KEY POINTS:
Sean Penn is nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role. In
Milk
he plays the character of Harvey Milk, a camera store owner whose decision to campaign for a place on San Francisco's Board of Supervisors becomes a landmark event within the gay rights movement. Penn is no stranger to controversy himself. He has attracted plenty of media attention due to his stormy private life and political viewpoints; in 2002 he took out a $56,000 ad in the Washington Post opposing the war in Iraq.
