The Searing AIDS Drama That the Oscars Weren’t Ready to Recognize

Hollywood’s history with AIDS has been complicated from almost the very beginning—think about how it was only after Rock Hudson’s visible illness that Ronald Reagan finally acknowledged the disease, nearly half a decade after it began decimating gay communities around the country. The Oscars, too, have sometimes struggled to get it right. Tom Hanks made history in 1994, winning his first of two back-to-back best-actor Oscars for his role as an AIDS patient in Philadelphia. Then again, in 2013, the searing AIDS activism documentary How to Survive a Plague lost the best-documentary-feature category to the uplifting music doc Searching for… Read Full Article