Ricky Martin, Kristen Wiig, Trace Lysette, Ziwe, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, acting legend Cathy Moriarty, Longtime Companion cast mates Dermot Muroney and Bruce Davison, and the appealing young stars of Netflix’s cult hit Dead Boy Detectives (checking things out themselves in the above photo) are among the creative folks engaging in warm, intimate conversations with GALECA members.
Plus: Talks with activist filmmakers, our own members dishing about their latest books on Hollywood and society, and our past star-studded Dorian film and TV awards specials! To see all that and more, click here.
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📺 Dorian TV Awards: ‘Hacks,’ ‘The Pitt’ Win Big with LGBTQ Critics, Jean Smart and Noah Wyle Take Top Acting Prizes
‘Severance,’ ‘The Traitors,’ ‘Pee Wee as Himself’ Each Garner Double-Wins;
Rising Names Tramell Tillman, Cole Escola, Ncuti Gatwa Triumph Too
Los Angeles, Calif. – July 8, 2025 – GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics—the second largest entertainment journalists' group in the world, with a membership of more than 560 critics, journalists and media icons—this morning announced the winners of its 17th Dorian TV Awards.
GALECA’s voters, again honoring TV and streaming content both mainstream and queer-focused, awarded HBO Max’s new, genre-expanding hit The Pitt as Best TV Drama. Veteran star Noah Wyle (ER) also earned Best TV Performance—Drama for his turn as grizzled doctor Michael "Robby" Robinavitch in the series, where each episode covers a single hour of life (and death) in the emergency room of a fictional Pittsburgh hospital. Wyle has said his own mother, a former operating room nurse, is impressed by the drama’s authenticity. GALECA voters were obviously impressed too; several members have even praised the show for not including a music score, feeling that adds to its stark tension.
For the third time, GALECA cited Hacks as Best TV Comedy, and star Jean Smart for Best TV Performance—Comedy. The women-in-showbiz satire also took home Best LGBTQ TV Show, Best Written TV Show, and Best Supporting TV Performance—Comedy for Hannah Einbinder (a second-time winner here). Smart, a septuagenarian who's notched a variety of TV successes over the past four decades, is also now an official GALECA TV Icon, joining the likes of Jennifer Coolidge, Christine Baranski and Carol Burnett as recipients of that career achievement honor.
In other special accolades, nonbinary multi-hyphenate Cole Escola (creator-star of the outlandish Broadway smash Oh, Mary!) earned GALECA’s Wilde Wit Award, following in the footsteps of such past winners as Julio Torres, Wanda Sykes, Bowen Yang and John Oliver. Meanwhile, pulchritudinous Ncuti Gatwa—the Rwandan-born Scottish actor who is the first Black and out queer performer to portray the Doctor in BBC’s Doctor Who—was named LGBTQIA+ TV Trailblazer.
“This year’s Dorian TV winners prove once again that queer folks have an especially keen eye for stellar TV, using our culture’s lens to elevate the bold, brilliant, and blissfully bonkers,” said Diane Anderson-Minshall, GALECA’s Executive Director. “From Hacks’ dazzling domination to Ncuti Gatwa’s historic trailblazing, we’re proud to celebrate a wildly entertaining spectrum of talent and storytelling."
Added GALECA President Walt Hickey, “The Dorian Awards this year illustrate more than anything the depth and quality of TV right now, especially when it comes to shows by and for LGBTQ+ people. This year's crop of winners made us laugh, inspired us, and delivered some of the most intense and rewarding performances many of our members have ever seen.”
Fans of the musical fantasy Wicked will appreciate that GALECA members rallied for the film’s stars, awarding Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo (the group’s LGBTQIA+ Film Trailblazer honoree earlier this year) in the TV Musical Performance category. In a competitive field that included Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Doechii, and a certain diva foursome from Agatha All Along, Erivo and Grande triumphed with a medley of tunes from The Wizard of Oz and its offshoots at the 97th Academy Awards (ABC).
As for GALECA’s most irreverent honor, Campiest TV Show went to The Traitors (Peacock), the Alan Cumming-hosted reality series based on mystery board games like Clue, with “traitors” and “faithfuls” vying for a cache of cash. The Traitors is so popular with members, the cheeky competition also outpaced perennial favorites like RuPaul’s Drag Race and The Great British Baking Show to win Best Reality Show for the second year in a row.
Leading in total wins by network/streamer were HBO/Max with 11, followed by Netflix with 3.
About GALECA GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics and its Dorian Awards honor the best in film, television, and theater at separate times of the year. With over 560 members, GALECA reminds the world that the informed LGBTQ perspective on all things entertainment matters. A nonprofit organization, GALECA also advocates for better pay, access, and respect for entertainment journalists (especially those most underrepresented), providing scholarships for LGBTQ journalism students and more.
Best TV Drama Andor (Disney+) The Last of Us (HBO) ⭐ The Pitt (Max) Severance (Apple TV+) The White Lotus (HBO)
Best TV Comedy Abbott Elementary (ABC) ⭐ Hacks (Max) The Rehearsal (HBO) Somebody Somewhere (HBO) The Studio (Apple TV+)
Best LGBTQ TV Show Agatha All Along (Disney+) ⭐ Hacks (Max) Heartstopper (Netflix) Overcompensating (Amazon Prime Video) Somebody Somewhere (HBO)
Best TV Movie or Miniseries ⭐ Adolescence (Netflix) Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (Peacock) Dying for Sex (FX on Hulu) The Penguin (HBO) Rebel Ridge (Netflix)
Best Written TV Show Andor (Disney+) ⭐ Hacks (Max) The Pitt (Max) Severance (Apple TV+) The White Lotus (HBO)
Best Unsung TV Show English Teacher (FX on Hulu) Evil (Paramount+) Fantasmas (HBO) Mid-Century Modern (Hulu) ⭐ Overcompensating (Amazon Prime Video)
Best Non-English Language TV Show Elite (Netflix) My Brilliant Friend (HBO) One Hundred Years of Solitude (Netflix) Pachinko (Apple TV+) ⭐ Squid Game (Netflix) Threesome (ViaPlay)
Best LGBTQ Non-English Language TV Show Becoming Karl Lagerfeld (Hulu) The Boyfriend (Netflix) ⭐ Elite (Netflix) The Secret of the River (Netflix) Threesome (Viaplay) When No One Sees Us (Max)
Best TV Performance — Drama Colin Farrell, The Penguin (HBO) Stephen Graham, Adolescence (Netflix) Cooper Koch, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (Netflix) Diego Luna, Andor (Disney+) Cristin Milioti, The Penguin (HBO) Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us (HBO) Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us (HBO) Adam Scott, Severance (Apple TV+) Michelle Williams, Dying for Sex (FX on Hulu) ⭐ Noah Wyle, The Pitt (Max)
Best Supporting TV Performance — Drama Carrie Coon, The White Lotus (HBO) Owen Cooper, Adolescence (Netflix) Taylor Dearden, The Pitt (Max) Erin Doherty, Adolescence (Netflix) Walton Goggins, The White Lotus (HBO) Katherine LaNasa, The Pitt (Max) Genevieve O'Reilly, Andor (Disney+) Parker Posey, The White Lotus (HBO) Jenny Slate, Dying for Sex (FX on Hulu) ⭐ Tramell Tillman, Severance (Apple TV+)
Best TV Performance — Comedy Uzo Aduba, The Residence (Netflix) Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary (ABC) Ayo Edebiri, The Bear (FX on Hulu) Bridget Everett, Somebody Somewhere (HBO) Nathan Fielder, The Rehearsal (HBO) Kathryn Hahn, Agatha All Along (Disney+) Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face (Peacock) Seth Rogen, The Studio (Apple TV+) Benito Skinner, Overcompensating (Amazon Prime Video) ⭐ Jean Smart, Hacks (Max)
Best Supporting TV Performance — Comedy Ike Barinholtz, The Studio (Apple TV+) Colman Domingo, The Four Seasons (Netflix) ⭐ Hannah Einbinder, Hacks (Max) Kathryn Hahn, The Studio (Apple TV+) Jeff Hiller, Somebody Somewhere (HBO) Holmes, Overcompensating (Amazon Prime Video) Janelle James, Abbott Elementary (ABC) Linda Lavin, Mid-Century Modern (Hulu) Catherine O'Hara, The Studio (Apple TV+) Meg Stalter, Hacks (Max)
Best TV Musical Performance Beyoncé, "Cowboy Carter" medley, Beyoncé Bowl (Ravens vs. Texans Halftime Show) (Netflix) Doechii, “Catfish" / "Denial Is a River," 67th Annual Grammy Awards (CBS) ⭐ Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, "Oz Medley," 97th Academy Awards (ABC) Kathryn Hahn, Patti LuPone, Ali Ahn, Sasheer Zamata, "The Ballad of the Witches' Road,” Agatha All Along (Disney+) Kendrick Lamar, “Squabble Up,” “Humble,” etc., Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show (Fox)
Best TV Documentary or Documentary Series Deaf President Now! (Apple TV+) Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes (Max) ⭐ Pee Wee as Himself (HBO) The Rehearsal (HBO) SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night (Peacock)
Best LGBTQ TV Documentary or Documentary Series Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution (PBS) Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara (Hulu) Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution (Netflix) ⭐ Pee Wee as Himself (HBO) Queer Planet (Peacock)
Best Current Affairs Show The Daily Show (Comedy Central) Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney (Netflix) Hot Ones (YouTube) Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC) ⭐ Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Best Genre TV Show Agatha All Along (Disney+) ⭐ Andor (Disney+) Black Mirror (Netflix) The Last of Us (HBO) Severance (Apple TV+)
Best Animated Show Big Mouth (Netflix) Bob's Burgers (Fox) ⭐ Harley Quinn (Max) The Simpsons (Fox) Star Trek: Lower Decks (Paramount+)
Most Visually Striking TV Show Adolescence (Netflix) Agatha All Along (Disney+) Andor (Disney+) ⭐ Severance (Apple TV+) The White Lotus (HBO)
Best Reality Show The Amazing Race (CBS) The Great British Baking Show (Netflix) RuPaul's Drag Race (MTV) Top Chef (Bravo) ⭐ The Traitors (Peacock)
Campiest TV Show Doctor Odyssey (ABC) Mid-Century Modern (Hulu) Overcompensating (Amazon Prime) RuPaul's Drag Race (MTV) ⭐ The Traitors (Peacock)
Wilde Wit Award Quinta Brunson Alan Cumming Hannah Einbinder ⭐ Cole Escola Nathan Fielder
GALECA TV Icon Award Gillian Anderson Angela Bassett Alan Cumming Sarah Michelle Gellar ⭐ Jean Smart
GALECA LGBTQIA+ TV Trailblazer Award Jonathan Bailey Greg Berlanti ⭐ Ncuti Gatwa Bella Ramsey Mike White
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📺 ‘Andor,’ ‘Severance,’ ‘The White Lotus,’ ‘The Last of Us,’ ‘Hacks’
Lead LGBTQ Critics’ Dorian TV Award Nominations
‘Overcompensating,’ ‘Adolescence,’ ‘Agatha All Along,’ ‘The Pitt’ Also Stand Out
Individual Nominees Include Uzo Aduba, Beyoncé, Colman Domingo, Colin Farrell
Los Angeles, Calif. — June 16, 2025 — Adding some Hollywood fizz to Pride Month, the 560-member-strong GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics announced its 16th Dorian TV Awards nominations for the best in television and streaming, from mainstream to LGBTQ+ content. Voters in the organization, now the second-largest entertainment journalists group in the world, write and work for some of the most respected and buzz-worthy media outlets in the U.S. and beyond.
Venerable stars and fast-rising names grace the non-gendered performance and tribute categories. Beyoncé, Jean Smart, Colin Farrell, Colman Domingo, Michelle Williams, Pedro Pascal, Natasha Lyonne, Uzo Aduba, Bella Ramsey, Noah Wyle, and current TV “It Daddy” Walton Goggins are among those in the mix. The fresh-faced contingent includes Ncuti Gatwa, Katherine LaNasa, Owen Cooper, and the actress who simply calls herself Holmes.
Vying for Best Drama: The twisty and surreal office drama Severance, seen on Apple TV+; the Disney Plus Star Warsuniverse spinoff Andor; and HBO/Max's ever-outrageous hotel drama The White Lotus—each of which took six Dorian nominations. Two more HBO/Max shows—the gritty new medical drama The Pitt and zombie spooker The Last of Us—are in the running with five.
In the comedy arena, HBO/Max's Hacks—the Dorian Award winner here last year and in 2021—scored six nods. The same streamer's outgoing Somebody Somewhere grabbed four, with ABC's Abbott Elementary (another two-time Dorian winner) chalking up three. Also in the running: Apple TV+’s new, big and boisterous Hollywood satire The Studio, and the second season of HBO/Max's genre-defying The Rehearsal, creator-star Nathan Fielder’s societal experiment that aims to prepare average folks for various potential, if wildly unlikely, life snags.
“By loving-up series like Hacks, Somebody Somewhere, and even The Rehearsal and Andor—a sci-fi story of the beginnings of a major rebellion—Dorian Award voters once again have shown they have a special affinity for stories of self-discovery and pushing for more,” said GALECA Executive Director Diane Anderson-Minshall. “Like generations of LGBTQ+ people who took on the battle for the right to be who they are, these nominated programs underscore that solidarity, morality, and justice aren’t just for superheroes, but can be found in small daily actions.”
GALECA’s penchant for championing the underdog is evidenced in its novel Best Unsung TV Show award, going to a series the group feels deserves more attention. Among the nominees are creator Julio Torres’ wildly inventive and droll fantasy-comedy Fantasmas (HBO), the final season of Paramount+’s pointed supernatural drama Evil, and Amazon Prime’s Overcompensating. The latter show, about a former Idaho high-school jock and closeted college freshman, is inspired by star Benito Skinner's own college days. Skinner received a Dorian nod himself.
As for GALECA's most irreverent Dorian Award, Campiest TV Show honors could go to Mid-Century Modern (Hulu), the loopy freshman comedy featuring Linda Lavin (in her final TV role) alongside Nathan Lane, Nathan Lee Graham, and Matt Bomer as three gay besties living together in Palm Springs, Calif. Modern's fierce competition: the drama-drenched reality battle The Traitors (Peacock), Overcompensating, the over-the-top Ryan Murphy sawbones-on-a-cruise-ship opus Doctor Odyssey (ABC), and perennial GALECA favorite RuPaul's Drag Race (MTV).
Leading in network/streamer counts were HBO/Max with 39 nominations, followed by Netflix with 22.
Winners will be announced Tuesday, July 8, at 8 a.m. PST.
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics and its Dorian Awards honor the best in film, television, and theater at separate times of the year. More than 560 members strong, GALECA reminds society that the world values the informed LGBTQ perspective on all things entertainment. A nonprofit organization, GALECA also advocates for better pay, access, and respect for entertainment journalists (especially the underrepresented) and provides scholarships for LGBTQ journalism students. Follow us @DorianAwards on social media, and find more information about who we are and what we do at GALECA.org.
Full List of 2025 Dorian TV Awards Nominees:
BEST TV DRAMA Andor (Disney+) The Last of Us (HBO/Max) The Pitt (Max) Severance (Apple TV+) The White Lotus (HBO/Max)
BEST TV COMEDY Abbott Elementary (ABC) Hacks (HBO/Max) The Rehearsal (HBO/Max) Somebody Somewhere (HBO/Max) The Studio (Apple TV+)
BEST LGBTQ TV SHOW Agatha All Along (Disney+) Hacks (HBO/Max) Heartstopper (Netflix) Overcompensating (Amazon Prime) Somebody Somewhere (HBO/Max)
BEST TV MOVIE OR MINISERIES Adolescence (Netflix) Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (Peacock) Dying for Sex (FX on Hulu) The Penguin (HBO/Max) Rebel Ridge (Netflix)
BEST WRITTEN TV SHOW Andor (Disney+) Hacks (Max) The Pitt (Max) Severance (Apple TV+) The White Lotus (HBO/Max)
BEST UNSUNG TV SHOW English Teacher (FX on Hulu) Evil (Paramount+) Fantasmas (HBO/Max) Mid-Century Modern (Hulu) Overcompensating (Amazon Prime)
BEST NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE TV SHOW My Brilliant Friend (HBO/Max) One Hundred Years of Solitude (Netflix) (tie) Elite (Netflix) (tie) Pachinko (Apple TV+) Squid Game (Netflix) Threesome (Viaplay)
BEST LGBTQ NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE TV SHOW Becoming Karl Lagerfeld (Hulu) The Boyfriend (Netflix) Elite (Netflix) The Secret of the River (Netflix) Threesome (Viaplay) When No One Sees Us (HBO/Max)
BEST TV PERFORMANCE — DRAMA Colin Farrell, The Penguin Stephen Graham, Adolescence Cooper Koch, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story Diego Luna, Andor Cristin Milioti, The Penguin Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us Adam Scott, Severance Michelle Williams, Dying for Sex Noah Wyle, The Pitt
BEST SUPPORTING TV PERFORMANCE — DRAMA Owen Cooper, Adolescence Carrie Coon, The White Lotus Taylor Dearden, The Pitt Erin Doherty, Adolescence Walton Goggins, The White Lotus Katherine LaNasa, The Pitt Genevieve O'Reilly, Andor Parker Posey, The White Lotus Jenny Slate, Dying for Sex Tramell Tillman, Severance
BEST TV PERFORMANCE — COMEDY Uzo Aduba, The Residence Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary Ayo Edebiri, The Bear Bridget Everett, Somebody Somewhere Nathan Fielder, The Rehearsal Kathryn Hahn, Agatha All Along Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face Seth Rogen, The Studio Benito Skinner, Overcompensating Jean Smart, Hacks
BEST SUPPORTING TV PERFORMANCE — COMEDY Ike Barinholtz, The Studio Colman Domingo, The Four Seasons Hannah Einbinder, Hacks Holmes, Overcompensating Janelle James, Abbott Elementary Kathryn Hahn, The Studio Jeff Hiller, Somebody Somewhere Linda Lavin, Mid-Century Modern Catherine O'Hara, The Studio Meg Stalter, Hacks
BEST TV MUSICAL PERFORMANCE Beyoncé, “Cowboy Carter” Medley, Beyoncé Bowl (Netflix) Doechii, “Catfish” / “Denial Is a River,” 67th Grammy Awards (CBS) Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande, “Wicked” Medley, 97th Academy Awards (ABC) Kathryn Hahn, Patti LuPone & Co., “The Ballad of the Witches’ Road,” Agatha All Along Kendrick Lamar, “Squabble Up,” etc., Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show (Fox)
BEST TV DOCUMENTARY OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES Deaf President Now! (Apple TV+) Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes (Max) Pee Wee as Himself (HBO/Max) The Rehearsal (HBO/Max) SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night (Peacock)
BEST LGBTQ TV DOCUMENTARY OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution (PBS) Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara (Hulu) Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution (Netflix) Pee Wee as Himself (HBO/Max) Queer Planet (Peacock)
BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS SHOW (Talk/News) The Daily Show (Comedy Central) Hot Ones (YouTube) Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney (Netflix) Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC) Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO/Max)
BEST REALITY SHOW The Amazing Race (CBS) The Great British Baking Show (Netflix) RuPaul’s Drag Race (MTV) Top Chef (Bravo) The Traitors (Peacock)
BEST GENRE TV SHOW Agatha All Along Andor Black Mirror The Last of Us Severance
BEST ANIMATED SHOW Big Mouth Bob’s Burgers Harley Quinn The Simpsons Star Trek: Lower Decks
MOST VISUALLY STRIKING TV SHOW Adolescence Agatha All Along Andor Severance The White Lotus
CAMPIEST TV SHOW Doctor Odyssey Mid-Century Modern Overcompensating RuPaul’s Drag Race The Traitors
WILDE WIT AWARD Quinta Brunson Alan Cumming Hannah Einbinder Cole Escola Nathan Fielder
GALECA TV ICON AWARD Gillian Anderson Angela Bassett Alan Cumming Sarah Michelle Gellar Jean Smart
GALECA LGBTQIA+ TV TRAILBLAZER AWARD Jonathan Bailey Greg Berlanti Ncuti Gatwa Bella Ramsey Mike White Bowen Yang
Number of nominations per network/streamer: HBO/Max – 39 Netflix – 22 Apple TV+ – 13 Disney+ – 11 ABC – 5 Amazon Prime – 5 FX on Hulu – 5 Hulu – 5 Peacock – 6 Fox – 3 Paramount+ – 2 CBS – 2 ViaPlay - 2 NBC – 1 Comedy Central – 1 Bravo – 1 MTV – 1 PBS – 1 YouTube – 1
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🎭 'John Proctor is the Villain,’ ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ Lead LGBTQ Critics’ 2025 Dorian Theater Awards
André De Shields Named Theater Trailblazer
New York, N.Y. (June 3, 2025): GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ kicked off Pride Month by giving John Proctor is the Villain and Cats: The Jellicle Ball top honors in the group’s third annual Dorian Theater Awards. The honors, decided on by GALECA’s theater wing, honor the best of Broadway and Off-Broadway, mainstream to LGBTQ+, the latest go-around for the 2024-25 season.
Kimberly Bellflower’s new play John Proctor is the Villain earned three Dorians, more than any other Broadway production. The drama, in which contemporary high schoolers recontextualize Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, was awarded prizes for Outstanding Broadway Play, Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Play for Fina Strazza, and Outstanding Broadway Ensemble. In other Broadway categories, Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day picked up the Outstanding Broadway Play Revival prize, Maybe Happy Ending was awarded with Outstanding Broadway Musical, and Sunset Blvd. won Outstanding Broadway Musical Revival. Dorian voters rewarded a Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Musical, handing that award to Audra McDonald for her portrayal of Momma Rose in the latest revival of Gypsy. McDonald, along with the show's production team, also scored a win for the Dorians’ trademark Broadway Showstopper Award, recognizing standout production numbers or scenes. McDonald’s towering rendition of the the play's finale tune, “Rose’s Turn,” and Blvd.’s stirring roll-out of signature number “Sunset Boulevard,” as sung by Tom Francis, tied for the honor. The musical adaptation of Death Becomes Her, which was the wing's most nominated production of the year, won the award for Outstanding LGBTQ Broadway production. The musical satire features Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard as camp queer icons Madeline Ashton and Helen Sharp, two ricwomen literally willing to die to stay beautiful. Among the acting categories, stand-alone stars prevailed. Sarah Snook won Outstanding Lead Performances in a Broadway Play for tackling 26 different roles in (GALECA patron saint) Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. Andrew Scott won Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Production for his one-man adaptation of Anton Chekhotv’s Uncle Vanya, simply titled Vanya. Cats: The Jellicle Ball dominated the Off-Broadway categories. This radical reinvention of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, setting the story of fantastical felines in the world of ballroom culture, won three Dorian Theater Awards, including Outstanding Off-Broadway production, Outstanding LGBTQ Off-Broadway Production, and Outstanding Featured Performance in an Off-Broadway production for André De Shields. De Shields was also awarded GALECA’s LGBTQIA+ Theater Trailblazer Award, a distinction which celebrates an individual’s lifelong commitment to "creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity." The group’s other special prize, the LGBTQ Theater Artist of the Season award, was bestowed to two people due to a tie in voting: Jonathan Groff and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Groff currently stars as Bobby Darin in the hit bio-musical Just in Time (for which he received a Dorian Award nomination). Jacobs-Jenkins is the playwright of the Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway play Purpose. “This Pride month, I’m feeling extra proud of the queer journalists of our theater wing, who have uplifted delightfully bold work with this year’s awards,” said GALECA theater wing co-chair Sam Eckmann. “Revivals like Sunset Blvd. dared to excavate well-worn material to find new meanings. New work like Maybe Happy Ending and John Proctor is the Villain reached into our souls with a striking sense of poignancy. A hearty congratulations to all of this year's winners.” Below is the complete list of winners for the 2025 Dorian Theater Awards: Outstanding Broadway Musical Death Becomes Her Dead Outlaw Just in Time ⭐ Maybe Happy Ending Operation Mincemeat Real Women Have Curves Outstanding Broadway Play English The Hills of California ⭐ John Proctor is the Villain The Picture of Dorian Gray Purpose Outstanding Broadway Musical Revival Floyd Collins Gypsy Pirates! The Penzance Musical ⭐ Sunset Blvd. Outstanding Broadway Play Revival ⭐ Eureka Day Our Town Romeo + Juliet Yellow Face Outstanding LGBTQ Broadway Production Cult of Love ⭐ Death Becomes Her Purpose Redwood SMASH Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Musical Darren Criss, Maybe Happy Ending Andrew Durand, Dead Outlaw Tom Francis, Sunset Blvd. Jonathan Groff, Just in Time Megan Hilty, Death Becomes Her ⭐ Audra McDonald, Gypsy Jasmine Amy Rogers, BOOP! The Musical Nicole Scherzinger, Sunset Blvd. Helen J. Shen, Maybe Happy Ending Jennifer Simard, Death Becomes Her Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Play Kit Connor, Romeo + Juliet Laura Donnelly, The Hills of California Mia Farrow, The Roommate Daniel Dae Kim, Yellow Face Sydney Lemmon, JOB Louis McCartney, Stranger Things: The First Shadow Jon Michael Hill, Purpose LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Purpose Sadie Sink, John Proctor is the Villain ⭐ Sarah Snook, The Picture of Dorian Gray Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Musical Natalie Venetia Belcon, Buena Vista Social Club Jeb Brown, Dead Outlaw Gracie Lawrence, Just in Time Justina Machado, Real Women Have Curves ⭐ Jak Malone, Operation Mincemeat Jinkx Monsoon, Pirates! The Penzance Musical Lea Salonga, Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends Christopher Sieber, Death Becomes Her Taylor Trensch, Floyd Collins David Thaxton, Sunset Blvd. Michael Urie, Once Upon a Mattress Joy Woods, Gypsy Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Play Alana Arenas, Purpose Tala Ashe, English Molly Bernard, Cult of Love Jessica Hecht, Eureka Day Francis Jue, Yellow Face Marjan Neshat, English Bob Odenkirk, Glengarry Glen Ross Zachary Quinto, Cult of Love ⭐Fina Strazza, John Proctor is the Villain Amalia Yoo, John Proctor is the Villain Kara Young, Purpose Outstanding Broadway Ensemble Cult of Love Death Becomes Her ⭐John Proctor is the Villain – Sadie Sink, Nihar Duvvuri, Gabriel Ebert, Molly Griggs, Maggie Kuntz, Hagan Oliveras, Morgan Scott, Fina Strazza, Amalia Yoo Real Women Have Curves Sunset Blvd. The Broadway Showstopper Award — To a standout production number or scene Death Becomes Her - “For the Gaze” ⭐ Gypsy - “Rose’s Turn” (TIE) John Proctor Is the Villain - “Green Light” Maybe Happy Ending - “Chasing Fireflies” ⭐ Sunset Blvd. - “Sunset Boulevard” (TIE) Outstanding Off-Broadway Production ⭐ Cats: The Jellicle Ball Grangeville Liberation Vanya Wine in the Wilderness Outstanding Lead Performance in an Off-Broadway Production Patsy Ferran, A Streetcar Named Desire Susannah Flood, Liberation Brandon Flynn, Kowalski Joanna Gleason, We Had a World Marla Mindelle, The Big Gay Jamboree Paul Mescal, A Streetcar Named Desire ⭐ Andrew Scott, Vanya Paul Sparks, Grangeville Alaska Thunderfuck, DRAG: The Musical Olivia Washington, Wine in the Wilderness Outstanding Featured Performance in an Off-Broadway Production Betsy Aidem, Liberation Billy Crudup, Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts ⭐ André De Shields, Cats: The Jellicle Ball Drew Elhamalawy, We Live in Cairo Sydney James Harcourt, Cats: The Jellicle Ball Jujubee, DRAG: The Musical Ahmad Kamal, SUMO Julia Lester, All Nighter Paris Nix, The Big Gay Jamboree Jeanine Serralles, We Had a World Kyra Sedgwick, All of Me “Tempress” Chastity Moore, Cats: The Jellicle Ball Jenny Lee Stern, Forbidden Broadway: Merrily We Stole A Song Jason Veasey, The Fires Natalie Walker, The Big Gay Jamboree LGBTQ Theater Artist of the Season Michael Arden Tommy Dorfman ⭐ Jonathan Groff (TIE) ⭐ Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (TIE) Jinkx Monsoon LGBTQIA+ Theater Trailblazer — For a lifelong commitment to creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity ⭐ André De Shields Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Jinkx Monsoon Andrew Scott Paul Tazewell George C. Wolfe Productions by Number of Wins Cats: The Jellicle Ball - 3 John Proctor is the Villain - 3 Gypsy - 2 Sunset Blvd. - 2 Death Becomes Her - 1 Eureka Day - 1 Maybe Happy Ending - 1 Operation Mincemeat - 1 The Picture of Dorian Gray - 1 Vanya - 1
About GALECA GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics and its Dorian Awards honor the best in film, television, and, under its theater wing, Broadway and Off-Broadway. More than 550 members strong, GALECA reminds society that the world values the informed Q+ eye on everything entertainment. A nonprofit organization, GALECA also advocates for better pay, access, and respect for entertainment journalists, especially the underrepresented. For more informations, visit galeca.org and find us at @DorianAwards on social media.
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🎭 2025 Dorian Theater Awards:
‘Death Becomes Her,’ Jinkx Monsoon Lead in GALECA's Latest Nominations
Andrew Scott, André De Shields, Jonathan Groff Each Score
Double-Nods; Megyn Hilty, Audra McDonald, Nicole Scherzinger,
Kit Connor, Paul Mescal Also in Mix
New York, N.Y. (May 13, 2025) — GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics has announced its latest shortlist of standout New York stage productions for the third annual Dorian Theater Awards. Honoring excellence across Broadway and Off-Broadway during the 2024–2025 season, the awards celebrate both mainstream achievements and works that reflect LGBTQ+ themes and perspectives—in the spirit of GALECA’s longer-established film and television honors. Leading the Broadway categories with seven nominations is Death Becomes Her, the musical adaptation of the cheeky 1992 fantasy film about two women seeking eternal (outer) beauty. In addition to nods for Outstanding Broadway Musical and Outstanding LGBTQ Broadway Musical, the show—directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, with music by Noel Carey and Julia Mattison—earned acting nominations for Megan Hilty, Jennifer Simard, and Christopher Sieber. The team's production number “For the Gaze" is in line for the wing's signature Broadway Showstopper Award. Boosted by appreciation for their well-represented cast members, three productions show six Dorian nominations each: the provocative The Crucible-meets-#MeToo tale John Proctor is the Villain, the reflective civil rights drama Purpose, and the second-ever Broadway revival of Sunset Blvd., another musical take on a film about ephemeral beauty (the first stage mounting premiered in 1994). In the Off-Broadway categories, Cats: The Jellicle Ball leads with five nominations, including acting nods for André De Shields, Sydney James Harcourt, and ballroom icon “Tempress” Chastity Moore. DRAG: The Musical and its stars Alaska Thunderfuck and Jujubee, both of TV's RuPaul's Drag Race fame, all hold nominations. And the Manhattan Theatre Club's We Had a World, by playwright Joshua Harmon, is in the running for Outstanding LGBTQ Off-Broadway Production World's stars Joanna Gleason and Jeanine Serralles are nominated as well. Nominees for GALECA’s LGBTQ+ Theater Trailblazer Award—which honors a lifelong commitment to creating art that inspires empathy, truth, and equity—include performer André De Shields, playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, actor Andrew Scott, costume designer Paul Tazewell, director George C. Wolfe, and Drag Race alum turned multihyphenate Jinkx Monsoon. Monsoon is also up for Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Musical for Pirates! The Penzance Musical, as well as another special accolade, LGBTQ Theater Artist of the Season. Last year, the Off-Broadway staging of Oh, Mary! and the Broadway revival of Merrily We Roll Along topped the Dorian Theater Awards, winning four prizes each. The wing’s voters also fell in love with the queer sensibilities at the heart of Sufjan Stevens' Illinoise, naming the dance musical Outstanding Broadway Musical and Outstanding LGBTQ Broadway Musical. In the inaugural year, the musicals Kimberly Akimbo and Titanique!, and drama Fat Ham scored the most Dorian wins. GALECA will once again help kick off Pride Month by announcing the winners of the 2025 Dorian Theater Awards on Monday, June 2. Full list of 2025 Dorian Theater Awards nominees: Outstanding Broadway Musical Death Becomes Her Dead Outlaw Just in Time Maybe Happy Ending Operation Mincemeat Real Women Have Curves Outstanding Broadway Play English The Hills of California John Proctor is the Villain The Picture of Dorian Gray Purpose Outstanding Broadway Musical Revival Floyd Collins Gypsy Pirates! The Penzance Musical Sunset Blvd. Outstanding Broadway Play Revival Eureka Day Our Town Romeo + Juliet Yellow Face Outstanding LGBTQ Broadway Production Cult of Love Death Becomes Her Purpose Redwood SMASH Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Musical Darren Criss, Maybe Happy Ending Andrew Durand, Dead Outlaw Tom Francis, Sunset Blvd. Jonathan Groff, Just in Time Megan Hilty, Death Becomes Her Audra McDonald, Gypsy Jasmine Amy Rogers, BOOP! The Musical Nicole Scherzinger, Sunset Blvd. Helen J. Shen, Maybe Happy Ending Jennifer Simard, Death Becomes Her Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Play Kit Connor, Romeo + Juliet Laura Donnelly, The Hills of California Mia Farrow, The Roommate Daniel Dae Kim, Yellow Face Sydney Lemmon, JOB Louis McCartney, Stranger Things: The First Shadow Jon Michael Hill, Purpose LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Purpose Sadie Sink, John Proctor is the Villain Sarah Snook, The Picture of Dorian Gray Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Musical Natalie Venetia Belcon, Buena Vista Social Club Jeb Brown, Dead Outlaw Gracie Lawrence, Just in Time Justina Machado, Real Women Have Curves Jak Malone, Operation Mincemeat Jinkx Monsoon, Pirates! The Penzance Musical Lea Salonga, Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends Christopher Sieber, Death Becomes Her Taylor Trensch, Floyd Collins David Thaxton, Sunset Blvd. Michael Urie, Once Upon a Mattress Joy Woods, Gypsy Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Play Alana Arenas, Purpose Tala Ashe, English Molly Bernard, Cult of Love Jessica Hecht, Eureka Day Francis Jue, Yellow Face Marjan Neshat, English Bob Odenkirk, Glengarry Glen Ross Zachary Quinto, Cult of Love Fina Strazza, John Proctor is the Villain Amalia Yoo, John Proctor is the Villain Kara Young, Purpose Outstanding Broadway Ensemble Cult of Love Death Becomes Her John Proctor is the Villain Real Women Have Curves Sunset Blvd. The Broadway Showstopper Award — To a standout production number or scene Death Becomes Her - “For the Gaze," performed by Megan Hilty Gypsy - “Rose’s Turn," performed by Audra McDonald John Proctor Is the Villain - “Green Light," performed by Sadie Sink, Amalia Yoo Maybe Happy Ending - “Chasing Fireflies," performed by Darren Criss, Helen J. Shen Sunset Blvd. - “Sunset Boulevard," performed by Nicole Scherzinger Outstanding Off-Broadway Production Cats: The Jellicle Ball Grangeville Liberation Vanya Wine in the Wildernes Outstanding LGBTQ Off-Broadway Production Cats: The Jellicle Ball DRAG: The Musical Grangeville The Fires We Had a World Outstanding Lead Performance in an Off-Broadway Production Patsy Ferran, A Streetcar Named Desire Susannah Flood, Liberation Brandon Flynn, Kowalski Joanna Gleason, We Had a World Marla Mindelle, The Big Gay Jamboree Paul Mescal, A Streetcar Named Desire Andrew Scott, Vanya Paul Sparks, Grangeville Alaska Thunderfuck, DRAG: The Musical Olivia Washington, Wine in the Wilderness Outstanding Featured Performance in an Off-Broadway Production Betsy Aidem, Liberation Billy Crudup, Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts André De Shields, Cats: The Jellicle Ball Drew Elhamalawy, We Live in Cairo Sydney James Harcourt, Cats: The Jellicle Ball Jujubee, DRAG: The Musical Ahmad Kamal, SUMO Julia Lester, All Nighter Paris Nix, The Big Gay Jamboree Jeanine Serralles, We Had a World Kyra Sedgwick, All of Me “Tempress” Chastity Moore, Cats: The Jellicle Ball Jenny Lee Stern, Forbidden Broadway: Merrily We Stole a Song Jason Veasey, The Fires Natalie Walker, The Big Gay Jamboree LGBTQ Theater Artist of the Season Michael Arden Tommy Dorfman Jonathan Groff Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Jinkx Monsoon LGBTQIA+ Theater Trailblazer — For a lifelong commitment to creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity André De Shields Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Jinkx Monsoon Andrew Scott Paul Tazewell George C. Wolfe Productions With Multiple Nominations
Death Becomes Her - 7 John Proctor is the Villain - 6 Purpose - 6 Sunset Blvd. - 6 Cats: The Jellicle Ball - 5 Cult of Love - 4 Gypsy - 4 Maybe Happy Ending - 4 The Big Gay Jamboree - 3 Drag: The Musical - 3 English - 3 Dead Outlaw - 3 Grangeville - 3 Just in Time - 3 Liberation - 3 Real Women Have Curves - 3 We Had a World - 3 Yellow Face - 3 Eureka Day - 2 The Fires - 2 Floyd Collins - 2 The Hills of California - 2 Operation Mincemeat - 2 The Picture of Dorian Gray - 2 Pirates! The Penzance Musical - 2 A Streetcar Named Desire - 2 Vanya - 2 Wine in the Wilderness - 2 About GALECA GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics and its Dorian Awards honor the best in film, television, and, under its theater wing, Broadway and Off-Broadway. More than 550 members strong, GALECA reminds society that the world values the informed Q+ eye on everything entertainment. A nonprofit organization, GALECA also advocates for better pay, access, and respect for entertainment journalists, especially the underrepresented. For more informations, visit galeca.org and find us at @DorianAwards on social media.
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📽️ 2025 Dorian Film Awards: 'The Substance' and Demi Moore
Score Big with LGBTQ Critics
Allegorical Trans Chiller ‘I Saw the TV Glow,' Netflix Doc ‘Will & Harper,’ Provocative Tennis Drama ‘Challengers’ All Notch Double-Wins
Thursday Feb 13, 2025 - Los Angeles - GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, countingmore than 500 entertainment critics, journalists and media icons, has announced the winners of its Dorian Film Awards. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat’s shocking Hollywood satire The Substance was crowned Film of the Year, with the Mubi release taking five Dorians in all, including star Demi Moore for Film Performance of the Year and Fargeat for Film Director of the Year.
Moore’s morph from former Brat Pack Era fixture to raw, unflinching indie movie firebrand impressed GALECA voters enough to also bestow her with the group’s Timeless Star career achievement award. Previous winners in the category, which tributes "an exemplary career marked by character, wisdom and wit,” include the likes of Jodie Foster, Jane Fonda, Nathan Lane, John Waters, Rita Moreno, Jane Fonda, George Takei and Sir Ian McKellen.
Writer-director Jane Schoenbrun’s thought-provoking horror taleI Saw the TV Glow, which had lead the Dorian hunt with nine nominations, took LGBTQ Film of the Year as well as LGBTQ screenplay honors.Will & Harper, the irresistible road-trip documentary charting actor Will Ferrell’s enduring friendship with trans comedy writer Harper Steele, won both Documentary of the Year and LGBTQ Documentary. And Galeca members showed 40-love forChallengers, director Luca Guadagnino’s homoerotic spin onJules and Jim. The film’s writer Justin Kuritzkes earned Screenplay of the Year, while rock legends Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for their tension-building techno score.
Wicked fans will be pleased that Dorian voters held plenty of space for the musical fantasy’s stars. The group gave Ariana Grande a pinky hug for Supporting Film Performance of the Year, Jonathan Bailey was named Rising Star, and Cynthia Erivo—who plays misunderstood, green-skinned heroine Elphaba Thropp in the hit—won LGBTQIA+ Film Trailblazer. Past recipients of the latter honor—which is meant for an artist who “inspires empathy, truth and equity”—include Janelle Monáe, Pedro Almodóvar, Isabel Sandoval and Colman Domingo.
Fun fact: Domingo, Dorian-nominated this year for Sing Sing, proved victorious over Fargeat, Schoenbrun,Guadagnino and Tilda Swinton in the race for Wilde Artist, a special accolade named in homage to Oscar Wilde reserved for “a truly groundbreaking force in entertainment."
“In our 16th year, GALECA’s members still have wicked fun toasting their favorites in film both mainstream and LGBTQ-themed,” said group president Walt Hickey. Added vice president Diane Anderson-Minshall, “I’m certain even some ultra-conservatives who are out to erase all sorts of ‘woke’ words and letters—not to mention history—are secretly taking note of our winners. Everyone appreciates the expert Q+ eye on entertainment.”
Other GALECA Dorian winners this year: The trans-empowering Batman spoofThe People’s Jokerand writer-director-star Julio Torres’ comedy Problemista were both dubbed Unsung Film gems; director RaMell Ross’ somewhat experimentalNickel Boys was named Visually Striking Film, and the twisty animal adventureFlow—another dazzling cinematic experience—took Animated Film of the Year.
Best Non-English language film honors went to Brazil’s fact-based protest dramaI’m Still Here, released by Sony Pictures Classics in the U.S. The controversy-plagued Emilia Pérez was named best LGBTQ non-English language film.
GALECA has been busy. The Society recently launched its latest $3000 Crimson Honors scholarship contest for aspiring film, TV and New York theater critics in public colleges (applications, due March 20, can be submitted viagaleca.org/crimson-honors). The group donated $1000 to The Los Angeles Press Club’s emergency relief fund for journalists affected by the city’s devastating January fires.
The members also recently announced their choices for America's 10 best on-air TV news journalists.Among those included on the list: Christiane Amanpour, David Muir, Lester Holt, Kaitlan Collins and Jacob Soboroff.
GALECA: THE SOCIETY OF LGBTQ ENTERTAINMENT CRITICS 16TH DORIAN FILM AWARDS LIST OF NOMINEES
FILM OF THE YEAR
Anora (Neon) Challengers (Amazon MGM Studios) I Saw the TV Glow (A24) Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios) ⭐️ The Substance (Mubi)
LGBTQ FILM OF THE YEAR
Challengers (Amazon MGM Studios) Emilia Pérez (Netflix) ⭐️ I Saw the TV Glow (A24) Love Lies Bleeding (A24) Queer (A24)
DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist (A24) ⭐️ Coralie Fargeat, The Substance (Mubi) Luca Guadagnino, Challengers (Amazon MGM Studios) RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios) Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow (A24)
SCREENPLAY OF THE YEAR
—Original or adapted
Sean Baker, Anora (Neon) Coralie Fargeat, The Substance (Mubi) ⭐️ Justin Kuritzkes, Challengers (Amazon MGM Studios) Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow (A24) Peter Straughan, Conclave (Focus Features)
LGBTQ SCREENPLAY OF THE YEAR
Rose Glass and Weronika Tofilska, Love Lies Bleeding (A24) Justin Kuritzkes, Challengers (Amazon MGM Studios) Justin Kuritzkes, Queer (A24) ⭐️ Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow (A24) Julio Torres, Problemista (A24)
NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
All We Imagine as Light (Sideshow / Janus Films) Emilia Pérez (Netflix) Flow (Sideshow / Janus Films) ⭐️ I’m Still Here (Sony Pictures Classics) The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Neon)
LGBTQ NON-ENGLISH FILM OF THE YEAR
Crossing (Mubi) ⭐️ Emilia Pérez (Netflix) Queendom (Greenwich Entertainment) Vermiglio (Sideshow / Janus Films) All Shall Be Well (Strand Releasing)
UNSUNG FILM OF THE YEAR
—To an exceptional movie worthy of greater attention
Didi (Focus Features) Hundreds of Beavers (Cineverse, Vinegar Syndrome) My Old Ass (Amazon MGM Studios) ⭐️ Problemista (A24) Thelma (Magnolia)
UNSUNG LGBTQ FILM OF THE YEAR
Femme (Utopia) My Old Ass (Amazon MGM Studios) National Anthem (Variance, LD Entertainment) ⭐️ The People’s Joker (Altered Innocence) Problemista (A24)
FILM PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist (A24) Daniel Craig, Queer (A24) Colman Domingo, Sing Sing (A24) Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez (Netflix) Cynthia Erivo, Wicked (Universal) Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths (Bleecker Street) Nicole Kidman, Babygirl (A24) Mikey Madison, Anora (Neon) ⭐️ Demi Moore, The Substance (Mubi) Justice Smith, I Saw the TV Glow (A24)
SUPPORTING FILM PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
Michele Austin, Hard Truths (Bleecker Street) Yura Borisov, Anora (Neon) Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain (Searchlight Pictures) ⭐️ Ariana Grande, Wicked (Universal) Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios) Jack Haven, I Saw the TV Glow (A24) Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing (A24) Guy Pearce, The Brutalist (A24) Margaret Qualley, The Substance (Mubi) Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR
Dahomey (Mubi) Daughters (Netflix) The Remarkable Life of Ibelin (Netflix) Sugarcane (National Geographic) ⭐️ Will & Harper (Netflix)
⭐️ Flow (Sideshow / Janus Films) Inside Out 2 (Disney) Memoir of a Snail (IFC Films) Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Netflix) The Wild Robot (Universal, DreamWorks)
GENRE FILM OF THE YEAR
For excellence in science fiction, fantasy and horror
Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.) I Saw the TV Glow (A24) Nosferatu (Focus Features) ⭐️ The Substance (Mubi) Wicked (Universal)
FILM MUSIC OF THE YEAR
The Brutalist (A24) - Daniel Blumberg ⭐️ Challengers (Amazon MGM Studios) - Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Emilia Pérez (Netflix) - Clément Ducol and Camille I Saw the TV Glow (A24) - Alex G Wicked (Universal) - John Powell and Stephen Schwartz, et al.
VISUALLY STRIKING FILM OF THE YEAR
The Brutalist (A24) Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.) Nosferatu (Focus Features) ⭐️ Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios) The Substance (Mubi)
CAMPIEST FLICK
Hundreds of Beavers (Cineverse, Vinegar Syndrome) Madame Web (Sony) Megalopolis (Lionsgate) ⭐️ The Substance (Mubi) Trap (Warner Bros.)
“WE’RE WILDE ABOUT YOU!” RISING STAR AWARD
⭐️ Jonathan Bailey Vera Drew Karla Sofía Gascón Jack Haven Mikey Madison Katy O’Brian Drew Starkey
WILDE ARTIST AWARD
To a truly groundbreaking force in entertainment
⭐️ Colman Domingo Luca Guadagnino Coralie Fargeat Jane Schoenbrun Tilda Swinton
GALECA LGBTQIA+ FILM TRAILBLAZER
For creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity
Vera Drew ⭐️ Cynthia Erivo Luca Guadagnino Jane Schoenbrun Julio Torres
TIMELESS STAR (Career achievement award)
Honoring an exemplary career marked by character, wisdom and wit
Formed in 2009, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics honors the best in film, television and Broadway/Off Broadway, mainstream to LGBTQIA+, via the Dorian Awards. A 501 c 6 nonprofit, GALECA serves to remind bigots, bullies and our own beleaguered communities that the world looks to the informed Q+ eye on entertainment. The organization also advocates for better pay, access and respect for its members, especially those in our most underrepresented and vulnerable segments. GALECA’s efforts also include the Crimson Honors, a college film/TV criticism contest for LGBTQ women or nonbinary students of color.
See our members' latest reviews, commentary and interviews, along with looks at entertainment’s past, on Bluesky and elsewhere @DorianAwards. GALECA’s YouTube channel features the group's past Dorians film and TV Toast awards specials, video chats with filmmakers and performers, plus talks with members about their latest books and more. Find out more atGALECA.org.
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment journalists is a core member of CGEM: Critics Groups for Equality in Media, an alliance of underrepresented entertainment journalists organizations.
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'I Saw the TV Glow,' 'The Substance' Lead in LGBTQ Critics Dorian Film Award Nominations
Friday Jan. 17, 2025 - Los Angeles - GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, consisting of over 500 entertainment critics, journalists and media icons, today announced the group’s democratically chosen nominees for its 16th Dorian Film Awards. The Dorians go to both mainstream and LGBTQ-themed content, celebrating what the group calls “the expert Q+ eye on entertainment.”
Leading with an impressive nine nominations is writer-director Jane Schoenbrun’s thought-provoking horror tale I Saw the TV Glow, a film overlooked by many other kudos groups considering 2024’s theatrical and digital releases. Star Demi Moore’s thriller of a comeback The Substance is a close second, with 8 Dorian nods.
From there, the genre-defying trans mobster musical Emilia Pérez and tense ménage-à-trois drama Challengers each hold six nominations, and Dorian-nominated director Brady Corbet’s artful epic The Brutalist makes more than good with five. Other movies GALECA anointed with multi-nominations: Anora, Nickel Boys and Wicked all with four nods each, and Problemista and Queer with three apiece.
In the per-studio counts, A24 has a whopping 25 nominations. Other outfits posting impressive scores: Amazon MGM with 13 nominations, Netflix: (11) and Mubi (10).
Some notable titles in the group’s trademark races include the inventive slapstick comedy Hundreds of Beavers vying for Unsung Film of the Year, Madame Web and Trap looking at Campiest Flick honors, and The Brutalist, Nosferatu and Dune: Part Two among the cinematic dazzlers aiming for Visually Striking Film.
The group’s Timeless Star career achievement honoree will be named when the winners are announced Thursday Feb. 13. GALECA’s members are tentatively scheduled to toast winners and nominees in a brunch the following Sunday.
Along with its film nominations, GALECA announced it is donating $1000 to The Los Angeles Press Club’s emergency relief fund, the amount earmarked for entertainment journalists directly affected by the historically devastating wildfires that have destroyed vast swaths LA, leaving thousands of residents homeless.
“Entertainment journalists are an obviously integral part of the Hollywood ecosystem, and we want to make sure they aren’t forgotten in what’s already a very tough environment for those in our profession,” said GALECA Executive Director John Griffiths. Added Vice President Diane Anderson-Minshall: “We applaud our friends at the Press Club and its sister organization the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards for coming to our brethren’s need.”
Professional journalists whose main livelihood involves entertainment criticism, editing and/or reportage can apply for help at lapressclub.org. Additional donations may be made there as well.
GALECA: THE SOCIETY OF LGBTQ ENTERTAINMENT CRITICS 16TH DORIAN FILM AWARDS LIST OF NOMINEES
FILM OF THE YEAR Anora (Neon) Challengers (Amazon MGM Studios) I Saw the TV Glow (A24) Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios) The Substance (Mubi)
LGBTQ FILM OF THE YEAR Challengers (Amazon MGM Studios) Emilia Pérez (Netflix) I Saw the TV Glow (A24) Love Lies Bleeding (A24) Queer (A24)
DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR Brady Corbet, The Brutalist (A24) Coralie Fargeat, The Substance (Mubi) Luca Guadagnino, Challengers (Amazon MGM Studios) RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios) Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow (A24)
SCREENPLAY OF THE YEAR —Original or adapted Anora (Neon) Challengers (Amazon MGM Studios) Conclave (Focus Features) I Saw the TV Glow (A24) The Substance (Mubi)
LGBTQ SCREENPLAY OF THE YEAR — Original or adapted
Challengers (Amazon MGM Studios) I Saw the TV Glow (A24) Love Lies Bleeding (A24) Problemista (A24) Queer (A24)
NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR All We Imagine as Light (Sideshow / Janus Films) Emilia Pérez (Netflix) Flow (Sideshow / Janus Films) I’m Still Here (Sony Pictures Classics) The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Neon)
LGBTQ NON-ENGLISH FILM OF THE YEAR Crossing (Mubi) Emilia Pérez (Netflix) Queendom (Greenwich Entertainment) Vermiglio (Sideshow / Janus Films) All Shall Be Well (Strand Releasing)
UNSUNG FILM OF THE YEAR —To an exceptional movie worthy of greater attention Didi (Focus Features) Hundreds of Beavers (Cineverse, Vinegar Syndrome) My Old Ass (Amazon MGM Studios) Problemista (A24) Thelma (Magnolia)
UNSUNG LGBTQ FILM OF THE YEAR Femme (Utopia) My Old Ass (Amazon MGM Studios) National Anthem (Variance, LD Entertainment) The People’s Joker (Altered Innocence) Problemista (A24)
FILM PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR Adrien Brody, The Brutalist (A24) Daniel Craig, Queer (A24) Colman Domingo, Sing Sing (A24) Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez (Netflix) Cynthia Erivo, Wicked (Universal) Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths (Bleecker Street) Nicole Kidman, Babygirl (A24) Mikey Madison, Anora (Neon) Demi Moore, The Substance (Mubi) Justice Smith, I Saw the TV Glow (A24)
SUPPORTING FILM PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR Michele Austin, Hard Truths (Bleecker Street) Yura Borisov, Anora (Neon) Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain (Searchlight Pictures) Ariana Grande, Wicked (Universal) Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios) Brigette Lundy-Paine, I Saw the TV Glow (A24) Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing (A24) Guy Pearce, The Brutalist (A24) Margaret Qualley, The Substance (Mubi) Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR Dahomey (Mubi) Daughters (Netflix) The Remarkable Life of Ibelin (Netflix) Sugarcane (National Geographic) Will & Harper (Netflix)
LGBTQ DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR Chasing Chasing Amy (Level 33) Frida (Amazon MGM Studios) Merchant Ivory (Cohen Media Group) Queendom (Greenwich Entertainment) Will & Harper (Netflix)
ANIMATED FILM OF THE YEAR Flow (Sideshow / Janus Films) Inside Out 2 (Disney) Memoir of a Snail (IFC Films) Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Netflix) The Wild Robot (Universal, DreamWorks)
GENRE FILM OF THE YEAR For excellence in science fiction, fantasy and horror Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.) I Saw the TV Glow (A24) Nosferatu (Focus Features) The Substance (Mubi) Wicked (Universal)
FILM MUSIC OF THE YEAR The Brutalist (A24) Challengers (Amazon MGM Studios) Emilia Pérez (Netflix) I Saw the TV Glow (A24) Wicked (Universal)
VISUALLY STRIKING FILM OF THE YEAR The Brutalist (A24) Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.) Nosferatu (Focus Features) Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios) The Substance (Mubi)
CAMPIEST FLICK Hundreds of Beavers (Cineverse, Vinegar Syndrome) Madame Web (Sony) Megalopolis (Lionsgate) The Substance (Mubi) Trap (Warner Bros.)
“WE’RE WILDE ABOUT YOU!” RISING STAR AWARD Jonathan Bailey Vera Drew Karla Sofía Gascón Brigette Lundy-Paine Mikey Madison Katy O’Brian Drew Starkey
WILDE ARTIST AWARD To a truly groundbreaking force in entertainment Colman Domingo Luca Guadagnino Coralie Fargeat Jane Schoenbrun Tilda Swinton
GALECA LGBTQIA+ FILM TRAILBLAZER For creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity Vera Drew Cynthia Erivo Luca Guadagnino Jane Schoenbrun Julio Torres
TIMELESS STAR (Career achievement award) Honoring an exemplary career marked by character, wisdom and wit To be announced February 13 with all winners.
Nomination counts per studio: Altered Innocence - 1 Amazon/MGM + Orion - 13 A24 - 25 Bleecker Street - 2 Cineverse / Vinegar Syndrome - 2 Cohen Media Group - 1 Disney - 1 Focus Features - 4 Greenwich Entertainment - 2 IFC - 1 Level 33 - 1 Lionsgate - 1 Magnolia - 1 Mubi - 10 National Geographic - 1 Neon - 5 Netflix - 11 Searchlight -1 Sideshow / Janus Films - 4 Sony - 1 Sony Pictures Classics - 1 Strand - 1 Universal - 5 Utopia - 1 Variance / LD Entertainment - 1 Warner Bros. - 3
About GALECA & The Dorian Awards
Formed in 2009, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics honors the best in film, television and Broadway/Off Broadway, mainstream to LGBTQIA+, via the Dorian Awards. A 501 c 6 nonprofit, GALECA serves to remind bigots, bullies and our own beleaguered communities that the world looks to the informed Q+ eye on entertainment. The organization also advocates for better pay, access and respect for its members, especially those in our most underrepresented and vulnerable segments. GALECA’s efforts also include the Crimson Honors, a college film/TV criticism contest for LGBTQ women or nonbinary students of color.
See our members' latest reviews, commentary and interviews, along with looks at entertainment’s past, on Bluesky and elsewhere @DorianAwards. GALECA’s YouTube channel features the group's past Dorians film and TV Toast awards specials, video chats with filmmakers and performers, plus talks with members about their latest books and more. Find out more at GALECA.org.
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment journalists is a core member of CGEM: Critics Groups for Equality in Media, an alliance of underrepresented entertainment journalists organizations.
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GALECA Names America’s 10 Best TV News Journalists
Thursday October 24, 2024 - GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, a league of more than 500 professional critics and entertainment journalists, has unveiled its picks for the 10 best on-air television news journalists working today.
Asked recently to name the one TV news anchor or on-air reporter whose journalistic expertise most impresses them, GALECA members nominated an inspiringly varied group of news gatherers, from investigative icon Christiane Amanpour to media disruptor Mehdi Hasan.
"It's great to see GALECA’s members recognize these stellar journalists in what obviously remains a very powerful medium,” said group president Walt Hickey. “With the world facing so much today, it feels really important to champion the pros who, with their teams, investigate and report on the stories that impact us with clarity and perspective.”
GALECA members work for a wide variety of key media outlets across the U.S., with some representation in the U.K., Canada, and beyond. The group’s main focus is the Dorian Awards, which recognize the best in film, TV, and Broadway/Off-Broadway content, from mainstream to LGBTQ-focused, at different times of the year.
Previous “GALECA 10 Best” polls have ranged from film's all-time finest actresses to essential LGBTQ films that straight people should see.
GALECA’s 10 Best TV News Journalists (in alphabetical order):
Christiane Amanpour One of the most honored, fearless—and peripatetic—TV journalists of our time, Amanpour currently serves as CNN’s Chief International Anchor. When she isn’t reporting from the field on global developments, she challenges world leaders with tough questions on her three current affairs shows. Her weeknight PBS version, Amanpour & Company, offers the most wide-ranging coverage.
Jonathan Capehart Capehart juggles hosting his own weekend political show on MSNBC with associate editor duties at The Washington Post. In his podcast for the latter, he delves into topics like the latest in climate change, the humanitarian crisis in war-torn Sudan, and the science of aging. He also shares takes on the headlines alongside moderate conservative David Brooks in Brooks & Capehart, a weekly segment on PBS NewsHour.
Kaitlan Collins GALECA members obviously appreciate a redemption story. During college, Collins used some homophobic pejoratives bantering with friends on Twitter. Her first job out of college: Entertainment reporter for a dodgy website run by Tucker Carlson. Within a few years, though, she pivoted—hard—to politics and CNN, where she quickly gained a reputation for fact-checking leaders when they spewed misinformation. In 2018, an irritated Trump administration barred her from attending White House press conferences. Collins now calmly holds the powerful accountable and lands scoops as host of CNN’s The Source.
Anderson Cooper The venerable CNN anchor still finds time to report from Ukraine to Israel to seemingly every natural disaster zone. He's also an occasional correspondent for CBS’ 60 Minutes, where in an April segment he got comic Kevin Hart to apologize for his past homophobic tirades. Last year, Cooper began hosting CNN’s The Whole Story, an impressively in-depth news investigation series he created and executive produces.
Mehdi Hasan Hasan first gained major attention hosting a hard-hitting news show on MSNBC (he developed his take-no-prisoners approach as a news editor for the U.K.’s Channel 4 network). Today, he interviews global figures like Israeli historian Benny Morris as host of Al Jazeera’s Head to Head and writes a column for The Guardian US—all while running his fledgling “adversarial journalism” venture, Zateo (an ancient Greek word meaning “seeking out”).
Lester Holt NBC’s steady Nightly News anchor showed his mettle as fact-checker-in-chief during the 2016 Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump presidential debate. He has also delivered incisive reports on the COVID-19 pandemic, political disinformation, and the Israel-Hamas War. How Holt finds time to main-anchor the murder-investigation series Dateline is its own mystery.
Rachel Maddow Maddow has long been one of GALECA’s favorite TV journalists. Diving deep into history to shed light on current global dilemmas, the MSNBC anchor—also an author and podcaster—sometimes pokes fun at her own wonkiness. But members clearly appreciate how Maddow lays out information and exposes disinformation in her fights against kleptocracy and fascism. Over the years, she and her show have won three of the group's Dorian Awards and received 11 nominations.
David Muir The ABC World News Tonight anchor impressed many viewers when he firmly fact-checked some of Donald Trump’s most outlandish fabrications during Trump's presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris. A former international news reporter for ABC, Muir has trekked the globe to investigate famine in Madagascar, the Israel-Hamas war, and more. He also manages to cohost his network’s newsmagazine show, 20/20.
Robin Roberts As cohost of ABC’s Good Morning America and special reporter for the network's World News Tonight, Roberts has touched hearts with her accounts of facing cancer, a rare blood disorder, and witnessing her Mississippi hometown's devastation by Hurricane Katrina. Her recent interviews with newsmakers like Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and WNBA star Caitlin Clark have only boosted her reputation as one of America’s most thoughtful on-air journalists. Earlier this year, she received the Poynter Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism.
Jacob Soboroff Soboroff, a political and national correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, stands out for his determined exposés on the U.S.-Mexico border crisis and the ongoing plight of immigrants. Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, his 2021 investigative book on the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant families, provided the basis for a new documentary directed by Oscar winner Errol Morris (The Fog of War). Soboroff has also reported from hotspots like Haiti and this year’s Republican National Convention.
About GALECA GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ Dorian Awards, chosen democratically by the membership, honor the best in TV, film, and Broadway/Off-Broadway at different times of the year. Members work for or freelance for a variety of mainstream and niche media outlets, including The New Yorker, Slate, Salon, The Daily Beast, Vulture, HuffPost, The Los Angeles Times, Out, The Advocate, The Boston Globe, E!, GQ, Essence, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, The Wrap, People, Reuters, USA Today, TV Guide, Time, Vanity Fair, GLAAD, Rolling Stone, The A.V. Club, LGBTQ Nation, IndieWire, The Guardian US, among others.
GALECA, which boasts over 500 members, reminds society that the world values the informed Q+ eye on everything entertainment. A nonprofit organization, GALECA also advocates for better pay, access, and respect for entertainment journalists, especially those in underrepresented communities. Follow us @DorianAwards on social media and find more information at GALECA.org.
‘HACKS,’ ‘ANNE RICE’S INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE’ AND ‘FELLOW TRAVELERS’ TAKE HOME MOST WINS FOR THE 2024 DORIAN TV AWARDS
Carol Burnett, Alan Cumming and Julio Torres Receive Special Accolades
Los Angeles / New York – Monday, August 12, 2024 -- GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics announced today the winners for the 2024 Dorian TV Awards, honoring the best in television and streaming networks. In the 16th go-around of GALECA’s TV honors, Max’s “Hacks” leads with four wins including Best TV Comedy, Best Written TV Show; AMC’s “Anne Rice’s Interview With A Vampire” with three wins including Best TV Drama, Best LGBTQ TV Show and Best Genre TV Show, and Showtime/Paramount+’s “Fellow Travelers” earns two acting wins: “Best TV Performance – Drama” for Matt Bomer and Best Supporting TV Performance – Drama, Jonathan Bailey
In the group’s more distinctive categories, FX’s final season of “Reservation Dogs,” about some close-knit Indigenous friends in rural Oklahoma, scored Best Unsung TV Show. Campiest TV Show honors went to SYFY/USA’s doll-gone-wild comedy-chiller, “Chucky.” GALECA also bestowed notable accolades to Salvadoran-American writer, comedian and actor Julio Torres with the Wilde Wit Award; award-winning actor Alan Cumming (host of reality show winner “The Traitors”) with the GALECA TV Trailblazer Award; and legendary comedian, actress, singer and memoirist Carol Burnett with the GALECA TV Icon Award.
"Congratulations to all the winners of the 2024 Dorian Television Awards,” said Walt Hickey, President, GALECA. "This group is second to none when it comes to elevating and advocating for innovative, daring work, and celebrating the creative efforts of the future of the film and television industry."
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ Dorian Awards, chosen democratically by the membership, go to TV, film, and Broadway/Off-Broadway at different times of the year. Members work of freelance for a variety of mainstream and niche media outlets, including The New Yorker, Slate, Salon, The Daily Beast, Vulture, HuffPost, The Los Angeles Times, CNN online, MSNBC online, Today online, GMA online, Out, The Advocate, The Boston Globe, E!, GQ, Essence, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, Emmy, The Wrap, People, Reuters, USA Today, TV Guide, Time, NPR, Nerdist, Playlist, Vanity Fair, Polygon, Jezebel, GLAAD, Rolling Stone, IndieWire, The Guardian, Decider, Collider, Vogue, Town and Country, ABC affiliates, Parade, among others.
GALECA, which boasts over 500 members, reminds society that the world values the informed Q+ eye on everything entertainment. A nonprofit organization, GALECA also advocates for better pay, access and respect for entertainment journalists, especially those in underrepresented communities. Follow us @DorianAwards on social media and find more information about who we are and what we do at GALECA.org.
2024 DORIAN TV AWARD WINS/NOMINATIONS—FULL LIST
BEST TV DRAMA ⭐️ Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (AMC)
The Curse (Showtime/Paramount+)
Fallout (Amazon Prime)
The Gilded Age (HBO)
Heartstopper (Netflix)
Shōgun (FX/Hulu)
BEST TV COMEDY
Abbott Elementary (ABC)
The Bear (FX/Hulu)
⭐️ Hacks (Max)
Reservation Dogs (FX/Hulu)
What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
BEST WRITTEN TV SHOW (new category) Abbott Elementary (ABC) Baby Reindeer (Netflix) The Bear (FX/Hulu) Fellow Travelers (Showtime/Paramount+) ⭐️ Hacks (Max)
BEST LGBTQ TV SHOW
⭐️ Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (AMC)
Baby Reindeer (Netflix)
Fellow Travelers (Showtime/Paramount+)
Hacks (Max)
Heartstopper (Netflix)
BEST TV MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES ⭐️ Baby Reindeer (Netflix)
Fellow Travelers (Showtime/Paramount+)
Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans (FX/Hulu)
Ripley (Netflix)
True Detective: Night Country (HBO)
BEST UNSUNG TV SHOW Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (AMC)
Chucky (Syfy/USA)
Our Flag Means Death (Max)
⭐️ Reservation Dogs (FX/Hulu)
We Are Lady Parts (Peacock)
BEST NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE TV SHOW Elite (Netflix) Lupin (Netflix) ⭐️ Shōgun (FX/Hulu) Tore (Netflix) Young Royals (Netflix)
BEST LGBTQ NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE TV SHOW (new category) Drag Latina (Revry/LATV+) Elite (Netflix) Past Lies (Hulu) Tore (Netflix) ⭐️ Young Royals (Netflix)
BEST TV PERFORMANCE—DRAMA Jacob Anderson, Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (AMC) ⭐️ Matt Bomer, Fellow Travelers (Showtime/Paramount+) Jodie Foster, True Detective: Night Country (HBO) Richard Gadd, Baby Reindeer (Netflix) Ncuti Gatwa, Doctor Who (Disney+) Lily Gladstone, Under the Bridge (Hulu) Tom Hollander, Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans (FX/Hulu) Anna Sawai, Shōgun (FX/Hulu) Andrew Scott, Ripley (Netflix) Emma Stone, The Curse (Showtime/Paramount+)
BEST SUPPORTING TV PERFORMANCE—DRAMA ⭐️ Jonathan Bailey, Fellow Travelers (Showtime/Paramount+) Christine Baranski, The Gilded Age (HBO) Elizabeth Debicki, The Crown (Netflix) Jessica Gunning, Baby Reindeer (Netflix) Moeka Hoshi, Shōgun (FX/Hulu) Jennifer Jason Leigh, Fargo (FX) Nava Mau, Baby Reindeer (Netflix) Jinkx Monsoon, Doctor Who (Disney+) Kali Reis, True Detective: Night Country (HBO) Benny Safdie, The Curse (Showtime/Paramount+)
BEST TV PERFORMANCE—COMEDY Matt Berry, What We Do in the Shadows (FX) Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary (ABC) Ayo Edebiri, The Bear (FX/Hulu) Renée Elise Goldsberry, Girls5Eva (Netflix) Devery Jacobs, Reservation Dogs (FX/Hulu) Maya Rudolph, Loot (Apple TV+) Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building (Hulu) ⭐️ Jean Smart, Hacks (Max) Jeremy Allen White, The Bear (FX/Hulu) Kristen Wiig, Palm Royale (Apple TV+)
BEST SUPPORTING TV PERFORMANCE—COMEDY Joel Kim Booster, Loot (Apple TV+) Carol Burnett, Palm Royale (Apple TV+) ⭐️ Hannah Einbinder, Hacks (Max) Harvey Guillén, What We Do in the Shadows (FX) Janelle James, Abbott Elementary (ABC) Jamie Lee-Curtis, The Bear (FX/Hulu) Sheryl Lee Ralph, Abbott Elementary (ABC) Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear (FX/Hulu) Megan Stalter, Hacks (Max) Meryl Streep, Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
BEST TV MUSICAL PERFORMANCE Miley Cyrus, “Flowers,” 66th Annual Grammy Awards (CBS / Paramount+) Billie Eilish & Finneas O'Connell, What Was I Made For?,” 96th Academy Awards (ABC) ⭐️ Ryan Gosling, “I’m Just Ken,” 96th Academy Awards (ABC) Steve Martin, “Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?,” Only Murders in the Building (Hulu) Maya Rudolph, “Mother,” Saturday Night Live (NBC)
BEST TV DOCUMENTARY OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES Black Twitter: A People’s History (Hulu) Girls State (Apple TV+) The Greatest Night in Pop (Netflix) Jim Henson Idea Man (Disney+) ⭐️ Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV (Investigation Discovery)
BEST LGBTQ TV DOCUMENTARY OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later (Showtime) Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show (HBO) ⭐️ Last Call: When A Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York (HBO) Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed (HBO) The Stroll (HBO)
BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS SHOW The Daily Show (Comedy Central) Hot Ones (YouTube) Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC) The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS) ⭐️ Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
BEST REALITY SHOW Rupaul's Drag Race (MTV) Queer Eye (Netflix) Top Chef (Bravo) ⭐️ The Traitors (Peacock) We’re Here (HBO)
BEST GENRE TV SHOW (new category) ⭐️ Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (AMC) The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix) Fallout (Amazon Prime) What We Do in the Shadows (FX) Chucky (SyFy/USA)
BEST ANIMATED SHOW Blue Eye Samurai (Netflix) Bobs Burgers (Fox) Harley Quinn (Max) Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (Netflix) ⭐️ X-Men '97 (Disney+)
MOST VISUALLY STRIKING TV SHOW Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (AMC) Fallout (Amazon Prime) Palm Royale (Apple TV+) ⭐️ Ripley (Netflix) Shōgun (FX/Hulu) True Detective: Night Country (HBO)
CAMPIEST TV SHOW Bridgerton (Netflix) ⭐️ Chucky (SyFy / USA) Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans (FX/Hulu) Palm Royale (Apple TV+) The Traitors (Peacock)
WILDE WIT AWARD —To a performer, writer or commentator whose observations both challenge and amuse Joel Kim Booster Quinta Brunson Ayo Edebiri Hannah Einbinder ⭐️ Julio Torres
GALECA TV ICON AWARD —To a uniquely talented star we adore Gillian Anderson Angela Bassett ⭐️ Carol Burnett LeVar Burton Julia Louis-Dreyfus
GALECA LGBTQIA+ TV TRAILBLAZER AWARD —For creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity RuPaul Charles Margaret Cho ⭐️ Alan Cumming Emma D'Arcy Ncuti Gatwa
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🥂 ‘Illinoise,’ ‘Merrily We Roll Along,’ and ‘Oh, Mary!’ Rule LGBTQ Critics’ Dorian Theater Awards
New York, N.Y. (June 3, 2024): GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ 39 theater wing members gave Illinoise, Merrily We Roll Along and Oh, Mary! top honors in the group’s second annual Dorian Theater Awards, honoring the best of 2023-24’s Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, mainstream to LGBTQ+.
The stirring and starry redo of Merrily We Roll Along, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s beloved tale of evolving friendships, nabbed four Dorian Awards, including Outstanding Broadway Musical Revival. Star Jonathan Groff took Best Lead Performance in a Musical, while costar Daniel Radcliffe scored two kudos: Best Featured Performance in a Musical and GALECA’s trademark Broadway Showstopper Award, the latter for his dynamic rendition of the tune “Franklin Sheppard, Inc.”
Stereophonic, David Adjmi’s new play about a fame-hungry rock band recording an album circa 1976, won Outstanding Broadway Play and Outstanding Broadway Ensemble. In a tie, the production’s costar Sarah Pidgeon and Kara Young of the lively satire Purlie Victorious both won Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Play.
Illinoise, the dance musical directed by choreographer Justin Peck (an Oscar nominee for Stephen Spielberg’s West Side Story) and written by Pulitzer Prize winner Jackie Sibblies Drury—and inspired by pop star Sufjan Stevens’ titular, semi-autobiographical album—took Outstanding Broadway Musical. The tale of a young gay man wracked with trauma, Illinoise also earned Outstanding LGBTQ Broadway Production.
Sarah Paulson (who won a Dorian in 2017 for TV’s American Crime Story) won Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Play for Appropriate, playwright Branden Jacob-Jenkins’s searing look at a white Southern family dealing with the legacy of their recently deceased father. Appropriate, first mounted in 2013, was named Outstanding Broadway Play Revival.
Cole Escola’s outlandish comedy, Oh, Mary!, dominated the group's Off-Broadway categories, winning for outstanding production, LGBTQ production and the division’s two performance categories. Escola managed a Dorian for their turn as, yes, Mary Todd Lincoln, while costar Conrad Ricamora triumphed as Mary's husband, Abe. Moreover, Escola—who costarred in the Dorian TV Award-nominated series Difficult People and At Home with Amy Sedaris—was named LGBTQ Theater Artist of the Season, making the firebrand the first honoree of this newly added Dorian Award.
GALECA's career achievement accolade here, the LGBTQ Theater Trailblazer Award, went to venerable playwright Paula Vogel.
"We're thrilled to be able to pay respect to Ms. Vogel's lifelong contributions to the American theater, as well as to her ongoing support of the LGBTQ community," said Cary Wong, the group's Off-Broadway Lead. Vogel won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1999 for her play, How I Learned to Drive. Her incredible body of work includes The Baltimore Waltz, Hot ’N Throbbing, The Mineola Twins and Indecent, which garnered Vogel her first Tony nomination for Best Play in 2017. Vogel’s latest lauded play, Mother Play, currently on Broadway, counted four Dorian nominations this year.
2024 Dorian Theater Awards—List of Winners:
Outstanding Broadway Musical
Here Lies Love Hell’s Kitchen 🏆 Illinoise Lempicka The Outsiders Suffs
Outstanding Broadway Play
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding Just for Us Mary Jane Mother Play Prayer for the French Republic 🏆 Stereophonic
Outstanding Broadway Musical Revival
Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club 🏆 Merrily We Roll Along The Who’s Tommy
Outstanding Broadway Play Revival
🏆 Appropriate An Enemy of the People Purlie Victorious
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Musical
Ali Louis Bourzgui, The Who’s Tommy Eden Espinosa, Lempicka Brody Grant, The Outsiders 🏆 Jonathan Groff, Merrily We Roll Along Brian d’Arcy James, Days of Wine and Roses Maleah Joi Moon, Hell’s Kitchen Kelli O’Hara, Days of Wine and Roses Maryann Plunkett, The Notebook Eddie Redmayne, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club Shaina Taub, Suffs
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Play
Betsy Aidem, Prayer for the French Republic Alex Edelman, Just For Us William Jackson Harper, Uncle Vanya Jessica Lange, Mother Play Leslie Odom Jr., Purlie Victorious Rachel McAdams, Mary Jane Laurie Metcalf, Grey House 🏆 Sarah Paulson, Appropriate
Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Musical
Hannah Cruz, Suffs Amber Iman, Lempicka Kecia Lewis, Hell’s Kitchen Nikki M. James, Suffs Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Monty Python’s Spamalot Lindsay Mendez, Merrily We Roll Along Bebe Neuwirth, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club Conrad Ricamora, Here Lies Love 🏆 Daniel Radcliffe, Merrily We Roll Along Ricky Ubeda, Illinoise
Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Play— TIE
Brittany Adebumola, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding Francis Benhamou, Prayer for the French Republic Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Doubt Alex Brightman, The Shark is Broken Will Brill, Stereophonic Elle Fanning, Appropriate Eli Gelb, Stereophonic Celia Keenan-Bolger, Mother Play Jay O. Sanders, Purlie Victorious Tom Pecinka, Stereophonic 🏆 Sarah Pidgeon, Stereophonic 🏆 Kara Young, Purlie Victorious
Outstanding LGBTQ Broadway Production
Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club 🏆 Illinoise Lempicka Mother Play
Outstanding Broadway Ensemble
Here Lies Love Illinoise Jaja’s African Hair Braiding Merrily We Roll Along Suffs 🏆 Stereophonic
The Broadway Showstopper Award — To a standout production number or scene
Appropriate, “Epilogue: The Plantation Decays” Illinoise, “Chicago” Lempicka, “Woman Is” 🏆 Merrily We Roll Along, “Franklin Shepard, Inc.” The Outsiders, “The Rumble”
Outstanding Off-Broadway Production
All the Devils Are Here The Ally The Connector 🏆 Oh, Mary! Primary Trust Teeth
Outstanding LGBTQ Off-Broadway Production Bark of Millions Eddie Izzard’s Hamlet Make Me Gorgeous 🏆 Oh, Mary! Teeth
Outstanding Lead Performance in an Off-Broadway Production
Charles Busch, Ibsen’s Ghost: An Irresponsible Biographical Fantasy Nicholas Christopher, Jelly’s Last Jam 🏆 Cole Escola, Oh, Mary! William Jackson Harper, Primary Trust Moses Ingram, Sunset Baby Rachel Bay Jones, Here We Are Alyse Alan Louis, Teeth Taylor Mac, Bark of Millions Ruthie Ann Miles, The Light in the Piazza Cynthia Nixon, The Seven Year Disappear Patrick Page, All the Devils Are Here
Outstanding Featured Performance in an Off-Broadway Production
Susan Blommaert, Grief Hotel Marylouise Burke, Infinite Life Bobby Cannavale, Here We Are Micaela Diamond, Here We Are Joaquina Kalukango, Jelly’s Last Jam Julia Lester, I Can Get it For You Wholesale Steven Pasquale, Teeth David Hyde Pierce, Here We Are 🏆 Conrad Ricamora, Oh, Mary! James Scully, Oh, Mary! Jennifer Van Dyck, Ibsen’s Ghost: An Irresponsible Biographical Fantasy Anna Zavelson, The Light in the Piazza
LGBTQ Theater Artist of the Season
🏆 Cole Escola Michael Greif Jonathan Groff Michael R. Jackson Sarah Paulson Conrad Ricamora
LGBTQ Theater Trailblazer Award — For a lifelong commitment to creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity
Charles Busch André De Shields Christopher Durang (nominated posthumously) Taylor Mac 🏆 Paula Vogel
WINNERS TALLY
Merrily We Roll Along - 4 Oh, Mary! - 4 Stereophonic - 3 Appropriate - 2 Illinoise - 2 Purlie Victorious – 1
GALECA Theater Wing members, 2023-2024 season
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About GALECA GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics and its Dorian Awards honor the best in film, television and, under its theater wing, Broadway and Off-Broadway. More than 500 members strong, GALECA reminds society that the world values the informed Q+ eye on everything entertainment. A nonprofit organization, GALECA also advocates for better pay, access and respect for entertainment journalists, especially the underrepresented. Follow us @DorianAwards on social media, and find more information about who we are and what we do at GALECA.org.
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment journalists is a core member of CGEM: Critics Groups for Equality in Media, an alliance of underrepresented entertainment journalists organizations.
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'Merrily We Roll Along' and 'Stereophonic' Lead LGBTQ Critics’ Dorian Theater Award Nominations
New York, N.Y. (May 13, 2024) GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ 39 theater wing members named their favorites in New York theater for the second annual Dorian Theater Awards, this time toasting the best in Broadway and Off-Broadway for the 2023-2024 season. Like GALECA’s Dorian film and TV awards, the group's stage honors celebrate both mainstream and LGBTQ+-themed productions.
Leading on the Broadway side with six nominations each: The new play Stereophonic by David Adjmi and the Maria Friedman-helmed revival of Merrily We Roll Along. Dorian Award have four members of the Stereophonic cast competing for Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Play, and three actors from Merrily We Roll Along in the run. All Dorian Award performance categories are gender neutral.
In Off-Broadway categories, Oh, Mary!, writer-star Cole Escola’s Broadway-bound play about Mary Todd Lincoln, ruled with five nominations. Teeth, Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacobs’ musical about an evangelical teen girl with hidden talents, and Stephen Sondheim’s final musical, Here We Are—co-written with David Ives and adapted from two films by Luis Buñuel—each scored four nods.
For the wing’s special new accolade, LGBTQ Theater Artist of the Season, GALECA members nominated writer/actor Cole Escola, composer Michael R. Jackson, director Michael Greif, along with actors Jonathan Groff, Sarah Paulson and Conrad Ricamora.
The nominees for the group’s career achievement award, LGBTQ Theater Trailblazer, are awe-inspiring multi-hyphenate André De Shields and four distinctly legendary playwrights: Charles Busch, Christopher Durang (nominated posthumously), Taylor Mac and Paula Vogel.
“I think we’re all actually happy to say GALECA’s members had a daunting task of sifting through so many exciting plays and musical this season,” said Cary Wong, the group’s Off-Broadway lead. “Considering Broadway alone put up 38 productions this season, New York theater has definitely bounced back from 18 months of Covid closures. From popular adaptations like The Notebook todaring new works likeLempicka, Dorian Award voters and all theater goers had plenty to rave and dish about.”
GALECA will once again help kick off Pride Month by announcing this year's Dorian Theater Awards on Monday, June 3, 2024.
Full list of 2024 Dorian Theater Awards nominees:
Outstanding Broadway Musical Here Lies Love Hell’s Kitchen Illinoise Lempicka The Outsiders Suffs
Outstanding Broadway Play Jaja’s African Hair Braiding Just for Us Mary Jane Mother Play Prayer for the French Republic Stereophonic
Outstanding Broadway Musical Revival Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club Merrily We Roll Along The Who’s Tommy Outstanding Broadway Play Revival Appropriate An Enemy of the People Purlie Victorious
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Musical Ali Louis Bourzgui, The Who’s Tommy Eden Espinosa, Lempicka Brody Grant, The Outsiders Jonathan Groff, Merrily We Roll Along Brian d’Arcy James, Days of Wine and Roses Maleah Joi Moon, Hell’s Kitchen Kelli O’Hara, Days of Wine and Roses Maryann Plunkett, The Notebook Eddie Redmayne, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club Shaina Taub, Suffs
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Play Betsy Aidem, Prayer for the French Republic Alex Edelman, Just For Us William Jackson Harper, Uncle Vanya Jessica Lange, Mother Play Leslie Odom Jr., Purlie Victorious Rachel McAdams, Mary Jane Laurie Metcalf, Grey House Sarah Paulson, Appropriate
Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Musical Hannah Cruz, Suffs Amber Iman, Lempicka Kecia Lewis, Hell’s Kitchen Nikki M. James, Suffs Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Monty Python’s Spamalot Lindsay Mendez, Merrily We Roll Along Bebe Neuwirth, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club Conrad Ricamora, Here Lies Love Daniel Radcliffe, Merrily We Roll Along Ricky Ubeda, Illinoise
Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Play Brittany Adebumola, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding Francis Benhamou, Prayer for the French Republic Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Doubt Alex Brightman, The Shark is Broken Will Brill, Stereophonic Elle Fanning, Appropriate Eli Gelb, Stereophonic Celia Keenan-Bolger, Mother Play Jay O. Sanders, Purlie Victorious Tom Pecinka, Stereophonic Sarah Pidgeon, Stereophonic Kara Young, Purlie Victorious
Outstanding LGBTQ Broadway Production Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club Illinoise Lempicka Mother Play Outstanding Broadway Ensemble Here Lies Love Illinoise Jaja’s African Hair Braiding Merrily We Roll Along Suffs Stereophonic
The Broadway Showstopper Award — To a standout production number or scene Appropriate, “Epilogue: The Plantation Decays” Illinoise, “Chicago” Lempicka, “Woman Is” Merrily We Roll Along, “Franklin Shepard INC” The Outsiders, “The Rumble”
Outstanding Off-Broadway Production All the Devils Are Here The Ally The Connector Oh, Mary! Primary Trust Teeth
Outstanding LGBTQ Off-Broadway Production Bark of Millions Eddie Izzard’s Hamlet Make Me Gorgeous Oh, Mary! Teeth
Outstanding Lead Performance in an Off-Broadway Production Charles Busch, Ibsen’s Ghost: An Irresponsible Biographical Fantasy Nicholas Christopher, Jelly’s Last Jam Cole Escola, Oh, Mary! William Jackson Harper, Primary Trust Moses Ingram, Sunset Baby Rachel Bay Jones, Here We Are Alyse Alan Louis, Teeth Taylor Mac, Bark of Millions Ruthie Ann Miles, The Light in the Piazza Cynthia Nixon, The Seven Year Disappear Patrick Page, All the Devils Are Here
Outstanding Featured Performance in an Off-Broadway Production Susan Blommaert, Grief Hotel Marylouise Burke, Infinite Life Bobby Cannavale, Here We Are Micaela Diamond, Here We Are Joaquina Kalukango, Jelly’s Last Jam Julia Lester, I Can Get it For You Wholesale Steven Pasquale, Teeth David Hyde Pierce, Here We Are Conrad Ricamora, Oh, Mary! James Scully, Oh, Mary! Jennifer Van Dyck, Ibsen’s Ghost: An Irresponsible Biographical Fantasy Anna Zavelson, The Light in the Piazza
LGBTQ Theater Artist of the Season Cole Escola Michael Greif Jonathan Groff Michael R. Jackson Sarah Paulson Conrad Ricamora
LGBTQ Theater Trailblazer Award — For a lifelong commitment to creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity Charles Busch André De Shields Christopher Durang (nominated posthumously) Taylor Mac Paula Vogel
Productions With Multiple Nominations Merrily We Roll Along - 6 Stereophonic - 6 Illinoise - 5 Lempicka - 5 Oh, Mary! - 5 Suffs - 5 Appropriate - 4 Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club - 4 Here We Are - 4 Mother Play - 4 Purlie Victorious - 4 Teeth - 4 Hell’s Kitchen - 3 Here Lies Love - 3 Jaja’s African Hair Braiding - 3 The Outsiders - 3 Prayer for the French Republic - 3 All the Devils Are Here - 2 Bark of Millions - 2 Days of Wine and Roses - 2 Ibsen’s Ghost - 2 Jelly’s Last Jam - 2 Just for Us - 2 The Light in the Piazza - 2 Mary Jane - 2 Primary Trust - 2 The Who’s Tommy - 2
GALECA Theater Wing members, 2023-2024 season Frank J. Avella Edge Media Network, Awards Daily Drew Burnett Gregory, Autostraddle Kerensa Cadenas, Elle, Vogue, etc. Chris Carpenter, Rage magazine, MovieDearest Sam Eckmann (co-chair), Gold Derby Murtada Elfadl, The A.V. Club, Variety, etc. Adam Feldman, Time Out Brian Eugenio Herrera, #TheatreClique (Substack), etc. Marshall Heyman (Broadway lead), Dujour, Town & Country, etc. Merryn Johns (co-chair), Queer Forty James Kleinmann, The Queer Review Naveen Kumar, them, The Daily Beast Ryan Leeds, Metro Weekly, Manhattan Digest Christian Lewis, Variety, TheaterMania, etc. Brian Scott Lipton, Cititour, Theater Pizzazz, etc. Jonathan Mandell, New York Theater Meg Masseron, Playbill Abby Monteil, them, etc. Michael Musto, The Village Voice, etc. Charles O’Keefe, E! News Louis Peitzman, High Drama (Substack) Juan Michael Porter II, The Body, TDF Stages Juan A. Ramirez, Theatrely, The New York Times Mathew Rodriguez, them Nathaniel Rogers, The Film Experience Gillian Russo, New York Theatre Guide Patrick Ryan - USA Today Michael Schulman, The New Yorker Marcus Scott, National Black Theatre Cohort, 2023-24 Joey Sims, Theatrely, The Brooklyn Rail, etc. Jose Solís, Dorian Theater Awards Diversity Liaison Ashley Steves, Today on Broadway podcast, Broadway Radio Tim Teeman, The Daily Beast Kyle Turner, New York Theatre Guide, etc. Lindsey Weber, Not Broadway (Substack), etc. Matthew Wexler, Q Digital Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter Cary Wong (Off-Broadway lead), Film Score Monthly, The Interested Bystander blog Curtis Wong, HuffPost
About GALECA GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics and its Dorian Awards honor the best in film, television and, under its theater wing, Broadway and Off-Broadway. More than 500 members strong, GALECA reminds society that the world values the informed Q+ eye on everything entertainment. A nonprofit organization, GALECA also advocates for better pay, access and respect for entertainment journalists, especially the underrepresented. Follow us @DorianAwards on social media, and find more information about who we are and what we do at GALECA.org.
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment journalists is a core member of CGEM: Critics Groups for Equality in Media, an alliance of underrepresented entertainment journalists organizations.
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🥂 Dorian Film Winners 2024
'All of Us Strangers’ Takes Top Film Prize in LGBTQ Critics’ Dorian Awards
Gerwig Wins Director of the Year, Gladstone Grabs Best Performance Honors for ‘Flower Moon'
— Group's 'Timeless Star’ Career Achievement Award Goes to Jodie Foster —
February 26, 2024 - Los Angeles, Ca. - For its 15th Dorian Film Awards, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics fully embraced All of Us Strangers, writer-director Andrew Haigh's fantastical and tear-inducing tale of two troubled souls falling for each other in lonely London. The 500-members strong GALECA, one of the largest entertainment journalists organizations in the world, named Strangers both Film of the Year and LGBTQ Film of the Year, and also awarded Haigh LGBTQ Screenplay of the Year.
“Twelve years ago, Andrew Haigh’s fresh and observant queer romance Weekend ruled our Dorians as well,” said GALECA President Walt Hickey. “So the fact that Strangers obviously touched many of our members’ hearts as well counts as sort of a sweet homecoming to our organization.”
In a tight race for Film Director of the Year (so tight, even Martin Scorsese didn’t make GALECA’s Dorians short list), Greta Gerwig proved the ultimate champion for helming the spectacular crowd-pleaser Barbie. Spreading the appreciation judiciously, the group gave overall screenplay honors to newcomer Sami Burch for May December, a cunningly observed riff on a true-life American scandal of the 1990s. Another scintillating drama, the whydunnit Anatomy of a Fall, earned Non-English Language Film of the Year.
GALECA’s inaugural Genre Film of the Year winner: Director Yorgos Lanthimos and screenwriter Tony McNamara’s Poor Things, an equity-empowering twist on Frankenstein that also took Visually Striking Film. And Dorian voters, obviously fans of powerful female humanoids, crowned the cheeky horror flickM3GAN as Campiest Flick.
As for the group’s trademark individual honors, Rustin actor Colman Domingo was named LGBTQIA+ Film Trailblazer “for creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity.” Meanwhile, May December (and past Dorian winners Carol and A Single Man) director Todd Haynes landed the Wilde Artist Award, going to “a truly groundbreaking force in entertainment.”
Jodie Foster, who at age 61 is earning raves for her work in the feature film Nyad and HBO smash True Detective, was named Timeless Star. The career achievement honor, hailing "an exemplary career marked by character, wisdom and wit,” has in years past gone to the likes of Sir Ian McKellen, Angela Lansbury, Jane Fonda, George Takei, Nathan Lane and Meryl Streep.
GALECA’s Dorian Awards go to the best in film, TV and Broadway / Off-Broadway, mainstream to LGBTQ+, at separate times of the year. The group’s members work for a wide range of notable media outlets, and vote on their favorites in entertainment in purely democratic fashion. For more info, visit galeca.org and search for GALECA’s official Dorian Awards pages on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and more.
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ 15th Dorian Film Awards—Full List of Winners:
Film of the Year
🏆 All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Barbie (Warner Bros.)
May December (Netflix)
Past Lives (A24)
Poor Things (Searchlight)
LGBTQ Film of the Year
🏆 All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Bottoms (MGM)
Passages (MUBI, SBS)
Rustin (Netflix)
Saltburn (Amazon MGM)
Director of the Year
🏆 Greta Gerwig, Barbie (Warner Bros.)
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Todd Haynes, May December (Netflix)
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer (Universal)
Celine Song, Past Lives (A24)
Screenplay of the Year
Original or adapted
Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig, Barbie (Warner Bros.)
🏆 Samy Burch, May December (Netflix)
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Arthur Harari, Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall (NEON)
Celine Song, Past Lives (A24)
LGBTQ Screenplay of the Year (new)
🏆 Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Arthur Harari, Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall (NEON)
