56th Academy Awards
The Best Supporting Actress winner this year was unique; Linda Hunt won for her role as Billy Kwan a male Chinese-Australian photographer in Peter Weir's "The Year of Living Dangerously" , making her the first actor to win an Oscar for playing a character of the opposite sex . 
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