A powerhouse creative team mobilized to make the first studio picture acknowledging a generation living with AIDS. Banderas is one-half of a committed couple taking on the system; as his HIV-positive partner, Tom Hanks won an Oscar, and Bruce Springsteen’s song “Streets of Philadelphia” also won. With Denzel Washington, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen, Anna Deavere Smith, Joanne Woodward, Karen Finley, and Ron Vawter (himself HIV-positive).