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Supporting Actor in a Movie or Miniseries | 1995 | Ian
Writing a Movie or Miniseries | 1995
Outstanding Made for Television Movie | 1994 | Sarah
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Casting | 1994 | Judith
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Editing for a Miniseries or a Special Single Camera Production | 1994 | Lois
PBSCable Category | 1994 | Arnold
Outstanding TV Movie | 1994
Best Casting for TV Movie of the Week | 1994 | Judith
Best Edited Motion Picture for NonCommercial Television | 1994 | Lois
1993 | Roger
Television Programs | 2007
Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television | 1994 | Matthew
Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television | 1994
Supporting Actress in a Movie or Miniseries | 1995 | Swoosie
Supporting Actor in a Movie or Miniseries | 1995 | Lawrence
Editing a Dramatic Special or SeriesTheatrical SpecialMovie or Miniseries | 1995 | Lois
Directing a Movie or Miniseries | 1995 | Roger
MakeUp | 1995 | Allan A.
Movie or Miniseries | 1995 | E. Duke
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Movies of the WeekPilots | 1995 | Paul
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Miniseries or a Special | 1994 | Arnold
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special | 1994 | Matthew
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special | 1994 | Ian
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Art Direction for a Miniseries or a Special | 1994 | Diana Allen
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special | 1994 | Lily
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Miniseries or a Special | 1994 | Michael
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Hairstyling for a Miniseries or a Special | 1994 | Arturo
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing for a Miniseries or a Special | 1994 | Roger
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Specials | 1994 | Roger
When Richard Gere accepted a small role, he broke taboos about the subject, and major movie stars taking small parts in television productions. Subsequently, Steve Martin, Alan Alda, Phil Collins, and Anjelica Huston were willing to appear.
Although the name of Richard Gere's character is never revealed throughout the movie, he is Michael Bennett, the famous choreographer and creator of A Chorus Line and Dreamgirls (among others musicals), who died of AIDS in 1987.
NBC spent two years adapting the book for television, but ultimately withdrew from the project in 1989, allowing HBO to pick up the rights. Contrary to popular belief, NBC dropped the project, not because of its controversial subject matter, but because the book's structure didn't work as a four-hour, two-night mini-series. In March 1994, six months after its debut on HBO, NBC re-ran it, edited to fit a two-hour time slot.
In one scene, Don Francis (Matthew Modine) mentions that Dr. Robert Gallo would win a Nobel Prize, if his retrovirus research turned out to be successful in finding what causes AIDS. That statement almost happened in reality, but in 2008, Gallo was excluded among the winners for such work, and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was given to Luc Montagnier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (played by Patrick Bauchau and Nathalie Baye, respectively) for their work on the discovery of HIV.
This movie, like the Randy Shilts book on which it was based, presents as fact the idea that a single man (the French-Canadian airline steward Gaetan Dugas) was heavily or solely responsible for the introduction of HIV into the United States as well as the speed of its subsequent spread. Shilts was largely responsible for promulgating this idea, and he was the first author to supply Dugas's name to the general public (before Shilts's writings, Dugas was known only as "Patient Zero"). However, a 2016 paper published in Nature: The International Journal of Science "recovered the HIV-1 genome from the individual known as 'Patient 0' [Dugas] and found neither biological nor historical evidence that he was the primary case in the US...." Furthermore, that paper and other publications in the years since Shilts's book have also debunked the title of "Patient Zero," another source of the notion that Dugas was the disease's origin point and/or primary vector; Erin Blakemore's October 2016 Smithsonian Magazine article explains, "It turns out that a tragic misreading fueled Dugas's reputation as 'Patient Zero.' Despite being initially identified as the CDC's 57th case of the then-mysterious disease, writes [the Los Angeles Times' Deborah] Netburn, at some point he was tagged with the letter 'O' in a CDC AIDS study that identified him as a patient 'outside of California.' That O was read as a number at some point, and Shilts, feeling the idea of a patient zero was 'catchy,' identified Dugas in his book."
"Blood Bank executive: Is the CDC seriously suggesting that the blood industry spends $100M a year to use the test for the wrong disease because we have a handful of transfusion fatalities and eight dead hemophiliacs? Dr. Don Francis: How many dead hemophiliacs do you need? How many people have to die to make it cost effecient for you people to do something about it? A hundred? A thousand? Give us a number so we won't annoy you again until the amount of money you begin spending on lawsuits make it more profitable for you to save people than to kill them."
"Roger Gail Lyon: This is not a political issue. This is a health issue. This is not a gay issue. This is a human issue. And I do not intend to be defeated by it. I came here today in the hope that my epitaph would not read that I died of red tape."
