Who cares about the Oscars? The Dorian Awards are where it’s at, although I may be slightly biased as I’m a member of GALECA, the Gay & Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, which hands out the gongs to the best in TV and film.
The winners of this year’s awards have now been announced, with Argo and Keep The Lights on taking the biggest prizes of Best Film and Best LGBT Film. Daniel Day-Lewis and Anne Hathaway also have reason to celebrate, as they’ve picked up some love from the gay critics, who’ve awarded them Best Actor and Best Actress for Lincoln and Les Miserables respectively.
GALECA’s members deemed Ezra Miller worthy of their We’re Wilde About You Rising Star, honouring him for his portrayal of a bullied gay teen in The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
In the more unusual film categories, the comic drama Bernie, starring Jack Black as a murderous – but supernice – funeral director, was named Unsung Film of the Year. Channing Tatum’s guy-strippers melodrama Magic Mike and the Zac Efron-starring potboiler The Paperboy tied for the group’s novel Campy Film of the Year title.
On the TV side, American Horror Story won TV Drama of the Year for the second straight year (this time it tied with the conspiracy thriller Homeland). The series’ star, Jessica Lange, won TV Performance of the Year a second time as well. Girls took TV Comedy of the Year, while Modern Family and freshman gay-life satire The New Normal tied for LGBT TV Show of the Year. Campy TV Show of the Year honours went to the Lindsay Lohan starring biopic Liz & Dick, while the Unsung TV Show award was given to the comedy Happy Endings.
In new categories, GALECA named Ryan Murphy, co-creator of American Horror Story, The New Normal and Glee, as Wilde Artist of the Year. Fox’s Life of Pi was the group’s pick for Visually Striking Film of the Year, while TV or Movie Title of the Year went to Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23, which bested the likes of I Was Impaled and It’s Christmas, Carol! for that silly, er, title.
The complete list of Dorian Award winners is below. A celebratory toast will be held Sunday, February 17the in Los Angeles. For more information, please visit: galeca.com and https://www.facebook.com/galecadorianawards
FILM OF THE YEAR
WINNER: Argo (Warner Bros.)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Fox Searchlight)
Keep the Lights On (Music Box)
Les Miserables (Universal)
Lincoln (DreamWorks/Touchstone)
Moonrise Kingdom (Focus)
FILM PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR – ACTOR
WINNER: Daniel Day-Lewis / Lincoln (DreamWorks/Touchstone)
Alan Cumming / Any Day Now (Music Box)
Bradley Cooper / Silver Linings Playbook (Weinstein)
Hugh Jackman / Les Miserables (Universal)
Joaquin Phoenix / The Master (Weinstein)
John Hawkes / The Sessions (Fox Searchlight)
FILM PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR – ACTRESS
WINNER: Anne Hathaway / Les Miserables (Universal)
Emmanuelle Riva / Amour (Sony Pictures Classics)
Jennifer Lawrence / Silver Linings Playbook (Weinstein)
Jessica Chastain / Zero Dark Thirty (Sony/Columbia)
Marion Cotillard / Rust and Bone (Sony Pictures Classics)
LGBT FILM OF THE YEAR
WINNER: Keep the Lights On (Music Box)
Any Day Now (Music Box)
Cloud Atlas (Warner Bros.)
Gayby (Wolfe Releasing/The Film Collaborative)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Summit/Lionsgate)
DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR
WINNER: How to Survive a Plague (Sundance Selects)
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (IFC)
Bully (Weinstein)
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel (Samuel Goldwyn)
The Invisible War (Cinedigm)
The Queen of Versailles (Magnolia)
VISUALLY STRIKING FILM OF THE YEAR
(honoring a production of stunning beauty, from art direction to cinematography)
WINNER: Life of Pi (Fox)
Anna Karenina (Focus)
Cloud Atlas (Warner Bros.)
Les Miserables (Universal)
Moonrise Kingdom (Focus)
CAMPY FLICK OF THE YEAR (TIE)
WINNER: Magic Mike (Warner Bros.)
WINNER: The Paperboy (Millennium)
2016: Obama’s America (Rocky Mountain)
Cloud Atlas (Warner Bros.)
Pitch Perfect (Universal)
Rock of Ages (Warner Bros./New Line)
UNSUNG FILM OF THE YEAR
WINNER: Bernie (Millennium)
The Cabin in the Woods (Lionsgate)
Chronicle (Fox)
Holy Motors (Indomina)
Looper (Sony)
Your Sister’s Sister (IFC)
TV DRAMA OF THE YEAR (TIE)
WINNER: American Horror Story: Asylum (FX)
WINNER: Homeland (Showtime)
Breaking Bad (AMC)
Game of Thrones (HBO)
Mad Men (AMC)
TV COMEDY OF THE YEAR
WINNER: Girls (HBO)
The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
Happy Endings (ABC)
Louie (FX)
Modern Family (ABC)
TV PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR – ACTOR
WINNER: Damian Lewis / Homeland (Showtime)
Aaron Paul / Breaking Bad (AMC)
Jesse Tyler Ferguson / Modern Family (ABC)
Jim Parsons / The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
Jon Hamm / Mad Men (AMC)
TV PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR – ACTRESS
WINNER: Jessica Lange / American Horror Story: Asylum (FX)
Claire Danes / Homeland (Showtime)
Julianne Moore / Game Change (HBO)
Edie Falco / Nurse Jackie (Showtime)
Lena Dunham / Girls (HBO)
Sofia Vergara / Modern Family (ABC)
TV MUSICAL PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
WINNER: Jennifer Hudson, Tribute to Whitney Houston, The Grammys (CBS)
Darren Criss, “Teenage Dream,” Glee (Fox)
De’Borah Garner, The Fray’s “You Found Me,” The Voice (NBC)
Megan Hilty and Katharine McPhee, “Let Me Be Your Star, Smash (NBC)
Raza Jaffrey, Katharine McPhee and cast: “A Thousand and One Nights, Smash (NBC)
LGBT TV SHOW OF THE YEAR (TIE)
WINNER: Modern Family (ABC)
WINNER: The New Normal (NBC)
American Horror Story: Asylum (FX)
Happy Endings (ABC)
Smash (NBC)
CAMPY TV SHOW OF THE YEAR
WINNER: Liz & Dick (Lifetime)
666 Park Avenue (ABC)
American Horror Story: Asylum (FX)
GCB (ABC)
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (TLC)
Smash (NBC)
UNSUNG TV SHOW OF THE YEAR
WINNER: Happy Endings (ABC)
Bunheads (ABC Family)
Catfish (MTV)
Fringe (FX)
GCB (ABC)
Parenthood (NBC)
TV OR MOVIE TITLE OF THE YEAR
WINNER: Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23 (ABC)
GCB (ABC)
I Was Impaled (Discovery Fit & Health)
I’m Having Their Baby (Oxygen)
It’s Christmas, Carol! (Hallmark Channel)
WE’RE WILDE ABOUT YOU (NEWCOMER AWARD)
WINNER: Ezra Miller
Andrew Rannells
Anna Camp
Ben Whishaw
Eddie Redmayne
WILDE WIT OF THE YEAR
(honoring a performer, writer or commentator whose observations both challenge and amuse)
WINNER: Jon Stewart
Bill Maher
Chelsea Handler
Lena Dunham
Sarah Silverman
Stephen Colbert
WILDE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
(honoring a truly groundbreaking force in the fields of film, theatre and/or television)
WINNER: Ryan Murphy
Lena Dunham
Louis C.K.
Tony Kushner
Tig Notaro
TIMELESS AWARD (previously announced)
(honoring an actor or performer whose exemplary career has been marked by character, wisdom and wit)
WINNER: Sir Ian McKellen
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