Is This the Gayest Oscar Season Ever?

Nov 5, 2026 8:00am PT Is This the Gayest Oscar Season Ever?

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Gay men love the Oscars. But the Oscars haven’t always shown the same love back.

It’s been more than 20 years since “Brokeback Mountain,” after a charmed precursor season, lost the best picture trophy to “Crash,” and though there have been breakthroughs since then — “Moonlight,” to name the most famous of them — there still hasn’t been an out gay best actor winner.

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