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Linda Hunt the Best Supporting Actress award for the movie The Year for Living Dangerously (1982) in which she portrayed a man (why? beats me).
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∙ 13y agoLinda Hunt ; " . . . in 1983, becoming the first person to win an Oscar for playing a character of the opposite sex ."
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∙ 12y agoLinda Hunt won the 1982 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as photographer Billy Kwan in "The Year of Living Dangerously."
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∙ 12y agoLinda Hunt won the 1982 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as photographer Billy Kwan in "The Year of Living Dangerously."
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