Oscar Nominations http://oscarnominations.co.uk The Oscars... the biggest movie event of the year! Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:37:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Milk http://oscarnominations.co.uk/milk http://oscarnominations.co.uk/milk#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:04:31 +0000 admin http://78.129.201.232/~oscarnom/?p=1 His life changed history. His courage changed lives. From director Gus Van Sant comes the story of California's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk, a San Francisco supervisor who was assassinated along with Mayor George Moscone by San Francisco Supervisor Dan White.]]>
Milk starring Sean Penn

Milk starring Sean Penn

After moving to San Francisco, the middle-aged New Yorker, Harvey Milk, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors in 1977, making him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the USA. The following year, both he and the city’s mayor, George Moscone, were shot to death by former city supervisor, Dan White, who blamed his former colleagues for denying White’s attempt to rescind his resignation from the board.

Mr. Milk had been the subject of several books and the Academy Award-winning documentary feature, The Times of Harvey Milk (1984); but Milk (2008) is the first fictional feature to explore private aspects of the man’s personal life and career.

Milk was filmed on location in San Francisco. Many of Mr Milk’s real-life surviving friends and former associates participated in the making of this film, several appearing on camera.

2009 Oscar Winner
Original screenplay: Written by Dustin Lance Black
Performance by an actor in a leading role: Sean Penn

2009 Oscar Nomination
Achievement in directing: Gus van Sant
Achievement in film editing: Elliot Graham
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score): Danny Elfman
Best motion picture of the year: A Groundswell and Jinks/Cohen Company Production, Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, Producers



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