Killers of the Flower Moon (c) Apple TV+
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 as well as 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.”
Indigenous (Blackfeet/Nimiipuu) actress Lily Gladstone followed their historic win at the SAG Awards this past weekend with their Film Performance win at the Dorian Awards for Killers of the Flower Moon. Charles Melton won Supporting Film Performance for May December.
Some honors unique to the Dorian Film Awards include LGBTQIA+ Film Trailblazer “for creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity” which went to Colman Domingo while May December 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, visit galeca.org and search for GALECA’s official Dorian Awards pages on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and more.
The Interested Bystander is a member of GALECA.
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ 15th Dorian Film Awards
Film of the Year
🏆 All of Us Strangers
Barbie
May December
Past Lives
Poor Things
All of Us Strangers (c) Searchlight Pictures
LGBTQ Film of the Year
🏆 All of Us Strangers
Bottoms
Passages
Rustin
Saltburn
Director of the Year
🏆 Greta Gerwig, Barbie
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers
Todd Haynes, May December
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Celine Song, Past Lives
Screenplay of the Year
Barbie
🏆 May December
All of Us Strangers
Anatomy of a Fall
Past Lives
LGBTQ Screenplay of the Year
🏆 All of Us Strangers
Anatomy of a Fall
Rustin
Passages
Bottoms
Non-English Language Film of the Year
🏆 Anatomy of a Fall
The Boy and the Heron
Godzilla Minus One
Past Lives
The Zone of Interest
LGBTQ Non-English Language Film of the Year
Afire
🏆 Anatomy of a Fall
Cassandro
Monster
Rotting in the Sun
Unsung Film of the Year
To an exceptional movie worthy of greater attention
🏆 Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret
Monica
Origin
Theater Camp
A Thousand and One
Film Performance of the Year
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
🏆 Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
Greta Lee, Past Lives
Trace Lysette, Monica
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Natalie Portman, May December
Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers
Emma Stone, Poor Things
May December (c) Netflix
Supporting Film Performance of the Year
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
Jodie Foster, Nyad
Claire Foy, All of Us Strangers
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Rachel McAdams, Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret
🏆 Charles Melton, May December
Paul Mescal, All of Us Strangers
Rosamund Pike, Saltburn
Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Documentary of the Year
American Symphony
Beyond Utopia
🏆 Kokomo City
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
20 Days in Mariupol
LGBTQ Documentary of the Year
Every Body
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
🏆 Kokomo City
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Orlando, My Political Biography
Animated Film of the Year
🏆 The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Nimona
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Poor Things (c) Searchlight Pictures
Genre Film of the Year
For excellence in science fiction, fantasy and horror
All of Us Strangers
Godzilla Minus One
M3GAN
🏆 Poor Things
Talk To Me
Film Music of the Year
🏆 Barbie
The Boy and the Heron
The Color Purple
Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest
Visually Striking Film of the Year
Asteroid City
Barbie
Oppenheimer
🏆 Poor Things
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
Campiest Flick
Barbie
Bottoms
Dicks: The Musical
🏆 M3GAN
Saltburn
Theater Camp (c) Searchlight Pictures
“We’re Wilde About You!” Rising Star Award
🏆 Ayo Edebiri
Lily Gladstone
Jacob Elordi
Charles Melton
Dominic Sessa
Wilde Artist Award
To a truly groundbreaking force in entertainment
Quinta Brunson
Ayo Edebiri
Greta Gerwig
Lily Gladstone
🏆 Todd Haynes
Rustin (c) Netflix
GALECA LGBTQIA+ Film Trailblazer Award
For creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity
🏆 Colman Domingo
Jodie Foster
Andrew Haigh
Todd Haynes
Andrew Scott
Timeless Star (Career achievement award)
Honoring an exemplary career marked by character, wisdom and wit
🏆 Jodie Foster
About GALECA & Our 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.
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