GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics revealed the winners of their movie awards earlier this evening during their Dorians Film Toast 2021 special on streamer Revry, hosted by Karel.
Nomadland was named best film and the year’s Most Visually Striking Film, with Chloé Zhao winning best director. Upon accepting her award for directing, Zhao said that it was “deeply meaningful” to her because “Oscar Wilde is one of my greatest heroes,” [the awards are named in honour of Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray] adding, “Nomadland is about a woman who goes on a journey of grief and healing and ultimately of self-discovery and self-acceptance.”
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom was voted Best LGBTQ Film, with the late Chadwick Boseman named Best Actor for his work in film. Accepting the award for Boseman, Colman Domingo said of his co-star, he was “such an incredible human, scholar, humanitarian, and a really wonderful actor, creating complex roles about the African American experience, and about people who are marginalized in society and trying to stand up and have a strong voice, fighting for representation. That is Chadwick Boseman’s legacy.”
Carey Mulligan took the Dorian for Best Actress for her work in Promising Young Woman, while the film’s writer-director Emerald Fennell accepted the Dorian for Best Screenplay.
Jessie Tyler Ferguson and Laverne Cox both appeared during the Revry special to accept awards for the documentaries they produced, Welcome to Chechnya and Disclosure respectively, which tied as winners in both the Best Documentary and Best LGBTQ Documentary categories.
Ferguson said that his film, Welcome to Chechnya, is about “people fighting genocide.” While Cox, receiving the award for Disclosure, noted that “2020 was the deadliest year on record for trans people”, urging “we have to continue to highlight the humanity of trans people in the face of us being dehumanized.”
Winning Best Supporting Actor for his role in Judas and the Black Messiah, Daniel Kaluuya commented that he was glad more people were learning about what Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton “stood for, what he believed, and what he did for the Black community and the community at large. I really hope that he continues to live on in everyone’s hearts and minds.”
Minari took for the Dorian Award for Best Non-English Language Film and Yuh-Jung Youn won Best Supporting Actress for her role in the movie.
The Wilde Artist Award, for “a truly groundbreaking force in entertainment,” went to singer-songwriter-actress-humanitarian Dolly Parton. Accepting the Dorian with a statement via her publcist Parton said: “Thank you to all the members of the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics for this lovely Wilde Artist award. I’m not sure I’m as edgy as past winners like Todd Haynes, Kate McKinnon, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jordan Peele, but I am honored and humbled. I appreciate all of you entertainment journalists who are so passionate and are working so hard. Keep up the good work!”
Leslie Jordan was named GALECA’s Timeless Star, a career achievement accolade previously awarded to the likes of Sir Ian McKellen, Jane Fonda, George Takei, John Waters, Lily Tomlin, Betty White, and Dame Angela Lansbury.
Lingua Franca filmmaker and actress Isabel Sandoval accepted the Society’s inaugural Trailblazer Award “for creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity.”
The Dorians Film Toast 2021 is currently available on-demand on Revry including the Roku Channel, Samsung TV Plus, Comcast Xfinity X1, Cox, Distro TV, Plex, Galaxy TV, Local Now, VIZIO, Zapping TV, STIRR, TiVo, and LGBTQ+ virtual reality channel on RAD available on PlayStation devices. Head to DoriansToast.com and GALECA.org for more information.
Here’s a complete list of the 2021 Dorian Film Awards with winners bolded and asterisked:
Best Film:
FIRST COW
MINARI
**NOMADLAND**
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
SOUND OF METAL
Best LGBTQ Film:
AMMONITE
THE BOYS IN THE BAND
I CARRY YOU WITH ME
**MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM**
SUPERNOVA
UNCLE FRANK
Best Foreign Language Film:
ANOTHER ROUND
BACURAU
I CARRY YOU WITH ME
LA LLORONA
**MINARI**
TWO OF US
Best Director:
**CHLOÉ ZHAO, NOMADLAND**
EMERALD FENNELL, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
KELLY REICHARDT, FIRST COW
LEE ISAAC CHUNG, MINARI
REGINA KING, ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
Best Screenplay (original or adapted):
CHLOE ZHAO, NOMADLAND
ELIZA HITTMAN, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
**EMERALD FENNELL, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN**
LEE ISAAC CHUNG, MINARI
RADHA BLANK, THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION
Best Unsung Film:
DRIVEWAYS
FIRST COW
MISS JUNETEENTH
NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
SHIRLEY
THE ASSISTANT
**THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION**
Best Documentary:
COLLECTIVE
CRIP CAMP
DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD
**DISCLOSURE**
TIME
**WELCOME TO CHECHNYA**
Best LGBTQ Documentary:
A SECRET LOVE
BORN TO BE
**DISCLOSURE**
MUCHO MUCHO AMOR: THE LEGEND OF WALTER MERCADO
**WELCOME TO CHECHNYA**
Best Film Performance — Actress:
**CAREY MULLIGAN, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN**
FRANCES MCDORMAND, NOMADLAND
NICOLE BEHARIE, MISS JUNETEENTH
SIDNEY FLANIGAN, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
VIOLA DAVIS, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM
Best Film Performance — Actor:
ANTHONY HOPKINS, THE FATHER
**CHADWICK BOSEMAN, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM**
DELROY LINDO, DA 5 BLOODS
RIZ AHMED, SOUND OF METAL
STEVEN YEUN, MINARI
Best Film Performance — SUPPORTING Actress:
AMANDA SEYFRIED, MANK
CANDICE BERGEN, LET THEM ALL TALK
MARIA BAKALOVA, BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
OLIVIA COLMAN, THE FATHER
**YUH-JUNG YOUN, MINARI**
Best Film Performance — SUPPORTING Actor:
CHADWICK BOSEMAN, DA 5 BLOODS
**DANIEL KALUUYA, JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH**
LESLIE ODOM JR., ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
PAUL RACI, SOUND OF METAL
SACHA BARON COHEN, THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
Most Visually Striking Film:
BIRDS OF PREY: AND THE FANTABULOUS EMANCIPATION OF ONE HARLEY QUINN
MANK
**NOMADLAND**
SOUL
WOLFWALKERS
Campiest Flick:
BAD HAIR
BIRDS OF PREY: AND THE FANTABULOUS EMANCIPATION OF ONE HARLEY QUINN
**EUROVISION SONG CONTEST: THE STORY OF FIRE SAGA**
THE PROM
WONDER WOMAN 1984
“We’re Wilde About You!” Rising Star Award:
ALAN S. KIM
KINGSLEY BEN-ADIR
MARIA BAKALOVA
**RADHA BLANK**
SIDNEY FLANIGAN
Wilde Artist Award to a truly groundbreaking force in entertainment:
CHADWICK BOSEMAN
CHLOE ZHAO
**DOLLY PARTON**
ELLIOT PAGE
REGINA KING
GALECA Trailblazer Award – for creating art that inspires empathy, truth, and equity:
**ISABEL SANDOVAL**
Timeless Star – honouring an actor or performer whose exemplary career has been marked by character, wisdom, and wit:
**LESLIE JORDAN**