William Hurt won the Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar for Kiss of the Spider Woman in 1986. Hurt became the first actor to win an Oscar for playing a gay role.
The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molina, a gay window-dresser who fills their lonely nights by spinning romantic fantasies drawn from memories of old movies.
