GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, consisting of over 500 entertainment critics, journalists and media icons, today announced their nominations for their 15th Dorian Film Awards where Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers led the way with nine mentions, including Film of the Year, Lead Performance of the Year for Andrew Scott and two Supporting Performance of the Year nods in Paul Mescal and Claire Foy. Haigh and Scott are also both up for the org’s GALECA LGBTQIA+ Film Trailblazer Award.
Also up for Film of the Year are Greta Gerwig’s Barbie (7 nominations), Todd Haynes’s May December (6), Celine Song’s Past Lives (5), and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things (4). All are nominated for Director of the Year save Lanthimos, replaced by Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer, which earned five nominations. The LGBTQ Film of the Year nominees were: All of Us Strangers, Bottoms, Passages, Rustin and Saltburn.
Nominees for Unsung Film include Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret (with costar Rachel McAdams also in the running for Supporting Performance), Italian director Andrea Pallaoro’s adult family drama Monica (and star Trace Lysette scored a lead acting nod), Ava DuVernay’s essential Black historical tale Origin, the cheeky comedy Theater Camp, and A Thousand and One, the riveting drama of a struggling New York City mother (Teyana Taylor) out to keep her little boy out of foster care.
The winner of the group’s Timeless Star career achievement honor, which in the past has gone to the likes of Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno and John Waters, will be named along with the other final victors on Monday February 26.
Here is the complete list of nominations.
Film of the Year
All of Us Strangers (Searchlight Pictures)
Barbie (Warner Bros.)
May December (Netflix)
Past Lives (A24)
Poor Things (Searchlight Pictures)
LGBTQ Film of the Year
All of Us Strangers (Searchlight Pictures)
Bottoms (MGM)
Passages (MUBI)
Rustin (Netflix)
Saltburn (Amazon MGM)
Director of the Year
Greta Gerwig, Barbie (Warner Bros.)
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight Pictures)
Todd Haynes, May December (Netflix)
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
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 Pictures)
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 Pictures)
Arthur Harari, Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall (NEON)
Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.
He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.
Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.