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
LGBTQ Film of the Year
Director of the Year
Screenplay of the Year (Original or adapted)
LGBTQ Screenplay of the Year (new)
Non-English Language Film of the Year
LGBTQ Non-English Language Film of the Year (new)
Unsung Film of the Year (To an exceptional movie worthy of greater attention)
Lead Film Performance of the Year
Supporting Film Performance of the Year
Documentary of the Year
LGBTQ Documentary of the Year
Animated Film of the Year
Genre Film of the Year (new)
For excellence in science fiction, fantasy and horror
Film Music of the Year
Visually Striking Film of the Year
Campiest Flick
“We’re Wilde About You!” Rising Star Award
Wilde Artist Award
To a truly groundbreaking force in entertainment
GALECA LGBTQIA+ Film Trailblazer Award
For creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity
Timeless Star (Career achievement award)
Honoring an exemplary career marked by character, wisdom and wit
To be announced February 26 with winners.
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