Where were all the queer winners at this year’s Oscars?
Despite a range of queer nominees at the 2024 Academy Awards, hotly tipped actors like Lily Gladstone and Colman Domingo walked away without an award.
But is there a different story if we look more closely? WORDS BY BILLIE WALKER HEADER BY YOSEF PHELAN Last night, awards season reached its culmination with the 96th Academy Awards and, well, there was one thing we couldn’t help but notice.
While the ceremony has, admittedly, always been more than a bit behind in terms of representation – it took until 2022 for a queer woman of colour to win an Oscar for acting, after all – it seemed like, in 2024, the LGBTQIA+ community had been majorly snubbed.
Yep, despite what feels like an unprecedented amount of queer nominations at this year’s Oscars, at first glance it seemed like LGBTQIA+ actors and films went home pretty much empty-handed – except for the notable exception of Billie Eilish, who won her second Oscar for ‘What Was I Made For?’ from the Barbie soundtrack.
