Roger Ebert wrote “ Longtime Companion is about friendship and loyalty about finding the courage to be helpful and the humility to be helped . ” Peter Travers from Rolling Stone commented “ Funny , Touching and Vital , Longtime Companion is the best American movie so far this year . It is also , astonishingly , the first major feature to detail the gay community ’s battle against the AIDS epidemic . ” '' Longtime Companion '' garnered a number of awards and honors , many for the performance of Bruce Davison . In addition to his Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination , Davison won a Golden Globe award , an Independent Spirit Award , a National Society of Film Critics award , and a New York Film Critics Circle award for Best Supporting Actor . Other awards and nominations include : The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival
1990 Cannes Film Festival
1990 Cannes Film Festival
Longtime Companion