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Call Me By Your Name Gets Top Honours At GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics Dorian Awards

January 31, 2018 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Amongst the myriad film awards given out at this time of year, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’s Dorian Awards has grown into one of the most distinct, both in terms of the diversity of its recipients and its unique categories (and I’m not just saying that because I’m a member). This year’s award winners have been announced, and it is not too surprising that Call Me By Your Name took both Film Of The Year and LGBTQ Film Of The Year (although it was a strong year for the latter).

The bittersweet story of two young men falling for each other in Italy in the early 1980s also earned Timothée Chalamet an awards for Film Performance of the Year – Actor, as well as picking up the Rising Star award. Meanwhile, Greta Gerwig, writer and helmer of the female-focused coming-of-age drama Lady Bird – which also featured Chalamet – was named Director of the Year.

Jordan Peele earned Screenplay of the Year for the impressive Get Out. He was also crowned Wilde Artist of the Year and ied with Saturday Night Live’s Kate McKinnon for Wilde Wit of the Year. McKinnon also picked up TV Musical Performance of the Year for the second year in a row, for her impersonation of Kellyanne Conway taking her ‘alternative facts’ act to Broadway.

Film icon and feminist activist Meryl Streep was the group’s  choice for Timeless Star, a career achievement honor previously won by such equally beloved stars (and human-rights champions) Jane Fonda, Dame Angela Lansbury and Sir Ian McKellen.

There was also good news for the gay-themed British movie, God’s Own Country, as the powerful love story won GALECA’s Unsung Film of the Year. Awards-season darling The Shape of Water impressed as Visually Striking Film of the Year, and also picked up Best Actress for Sally Hawkins’ superlative performance. And mother!, Darren Aronofsky’s over-the-top psychological chiller starring Jennifer Lawrence, was deemed Campy Flick of the Year.

GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (formerly known as the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association), comprises of over 200 gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and ally entertainment journalists in the U.S., Canada and U.K.

 

Take a look below for the full list of film and TV Dorian winners.  [Read more…]

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:
ACTORS: Timothee Chalamet  DIRECTORS: Greta Gerwig, Jordan Peele  FILMS: Call Me By Your Name, Get Out  

The Shape Of Water Scores 13 Oscar Nominations, While Call Me By Your Name Gets Four

January 23, 2018 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has announced this year’s Oscar nominees. In most years that would help solidify which films were the absolute frontrunners, but this remains one of the most open Oscar races for years. Guillermo Del Toro’s excellent The Shape Of Water leads the pack with an impressive 13 nominations (one short of the record of 14 nominations shared by Titanic, All About Eve and La La Land). However, that doesn’t mean it’s a shoo-in for the big awards, as many feel the likes of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and the acting category are likely to go to other movies.

Just to show how open a race it is, the second highest number of nominations went to Dunkirk, with eight, but few expect that film to pick up anything outsie the technical categories. More likely to be picking up some of the big gongs is Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which scored seven nominations, including Best Film, Best Actress for Frances McDormand and Best Supporting Actor for Sam Rockwell (many feel Rockwell is the most likely to win of all the acting nominess, but even with him there’s controversy over his character’s racism). However, despite many feeling Three Billboards has an extremely good shot at winning Best Picture, Martin McDonagh failed to get a Best Director nomination.

After several years of criticism for its lack of diversity, this year’s nominations did make some small steps towards sexual and racial equality, particularly in the Best Director category. McDonagh may have missed out on a Best Director nomination, but so did Steven Spielberg and several other major contenders. Instead, Jordan Peele is now the fifth African-American director to ever score a Best Director nomination for Get Out (none has ever won), while Greta Gerwig is the fifth woman in the same category (only Kathryn Bigelow has won). And following anger at how few black actors scored nominations in the last few years, this year Denzel Washington (Roman J. Israel, Esq.) and Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out) were nominated for Best Actor, while Mary J. Blige (Mudbound) and Octavia Spencer (The Shape Of Water) are included in the Best Supporting Actress category.

Many have also noted there seems to have been swift professional retribution for James Franco, who emerged as one of the Best Actor frontrunners following his Golden Globe win for The Disaster Artist. However, he’s since been embroiled in allegations of harrassment and innapropriate behaviour, and has now failed to score a Best Actor Oscar nomination.

LGBT hopes were always going to be led by Call Me By Your Name. While it’s not been quite the awards powerhouse it looked like it might be early in the season, the gay romance nevertheless scored four nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Original Song and Best Screenplay. While many feel its best chance of a gong is for gay elder statesman James Ivory’s masterful screenplay, the Best Actor nomination for Timothee Chalamet is notable for another reason. At just 22 he’s the youngest Best Actor nominee since Mickey Rooney in 1939, and third youngest ever.

Many will be disappointed that there was no nomination for Armie Hammer. However, while he was the early frontrunner in the Best Supporting Actor category, others have since crowded him out – despite the fact in many other years there’s a good chance he’d have won.

Elsewhere the wonderful Chilean trans-themed film, A Fantastic Woman was nominated in the Best Foreign Language film category, while Richard Jenkins was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for playing a gay character in The Shape Of Water.

Take a look at the full list of nominations below. [Read more…]

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:
ACTORS: Timothee Chalamet, Sam Rockwell, Frances McDormand  DIRECTORS: Jordan Peele, Greta Gerwig  FILMS: Call Me By Your Name, The Shape Of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbings Missouri, Get Out  

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