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Your Guide To All The LGBTQ And Queer-Related Nominees For This Year’s Academy Awards
Your Guide To All The LGBTQ And Queer-Related Nominees For This Year's Academy Awards,It's almost time for the 2023 Academy Awards, with plenty of LGBTQ films up for awards. From time-bending, multiverse adventures to thrilling dramas about power dynamics, this year's queer film slate is everywhere and everything all at once!

Your Guide To All The LGBTQ And Queer-Related Nominees For This Year’s Academy Awards

Awards season is here!

With the awards season ramping up to its grand conclusion, it’s time to look at all the LGBTQ films nominated for the 2023 Academy Awards.

From a multiverse-bending tale of family love to murder mysteries and songs from queer icons, this year’s slate of queer films span genres and worlds of their own making.

Not all queerness is great, however, especially when in the wrong cough straight cough hands. So while more representation is great, what exactly are the queer films nominated at this year’s Oscars?

Everything Everywhere All at Once — 11 Nominations






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If there is one thing Lady Gaga is going to do, it’s eat!

Mother monster and queer legend herself Lady Gaga has earned her fourth Academy Award nomination, having won for “Shallow” in this category back in 2019, and with a good chance to win it again this year. Already nominated at the Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards, and the Grammys, “Hold My Hand” is a certified bop!

Gaga is not done, either. With the recently released image of her in the highly anticipated Joker sequel as Harley Quinn, Gaga could have another award winner cooking as we speak.

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What to expect at this year’s Oscars:

While not all the queerness at this year’s Oscars will depict the happiest of times, they will be queer. LGBTQ films like Everything Everywhere All at OnceTár, and The Whale are expected to do well, with the first film likely to sweep most of the top categories, barring a complete left turn.

Although there are some questionable decisions made in these films, this year’s slate of LGBTQ nominees show how far LGBTQ film has come, as well as how far it still needs to go. Movies like Tár and Everything Everywhere All at Once illustrate how smartly written queer characters can go beyond conservative buzzwords and stereotypes to be compelling. Even though The Whale showed us once again how amazing Brendan Fraser is, the film is far from perfect representation.

However you feel, get ready, because the Academy Awards always bring some intense discussion. The ceremony airs March 12 on ABC.