If most awards are a bit too straight for you, then GALECA – the Gay & Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association – and their Dorian Awards are for you. They had out gongs for both mainstream and gay-themed films, as well as in more unusual categories such as Campy Film Of The Year, and Wilde Wit Of The Year.
Now this year’s winner’s have been announced, with Boyhood getting Best Film Of The Year. It’s a good omen as for the past two years GALECA has chosen the movie in that category that went on to win the Best Picture Oscar. Eddie Redmayne and Julianne Moore took the film Film Performance gongs, while Ava DuVernay got Best Director Selma.
On the gay front, there was an extremely strong field of contenders for LGBTQ Film Of The Year, including Stranger By The Lake, Love Is Strange and the multi-Oscar nominated The Imitation Game, but in the end it went to the excellent Pride, which also picked up Unsung Film Of The Year.
In the TV categories, Transparent was by far the biggest winner, scoring TV Comedy of the Year, TV Director of the Year for Jill Soloway, TV Performance of the Year – Actor for Jeffrey Tambor and LGBTQ TV Show of the Year. The Normal Heart also stood out, taking TV Drama Of The Year.
Take a look below for the full list of this year’s Dorian Award winners.
Film of the Year
Boyhood – Sundance Selects/IFC
Birdman – Fox Searchlight
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Fox Searchlight
The Imitation Game – The Weinstein Company
Pride – CBS Films
Film Performance of the Year – Actor
Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything – Universal
Steve Carell, Foxcatcher – Sony Pictures Classics
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game – The Weinstein Company
Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler – Open Road
Michael Keaton, Birdman – Fox Searchlight
Film Performance of the Year – Actress
Julianne Moore, Still Alice – Sony Pictures Classics
Essie Davis, The Babadook – Sundance Selects/IFC
Anne Dorval, Mommy – Lionsgate
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl – 20th Century Fox
Reese Witherspoon, Wild – Fox Searchlight
Film Director of the Year
Ava DuVernay, Selma – Paramount
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel – Fox Searchlight
David Fincher, Gone Girl – 20th Century Fox
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Birdman – Fox Searchight
Richard Linklater, Boyhood – Sundance Selects/IFC
LGBTQ Film of the Year
Pride – CBS Films
The Imitation Game – The Weinstein Company
Love is Strange – Sony Pictures Classics
Stranger by the Lake – Strand Releasing
The Way He Looks – Strand Releasing
Foreign Language Film of the Year
Mommy – Lionsgate
Force Majeure – Magnolia Pictures
Ida – Music Box Films
Stranger by the Lake – Strand Releasing
Two Days, One Night – Sundance Selects/IFC
Unsung Film of the Year
Pride – CBS Films
Obvious Child – A24
Love is Strange – Sony Pictures Classics
The Skeleton Twins – Roadside Attractions
Snowpiercer – Radius/TWC
Documentary of the Year
(theatrical release, TV airing or DVD release)
The Case Against 8 – HBO
CitizenFour – Radius/TWC
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me – Sundance Selects
Life Itself – Magnolia Pictures
Regarding Susan Sontag – HBO
Visually Striking Film of the Year
(honoring a production of stunning beauty, from art direction to cinematography)
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Fox Searchlight
Birdman – Fox Searchlight
Interstellar – Paramount
Snowpiercer – Radius/TWC
Under the Skin – A24
Campy Flick of the Year
Into the Woods
Annie
Gone Girl
Maleficent
Tammy
TV Drama of the Year
The Normal Heart – HBO
Fargo – FX
The Good Wife – CBS
How To Get Away with Murder – ABC
Mad Men – AMC
TV Comedy of the Year
Transparent – Amazon
The Comeback – HBO
Modern Family – ABC
Orange is the New Black – Netflix
Veep – HBO
TV Director of the Year
Jill Soloway, Transparent – Amazon
Lisa Cholodenko, Olive Kitteridge – HBO
Jodie Foster, Orange is the New Black -Netflix
Andrew Haigh, Looking – HBO
Ryan Murphy, The Normal Heart – HBO
TV Performance of the Year – Actor
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent – Amazon
Matthew Bomer, The Normal Heart – HBO
Matthew McConaughey, True Detective – HBO
Mark Ruffalo, The Normal Heart – HBO
Kevin Spacey, House of Cards – Netflix
TV Performance of the Year – Actress
Lisa Kudrow, The Comeback – HBO
Viola Davis, How to Get Away with Murder – ABC
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife – CBS
Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black – BBC America
Frances McDormand, Olive Kitteridge – HBO
TV Musical Performance of the Year
Neil Patrick Harris, “Sugar Daddy,” The Tony Awards – CBS
Beyonce, MTV Video Music Awards – MTV
Jessica Lange, “Life on Mars,” American Horror Story: Freak Show – FX
Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, Madonna, et al., “Same Love,” The Grammys – CBS
Prince, Saturday Night Live – NBC
LGBTQ TV Show of the Year
Transparent – Amazon
Looking – HBO
Modern Family – ABC
Orange is the New Black – Netflix
Please Like Me – Pivot
Unsung TV Show of the Year
Getting On – HBO
Looking – HBO
Orphan Black – BBC America
Please Like Me – Pivot
Transparent – Amazon
TV Current Affairs Show of the Year
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart – Comedy Central
Anderson Cooper 360 – CNN
The Colbert Report – Comedy Central
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver – HBO
The Rachel Maddow Show – MSNBC
Campy TV Show of the Year
Jane the Virgin
American Horror Story: Freak Show
How to Get Away with Murder
Peter Pan Live!
Penny Dreadful
Music Video of the Year
Sia, “Chandelier”
Nicki Minaj, “Anaconda”
Perfume Genius, “Queen”
Taylor Swift, “Blank Space”
Meghan Trainor, “All About That Bass”
The “We’re Wilde About You!” Rising Star Award
Gina Rodriguez
Ansel Elgort
Jack Falahee
Ellar Coltrane
Jack O’Connell
Finn Wittrock
Wilde Wit of the Year
(honoring a performer, writer or commentator whose observations both challenge and amuse)
John Oliver
Stephen Colbert
Rachel Maddow
Bill Maher
Jon Stewart
Wilde Artist of the Year
(honoring a truly groundbreaking force in the fields of film, theater and/or television)
Jill Solloway
Xavier Dolan
Neil Patrick Harris
Richard Linklater
Tilda Swinton
Timeless Award
(to an actor or performer whose exemplary career is marked by character, wisdom and wit)
George Takei
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