Top honours at the 15th Dorian Awards, voted for by GALECA members, also went to Gretta Gerwig for ‘Barbie’, Lily Gladstone for ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’, Colman Domingo for his trailblazing work, and Todd Haynes and Jodie Foster for truly exemplary and groundbreaking careers.
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-member strong GALECA, one of the largest entertainment journalists organisations 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 organisation.”
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 honours to newcomer Sami Burch for May December, a cunningly observed riff on a true-life American scandal of the 1990s. Another scintillating drama, the whodunit 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”, 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 honours, 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 honour, 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 favourites in entertainment in a purely democratic fashion. For more info, visit galeca.org and search for GALECA’s official Dorian Awards pages on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and more.
THE 15TH ANNUAL DORIAN AWARDS NOMINEES AND WINNERS
Film of the Year
WINNER: All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
NOMINEES
Barbie (Warner Bros.)
May December (Netflix)
Poor Things (Searchlight)
LGBTQ Film of the Year
WINNER: All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
NOMINEES
Rustin (Netflix)
Director of the Year
WINNER: Greta Gerwig, Barbie (Warner Bros.)
NOMINEES
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Todd Haynes, May December (Netflix)
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer (Universal)
Celine Song, Past Lives (A24)
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Screenplay of the Year (original or adapted)
WINNER: Samy Burch, May December (Netflix)
NOMINEES
Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig, Barbie (Warner Bros.)
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
WINNER: Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
NOMINEES
Arthur Harari, Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall (Picturehouse / 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
WINNER: Anatomy of a Fall (PICTUREHOUSE / NEON)
NOMINEES
The Boy and the Heron (GKIDS)
Past Lives (A24)
The Zone of Interest (A24)
The 15th Annual Dorian Awards
LGBTQ Non-English Language Film of the Year
WINNER: Anatomy of a Fall (PICTUREHOUSE/NEON)
NOMINEES
Cassandro (Amazon MGM)
Monster (Well Go USA, Gaga, Toho)
Rotting in the Sun (MUBI)
Unsung Film of the Year
WINNER: Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret (Lionsgate)
NOMINEES
Monica (IFC)
Origin (NEON)
Theater Camp (Searchlight)
A Thousand and One (Focus Features)
Film Performance of the Year
WINNER: Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple)
NOMINEES
Colman Domingo, Rustin (Netflix)
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers (Focus Features)
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)
The 15th Annual Dorian Awards
Supporting Film Performance of the Year
WINNER: Charles Melton, May December (Netflix)
NOMINEES
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)
Paul Mescal, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Rosamund Pike, Saltburn (Amazon MGM)
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers (Focus Features)
Documentary of the Year
WINNER: Kokomo City (DOGWOOF / Magnolia)
NOMINEES
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
WINNER: Kokomo City (DOGWOOF / Magnolia)
NOMINEES
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
WINNER: The Boy and the Heron (Elysian / GKIDS)
NOMINEES
Nimona (Netflix, Annapurna)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (SONY)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Paramount)
The 15th Annual Dorian Awards
Genre Film of the Year
WINNER: Poor Things (Searchlight)
NOMINEES
All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Godzilla Minus One (Toho)
M3GAN (Universal)
Talk To Me (A24)
Film Music of the Year
WINNER: Barbie — Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt, et al. (Warner Bros.)
NOMINEES
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
WINNER: Poor Things (Searchlight)
NOMINEES
Asteroid City (Focus Features)
Barbie (Warner Bros.)
Oppenheimer (Universal)
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (SONY)
Campiest Flick
WINNER: M3GAN (Universal)
NOMINEES
Barbie (Warner Bros.)Bottoms (MGM)
Dicks: The Musical (A24)
Saltburn (Amazon MGM)
Rising Star Award
WINNER: Ayo Edebiri
NOMINEES
Lily Gladstone
Jacob Elordi
Charles Melton
Dominic Sessa
The 15th Annual Dorian Awards
Wilde Artist Award
WINNER: Todd Haynes
NOMINEES
Quinta Brunson
Ayo Edebiri
Greta Gerwig
Lily Gladstone
GALECA LGBTQIA+ Film Trailblazer Award
WINNER: Colman Domingo
NOMINEES
Jodie Foster
Andrew Haigh
Todd Haynes
Andrew Scott
Timeless Star (Career Achievement Award)
JODIE FOSTER
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