Movies with a commercial theatrical or digital release (i.e., VOD) in 2024, as well as non-English language films in Oscar contention, are eligible. We have no short film categories.
* Out of care and concern for our members and the many others affected by the devastating Los Angeles area fires, we have pushed back the due date of our nomination ballots and announcement date. Our heart goes out to all.
Nomination ballots sent to GALECA members Wednesday January 1, 2025
Nomination ballots due Monday January 13, 2025 *
Dorian Film Awards Nominations announced Friday January 17, 2025 *
Final ballots due Monday February 3, 2025
2025 Dorian Film Awards winners announced Thursday February 13, 2025
2025 Dorian Film Awards Toast Sunday February 16, 2025 (brunch; tentative)
GALECA Names America’s 10 Best TV News Journalists
Thursday October 24, 2024 - GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, a league of more than 500 professional critics and entertainment journalists, has unveiled its picks for the 10 best on-air television news journalists working today.
Asked recently to name the one TV news anchor or on-air reporter whose journalistic expertise most impresses them, GALECA members nominated an inspiringly varied group of news gatherers, from investigative icon Christiane Amanpour to media disruptor Mehdi Hasan.
"It's great to see GALECA’s members recognize these stellar journalists in what obviously remains a very powerful medium,” said group president Walt Hickey. “With the world facing so much today, it feels really important to champion the pros who, with their teams, investigate and report on the stories that impact us with clarity and perspective.”
GALECA members work for a wide variety of key media outlets across the U.S., with some representation in the U.K., Canada, and beyond. The group’s main focus is the Dorian Awards, which recognize the best in film, TV, and Broadway/Off-Broadway content, from mainstream to LGBTQ-focused, at different times of the year.
Previous “GALECA 10 Best” polls have ranged from film's all-time finest actresses to essential LGBTQ films that straight people should see.
GALECA’s 10 Best TV News Journalists (in alphabetical order):
Christiane Amanpour One of the most honored, fearless—and peripatetic—TV journalists of our time, Amanpour currently serves as CNN’s Chief International Anchor. When she isn’t reporting from the field on global developments, she challenges world leaders with tough questions on her three current affairs shows. Her weeknight PBS version, Amanpour & Company, offers the most wide-ranging coverage.
Jonathan Capehart Capehart juggles hosting his own weekend political show on MSNBC with associate editor duties at The Washington Post. In his podcast for the latter, he delves into topics like the latest in climate change, the humanitarian crisis in war-torn Sudan, and the science of aging. He also shares takes on the headlines alongside moderate conservative David Brooks in Brooks & Capehart, a weekly segment on PBS NewsHour.
Kaitlan Collins GALECA members obviously appreciate a redemption story. During college, Collins used some homophobic pejoratives bantering with friends on Twitter. Her first job out of college: Entertainment reporter for a dodgy website run by Tucker Carlson. Within a few years, though, she pivoted—hard—to politics and CNN, where she quickly gained a reputation for fact-checking leaders when they spewed misinformation. In 2018, an irritated Trump administration barred her from attending White House press conferences. Collins now calmly holds the powerful accountable and lands scoops as host of CNN’s The Source.
Anderson Cooper The venerable CNN anchor still finds time to report from Ukraine to Israel to seemingly every natural disaster zone. He's also an occasional correspondent for CBS’ 60 Minutes, where in an April segment he got comic Kevin Hart to apologize for his past homophobic tirades. Last year, Cooper began hosting CNN’s The Whole Story, an impressively in-depth news investigation series he created and executive produces.
Mehdi Hasan Hasan first gained major attention hosting a hard-hitting news show on MSNBC (he developed his take-no-prisoners approach as a news editor for the U.K.’s Channel 4 network). Today, he interviews global figures like Israeli historian Benny Morris as host of Al Jazeera’s Head to Head and writes a column for The Guardian US—all while running his fledgling “adversarial journalism” venture, Zateo (an ancient Greek word meaning “seeking out”).
Lester Holt NBC’s steady Nightly News anchor showed his mettle as fact-checker-in-chief during the 2016 Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump presidential debate. He has also delivered incisive reports on the COVID-19 pandemic, political disinformation, and the Israel-Hamas War. How Holt finds time to main-anchor the murder-investigation series Dateline is its own mystery.
Rachel Maddow Maddow has long been one of GALECA’s favorite TV journalists. Diving deep into history to shed light on current global dilemmas, the MSNBC anchor—also an author and podcaster—sometimes pokes fun at her own wonkiness. But members clearly appreciate how Maddow lays out information and exposes disinformation in her fights against kleptocracy and fascism. Over the years, she and her show have won three of the group's Dorian Awards and received 11 nominations.
David Muir The ABC World News Tonight anchor impressed many viewers when he firmly fact-checked some of Donald Trump’s most outlandish fabrications during Trump's presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris. A former international news reporter for ABC, Muir has trekked the globe to investigate famine in Madagascar, the Israel-Hamas war, and more. He also manages to cohost his network’s newsmagazine show, 20/20.
Robin Roberts As cohost of ABC’s Good Morning America and special reporter for the network's World News Tonight, Roberts has touched hearts with her accounts of facing cancer, a rare blood disorder, and witnessing her Mississippi hometown's devastation by Hurricane Katrina. Her recent interviews with newsmakers like Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and WNBA star Caitlin Clark have only boosted her reputation as one of America’s most thoughtful on-air journalists. Earlier this year, she received the Poynter Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism.
Jacob Soboroff Soboroff, a political and national correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, stands out for his determined exposés on the U.S.-Mexico border crisis and the ongoing plight of immigrants. Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, his 2021 investigative book on the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant families, provided the basis for a new documentary directed by Oscar winner Errol Morris (The Fog of War). Soboroff has also reported from hotspots like Haiti and this year’s Republican National Convention.
About GALECA GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ Dorian Awards, chosen democratically by the membership, honor the best in TV, film, and Broadway/Off-Broadway at different times of the year. Members work for or freelance for a variety of mainstream and niche media outlets, including The New Yorker, Slate, Salon, The Daily Beast, Vulture, HuffPost, The Los Angeles Times, Out, The Advocate, The Boston Globe, E!, GQ, Essence, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, The Wrap, People, Reuters, USA Today, TV Guide, Time, Vanity Fair, GLAAD, Rolling Stone, The A.V. Club, LGBTQ Nation, IndieWire, The Guardian US, among others.
GALECA, which boasts over 500 members, reminds society that the world values the informed Q+ eye on everything entertainment. A nonprofit organization, GALECA also advocates for better pay, access, and respect for entertainment journalists, especially those in underrepresented communities. Follow us @DorianAwards on social media and find more information at GALECA.org.
‘HACKS,’ ‘ANNE RICE’S INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE’ AND ‘FELLOW TRAVELERS’ TAKE HOME MOST WINS FOR THE 2024 DORIAN TV AWARDS
Carol Burnett, Alan Cumming and Julio Torres Receive Special Accolades
Los Angeles / New York – Monday, August 12, 2024 -- GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics announced today the winners for the 2024 Dorian TV Awards, honoring the best in television and streaming networks. In the 16th go-around of GALECA’s TV honors, Max’s “Hacks” leads with four wins including Best TV Comedy, Best Written TV Show; AMC’s “Anne Rice’s Interview With A Vampire” with three wins including Best TV Drama, Best LGBTQ TV Show and Best Genre TV Show, and Showtime/Paramount+’s “Fellow Travelers” earns two acting wins: “Best TV Performance – Drama” for Matt Bomer and Best Supporting TV Performance – Drama, Jonathan Bailey
In the group’s more distinctive categories, FX’s final season of “Reservation Dogs,” about some close-knit Indigenous friends in rural Oklahoma, scored Best Unsung TV Show. Campiest TV Show honors went to SYFY/USA’s doll-gone-wild comedy-chiller, “Chucky.” GALECA also bestowed notable accolades to Salvadoran-American writer, comedian and actor Julio Torres with the Wilde Wit Award; award-winning actor Alan Cumming (host of reality show winner “The Traitors”) with the GALECA TV Trailblazer Award; and legendary comedian, actress, singer and memoirist Carol Burnett with the GALECA TV Icon Award.
"Congratulations to all the winners of the 2024 Dorian Television Awards,” said Walt Hickey, President, GALECA. "This group is second to none when it comes to elevating and advocating for innovative, daring work, and celebrating the creative efforts of the future of the film and television industry."
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ Dorian Awards, chosen democratically by the membership, go to TV, film, and Broadway/Off-Broadway at different times of the year. Members work of freelance for a variety of mainstream and niche media outlets, including The New Yorker, Slate, Salon, The Daily Beast, Vulture, HuffPost, The Los Angeles Times, CNN online, MSNBC online, Today online, GMA online, Out, The Advocate, The Boston Globe, E!, GQ, Essence, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, Emmy, The Wrap, People, Reuters, USA Today, TV Guide, Time, NPR, Nerdist, Playlist, Vanity Fair, Polygon, Jezebel, GLAAD, Rolling Stone, IndieWire, The Guardian, Decider, Collider, Vogue, Town and Country, ABC affiliates, Parade, among others.
GALECA, which boasts over 500 members, reminds society that the world values the informed Q+ eye on everything entertainment. A nonprofit organization, GALECA also advocates for better pay, access and respect for entertainment journalists, especially those in underrepresented communities. Follow us @DorianAwards on social media and find more information about who we are and what we do at GALECA.org.
2024 DORIAN TV AWARD WINS/NOMINATIONS—FULL LIST
BEST TV DRAMA ⭐️ Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (AMC)
The Curse (Showtime/Paramount+)
Fallout (Amazon Prime)
The Gilded Age (HBO)
Heartstopper (Netflix)
Shōgun (FX/Hulu)
BEST TV COMEDY
Abbott Elementary (ABC)
The Bear (FX/Hulu)
⭐️ Hacks (Max)
Reservation Dogs (FX/Hulu)
What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
BEST WRITTEN TV SHOW (new category) Abbott Elementary (ABC) Baby Reindeer (Netflix) The Bear (FX/Hulu) Fellow Travelers (Showtime/Paramount+) ⭐️ Hacks (Max)
BEST LGBTQ TV SHOW
⭐️ Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (AMC)
Baby Reindeer (Netflix)
Fellow Travelers (Showtime/Paramount+)
Hacks (Max)
Heartstopper (Netflix)
BEST TV MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES ⭐️ Baby Reindeer (Netflix)
Fellow Travelers (Showtime/Paramount+)
Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans (FX/Hulu)
Ripley (Netflix)
True Detective: Night Country (HBO)
BEST UNSUNG TV SHOW Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (AMC)
Chucky (Syfy/USA)
Our Flag Means Death (Max)
⭐️ Reservation Dogs (FX/Hulu)
We Are Lady Parts (Peacock)
BEST NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE TV SHOW Elite (Netflix) Lupin (Netflix) ⭐️ Shōgun (FX/Hulu) Tore (Netflix) Young Royals (Netflix)
BEST LGBTQ NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE TV SHOW (new category) Drag Latina (Revry/LATV+) Elite (Netflix) Past Lies (Hulu) Tore (Netflix) ⭐️ Young Royals (Netflix)
BEST TV PERFORMANCE—DRAMA Jacob Anderson, Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (AMC) ⭐️ Matt Bomer, Fellow Travelers (Showtime/Paramount+) Jodie Foster, True Detective: Night Country (HBO) Richard Gadd, Baby Reindeer (Netflix) Ncuti Gatwa, Doctor Who (Disney+) Lily Gladstone, Under the Bridge (Hulu) Tom Hollander, Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans (FX/Hulu) Anna Sawai, Shōgun (FX/Hulu) Andrew Scott, Ripley (Netflix) Emma Stone, The Curse (Showtime/Paramount+)
BEST SUPPORTING TV PERFORMANCE—DRAMA ⭐️ Jonathan Bailey, Fellow Travelers (Showtime/Paramount+) Christine Baranski, The Gilded Age (HBO) Elizabeth Debicki, The Crown (Netflix) Jessica Gunning, Baby Reindeer (Netflix) Moeka Hoshi, Shōgun (FX/Hulu) Jennifer Jason Leigh, Fargo (FX) Nava Mau, Baby Reindeer (Netflix) Jinkx Monsoon, Doctor Who (Disney+) Kali Reis, True Detective: Night Country (HBO) Benny Safdie, The Curse (Showtime/Paramount+)
BEST TV PERFORMANCE—COMEDY Matt Berry, What We Do in the Shadows (FX) Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary (ABC) Ayo Edebiri, The Bear (FX/Hulu) Renée Elise Goldsberry, Girls5Eva (Netflix) Devery Jacobs, Reservation Dogs (FX/Hulu) Maya Rudolph, Loot (Apple TV+) Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building (Hulu) ⭐️ Jean Smart, Hacks (Max) Jeremy Allen White, The Bear (FX/Hulu) Kristen Wiig, Palm Royale (Apple TV+)
BEST SUPPORTING TV PERFORMANCE—COMEDY Joel Kim Booster, Loot (Apple TV+) Carol Burnett, Palm Royale (Apple TV+) ⭐️ Hannah Einbinder, Hacks (Max) Harvey Guillén, What We Do in the Shadows (FX) Janelle James, Abbott Elementary (ABC) Jamie Lee-Curtis, The Bear (FX/Hulu) Sheryl Lee Ralph, Abbott Elementary (ABC) Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear (FX/Hulu) Megan Stalter, Hacks (Max) Meryl Streep, Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
BEST TV MUSICAL PERFORMANCE Miley Cyrus, “Flowers,” 66th Annual Grammy Awards (CBS / Paramount+) Billie Eilish & Finneas O'Connell, What Was I Made For?,” 96th Academy Awards (ABC) ⭐️ Ryan Gosling, “I’m Just Ken,” 96th Academy Awards (ABC) Steve Martin, “Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?,” Only Murders in the Building (Hulu) Maya Rudolph, “Mother,” Saturday Night Live (NBC)
BEST TV DOCUMENTARY OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES Black Twitter: A People’s History (Hulu) Girls State (Apple TV+) The Greatest Night in Pop (Netflix) Jim Henson Idea Man (Disney+) ⭐️ Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV (Investigation Discovery)
BEST LGBTQ TV DOCUMENTARY OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later (Showtime) Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show (HBO) ⭐️ Last Call: When A Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York (HBO) Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed (HBO) The Stroll (HBO)
BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS SHOW The Daily Show (Comedy Central) Hot Ones (YouTube) Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC) The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS) ⭐️ Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
BEST REALITY SHOW Rupaul's Drag Race (MTV) Queer Eye (Netflix) Top Chef (Bravo) ⭐️ The Traitors (Peacock) We’re Here (HBO)
BEST GENRE TV SHOW (new category) ⭐️ Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (AMC) The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix) Fallout (Amazon Prime) What We Do in the Shadows (FX) Chucky (SyFy/USA)
BEST ANIMATED SHOW Blue Eye Samurai (Netflix) Bobs Burgers (Fox) Harley Quinn (Max) Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (Netflix) ⭐️ X-Men '97 (Disney+)
MOST VISUALLY STRIKING TV SHOW Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (AMC) Fallout (Amazon Prime) Palm Royale (Apple TV+) ⭐️ Ripley (Netflix) Shōgun (FX/Hulu) True Detective: Night Country (HBO)
CAMPIEST TV SHOW Bridgerton (Netflix) ⭐️ Chucky (SyFy / USA) Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans (FX/Hulu) Palm Royale (Apple TV+) The Traitors (Peacock)
WILDE WIT AWARD —To a performer, writer or commentator whose observations both challenge and amuse Joel Kim Booster Quinta Brunson Ayo Edebiri Hannah Einbinder ⭐️ Julio Torres
GALECA TV ICON AWARD —To a uniquely talented star we adore Gillian Anderson Angela Bassett ⭐️ Carol Burnett LeVar Burton Julia Louis-Dreyfus
GALECA LGBTQIA+ TV TRAILBLAZER AWARD —For creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity RuPaul Charles Margaret Cho ⭐️ Alan Cumming Emma D'Arcy Ncuti Gatwa
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🥂 ‘Illinoise,’ ‘Merrily We Roll Along,’ and ‘Oh, Mary!’ Rule LGBTQ Critics’ Dorian Theater Awards
New York, N.Y. (June 3, 2024): GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ 39 theater wing members gave Illinoise, Merrily We Roll Along and Oh, Mary! top honors in the group’s second annual Dorian Theater Awards, honoring the best of 2023-24’s Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, mainstream to LGBTQ+.
The stirring and starry redo of Merrily We Roll Along, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s beloved tale of evolving friendships, nabbed four Dorian Awards, including Outstanding Broadway Musical Revival. Star Jonathan Groff took Best Lead Performance in a Musical, while costar Daniel Radcliffe scored two kudos: Best Featured Performance in a Musical and GALECA’s trademark Broadway Showstopper Award, the latter for his dynamic rendition of the tune “Franklin Sheppard, Inc.”
Stereophonic, David Adjmi’s new play about a fame-hungry rock band recording an album circa 1976, won Outstanding Broadway Play and Outstanding Broadway Ensemble. In a tie, the production’s costar Sarah Pidgeon and Kara Young of the lively satire Purlie Victorious both won Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Play.
Illinoise, the dance musical directed by choreographer Justin Peck (an Oscar nominee for Stephen Spielberg’s West Side Story) and written by Pulitzer Prize winner Jackie Sibblies Drury—and inspired by pop star Sufjan Stevens’ titular, semi-autobiographical album—took Outstanding Broadway Musical. The tale of a young gay man wracked with trauma, Illinoise also earned Outstanding LGBTQ Broadway Production.
Sarah Paulson (who won a Dorian in 2017 for TV’s American Crime Story) won Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Play for Appropriate, playwright Branden Jacob-Jenkins’s searing look at a white Southern family dealing with the legacy of their recently deceased father. Appropriate, first mounted in 2013, was named Outstanding Broadway Play Revival.
Cole Escola’s outlandish comedy, Oh, Mary!, dominated the group's Off-Broadway categories, winning for outstanding production, LGBTQ production and the division’s two performance categories. Escola managed a Dorian for their turn as, yes, Mary Todd Lincoln, while costar Conrad Ricamora triumphed as Mary's husband, Abe. Moreover, Escola—who costarred in the Dorian TV Award-nominated series Difficult People and At Home with Amy Sedaris—was named LGBTQ Theater Artist of the Season, making the firebrand the first honoree of this newly added Dorian Award.
GALECA's career achievement accolade here, the LGBTQ Theater Trailblazer Award, went to venerable playwright Paula Vogel.
"We're thrilled to be able to pay respect to Ms. Vogel's lifelong contributions to the American theater, as well as to her ongoing support of the LGBTQ community," said Cary Wong, the group's Off-Broadway Lead. Vogel won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1999 for her play, How I Learned to Drive. Her incredible body of work includes The Baltimore Waltz, Hot ’N Throbbing, The Mineola Twins and Indecent, which garnered Vogel her first Tony nomination for Best Play in 2017. Vogel’s latest lauded play, Mother Play, currently on Broadway, counted four Dorian nominations this year.
2024 Dorian Theater Awards—List of Winners:
Outstanding Broadway Musical
Here Lies Love Hell’s Kitchen 🏆 Illinoise Lempicka The Outsiders Suffs
Outstanding Broadway Play
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding Just for Us Mary Jane Mother Play Prayer for the French Republic 🏆 Stereophonic
Outstanding Broadway Musical Revival
Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club 🏆 Merrily We Roll Along The Who’s Tommy
Outstanding Broadway Play Revival
🏆 Appropriate An Enemy of the People Purlie Victorious
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Musical
Ali Louis Bourzgui, The Who’s Tommy Eden Espinosa, Lempicka Brody Grant, The Outsiders 🏆 Jonathan Groff, Merrily We Roll Along Brian d’Arcy James, Days of Wine and Roses Maleah Joi Moon, Hell’s Kitchen Kelli O’Hara, Days of Wine and Roses Maryann Plunkett, The Notebook Eddie Redmayne, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club Shaina Taub, Suffs
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Play
Betsy Aidem, Prayer for the French Republic Alex Edelman, Just For Us William Jackson Harper, Uncle Vanya Jessica Lange, Mother Play Leslie Odom Jr., Purlie Victorious Rachel McAdams, Mary Jane Laurie Metcalf, Grey House 🏆 Sarah Paulson, Appropriate
Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Musical
Hannah Cruz, Suffs Amber Iman, Lempicka Kecia Lewis, Hell’s Kitchen Nikki M. James, Suffs Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Monty Python’s Spamalot Lindsay Mendez, Merrily We Roll Along Bebe Neuwirth, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club Conrad Ricamora, Here Lies Love 🏆 Daniel Radcliffe, Merrily We Roll Along Ricky Ubeda, Illinoise
Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Play— TIE
Brittany Adebumola, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding Francis Benhamou, Prayer for the French Republic Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Doubt Alex Brightman, The Shark is Broken Will Brill, Stereophonic Elle Fanning, Appropriate Eli Gelb, Stereophonic Celia Keenan-Bolger, Mother Play Jay O. Sanders, Purlie Victorious Tom Pecinka, Stereophonic 🏆 Sarah Pidgeon, Stereophonic 🏆 Kara Young, Purlie Victorious
Outstanding LGBTQ Broadway Production
Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club 🏆 Illinoise Lempicka Mother Play
Outstanding Broadway Ensemble
Here Lies Love Illinoise Jaja’s African Hair Braiding Merrily We Roll Along Suffs 🏆 Stereophonic
The Broadway Showstopper Award — To a standout production number or scene
Appropriate, “Epilogue: The Plantation Decays” Illinoise, “Chicago” Lempicka, “Woman Is” 🏆 Merrily We Roll Along, “Franklin Shepard, Inc.” The Outsiders, “The Rumble”
Outstanding Off-Broadway Production
All the Devils Are Here The Ally The Connector 🏆 Oh, Mary! Primary Trust Teeth
Outstanding LGBTQ Off-Broadway Production Bark of Millions Eddie Izzard’s Hamlet Make Me Gorgeous 🏆 Oh, Mary! Teeth
Outstanding Lead Performance in an Off-Broadway Production
Charles Busch, Ibsen’s Ghost: An Irresponsible Biographical Fantasy Nicholas Christopher, Jelly’s Last Jam 🏆 Cole Escola, Oh, Mary! William Jackson Harper, Primary Trust Moses Ingram, Sunset Baby Rachel Bay Jones, Here We Are Alyse Alan Louis, Teeth Taylor Mac, Bark of Millions Ruthie Ann Miles, The Light in the Piazza Cynthia Nixon, The Seven Year Disappear Patrick Page, All the Devils Are Here
Outstanding Featured Performance in an Off-Broadway Production
Susan Blommaert, Grief Hotel Marylouise Burke, Infinite Life Bobby Cannavale, Here We Are Micaela Diamond, Here We Are Joaquina Kalukango, Jelly’s Last Jam Julia Lester, I Can Get it For You Wholesale Steven Pasquale, Teeth David Hyde Pierce, Here We Are 🏆 Conrad Ricamora, Oh, Mary! James Scully, Oh, Mary! Jennifer Van Dyck, Ibsen’s Ghost: An Irresponsible Biographical Fantasy Anna Zavelson, The Light in the Piazza
LGBTQ Theater Artist of the Season
🏆 Cole Escola Michael Greif Jonathan Groff Michael R. Jackson Sarah Paulson Conrad Ricamora
LGBTQ Theater Trailblazer Award — For a lifelong commitment to creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity
Charles Busch André De Shields Christopher Durang (nominated posthumously) Taylor Mac 🏆 Paula Vogel
WINNERS TALLY
Merrily We Roll Along - 4 Oh, Mary! - 4 Stereophonic - 3 Appropriate - 2 Illinoise - 2 Purlie Victorious – 1
GALECA Theater Wing members, 2023-2024 season
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About GALECA GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics and its Dorian Awards honor the best in film, television and, under its theater wing, Broadway and Off-Broadway. More than 500 members strong, GALECA reminds society that the world values the informed Q+ eye on everything entertainment. A nonprofit organization, GALECA also advocates for better pay, access and respect for entertainment journalists, especially the underrepresented. Follow us @DorianAwards on social media, and find more information about who we are and what we do at GALECA.org.
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment journalists is a core member of CGEM: Critics Groups for Equality in Media, an alliance of underrepresented entertainment journalists organizations.
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'Merrily We Roll Along' and 'Stereophonic' Lead LGBTQ Critics’ Dorian Theater Award Nominations
New York, N.Y. (May 13, 2024) GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ 39 theater wing members named their favorites in New York theater for the second annual Dorian Theater Awards, this time toasting the best in Broadway and Off-Broadway for the 2023-2024 season. Like GALECA’s Dorian film and TV awards, the group's stage honors celebrate both mainstream and LGBTQ+-themed productions.
Leading on the Broadway side with six nominations each: The new play Stereophonic by David Adjmi and the Maria Friedman-helmed revival of Merrily We Roll Along. Dorian Award have four members of the Stereophonic cast competing for Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Play, and three actors from Merrily We Roll Along in the run. All Dorian Award performance categories are gender neutral.
In Off-Broadway categories, Oh, Mary!, writer-star Cole Escola’s Broadway-bound play about Mary Todd Lincoln, ruled with five nominations. Teeth, Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacobs’ musical about an evangelical teen girl with hidden talents, and Stephen Sondheim’s final musical, Here We Are—co-written with David Ives and adapted from two films by Luis Buñuel—each scored four nods.
For the wing’s special new accolade, LGBTQ Theater Artist of the Season, GALECA members nominated writer/actor Cole Escola, composer Michael R. Jackson, director Michael Greif, along with actors Jonathan Groff, Sarah Paulson and Conrad Ricamora.
The nominees for the group’s career achievement award, LGBTQ Theater Trailblazer, are awe-inspiring multi-hyphenate André De Shields and four distinctly legendary playwrights: Charles Busch, Christopher Durang (nominated posthumously), Taylor Mac and Paula Vogel.
“I think we’re all actually happy to say GALECA’s members had a daunting task of sifting through so many exciting plays and musical this season,” said Cary Wong, the group’s Off-Broadway lead. “Considering Broadway alone put up 38 productions this season, New York theater has definitely bounced back from 18 months of Covid closures. From popular adaptations like The Notebook todaring new works likeLempicka, Dorian Award voters and all theater goers had plenty to rave and dish about.”
GALECA will once again help kick off Pride Month by announcing this year's Dorian Theater Awards on Monday, June 3, 2024.
Full list of 2024 Dorian Theater Awards nominees:
Outstanding Broadway Musical Here Lies Love Hell’s Kitchen Illinoise Lempicka The Outsiders Suffs
Outstanding Broadway Play Jaja’s African Hair Braiding Just for Us Mary Jane Mother Play Prayer for the French Republic Stereophonic
Outstanding Broadway Musical Revival Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club Merrily We Roll Along The Who’s Tommy Outstanding Broadway Play Revival Appropriate An Enemy of the People Purlie Victorious
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Musical Ali Louis Bourzgui, The Who’s Tommy Eden Espinosa, Lempicka Brody Grant, The Outsiders Jonathan Groff, Merrily We Roll Along Brian d’Arcy James, Days of Wine and Roses Maleah Joi Moon, Hell’s Kitchen Kelli O’Hara, Days of Wine and Roses Maryann Plunkett, The Notebook Eddie Redmayne, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club Shaina Taub, Suffs
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Broadway Play Betsy Aidem, Prayer for the French Republic Alex Edelman, Just For Us William Jackson Harper, Uncle Vanya Jessica Lange, Mother Play Leslie Odom Jr., Purlie Victorious Rachel McAdams, Mary Jane Laurie Metcalf, Grey House Sarah Paulson, Appropriate
Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Musical Hannah Cruz, Suffs Amber Iman, Lempicka Kecia Lewis, Hell’s Kitchen Nikki M. James, Suffs Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Monty Python’s Spamalot Lindsay Mendez, Merrily We Roll Along Bebe Neuwirth, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club Conrad Ricamora, Here Lies Love Daniel Radcliffe, Merrily We Roll Along Ricky Ubeda, Illinoise
Outstanding Featured Performance in a Broadway Play Brittany Adebumola, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding Francis Benhamou, Prayer for the French Republic Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Doubt Alex Brightman, The Shark is Broken Will Brill, Stereophonic Elle Fanning, Appropriate Eli Gelb, Stereophonic Celia Keenan-Bolger, Mother Play Jay O. Sanders, Purlie Victorious Tom Pecinka, Stereophonic Sarah Pidgeon, Stereophonic Kara Young, Purlie Victorious
Outstanding LGBTQ Broadway Production Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club Illinoise Lempicka Mother Play Outstanding Broadway Ensemble Here Lies Love Illinoise Jaja’s African Hair Braiding Merrily We Roll Along Suffs Stereophonic
The Broadway Showstopper Award — To a standout production number or scene Appropriate, “Epilogue: The Plantation Decays” Illinoise, “Chicago” Lempicka, “Woman Is” Merrily We Roll Along, “Franklin Shepard INC” The Outsiders, “The Rumble”
Outstanding Off-Broadway Production All the Devils Are Here The Ally The Connector Oh, Mary! Primary Trust Teeth
Outstanding LGBTQ Off-Broadway Production Bark of Millions Eddie Izzard’s Hamlet Make Me Gorgeous Oh, Mary! Teeth
Outstanding Lead Performance in an Off-Broadway Production Charles Busch, Ibsen’s Ghost: An Irresponsible Biographical Fantasy Nicholas Christopher, Jelly’s Last Jam Cole Escola, Oh, Mary! William Jackson Harper, Primary Trust Moses Ingram, Sunset Baby Rachel Bay Jones, Here We Are Alyse Alan Louis, Teeth Taylor Mac, Bark of Millions Ruthie Ann Miles, The Light in the Piazza Cynthia Nixon, The Seven Year Disappear Patrick Page, All the Devils Are Here
Outstanding Featured Performance in an Off-Broadway Production Susan Blommaert, Grief Hotel Marylouise Burke, Infinite Life Bobby Cannavale, Here We Are Micaela Diamond, Here We Are Joaquina Kalukango, Jelly’s Last Jam Julia Lester, I Can Get it For You Wholesale Steven Pasquale, Teeth David Hyde Pierce, Here We Are Conrad Ricamora, Oh, Mary! James Scully, Oh, Mary! Jennifer Van Dyck, Ibsen’s Ghost: An Irresponsible Biographical Fantasy Anna Zavelson, The Light in the Piazza
LGBTQ Theater Artist of the Season Cole Escola Michael Greif Jonathan Groff Michael R. Jackson Sarah Paulson Conrad Ricamora
LGBTQ Theater Trailblazer Award — For a lifelong commitment to creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity Charles Busch André De Shields Christopher Durang (nominated posthumously) Taylor Mac Paula Vogel
Productions With Multiple Nominations Merrily We Roll Along - 6 Stereophonic - 6 Illinoise - 5 Lempicka - 5 Oh, Mary! - 5 Suffs - 5 Appropriate - 4 Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club - 4 Here We Are - 4 Mother Play - 4 Purlie Victorious - 4 Teeth - 4 Hell’s Kitchen - 3 Here Lies Love - 3 Jaja’s African Hair Braiding - 3 The Outsiders - 3 Prayer for the French Republic - 3 All the Devils Are Here - 2 Bark of Millions - 2 Days of Wine and Roses - 2 Ibsen’s Ghost - 2 Jelly’s Last Jam - 2 Just for Us - 2 The Light in the Piazza - 2 Mary Jane - 2 Primary Trust - 2 The Who’s Tommy - 2
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About GALECA GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics and its Dorian Awards honor the best in film, television and, under its theater wing, Broadway and Off-Broadway. More than 500 members strong, GALECA reminds society that the world values the informed Q+ eye on everything entertainment. A nonprofit organization, GALECA also advocates for better pay, access and respect for entertainment journalists, especially the underrepresented. Follow us @DorianAwards on social media, and find more information about who we are and what we do at GALECA.org.
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment journalists is a core member of CGEM: Critics Groups for Equality in Media, an alliance of underrepresented entertainment journalists organizations.
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🥂 Dorian Film Winners 2024
'All of Us Strangers’ Takes Top Film Prize in LGBTQ Critics’ Dorian Awards
Gerwig Wins Director of the Year, Gladstone Grabs Best Performance Honors for ‘Flower Moon'
— Group's 'Timeless Star’ Career Achievement Award Goes to Jodie Foster —
February 26, 2024 - Los Angeles, Ca. - 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, 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 organization.”
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 honors to newcomer Sami Burch for May December, a cunningly observed riff on a true-life American scandal of the 1990s. Another scintillating drama, the whydunnit 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 that also took Visually Striking Film. And Dorian voters, obviously fans of powerful female humanoids, crowned the cheeky horror flickM3GAN as Campiest Flick.
As for the group’s trademark individual honors, 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 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.
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ 15th Dorian Film Awards—Full List of Winners:
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 (new)
🏆 Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Arthur Harari, Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall (NEON)
