The 1993 movie directed by Jonathan Demme stars Tom Hanks as a lawyer, Andrew Beckett, who is diagnosed with AIDS and believes he was fired because of this. Another lawyer, Joe Miller (Denzel Washington), refuses to take his case but, after seeing the ignorance displayed by others towards Andrew, decides to help him.
Hanks is one of two people to win Best Actor Oscars back to back – he took home a Best Actor statuette for this film and won the next year for the 1994 film "Forrest Gump." (The other is Spencer Tracy.)
One of the songs from the movie, "Streets of Philadelphia" by Bruce Springsteen, won both the Best Original Song Oscar and the Song of the Year Grammy.
