Top 10 Lesbian and Gay People Oscar winners

Top 10 Lesbian and Gay People who won Oscar

10. Jodie Foster – 1992
Jodie wasn’t out when she won her Oscars for ‘The Accused’ and ‘Silence of the Lambs’, Jodie Foster has since became the most well-known lesbian Hollywood.
She married her partner, Alexandra Hedison, in 2014 – after dating for a year.
9. Bill Condon – 1999
The ‘Gods and Monsters’ writer and director, won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay in 1998.
8. Melissa Etheridge – 2007
Melissa Etheridge, won in 2006 for ‘I Need to Wake Up’ for best original song
The song which featured in the documentary, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. After coming out in 1993, she became a prominent LGBT rights activist.
7. Stephen Sondheim 1990
The revered composer and lyricist won an Oscar for best original song in 1990 when he composed ‘Sooner or Later I Always Get My Man’.
This award joins a list of over many other awards on stage and film. “It was never easy being a homosexual” - he said in an interview in 1998.
6. Dustin Lance Black - 2009
Black won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for “Milk” in 2009.
He wore a “White Knot“ on the lapel of his tuxedo in an effort to show solidarity with the marriage equality movement.
5. George Cukor – 1964
Picking up the best director Oscar in 1964 for ‘My Fair Lady’, featuring Audrey Hepburn, he was openly gay.
In a biography of his life, he was described as heading a gay subculture in Hollywood during the 1930s.
4. Alan Ball – 2000
Ball, who has been called a “strong voice for the LGBT community,” won for Best Original Screenplay for “American Beauty.”
3. John Gielgud – 1982
The star, who died in 2000, also picked up an Emmy, a Grammy and a Tony. He served as president of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art between 1977 and 1989.
2. John Corigliano – 2000
Corigliano won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for “The Red Violin.” He dedicated his “Symphony No. 1,” which he wrote in 1988, to friends he’d lost in the AIDS crisis.
1. Elton John - 1995
In 1995, John (left) won an Oscar for Best Original Song for “Can You Feel The Love Tonight“ from Disney’s “The Lion King,” with lyricist Tim Rice.
During his acceptance speech, he dedicated the award to his grandmother, who had passed away the week before and said: “This is an incredible honour for me.”

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