I Will Wait for You"	Nominated	Bisexual
1969	Rod McKuen	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	"Jean"	Nominated	Queer
1974	Frederick Loewe	The Little Prince	"Little Prince"	Nominated	Gay
1975	John Kander	Funny Lady	"How Lucky Can You Get"	Nominated
1978	Paul Jabara	Thank God It's Friday	"Last Dance"	Won
1980	Lesley Gore	Fame	"Out Here on My Own"	Nominated	Lesbian
1982	Peter Allen	Arthur	"Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)"	Won	Gay
1986	Howard Ashman	Little Shop of Horrors	"Mean Green Mother from Outer Space"	Nominated
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.
			"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
1994	Elton John	The Lion King	"Can You Feel the Love Tonight"	Won
			"Circle of Life"	Nominated
			"Hakuna Matata"	Nominated
1999	Marc Shaiman	South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut	"Blame Canada"	Nominated
2002	John Kander	Chicago	"I Move On"	Nominated
2006	Melissa Etheridge	An Inconvenient Truth	"I Need to Wake Up"	Won	Lesbian	First openly lesbian winner for Original Song
	Henry Krieger	Dreamgirls	"Listen"	Nominated	Gay
			"Love You I Do"	Nominated
			"Patience"	Nominated
2015	Anohni	Racing Extinction	"Manta Ray"	Nominated	Transgender	First openly transgender person nominated for Original Song
	Lady Gaga	The Hunting Ground	"Til It Happens to You"	Nominated	Bisexual
	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 after misinterpreting an interview where Sir Ian McKellen said no openly gay actor had ever won in the Leading Actor category. They later apologized for the mistake and justified their point was to shine a light on the LGBTQ community.
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.
			"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.
2018	Lady Gaga	A Star Is Born	"Shallow"	Won	Bisexual
	Marc Shaiman	Mary Poppins Returns	"The Place Where Lost Things Go"	Nominated	Gay
	Scott Wittman			Nominated
2019	Elton John	Rocketman	"(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again"	Won
	Cynthia Erivo	Harriet	"Stand Up"	Nominated	Bisexual
2022	Lady Gaga	Top Gun: Maverick	"Hold My Hand"	Nominated

Best Picture

Academy Award for Best Picture
Year	Name	Film	Status	Demographic	Reference
1963	Tony Richardson	Tom Jones	Won	Bisexual
1970	Ross Hunter	Airport	Nominated	Gay
1985	David Weisman	Kiss of the Spider Woman	Nominated
1986	Ismail Merchant	A Room with a View	Nominated
1992		Howards End	Nominated
1993		The Remains of the Day	Nominated
1999	Bruce Cohen	American Beauty	Won
	Dan Jinks		Won
2002	Scott Rudin	The Hours	Nominated
2007		No Country for Old Men	Won
		There Will Be Blood	Nominated
2008	Bruce Cohen	Milk	Nominated
	Dan Jinks		Nominated
2009	Lee Daniels	Precious	Nominated
2010	Darla K. Anderson	Toy Story 3	Nominated	Lesbian
	Iain Canning	The King's Speech	Won	Gay
	Scott Rudin	The Social Network	Nominated
		True Grit	Nominated
2011		Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close	Nominated
2012	Bruce Cohen	Silver Linings Playbook	Nominated
	Megan Ellison	Zero Dark Thirty	Nominated	Lesbian
	Cameron Mackintosh	Les Misérables	Nominated	Gay
2013	Megan Ellison	American Hustle	Nominated	Lesbian
		Her	Nominated
	Scott Rudin	Captain Phillips	Nominated	Gay
2014		The Grand Budapest Hotel	Nominated
2016		Fences	Nominated
	Iain Canning	Lion	Nominated
2017	Megan Ellison	Phantom Thread	Nominated	Lesbian
	Luca Guadagnino	Call Me by Your Name	Nominated	Gay
	Peter Spears		Nominated
	Scott Rudin	Lady Bird	Nominated
2020	Peter Spears	Nomadland	Won
2021	Iain Canning	The Power of the Dog	Nominated
2022	Tony Kushner	The Fabelmans	Nominated

Best Picture winners and nominees with LGBTQ themes

Year	Title	Status	Relevant Theme	Reference
1969	Midnight Cowboy	Won	Bisexual
1975	Dog Day Afternoon	Nominated	Transgender
1985	Kiss of the Spider Woman	Nominated	Gay
1991	The Silence of the Lambs	Won	Transgender
1992	The Crying Game	Nominated
1999	American Beauty	Won	Gay
2002	The Hours	Nominated	Lesbian and Gay
2005	Brokeback Mountain	Nominated	Gay
	Capote	Nominated
2008	Milk	Nominated
2010	Black Swan	Nominated	Bisexual
	The Kids Are All Right	Nominated	Lesbian
2013	Dallas Buyers Club	Nominated	Queer Transgender
2014	The Imitation Game	Nominated	Gay
2016	Moonlight	Won
2017	Call Me by Your Name	Nominated	Bisexual
2018	Bohemian Rhapsody	Nominated
	The Favourite	Nominated	Lesbian
2021	The Power of the Dog	Nominated	Queer
2022	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Won	Lesbian
	Tár	Nominated

Speculated to be LGBTQ

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

Best Production Design

Academy Award for Best Production Design
Year	Name	Film	Status	Reference
1936	Edwin B. Willis	The Great Ziegfeld	Nominated
		Romeo and Juliet	Nominated
1941	Howard Bristol	The Little Foxes	Nominated
	Samuel M. Comer	Hold Back the Dawn	Nominated
	Edwin B. Willis	Blossoms in the Dust	Won
		When Ladies Meet	Nominated
1942	Howard Bristol	The Pride of the Yankees	Nominated
	Samuel M. Comer	Take a Letter, Darling	Nominated
	Jack D. Moore	Random Harvest	Nominated
	Edwin B. Willis		Nominated
1943	Howard Bristol	The North Star	Nominated
	George James Hopkins	Mission to Moscow	Nominated
		This Is the Army	Nominated
	Edwin B. Willis	Madame Curie	Nominated
		Thousands Cheer	Nominated
1944	Howard Bristol	The Princess and the Pirate	Nominated
	Samuel M. Comer	No Time for Love	Nominated
	Edwin B. Willis	Gaslight	Won
		Kismet	Nominated
	Richard Pefferle		Nominated
1945	Samuel M. Comer	Frenchman's Creek	Won
		Love Letters	Nominated
	Edwin B. Willis	National Velvet	Nominated
		The Picture of Dorian Gray	Nominated
1946	Samuel M. Comer	Kitty	Nominated
	Paul S. Fox	The Razor's Edge	Nominated
	Edwin B. Willis	The Yearling	Won
1947	Paul S. Fox	The Foxes of Harrow	Nominated
	George James Hopkins	Life with Father	Nominated
1949	Paul S. Fox	Come to the Stable	Nominated
	Jack D. Moore	Little Women	Won
	Edwin B. Willis		Won
		Madame Bovary	Nominated
1950	Samuel M. Comer	Samson and Delilah	Won
		Sunset Boulevard	Won
	Edwin B. Willis	Annie Get Your Gun	Nominated
		The Red Danube	Nominated
1951	Paul S. Fox	David and Bathsheba	Nominated
		House on Telegraph Hill	Nominated
	F. Keogh Gleason	An American in Paris	Won
	George James Hopkins	A Streetcar Named Desire	Won
	Jack D. Moore	Too Young to Kiss	Nominated
	Edwin B. Willis	An American in Paris	Won
		Too Young to Kiss	Nominated
1952	Howard Bristol	Hans Christian Andersen	Nominated
	Paul S. Fox	The Snows of Kilimanjaro	Nominated
	F. Keogh Gleason	The Bad and the Beautiful	Won
	Arthur Krams	The Merry Widow	Nominated
	Edwin B. Willis	The Bad and the Beautiful	Won
		The Merry Widow	Nominated
1953	Paul S. Fox	The President's Lady	Nominated
		The Robe	Won
	F. Keogh Gleason	The Story of Three Loves	Nominated
	Arthur Krams	Lili	Nominated
		The Story of Three Loves	Nominated
	Jack D. Moore		Nominated
		Young Bess	Nominated
	Edwin B. Willis	Julius Caesar	Won
		Lili	Nominated
		The Story of Three Loves	Nominated
		Young Bess	Nominated
1954	Samuel M. Comer	The Country Girl	Nominated
		Red Garters	Nominated
		Sabrina	Nominated
	Paul S. Fox	Désirée	Nominated
	F. Keogh Gleason	Brigadoon	Nominated
	George James Hopkins	A Star Is Born	Nominated
	Irene Sharaff		Nominated
	Edwin B. Willis	Brigadoon	Nominated
		Executive Suite	Nominated
1955	Howard Bristol	Guys and Dolls	Nominated
	Samuel M. Comer	The Rose Tattoo	Won
		To Catch a Thief	Nominated
	Paul S. Fox	Daddy Long Legs	Nominated
	Henry Grace	Blackboard Jungle	Nominated
	Arthur Krams	The Rose Tattoo	Won
		To Catch a Thief	Nominated
	Oliver Smith	Guys and Dolls	Nominated
	Edwin B. Willis	Blackboard Jungle	Nominated
		I'll Cry Tomorrow	Nominated
1956	Samuel M. Comer	The Proud and Profane	Nominated
		The Ten Commandments	Nominated
	Ross J. Dowd	Around the World in 80 Days	Nominated
	Paul S. Fox	The King and I	Won
	F. Keogh Gleason	Lust for Life	Nominated
		Somebody Up There Likes Me	Won
	Edwin B. Willis	Lust for Life	Nominated
		Somebody Up There Likes Me	Won
1957	Samuel M. Comer	Funny Face	Nominated
	Richard Pefferle	Les Girls	Nominated
	Edwin B. Willis		Nominated
		Raintree County	Nominated
1958	Samuel M. Comer	Vertigo	Nominated
	Paul S. Fox	A Certain Smile	Nominated
	F. Keogh Gleason	Gigi	Won
	Henry Grace		Won
	George James Hopkins	Auntie Mame	Nominated
1959	Paul S. Fox	Career	Nominated
	Henry Grace	North by Northwest	Nominated
	Arthur Krams	Career	Nominated
	Oliver Messel	Suddenly, Last Summer	Nominated
1960	Samuel M. Comer	It Started in Naples	Nominated
		Visit to a Small Planet	Nominated
	Ross J. Dowd	The Facts of Life	Nominated
	Henry Grace	Cimarron	Nominated
	George James Hopkins	Sunrise at Campobello	Nominated
	Arthur Krams	Visit to a Small Planet	Nominated
1961	Howard Bristol	Flower Drum Song	Nominated
	Samuel M. Comer	Breakfast at Tiffany's	Nominated
		Summer and Smoke	Nominated
	Piero Gherardi	La Dolce Vita	Nominated
	Arthur Krams	Summer and Smoke	Nominated
1962	Samuel M. Comer	The Pigeon That Took Rome	Nominated
	Henry Grace	Mutiny on the Bounty	Nominated
		Period of Adjustment	Nominated
		The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm	Nominated
	George James Hopkins	Days of Wine and Roses	Nominated
		The Music Man	Nominated
1963	Samuel M. Comer	Come Blow Your Horn	Nominated
		Hud	Nominated
		Love with the Proper Stranger	Nominated
	Paul S. Fox	Cleopatra	Won
	Piero Gherardi	8½	Nominated
	Henry Grace	How the West Was Won	Nominated
		Twilight of Honor	Nominated
1964	Cecil Beaton	My Fair Lady	Won
	Henry Grace	The Americanization of Emily	Nominated
		The Unsinkable Molly Brown	Nominated
	George James Hopkins	My Fair Lady	Won
1965	Henry Grace	A Patch of Blue	Nominated
	George James Hopkins	Inside Daisy Clover	Nominated
1966	Piero Gherardi	Juliet of the Spirits	Nominated
	Henry Grace	Mister Buddwing	Nominated
	George James Hopkins	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Won
1967	Howard Bristol	Thoroughly Modern Millie	Nominated
1968		Star!	Nominated
1969	George James Hopkins	Hello, Dolly!	Won
	Jack D. Moore	Sweet Charity	Nominated
1970	Samuel M. Comer	Tora! Tora! Tora!	Nominated
	Arthur Krams		Nominated
	Jack D. Moore	Airport	Nominated
1982	Franco Zeffirelli	La Traviata	Nominated
1987	Ferdinando Scarfiotti	The Last Emperor	Won
1992		Toys	Nominated
2005	Jan Pascale	Good Night, and Good Luck	Nominated
2020		Mank	Won

Best Short Film (Animated)

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
Year	Name	Film	Status	Demographic	Reference
1969	Ryan Larkin	Walking	Nominated	Bisexual
2003	Adam Elliot	Harvie Krumpet	Won	Gay
2020	Adrien Merigeau	Genius Loci	Nominated

Best Short Film (Live Action)

Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
Year	Name	Film	Status	Demographic	Reference
1952	Norman McLaren	Neighbours	Nominated	Gay
1957		A Chairy Tale	Nominated
1960	Ismail Merchant	The Creation of Woman	Nominated
1992	Christian Taylor	The Lady in Waiting	Nominated
1994	Randy Stone	Trevor	Won
2020	Travon Free	Two Distant Strangers	Won	Bisexual

Best Sound Mixing

Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing
Year	Name	Film	Status	Demographic	Reference
2008	Lora Hirschberg	The Dark Knight	Nominated	Lesbian
2010		Inception	Won

Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Year	Name	Film	Adapted from	Status	Milestone	Demographic	Reference
1944	John Van Druten	Gaslight	Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton	Nominated		Gay
1951	Tennessee Williams	A Streetcar Named Desire	A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams	Nominated
1956		Baby Doll	27 Wagons Full of Cotton and The Unsatisfactory Supper by Tennessee Williams	Nominated
1958	Terence Rattigan	Separate Tables	Separate Tables by Terence Rattigan	Nominated
1960	Gavin Lambert	Sons and Lovers	Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence	Nominated
1970	Larry Kramer	Women in Love	Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence	Nominated
1973	James Bridges	The Paper Chase	The Paper Chase by John Jay Osborn Jr.	Nominated
1974	Paul Dehn	Murder on the Orient Express	Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie	Nominated
1977	Gavin Lambert	I Never Promised You a Rose Garden	I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg	Nominated
	Peter Shaffer	Equus	Equus by Peter Shaffer	Nominated
1980	David Stevens	Breaker Morant	Breaker Morant by Kenneth G. Ross	Nominated
1984	Peter Shaffer	Amadeus	Amadeus by Peter Shaffer	Won
1994	Alan Bennett	The Madness of King George	The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett	Nominated		Bisexual
1998	Bill Condon	Gods and Monsters	Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram	Won		Gay
2002		Chicago	Chicago by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse	Nominated
2005	Tony Kushner	Munich	Vengeance by George Jonas	Nominated
2011	John Logan	Hugo	The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick	Nominated
2012	Tony Kushner	Lincoln	Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin	Nominated
	Jim Rash	The Descendants	The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings	Won
2015	Emma Donoghue	Room	Room by Emma Donoghue	Nominated		Lesbian
	Phyllis Nagy	Carol	The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith	Nominated
2016	Tarell Alvin McCraney	Moonlight	In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney	Won		Gay
2017	James Ivory	Call Me by Your Name	Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman	Won
	Dee Rees	Mudbound	Mudbound by Hillary Jordan	Nominated	First queer black woman to be nominated for a screenplay Oscar	Lesbian
2018	Jeff Whitty	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	Can You Ever Forgive Me? by Lee Israel	Nominated		Gay

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)

Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Year	Name	Film	Status	Demographic	Reference
1942	Noël Coward	In Which We Serve	Nominated	Gay
	George Oppenheimer	The War Against Mrs. Hadley	Nominated
1952	Terence Rattigan	The Sound Barrier	Nominated
1961	William Inge	Splendor in the Grass	Won
1965	Jacques Demy	The Umbrellas of Cherbourg	Nominated	Bisexual
1968	Arthur C. Clarke	2001: A Space Odyssey	Nominated	Gay
1969	Luchino Visconti	The Damned	Nominated
1977	Arthur Laurents	The Turning Point	Nominated
1979	James Bridges	The China Syndrome	Nominated
1993	Ron Nyswaner	Philadelphia	Nominated
1999	Alan Ball	American Beauty	Won
2000	John Logan	Gladiator	Nominated
2002	Pedro Almodóvar	Talk to Her	Won
	Todd Haynes	Far from Heaven	Nominated
2004	John Logan	The Aviator	Nominated
2008	Dustin Lance Black	Milk	Won
2010	Lisa Cholodenko	The Kids Are All Right	Nominated	Lesbian
2015	Jonathan Herman	Straight Outta Compton	Nominated	Gay
2022	Tony Kushner	The Fabelmans	Nominated

Speculated to be LGBTQ

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

Best Writing (Original Story)

Academy Award for Best Original Story
Year	Name	Film	Status	Demographic	Reference
1946	John Patrick	The Strange Love of Martha Ivers	Nominated	Gay
1950	Leonard Spigelgass	Mystery Street	Nominated
1951	James Bernard	Seven Days to Noon	Won
	Paul Dehn		Won
1955	Nicholas Ray	Rebel Without a Cause	Nominated	Bisexual

Governors Awards

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. 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.)

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
1954	Greta Garbo		For her unforgettable screen performances. (Statuette)	Bisexual (Alleged)
1961	Jerome Robbins		For his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film. (Statuette)	Bisexual
1969	Cary Grant		For his unique mastery of the art of screen acting with the respect and affection of his colleagues. (Statuette)	Bisexual (Alleged)
1981	Barbara Stanwyck		For superlative creativity and unique contribution to the art of screen acting. (Statuette)
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
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)
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
2014	Angelina Jolie	Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award	Outstanding contributions to humanitarian causes. (Statuette)	Bisexual

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