Who won the Oscar for best actress for her role in the film Boys Don't Cry in 1999?
"Boys Don't Cry (film) Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Kimberly Peirce and co-written by Peirce and Andy Bienen. The film is a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena, an American trans man played in the film by Hilary Swank, who adopts a male identity and attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska but falls victim to a brutal hate crime perpetrated by two male acquaintances. The film co-stars Chloë Sevigny as Teena's girlfriend. After reading about the case while in college, Peirce conducted extensive research for a screenplay, which she worked"
"In order to fund the writing and development of the feature, Peirce worked as a paralegal on the midnight shift, as a 35mm film projectionist, and received a New York Foundation for the Arts grant. With help from the Sundance Institute's Filmmakers, Writers and Producers Labs in 1997, Peirce completed the feature film in 1999. Upon its release, ""Boys Don't Cry"" became one of the most acclaimed and talked about films of the year, opening at the Venice, Toronto and New York Film Festivals and earning many honors, including the Best Actress Oscar, Golden Globe, Independent Spirit award and many"
"Teena in ""Boys Don't Cry"". To prepare for the role, Swank lived as a man for a month and reduced her body fat to seven percent. Many critics hailed her work as the best female performance of 1999 and her work ultimately won her the Golden Globe Award and Academy Award for Best Actress. Swank had earned only $75 per day for her work on the film, culminating in a total of $3,000. Her earnings were so low that she had not even earned enough to qualify for health insurance. Swank again won the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award"
"that they break your heart"". ""Premiere"" listed Swank's performance as one of the ""100 Greatest Performances of All Time"". Owen Gleiberman of ""Entertainment Weekly"" called Swank a ""revelation"" and wrote, ""by the end, her Brandon/Teena is beyond male or female. It's as if we were simply glimpsing the character's soul, in all its yearning and conflicted beauty."" Other reviewers were positive towards the way ""Boys Don't Cry"" portrayed its subject matter. and Roger Ebert of the ""Chicago Sun-Times"" listed ""Boys Don't Cry"" as one of the five best films of 1999, saying, ""this could have been a clinical movie of"
"Swank garnered critical acclaim for her portrayal of Brandon Teena in the 1999 biographical film ""Boys Don't Cry"", which earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. She starred in Clint Eastwood's 2004 sports drama film ""Million Dollar Baby"" as struggling-waitress-turned-boxer Maggie Fitzgerald, which won her a second Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. She has also starred in films such as ""The Gift"" (2000), ""Insomnia"" (2002), ""The Core"" (2003), ""Iron Jawed Angels"" (2004), ""Red Dust"" (2004), ""The Reaping"" (2007), ""P.S. I Love"
"Kimberly Peirce Kimberly Ane Peirce (born September 8, 1967) is an American feature film director, best known for her debut feature film, ""Boys Don't Cry"" (1999), which won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Hilary Swank's performance. Her second feature, ""Stop-Loss"", was released by Paramount Pictures in 2008. Her most recent feature film, ""Carrie"", was released on October 18, 2013. She is a Governor of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and a National Board member of the Director's Guild of America. Peirce was born on September 8, 1967, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Sherry and Robert A."
"2016 AFI Keynotes, and spoke at the 2017 Women's March in Park City. She received the GLAAD Media, Lambda Legal Defense, People for the American Way, Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, and the 2013 OUTFEST Career Achievement Awards. In 2018, she was honored with a Women in Film award for her activism. Peirce is openly lesbian. Kimberly Peirce Kimberly Ane Peirce (born September 8, 1967) is an American feature film director, best known for her debut feature film, ""Boys Don't Cry"" (1999), which won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Hilary Swank's performance. Her second feature, ""Stop-Loss"", was released by Paramount"
"of 21 in the fields of film, television, theater and music. ★ Bold indicates the winner in each category. ★ Corey Haim - ""The Lost Boys"" (Warner Bros) ★ Lisa Bonet - ""Angel Heart"" (Tri-Star Pictures) ★ Fred Savage - ""The Princess Bride"" (20th Century Fox) ★ Lea Thompson - ""Some Kind of Wonderful"" (Paramount) ★ Patrick Dempsey - ""Can't Buy Me Love"" (Touchstone) ★ Maia Brewton - ""Adventures in Babysitting"" (Buena Vista/Touchstone) ★ Corey Feldman - ""The Lost Boys"" (Warner Bros) ★ - ""The Gate"" (Alliance Entertainment) ★ Kirk Cameron - ""Growing Pains"" (ABC) ★ Alyssa Milano - ""Who's"
"Critics lauded ""Boys Don't Cry"" upon its release, with many calling it one of the best films of the year. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports 88% of 75 professional critics gave the film a positive review; the site consensus is that ""Hilary Swank's acclaimed performance pays fitting tribute to the tragic life of Brandon Teena"". Another review aggregator, Metacritic, gave the film an 86 of 100, indicating ""universal acclaim"". One reviewer said the film was a ""critical knockout"". Critics often praised the performances by Swank and Sevigny; Peter Travers said the pair ""give performances that burn in the memory"", and"
"such as ""In the Company of Men"" (1997), ""American Beauty"" (1999), ""Fight Club"" (1999), and ""American Psycho"" (2000), Vincent Hausmann said ""Boys Don't Cry"" ""raises the broader, widely explored issue of masculinity in crisis"". Jason Wood said the film, together with Patty Jenkins's ""Monster"" (2003), is an exploration of ""social problems"". Several scholars commented on the relationship between Brandon and Lana as well as Brandon's relationship to John and Tom. Carol Siegel regarded the film as a thematically rich love story between two ill-fated lovers, similarly to ""Romeo and Juliet"". Jack Halberstam attributed ""Boys Don't Cry""'s success to its ostensible"
"The film uses characters from Alexandre Dumas' d'Artagnan Romances, and is very loosely adapted from some plot elements of ""The Vicomte de Bragelonne"". The film received ambivalent reviews, but was a success at the box office, earning $182 million worldwide. In 1999, Sarsgaard earned critical recognition in Kimberly Peirce's ""Boys Don't Cry"", where he was cast as notorious killer John Lotter. The film is based on the real-life story of Brandon Teena, who was raped and murdered in 1993 by Lotter and Tom Nissen after they found out that he was a trans man. ""Boys Don’t Cry"" received overwhelmingly positive"
"mother subsequently sued the sheriff and the county for negligence, wrongful death, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Briefs were filed in the case by thirty-four civil-rights groups, including the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund; the matter eventually came before the Nebraska Supreme Court, which found the county negligent in failing to protect Brandon. The episode was dramatized in a 1999 film titled ""Boys Don't Cry""; actor Hilary Swank received an Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Brandon. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which, is"
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"and murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska in 1993—was responsible for her rise to prominence and her mainstream success. Sevigny played Lana Tisdel, a young woman who fell in love with Teena, initially unaware of the fact that he was biologically female and continued the relationship despite learning about his birth gender. ""Boys Don't Cry"" received high praise from critics, and was a moderate box-office success. Sevigny's performance was singled out as one of the film's strong points and was widely embraced as one of the best acted films of that year: The ""Los Angeles Times"" stated that Sevigny ""plays the role"
"""Boys Don't Cry"" ""' Catherine Keener – ""Being John Malkovich"" ""' ""Stuart Little"" Magnolia ""' Martin Sheen – ""The West Wing"" ""' Jay Mohr – ""Action"" ""' William H. Macy – ""A Slight Case of Murder"" ""' Camryn Manheim – ""The Practice"" ""' Illeana Douglas – ""Action"" ""' Linda Hamilton – ""The Color of Courage"" ""' ""Hornblower: The Even Chance"" ""' ""The West Wing"" ""' ""Action"" ""' ""Strange Justice"" Only nominees listed – winner unknown: Winners: Losers: Winners: Losers: 4th Golden Satellite Awards The 4th Golden Satellite Awards, given by the International Press Academy, were awarded on January 16, 2000."
"2012, Tisdel was involved in a car accident when she veered off the road and hit a piece of farming equipment. Lana Tisdel Lana M. Tisdel (born March 1, 1975) is an American woman whose early life and involvement with the 1993 murder of Brandon Teena was chronicled in the 1998 documentary ""The Brandon Teena Story"" and the 1999 film ""Boys Don't Cry"". She was portrayed in the film by Chloë Sevigny, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Tisdel. The director of the film, Kimberly Peirce, worked on the script for many years and interviewed"
"by Vanessa Redgrave. ""The Turning Point"" set the record for the most nominations without a win (11), previously held by ""Peyton Place"" and ""The Little Foxes"", which each had 9 nominations with no wins. This record, later tied by ""The Color Purple"", still stands . ""Annie Hall"" was the last Best Picture winner to be nominated for just five awards until ""The Departed"" 29 years later in 2006. Jason Robards became the fourth actor to win back-to-back Oscars, following Luise Rainer, Spencer Tracy, and Katharine Hepburn. For the only time to date, both Best Actor and Best Actress winners won"
"murder scene. She also claimed that one objection from the MPAA was that one scene featured an orgasm that was ""too long"", and rhetorically asked if anyone had ever been hurt by an orgasm that was too long. ""Boys Don't Cry"" was first released on home video by Fox Searchlight Pictures in September 2000 apart of a ""Premiere Series"", preceded by a DVD release in April 2000 in the United States and Canada. The DVD's special features included a commentary by Kimberly Peirce and a behind-the-scenes featurette containing interviews with Peirce, Swank and Sevigny; there was also a theatrical trailer"
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"1993. The murders, depicted in Kimberly Peirce's Academy Award-winning feature film ""Boys Don't Cry"" (2000), called dramatic attention to the serious, on-going problem of anti-transgender violence and hate crimes. The Transexual Menace continues to have periodic resurgences to protest both transgender hate-crimes and the marginalization and/or exclusion of transgender issues by the LGBT community. Another radical and effective organisation was Transgender Nation which noisily dragged transgender issues to the forefront of San Francisco's queer community, and at the local level successfully integrated transgender concerns with the political agendas of lesbian, gay, and bisexual activists to forge a truly inclusive glbtq"
"the contributions of performers under the age of 21 in the fields of film, television, theater and music. ★ Bold indicates the winner in each category. ★ Dakota Goyo - ""Real Steel"" - DreamWorks Pictures ★ Chloë Grace Moretz - ""Hugo"" - Paramount Pictures ★ Matthew J. Evans - ""Bad Teacher"" - Columbia Pictures ★ Laine MacNeil - """" - 20th Century Fox ★ Riley Thomas Stewart - ""The Beaver"" - Summit Entertainment ★ (tie) Emma Rayne Lyle - ""I Don't Know How She Does It"" - The Weinstein Company<br> ★ (tie) Amara Miller - ""The Descendents"" - Fox Searchlight"
"a landmark film, and is regarded as one of the first films of the New Hollywood era, since it broke many cinematic taboos and was popular with the younger generation. For some members of the counterculture, the film was considered to be a ""rallying cry."" Its success prompted other filmmakers to be more open in presenting sex and violence in their films. The film's ending also became iconic as ""one of the bloodiest death scenes in cinematic history."" The film received Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress (Estelle Parsons) and Best Cinematography (Burnett Guffey). It was among the first 100"
"1999 MTV Movie Awards The 1999 MTV Movie Awards were hosted by Lisa Kudrow. Musical performances included Kid Rock, Robbie Williams, and Will Smith with Dru Hill, Nine Inch Nails and Kool Moe Dee. There's Something About Mary Jim Carrey – ""The Truman Show"" Cameron Diaz – ""There's Something About Mary"" James Van Der Beek – ""Varsity Blues"" Katie Holmes – ""Disturbing Behavior"" Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker – ""Rush Hour"" Matt Dillon – ""There's Something About Mary Stephen Dorff – ""Blade Adam Sandler – ""The Waterboy"" Aerosmith — ""I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"" (from ""Armageddon"") Gwyneth Paltrow"
"1998. With eleven awards, ""Titanic"" tied with ""Ben-Hur"" for the most Academy Awards in Oscar history. It also became the first film to win Best Picture without a screenwriting nomination since 1965's ""The Sound of Music"". Best Actress winner Helen Hunt became the first performer to win an Oscar while concurrently starring in a television series; Jack Nicholson became the fourth performer to win at least three acting Oscars. Both won for their roles in ""As Good as It Gets"", making it the seventh film to win both lead acting awards. Nominated for their performances as Rose DeWitt Bukater in"
"1. Kirsten Dunst – ""Melancholia"" (39)<br> 2. Yoon Jeong-hee – ""Poetry"" (25)<br> 3. Meryl Streep – ""The Iron Lady"" (20) 1. Albert Brooks – ""Drive"" (38)<br> 2. Christopher Plummer – ""Beginners"" (24)<br> 3. Patton Oswalt – ""Young Adult"" (19) 1. Jessica Chastain – ""The Help"", ""Take Shelter"", and ""The Tree of Life"" (30)<br> 2. Jeannie Berlin – ""Margaret"" (19)<br> 3. Shailene Woodley – ""The Descendants"" (17) 1. Asghar Farhadi – ""A Separation"" (39)<br> 2. Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin – ""Moneyball"" (22)<br> 3. Woody Allen – ""Midnight in Paris"" (16) 1. Emmanuel Lubezki – ""The Tree of Life"" (76)<br> 2."
"1999. Three weeks earlier, in a ceremony held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on March 2, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Charlize Theron. ""A Beautiful Mind"" won four awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Ron Howard. Other winners included """" also with four awards, ""Black Hawk Down"", and ""Moulin Rouge!"" with two, and ""The Accountant"", ""For the Birds"", ""Gosford Park"", ""Iris"", ""Monster's Ball"", ""Monsters, Inc."", ""Murder on a Sunday Morning"", ""No Man's Land"", ""Pearl Harbor"", ""Shrek"", ""Thoth"", and ""Training Day"", with one. Despite a record length of four"
"(26) 1. Imelda Staunton – ""Vera Drake"" (TIE) (52)<br> 1. Hilary Swank – ""Million Dollar Baby"" (TIE) (52)<br> 3. Julie Delpy – ""Before Sunset"" (40) 1. Thomas Haden Church – ""Sideways"" (55)<br> 2. Morgan Freeman – ""Million Dollar Baby"" (54)<br> 3. Peter Sarsgaard – ""Kinsey"" (19) 1. Virginia Madsen – ""Sideways"" (58)<br> 2. Cate Blanchett – ""The Aviator"" and ""Coffee and Cigarettes"" (37)<br> 3. Laura Linney – ""Kinsey (18)"" 1. Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor – ""Sideways"" (60)<br> 2. Charlie Kaufman – ""Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"" (55)<br> 3. Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke – ""Before Sunset"""
"1. Frances McDormand – ""Almost Famous"" and ""Wonder Boys""<br> 2. Julie Walters – ""Billy Elliot""<br> 3. Madeline Kahn – ""Judy Berlin"" 1. Cameron Crowe – ""Almost Famous""<br> 2. Edward Yang – ""Yi Yi""<br> 3. Steven Soderbergh – ""Erin Brockovich"" and ""Traffic""<br> 3. Michael Winterbottom – ""The Claim"" and ""Wonderland"" 1. Cameron Crowe – ""Almost Famous""<br> 1. Steve Kloves – ""Wonder Boys""<br> 3. Mike White – ""Chuck & Buck"" 1. Peter Pau – ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long"")<br> 2. Agnès Godard – ""Beau Travail""<br> 3. Alwin H. Kuchler – ""The Claim""<br> 3. Matthew Libatique – ""Tigerland"" and ""Requiem"
"felt ""empowered"" by playing Lotter. In an interview with ""The Independent"", Sarsgaard said, ""I felt very sexy, weirdly, playing John Lotter. I felt like I was just like the sheriff, y'know, and that everyone loved me."" Sarsgaard recalled watching footage of and reading about Lotter to prepare for the role. Peirce cast Alicia Goranson, known for playing Becky on the sitcom ""Roseanne"", as Candace because of her likeness to Lisa Lambert. Like Sevigny, Goranson had also initially auditioned for the lead role. Initially, ""Boys Don't Cry"" was scheduled to film for thirty days. However, principal photography for the film lasted"
"3. Debra Winger – ""The Sheltering Sky"" and ""Everybody Wins"" 1. Bruce Davison – ""Longtime Companion""<br> 2. Joe Pesci – ""Goodfellas""<br> 3. Al Pacino – ""Dick Tracy""<br> 3. John Turturro – ""Miller's Crossing"" 1. Annette Bening – ""The Grifters""<br> 2. Uma Thurman – ""Henry & June"" and ""Where the Heart Is""<br> 3. Dianne Wiest – ""Edward Scissorhands"" 1. Charles Burnett – ""To Sleep with Anger""<br> 2. Tom Stoppard – ""The Russia House""<br> 3. Donald E. Westlake – ""The Grifters"" 1. Peter Suschitzky – ""Where the Heart Is""<br> 2. Ian Baker – ""The Russia House""<br> 3. Philippe Rousselot – ""Henry &"
"""The Talented Mr. Ripley""<br> 3. Haley Joel Osment – ""The Sixth Sense"" 1. Chloë Sevigny – ""Boys Don't Cry""<br> 2. Julianne Moore – ""Magnolia"", ""Cookie's Fortune"", ""A Map of the World"" and ""An Ideal Husband""<br> 3. Samantha Morton – ""Sweet and Lowdown"" 1. Charlie Kaufman – ""Being John Malkovich""<br> 2. Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor – ""Election""<br> 3. Alan Ball – ""American Beauty"" 1. Conrad L. Hall – ""American Beauty""<br> 2. Emmanuel Lubezki – ""Sleepy Hollow""<br> 3. Freddie Francis – ""The Straight Story"" 1. Autumn Tale (Conte d'automne)<br> 2. ""The Dreamlife of Angels"" (""La vie rêvée des anges"")<br> 3. ""All"
"raped and murdered in Nebraska. In 1999 he became the subject of a biopic entitled ""Boys Don't Cry"", starring Hilary Swank as Brandon Teena, for which Swank won an Academy Award. In 1995 in Washington, D.C. Tyra Hunter, a transgender woman, died after being denied medical care by ER staff due to her gender identity. In 1998 her mother was awarded $2.8 million after the District of Columbia was found guilty of negligence and malpractice in Tyra's death. The Chicago area organization T.Y.R.A. (Transgender Youth Resources and Advocacy) was created in her memory. In 1999 Calpernia Addams, a transgender woman,"
"tsunami of tears. Lucci eventually won the Daytime Emmy Award in 1999, receiving a two-minute standing ovation at the win and again after the show in the press room. A reporter in the press room questioned whether she would miss the attention she got for losing, to which Lucci responded, ""Oh, not for a minute. Winning is definitely better."" The entries Lucci submitted for the 1999 Daytime Emmy Awards involved scenes from Erica's storyline where she helps Bianca deal with her anorexia. Erica Kane Erica Kane is a fictional character from the American ABC Daytime soap opera ""All My Children""."