Awards
Common Threads won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 1990. This was the second Oscar for producer/director Rob Epstein. He had previously won for The Times of Harvey Milk, a biography of openly gay San Francisco politician Harvey Milk. The film also won the Interfilm Award at the 1990 Berlin Film Festival, a GLAAD Media Award for Best TV Documentary and a Peabody Award.
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