⭐ Dorian Film Awards 2025:
'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, counting more 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 tale I 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 for Challengers, director Luca Guadagnino’s homoerotic spin on Jules 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 spoof The People’s Joker and writer-director-star Julio Torres’ comedy Problemista were both dubbed Unsung Film gems; director RaMell Ross’ somewhat experimental Nickel Boys was named Visually Striking Film, and the twisty animal adventure Flow—another dazzling cinematic experience—took Animated Film of the Year.
Best Non-English language film honors went to Brazil’s fact-based protest drama I’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 via galeca.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 forAmerica'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)
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) -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
⭐️ Demi Moore
Wins per studio:
Altered Innocence - 1
Amazon/MGM/Orion 3
A24 - 3
Mubi - 5
Netflix - 3
Sideshow / Janus Films - 1
Sony Pictures Classics - 1
Universal - 1
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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'I Saw the TV Glow,' 'The Substance'
Lead in LGBTQ Critics
Dorian Film Award Nominations
Demi Moore, Nicole Kidman, Adrien Brody, Daniel Craig Score Acting Nods
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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GALECANames 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.
Contact:
SMITHHOUSE Strategy
Galeca@smithhousestrategy.com
John Griffiths
GALECA Executive Director
john.griffiths@galeca.org
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📺 2024 Dorian TV Awards Winners Announced 🥂
‘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 atGALECA.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 gaveIllinoise,Merrily We Roll Along andOh, 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 ofMerrily 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 satirePurlie 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’sWest 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’sAmerican Crime Story) won Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Play forAppropriate, 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 seriesDifficult People andAt 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
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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'Merrily We RollAlong' 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 playStereophonic by David Adjmi and the Maria Friedman-helmed revival ofMerrily We Roll Along. Dorian Award have four members of theStereophonic cast competing for Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Play, and three actors fromMerrily 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 to daring new works like Lempicka, 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'
Colman Domingo, Todd Haynes Score Trademark Accolades
— 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 flick M3GAN 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, visitgaleca.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:
🏆 All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Poor Things (Searchlight)
🏆 All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
🏆 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)
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)
Dustin Lance Black, Julian Breece, Rustin (Netflix)
Arlette Langmann, Ira Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias, Passages (MUBI)
Emma Seligman, Rachel Sennott, Bottoms (MGM)
Non-English Language Film of the Year
🏆 Anatomy of a Fall (NEON)
The Boy and the Heron (GKIDS)
Godzilla Minus One (Toho)
The Zone of Interest (A24)
LGBTQ Non-English Language Film of the Year
Afire (Janus Films, Sideshow)
🏆 Anatomy of a Fall (NEON)
Monster (Well Go USA, Gaga, Toho)
Rotting in the Sun (MUBI)
To an exceptional movie worthy of greater attention
🏆 Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret (Lionsgate)
Theater Camp (Searchlight)
A Thousand and One (Focus Features)
Film Performance of the Year
Colman Domingo, Rustin (Netflix)
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers (Focus Features)
🏆 Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple)
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall (NEON)
Greta Lee, Past Lives (A24)
Trace Lysette, Monica (IFC)
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer (Universal)
Natalie Portman, May December (Netflix)
Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Emma Stone, Poor Things (Searchlight)
Supporting Film Performance of the Year
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple (Warner Bros.)
Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer (Universal)
Jodie Foster, Nyad (Netflix)
Claire Foy, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Ryan Gosling, Barbie (Warner Bros.)
Rachel McAdams, Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret (Lionsgate)
🏆 Charles Melton, May December (Netflix)
Paul Mescal, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Rosamund Pike, Saltburn (Amazon MGM)
Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers (Focus Features)
American Symphony (Netflix)
Beyond Utopia (Roadside Attractions, Fathom Events)
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (Apple)
20 Days in Mariupol (PBS Distribution)
LGBTQ Documentary of the Year
Every Body (Focus Features)
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (HBO, Confluential Films)
Little Richard: I Am Everything (Magnolia)
Orlando, My Political Biography (Janus Film, Sideshow)
Animated Film of the Year
🏆 The Boy and the Heron (GKIDS)
Nimona (Netflix, Annapurna)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (SONY)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Paramount)
Genre Film of the Year (new)
For excellence in science fiction, fantasy and horror
All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Godzilla Minus One (Toho)
🏆 Poor Things (Searchlight)
🏆 Barbie — Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt, et al. (Warner Bros.)
The Boy and the Heron — Joe Hisaishi (GKIDS)
The Color Purple — Stephen Bray, Allee Willis, Brenda Russell, Kris Bowers, et al. (Warner Bros.)
Oppenheimer — Ludwig Göransson (Universal)
The Zone of Interest — Mica Levi (A24)
Visually Striking Film of the Year
Asteroid City (Focus Features)
🏆 Poor Things (Searchlight)
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (SONY)
“We’re Wilde About You!” Rising Star Award
To a truly groundbreaking force in entertainment
GALECA LGBTQIA+ Film Trailblazer Award
For creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity
Timeless Star (Career achievement award)
Honoring an exemplary career marked by character, wisdom and wit
Winner counts per studio:
About GALECA & Our Dorian Awards
