10 Straight-Directed Films that Got Us Wrong

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J.F.K.


1991

Dir. Oliver Stone



At the 1992 Academy Awards, picketers protested outside the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in hopes to get some attention around the homophobic stereotypes present in the Oscar-nominated conspiracy film, J.F.K. Activists were upset, in particular, by Tommy Lee Jones’s portrayal of Clay Shaw.