1982 Oscars - The Year of the Gender Switch
In Tootsie (1982), Dustin Hoffman played a man who learned the ordeal of being a woman trying to fit in a male-driven world.
Inversely, in Victor/Victoria (1982), Julie Andrews discovers the exhilaration of being a man even outside the realm of show-business, not without the strangest effect on a "manly man" who discovers the weird laws of attraction.
Finally, in The World According to Garp (1982), John Lithgow plays a former hunky football athlete who became Roberta, a woman whose 'oddness' by Hollywood's then-standards go quickly unnoticed given how natural, empathetic and endearing she is.
So the 1982 Oscar wasn't a "drag-race" but an interesting year that questioned for the first time the kind of stuff usually taken for granted: gender identity... and its share of insecurity, differences to be relativized (as if men and women were identical within their own gender) and point of convergences to be appreciated.
The year is still the one with the most Oscar nominated performances based on 'cross-gender' performances (for lack of a better word) and not the way of Some Like It Hot (1959), these movies still hold up very well today and treated their subject with warmth, intelligence and humor.
So, which of these "cross-gender" Oscar-nominated performances from 1982 is your favorite?
After voting, you might discuss the list here
Inversely, in Victor/Victoria (1982), Julie Andrews discovers the exhilaration of being a man even outside the realm of show-business, not without the strangest effect on a "manly man" who discovers the weird laws of attraction.
Finally, in The World According to Garp (1982), John Lithgow plays a former hunky football athlete who became Roberta, a woman whose 'oddness' by Hollywood's then-standards go quickly unnoticed given how natural, empathetic and endearing she is.
So the 1982 Oscar wasn't a "drag-race" but an interesting year that questioned for the first time the kind of stuff usually taken for granted: gender identity... and its share of insecurity, differences to be relativized (as if men and women were identical within their own gender) and point of convergences to be appreciated.
The year is still the one with the most Oscar nominated performances based on 'cross-gender' performances (for lack of a better word) and not the way of Some Like It Hot (1959), these movies still hold up very well today and treated their subject with warmth, intelligence and humor.
So, which of these "cross-gender" Oscar-nominated performances from 1982 is your favorite?
After voting, you might discuss the list here
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