Best Motion Picture of the Year

MILK

MILK

Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen
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ACADEMY AWARDS HISTORY

This is the second Academy Award nomination for Dan Jinks. He was previously nominated for:

  • AMERICAN BEAUTY (1999) -- Winner, Best Picture

This is the second Academy Award nomination for Bruce Cohen. He was previously nominated for:

  • AMERICAN BEAUTY (1999) -- Winner, Best Picture

FILM SYNOPSIS

As the emerging Gay Pride movement gathers force in the 1970s, it finds a champion and a public face in San Francisco camera store owner Harvey Milk.  Leaving his closeted life in New York behind, Milk moves to California with his lover and soon turns his efforts to politics, campaigning for a spot on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors--a quest that will make him the country's first openly gay man to be elected to public office.
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