Best LGBTQ movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Brendan Fraser, Ian McKellen, Lynn Redgrave, Lolita Davidovich,
Directors : Bill Condon,

The last days of Frankenstein (1931) Director James Whale are explored.

Actors : Emma Stone, Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult,
Directors : Yorgos Lanthimos,

In early 18th century England, a frail Queen Anne (Colman) occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah (Weisz) governs the country in her stead. When a new servant Abigail (Stone) arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah.

Actors : Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Margaret Avery,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Ben Falcone, Dolly Wells, Melissa McCarthy,
Directors : Marielle Heller,

When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception. An adaptation of the memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer Lee Israel.

Actors : Tom Selleck, Joan Cusack, Matt Dillon, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Frank Oz,

A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.

Actors : Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Terence Stamp, Rebel Penfold-Russell,
Directors : Stephan Elliott,

Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.

Actors : Lyle Lovett, Lisa Kudrow, Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan,
Directors : Don Roos,

A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.

Actors : Nicole Kidman, Lucas Hedges, Joel Edgerton, Russell Crowe,
Directors : Joel Edgerton,

The son of a Baptist preacher is forced to participate in a church-supported gay conversion program after being forcibly outed to his parents.

Actors : Sonia Braga, Raul Julia, José Lewgoy, William Hurt,
Directors : Hector Babenco,

A gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.

Actors : Rupert Graves, Hugh Grant, James Wilby, Denholm Elliott,
Directors : James Ivory,

After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.

Actors : Irene Cara, Eddie Barth, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean,
Directors : Alan Parker,

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.

Actors : Taron Egerton, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden,
Directors : Dexter Fletcher,

A musical fantasy about the fantastical human story of Elton John's breakthrough years.

Actors : Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent, Melanie Lynskey,
Directors : Peter Jackson,

Two girls have an intense fantasy life; their parents, concerned the fantasy is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.

Actors : Charles Grodin, Audra Lindley, Cybill Shepherd, Jeannie Berlin,
Directors : Elaine May,

Three days into his Miami honeymoon, New York Jewish Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms him in his opinion that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants Kelly ...

Actors : Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Alan Alda,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

Misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Actors : Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, Miriam Hopkins, James Garner,
Directors : William Wyler,

A troublemaking student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of being lesbians.

Actors : Richard Burton, Charles Bronson, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint,
Directors : Vincente Minnelli,

A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wed headmaster of an Episcopal boarding school in California.

Actors : Peter White, Leonard Frey, Kenneth Nelson, Frederick Combs,
Directors : William Friedkin,

Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual is accidentally invited to a homosexual party.

Actors : Beryl Reid, Ronald Fraser, Coral Browne, Susannah York,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

George lives with her lover, Childie and plays a cheerful district nurse in a BBC soap opera. However, her character is to be killed off, and George realises that the only other job she can...

Actors : Estelle Parsons, Joanne Woodward, Kate Harrington, James Olson,
Directors : Paul Newman,

Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.