GALECA: Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ 2021 Dorian Awards to air live on Revry April 18

Who will win the Dorian Award for Best Director? Could it be rising Hollywood firebrand Emerald Fennell for Promising Young Woman or actress Regina King for her feature film directorial debut in One Night in Miami? Will it be First Cow, Minari, Nomadland, Promising Young Woman, or Sound of Metal for Best Film? Viewers can tune in this Sunday evening, April 18 to find out when the 2021 Dorian Awards airs live on Revry TV.

GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, founded in 2009 and now comprised of over 280 professional journalists covering film and television, presents its first-ever Dorians Film Toast 2021 awards special Sunday, April 18 at 8 P.M. ET/7 P.M. CT on streaming service Revry at revry.tv.

Movies with a theatrical or digital theatrical release from January 1, 2020, to February 28, 2021, were considered. GALECA hosts two separate Dorian Awards during the year, honoring the best in film and TV, from mainstream to LGBTQ fare. For more information on category requirements for the film awards and TV awards, along with how GALECA’s membership votes on nominees and winners, at DoriansToast.com and GALECA.org.

Gay entertainment and broadcasting veteran Karel will host the Dorians Toast, a twist on the standard awards show combining tributes, interview segments, music, and comedy. Also included: Lively roundtable chats with GALECA’s members about the nominees in several categories.

Presenters include Academy Award-nominated director Lee Daniels (The United States vs. Billie Holiday), Cheyenne Jackson (Call Me Kat), Rosanna Arquette (Pulp Fiction), Academy Award nominee Gabourey Sidibe (Precious, Antebellum), Emmy Award winner Jharrel Jerome (When They See Us, Moonlight, Concrete Cowboy), Rafael Silva (Fluidity, 9-1-1 Lone Star), Harmony Valle-Ramirez (Room To Grow), comedian Margaret Cho, Charo, and more. The virtual ceremony will also feature a musical performance by Morgan Mallory, “Look Into The Light,” written and composed by Karel and Mallory. Dorians Film Toast 2021 is hosted, co-written and executive produced by Karel and co-produced by Brandon Riley Miller (Life in Segments, High) and John Griffiths for GALECA.

Leslie Jordan will receive the Society’s Timeless Star career achievement honor, and transgender writer-director-actress Isabel Sandoval accepts the inaugural GALECA Trailblazer Award.

Complete list of Dorian Film Awards nominees:

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)

• Chloé 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

Best Documentary

• COLLECTIVE
• CRIP CAMP
• DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD
• DISCLOSURE
• TIME
• WELCOME TO CHECHNYA

Best LGBTQ Documentary

• A SECRET LOVE
• BORN TO BE
• DISCLOSURE: TRANS LIVES ON SCREEN
• 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
• Youn Yuh-jung, 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
• Chloé Zhao
• Dolly Parton
• Elliot Page
• Regina King