THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK
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Best Documentary Oscar winner, 1985 Academy Awards

Special Jury Prize, 1985 Sundance Film Festival

Long before Gus Van Sant's MILK, which won Oscars for Sean Penn's masterful portrayal of the slain San Francisco city supervisor and Dustin Lance Black's savvy screenplay, there was Rob Epstein's Oscar-winning documentary about Harvey Milk's improbable rise in politics, the unthinkable tragedy that claimed his and Mayor George Moscone's lives, and Milk's enduring political legacy.

A former stock analyst and theatrical producer, the Long Island-raised Milk moved to San Francisco in the late 1960s and soon became involved as a community organizer--the self-styled "Mayor of Castro Street." After several unsuccessful runs for office, Milk became the first openly gay city official in the United States. In a bizarre turn of events, Milk and Mayor Moscone were shot and killed by Milk's fellow city supervisor, Dan White, a former fireman and policeman, who, thanks to his attorneys' infamous "twinkie defense" (claiming White was deranged and depressed due to a junk food diet), received only a five year sentence for manslaughter. The outrageous verdict prompted riots.

DIR/SCR/PROD Rob Epstein; SCR Judith Coburn, Carter Wilson; PROD Richard Schmiechen. Narrated by Harvey Fierstein. US, 1984, color, 90 min. NOT RATED