A 'gender fluid' performer has made Academy Award history by being eligible for both the best actor and best actress award categories.

Kelly Mantle, 40, who was born as a man but identifies as male or female, was submitted by producers in both gender categories, according to The Wrap.

Mantle plays a transgender prostitute named Ginger in the comedy 'Confessions of a Womanizer' starring Andrew Lawrence, C. Thomas Howell, Jillian Rose Reed, and Gary Busey.

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Kelly Mantle, above, is a gender fluid performer who just made Oscar history by being eligible for both male and female acting categories at the Oscars

The film, directed by Miguel Ali, won best narrative feature film and best director at the 2014 Los Angeles Underground Film Festival, and best feature film at the Tupelo Film Festival, Twin Rivers Media Festival and High Desert Film Festival, in 2014.

The movie had its Oscar qualifying run in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

The Actors Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences confirmed that Mantle was eligible to take home the statue in either the best supporting actor or actress categories.

Mantle has not been nominated in those categories, but could be.

Mantle, 40, appeared on the sixth season of RuPaul's Drag Race and plays a transvestite prostitute in 'Confessions of a Womanizer'

Mantle plays a transgender prostitute named Ginger in the comedy 'Confessions of a Womanizer' (pictured)

Actor Kelly Mantle (right), without wig and makeup, at the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 2015

'I hope we get Kelly nominated. Regardless, we are bringing spotlight to our androgynous and transgendered community... I firmly believe that our androgynous/transgendered acting community is the most untapped resource in Hollywood. We need to bring them more attention, and by doing so, we will create more empathy for our androgynous/transgendered brothers and sisters,' wrote Ali on Facebook.

Producers realized that Mantle, above, could be submitted for both male and female acting categories

In the past, Mantle would have just been submitted as a performer, however, two years ago, the 'reminder' lists were divided by gender, thus the dilemma.

But producers realized he could be submitted for both. Mantle describes himself as an 'actor' on his Instagram page.

Mantle was also featured on the sixth season of RuPaul's 'Drag Race.'

Jaye Davidson, who was born male, won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1993 for the role of transgender character Dil in 'The Crying Game.'