GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, consisting of over 500 entertainment critics, journalists and media icons, today announced the group’s nominees for its 16th Dorian Film Awards, celebrating 2024’s theatrical and digital releases.
Leading with an impressive nine nominations is writer-director Jane Schoenbrun’s thought-provoking horror tale I Saw the TV Glow. Schoenbrun herself is a double nominee in the group’s unique Wilde Wit of the Year and LGBTQIA+ Trailblazer categories. Demi Moore’s thriller of a comeback in Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance was a close second, with eight Dorian nods.
The genre-defying trans mobster musical Emilia Peréz and tense tennis ménage-à-trois drama Challengers each hold six nominations, and Dorian-nominated director Brady Corbet’s artful epic The Brutalist earned five, including Best Director. Other movies GALECA anointed with multi-nominations: Anora, Nickel Boys and Wicked all with four nods each, and Problemista and Queer with three apiece.
In GALECA’s non-gendered lead performance category, nominees include Karla Sofía Gascón for Emilia Pérez, Justice Smith for I Saw the TV Glow, Daniel Craig for Queer, Cynthia Erivo for Wicked and Colman Domingo for Sing Sing. For supporting performance, Dorian nominations went to Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor for Nickel Boys, Brigette Lundy-Paine for I Saw the TV Glow, Yura Borisov for Anora, Margaret Qualley for The Substance, Michele Austin for Hard Truths and more.
In the group’s LGBTQ-specific categories the nominees for LGBTQ Film of the Year are Challengers, Emilia Pérez, I Saw the TV Glow, Love Lies Bleeding and Queer. All were also nominated for LGBTQ Screenplay of the Year with Emilia Pérez swapped out for Problemista.
Some notable titles in the group’s trademark races include the inventive slapstick comedy Hundreds of Beavers vying for Unsung Film of the Year, Madame Web and Trap looking at Campiest Flick honors, and The Brutalist, Nosferatu and Dune: Part Two among the cinematic dazzlers aiming for Visually Striking Film.
The group’s Timeless Star career achievement honoree will be named when the winners are announced Thursday February 13. Galeca’s members are tentatively scheduled to toast winners and nominees in a brunch the following Sunday.
Along with its film nominations, GALECA announced it is donating $1000 to The Los Angeles Press Club’s emergency relief fund, the amount earmarked for entertainment journalists directly affected by the historically devastating wildfires that have destroyed vast swaths LA, leaving thousands of residents homeless.
“Entertainment journalists are an obviously integral part of the Hollywood ecosystem, and we want to make sure they aren’t forgotten in what’s already a very tough environment for those in our profession,” said GALECA Executive Director John Griffiths. Added Vice President Diane Anderson-Minshall: “We applaud our friends at the Press Club and its sister organization the National Arts and Entertainment Journalists Awards for coming to our brethren’s need.” Professional journalists whose main livelihood involves entertainment criticism, editing and/or reportage can apply for help at lapressclub.org.
GALECA is one of the largest entertainment journalists organizations in the world, with an impressive roster of members who contribute to a vast array of noteworthy media outlets in the U.S. and abroad. Separate Dorian Awards for TV and Broadway / Off-Broadway occur later in the year.
Formed in 2009, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics honors the best in film, television and Broadway/Off Broadway, mainstream to LGBTQIA+, via the Dorian Awards. A 501 c 6 nonprofit, GALECA serves to remind bigots, bullies and our own beleaguered communities that the world looks to the informed Q+ eye on entertainment. The organization also advocates for better pay, access and respect for its members, especially those in our most underrepresented and vulnerable segments. GALECA’s efforts also include the Crimson Honors, a college film/TV criticism contest for LGBTQ women or nonbinary students of color.
16TH DORIAN FILM AWARDS LIST OF NOMINEES FROM GALECA: THE SOCIETY OF LGBTQ ENTERTAINMENT CRITICS
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
NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
LGBTQ NON-ENGLISH FILM OF THE YEAR
UNSUNG FILM OF THE YEAR (To an exceptional movie worthy of greater attention)
UNSUNG LGBTQ FILM OF THE YEAR
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
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
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 13 with all winners.
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