: Won the Academy Award for Best Actor (2014) for his role as Ron Woodroof. He lost 47 pounds for the performance to realistically portray the physical decline caused by AIDS.

: Set in 1985, Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) is diagnosed with HIV and given 30 days to live.

: He forms an unlikely partnership with Rayon (Jared Leto), a HIV-positive trans woman, to distribute these treatments through the "Dallas Buyers Club". Cast and Accolades

: Faced with a death sentence and limited treatment options, Woodroof begins smuggling unapproved experimental drugs into the U.S. from abroad to help himself and other AIDS patients.