The Year of Living Dangerously: Directed by Peter Weir. With Linda Hunt, Mel Gibson, Bembol Roco, Domingo Landicho. A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.

The first actor to have won an Academy Award portraying a member of the opposite sex, she won the Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar for her role as Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982).

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The first actor to have won an Academy Award portraying a member of the opposite sex, she won the Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar for her role as Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982).

The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) - Awards, nominations, and wins. Menu. Movies. ... Linda Hunt; Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards. 1983 Winner KCFCC Award. Best Supporting Actress; Linda Hunt; Tied with Mia Farrow for Zelig (1983). Los …

Director Peter Weir cast Linda Hunt in the role of Billy Kwan after failing to find an actor who could play the part the way he wanted. With a budget of $6 million, this was, at the time, one of the most expensive and ambitious Australian films ever undertaken.

Peter Weir's "The Year of Living Dangerously" gives us an Australian foreign correspondent desperate to prove himself in his career, a marvelously strange character as his photographer sidekick, sets the whole thing in the politically tumultuous Indonesia of the 1960s, and then can think of nothing better to do with any of this material than ...

The first actor to have won an Academy Award portraying a member of the opposite sex, she won the Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar for her role as Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982).

The Year of Living Dangerously: Directed by Peter Weir. With Linda Hunt, Mel Gibson, Bembol Roco, Domingo Landicho. A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.

Mel Gibson, Linda Hunt, Noel Ferrier, and Michael Murphy in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)