The OUTFEST Screen Idol Awards honor the best performances by an actor and an actress in a gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered role.

2000 Screen Idol Award Winners:

Vanessa Redgrave
(IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK 2)


Robert Downey, Jr.
(WONDER BOYS)

2001 Screen Idol Awards Awards Timeline:

--January 2002 - OUTFEST Members vote to determine 5 nominees for the Best Female Performance and 5 nominees for the Best Male Performance of 2001 (deadline: January 31, 2002)

--February 2002 - Nominees announced

--March 2002 - Online voting by the general public begins

--April 15, 2002 - Online voting closes

--May 2002 - Winners announced

Call for Eligible Performances:

Current OUTFEST Members will select the 2001 nominees for the general public to vote for online. Help us compile a list of all the eligible performances in 2001 for the Members of OUTFEST to consider nominating. E-mail us the name of the performer and the film they appeared in (if you know the name of the role they played, that’s even better).

Eligibility:

Performances in a gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered role in a feature film or a film made for television. (Performances in episodic television series such as WILL & GRACE and QUEER AS FOLK are not eligible.) Feature films must have enjoyed a U.S. theatrical release of at least one week during the 2001 calendar year; films made for television must have premiered during the 2001 calendar year.