GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics has just announced the nominees across 21 categories in its 15th annual Dorian Film Awards, voted for by the group’s more than 500 members made up of LGBTQIA+ identifying media professionals.
Andrew Haigh’s powerful All of Us Strangers leads with nine nominations including Film of the Year, LGBTQ Film of the Year, Genre Film of the Year (a new category in this year’s Dorians Awards), plus Haigh received recognition as director and for the film’s screenplay (adapted from the 1987 Japanese novel, Strangers by Taichi Yamada) in both the Screenplay of the Year and the LGBTQ Screenplay of the Year categories. The poignant and haunting queer drama also got Dorian nods for its cast, with Andrew Scott in the running for Film Performance of the Year, while both Paul Mescal and Claire Foy were named in the Supporting Performance of the Year category. Additionally, filmmaker Andrew Haigh—who is responsible for the queer Britsh classic Weekend and the HBO series Looking—is in the running for this year’s GALECA LGBTQIA+ Film Trailblazer Award “for creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity. Andrew Scott also received a Trailblazer nod, alongside Jodie Foster, Todd Haynes, and Colman Domingo, who is the running for Film Performance of the Year for his standout role as overlooked gay Civil Rights organizer Bayard Rustin in the Netflix biopic Rustin, which was also recognized in LGBTQ Screenplay of the Year category. Foster, whose screen career spans over more than five decades, also scored a Supporting Performance nod for her work in NYAD.
New Queer Cinema pioneer Todd Haynes’ most recent film May December was nominated for six Dorians, including Director of the Year alongside Greta Gerwig, whose monumental box office and critical hit, Barbie, is in the running for seven Dorians. Celine Song’s Past Lives proved a hit with Dorian voters, scoring five nominations including Film of the Year and Non-English Language Film of the Year, while Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things was recognized in four catergories including Film of the Year and Visually Striking Film of the Year. D. Smith’s Kokomo City received nominations for both Documentary of the Year and LGBTQ Documentary of the Year. The other docs recognized by Dorian voters in the LGBTQ category included Every Body, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, Little Richard: I Am Everything, and Orlando, My Political Biography.
Away from the more standard film award categories, GALECA’s members also vote for Unsung Film of the Year with the purpose of highlighting “exceptional movies worthy of greater attention”. This year’s Unsung nominees included Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, Origin, Theater Camp, A Thousand and One, and Monica, which also garnered a Performance of the Year nod for its star Trace Lysette. While GALECA’s loving Campiest Flick category bestowed the honour of nominations upon Barbie, Bottoms, Dicks: The Musical, M3GAN, and Saltburn.
The winners will be announced on Monday, February 26th, 2024, when this year’s GALECA Timeless Star career achievement award honouree will also be revealed. Previous recipients of that honour include Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, and John Waters.
GALECA: THE SOCIETY OF LGBTQ ENTERTAINMENT CRITICS 15TH DORIAN FILM AWARDS – FULL LIST OF NOMINATIONS
Film of the Year
All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Barbie (Warner Bros.)
May December (Netflix)
Past Lives (A24)
Poor Things (Searchlight)
LGBTQ Film of the Year
All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Bottoms (MGM)
Passages (MUBI, SBS)
Rustin (Netflix)
Saltburn (Amazon MGM)
Director of the Year
Greta Gerwig, Barbie (Warner Bros.)
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Todd Haynes, May December (Netflix)
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer (Universal)
Celine Song, Past Lives (A24)
Screenplay of the Year – original or adapted
Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig, Barbie (Warner Bros.)
Samy Burch, May December (Netflix)
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
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Arthur Harari, Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall (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
Anatomy of a Fall (NEON)
The Boy and the Heron (GKIDS, Toho)
Godzilla Minus One (Toho)
Past Lives (A24)
The Zone of Interest (A24)
LGBTQ Non-English Language Film of the Year
Afire (Janus Films, Sideshow)
Anatomy of a Fall (NEON)
Cassandro (Amazon MGM)
Monster (Well Go USA, Gaga, Toho)
Rotting in the Sun (MUBI)
Unsung Film of the Year – to an exceptional movie worthy of greater attention
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret (Lionsgate)
Monica (IFC)
Origin (NEON)
Theater Camp (Searchlight)
A Thousand and One (Focus Features)
Film Performance of the Year
Colman Domingo, Rustin (Netflix)
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers (Focus Features)
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple, Paramount)
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)
Supporting Film Performance of the Year
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)
Charles Melton, May December (Netflix)
Paul Mescal, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Rosamind Pike, Saltburn (Amazon MGM)
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers (Focus Features)
Documentary of the Year
American Symphony (Netflix)
Beyond Utopia (Roadside Attractions, Fathom Events)
Kokomo City (Magnolia)
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
20 Days in Mariupol (PBS Distribution)
LGBTQ Documentary of the Year
Every Body (Focus Features)
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (HBO, Confluential Films)
Kokomo City (Magnolia)
Little Richard: I Am Everything (Magnolia)
Orlando, My Political Biography (Janus Film, Sideshow)
Animated Film of the Year
The Boy and the Heron (GKIDS, Toho)
Elemental (Disney)
Nimona (Netflix, Annapurna)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (SONY)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Paramount)
Genre Film of the Year – for excellence in science fiction, fantasy, and horror
All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Godzilla Minus One (Toho)
M3GAN (Universal)
Poor Things (Searchlight)
Talk To Me (A24)
Film Music of the Year
Barbie — Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt, et al. (Warner Bros.)
The Boy and the Heron — Joe Hisaishi (GKIDS, Toho)
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
Asteroid City (Focus Features)
Barbie (Warner Bros.)
Oppenheimer (Universal)
Poor Things (Searchlight)
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (SONY)
Campiest Flick
Barbie (Warner Bros.)
Bottoms (MGM)
Dicks: The Musical (A24)
M3GAN (Universal)
Saltburn (Amazon MGM)
“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
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
Honouring an exemplary career marked by character, wisdom, and wit
To be announced February 26th, 2024.
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics is a core member of CGEM: Critics Groups for Equality in Media, an alliance of underrepresented entertainment journalists organizations.
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