Transparent And The Danish Girl Highlight Transgender Stories At Golden Globes
January 10, 2016
At this year’s Golden Globes, the transgender community will be seeing a lot of representation in television and film.
Stories that exemplify the transgender experience are being recognized at this year’s Golden Globes with mulitple nominations. Transparent, which stars Jeffrey Tambor as a father who comes out to his family as transgender, cleaned up at the Emmys in September with five wins and 11 nominations. The Amazon original series has three Golden Globe nomination, according to Fortune.
Transparent is up for best television series in the musical/comedy category, best performance by an actor, and best performance by a supporting actress in a television series, musical, or comedy. The show is competing against the Netflix hit series Orange is the New Black, which stars transgender actress Laverne Cox.
Regarding film, nominee Eddie Redmayne is among the favorites to win the best actor, drama category, for his portrayal of the real-life pioneer who became the first sexual reassignment surgery patient in the 1920s. The Tom Hooper-directed “The Danish Girl,” the tale of a painter who transitions from male to female, helped push boundaries. As did “Tangerine,” the indie drama about a prostitute searching for her boyfriend and his new lover starring real life transgender actress Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, according to NY Daily News.
Hollywood stars of screens both big and small are all together at the The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California for the 73rd annual Golden Globe Awards. The Golden Globe Award is an American accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign
Hosted by Ricky Gervais, the yearly show celebrates the best of film and television.
“Transparent” is a half hour novelistic series that explores family, identity, sex, and love. The series stars Tambor as Maura, who has spent her life as Mort—the Pfefferman family patriarch. When she reintroduces herself to her family, everyone else’s secrets finally start to come out. This includes her ex-wife Shelly (played by Light), and their children—meandering Ali (played by Hoffmann), record producer Josh (played by Duplass), and sexually conflicted Sarah (played by Landecker). Each family member spins in a different direction as they figure out who they won’t become.
Inspired by the true story of Danish painter Einar Wegener and his wife, The Danish Girl is a tender portrait of a marriage that asks: What do you do when someone you love wants to change? It starts with a question, a simple favor asked of a husband by his wife on an afternoon chilled by the Baltic wind while both are painting in their studio. Her portrait model has canceled, and would he mind slipping into a pair of women’s shoes and stockings for a few moments so she can finish the painting on time. Of course, he answers. Anything at all. With that, one of the most passionate and unusual love stories of the twentieth century begins.
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