‘Succession,’ ‘The Other Two,’ ‘Somebody Somewhere,’ ‘Fire Island’ Top 15th Dorian TV Awards Winners

Sarah Snook, Jennifer Coolidge, Bridget Everett, Ayo Edebiri win performance awards in non-gendered acting categories

GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics named the winners of its 15th Dorian TV Awards today, where HBO’s final season of Succession took best drama with cast member Sarah Snook winning Best Lead TV Performance – Drama while Best TV Comedy went to ABC’s Abbott Elementary and Hulu’s Fire Island, Andrew Ahn and Joel Kim Booster’s queer spin on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, taking Best TV Movie.

In the group’s four non-gendered performance categories (lead and supporting for drama and comedy), Snook was joined by Somebody Somewhere‘s Bridget Everett as best comedy lead, Jennifer Coolidge for best supporting drama performance in The White Lotus, and breakthrough Ayo Edebiri of FX on Hulu’s comedy/drama The Bear. 

Satirist Ziwe Fumudoh’s recently cancelled Showtime series ZIWE, a mix of commentary, sketch and topical interviews, won the Dorian for Best Current Affairs Show for the third time in a row. HBO Max’s puckish female superhero tale Harley Quinn landed as favorite animated program. And GALECA’s special Wilde Wit award, designated for “a performer, writer or commentator whose observations both challenge and amuse,” this year went to venerable comedian Wanda Sykes (past winners include Coolidge, Michaela Coel, Dan Levy, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Hannah Gadsby, Kate McKinnon, Carrie Fisher, Amy Schumer, John Oliver and Kathy Griffin). 

Sykes is enjoying a banner year, scoring laughs and jabs as jaded record exec Shuli Kucerac on Max’s The Other Two, real-life political groundbreaker Shirley Chisholm on History of the World: Part I (Searchlight Pictures on Hulu), as TK on Netflix’s family sitcom The Upshaws, and as one of Velma’s lesbian moms on that new animated mystery-comedy from producer Mindy Kaling. Plus, the star’s May Netflix stand-up special, Wanda Sykes: I’m an Entertainer—complete with her takedowns of everyone from Kyrsten Sinema to MAGA conservatives afraid of Critical Race Theory—earned raves. 

Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror, TV mastermind Bryan Fuller’s documentary series for Shudder, scared-up two Dorians. Season two of Apple TV+’s cheeky musical Schmigadoon! scored Campiest TV Show, and HBO’s apocalyptic miniseries The Last of Us impressed as Most Visually Striking TV Show. 

In other honors, the group named Coolidge the GALECA TV Icon (previous recipients include Christine Baranski and Cassandra Peterson, a.k.a Elvira). And Elliot Page, whose superhero character Viktor Hargreeves came out as trans in the most recent installment of Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy, joins the ranks of Michaela Jaé Rodriguez and Jerrod Carmichael as an LGBTQIA+ TV Trailblazer. The award is given to entertainment figures who create “art that inspires empathy, truth and equity.”

In the network/streamers race, HBO (including Max) counted a win in half of the 18 programming categories. Hulu (including FX on Hulu) and Shudder each notched two Dorians. 

Along with TV, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics also honor the best in film and Broadway / Off-Broadway, mainstream to queer+, at separate times of the year. A nonprofit 501 c 6 professional organization founded in 2009, GALECA today consists of over 480 active critics and journalists who work for some of the most popular, revered and enlightening media outlets in the United States and beyond. Via the Dorians, the group endeavors to remind bullies, bigots and society’s currently beleaguered LGBTQ communities that the world has long appreciated the Q+ eye on everything entertainment—not only on hair and clothes. GALECA also advocates for better pay, access and respect for its members, especially those in its most underrepresented segments.

This month, GALECA announced the winners of its inaugural Crimson Honors, a public college criticism contest for women or nonbinary students in the QTBIPOC rainbow. The grand prize went to Asha Pruitt, a recent graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. Taila Lee, a Berkeley senior, and Ariana Martinez, a senior at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, were named finalists. All received scholarship funds provided by film and TV reviews aggregate Rotten Tomatoes. More information on the scholarship winners and panel of judges can be found at galeca.org/crimson-honors.

Here is the complete list of winners for the 15th Dorian TV Awards.

BEST TV DRAMA
Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire (AMC)
The Last of Us (HBO)
Succession (HBO)
The White Lotus (HBO)
Yellowjackets (Showtime)

BEST TV COMEDY
Abbott Elementary (ABC)
The Bear (FX)
The Other Two (HBO Max)
Poker Face (Peacock)
Somebody Somewhere (HBO)

BEST LGBTQ TV SHOW
Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire (AMC)
A League of Their Own (Amazon)
Somebody Somewhere (HBO)
The Last of Us (HBO)
The Other Two (HBO Max)

BEST TV MOVIE OR MINISERIES
Beef (Netflix) 
Daisy Jones & The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
Fire Island (Searchlight Pictures on Hulu)
Rye Lane (Searchlight Pictures on Hulu)

BEST UNSUNG SHOW
A Black Lady Sketch Show (HBO)
Derry Girls (Netflix)
Jury Duty (Amazon Freevee)
Los Espookys (HBO)
Reservation Dogs (FX)
Somebody Somewhere (HBO)

BEST NON-ENGLISH SHOW
Elite (Netflix)
Extraordinary Attorney Woo (Netflix)
Los Espookys (HBO)
Smiley (Netflix) 
Young Royals (Netflix)

BEST LEAD TV PERFORMANCE—DRAMA
Kieran Culkin, Succession (HBO)
Melanie Lynskey, Yellowjackets (Showtime)
Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us (HBO)
Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us (HBO)
Sarah Snook, Succession (HBO)

BEST SUPPORTING TV PERFORMANCE—DRAMA
Murray Bartlett, The Last of Us (HBO)
Jennifer Coolidge, The White Lotus (HBO)
Meghann Fahey, The White Lotus (HBO)
Nick Offerman, The Last of Us (HBO)
Aubrey Plaza, The White Lotus (HBO)

BEST LEAD TV PERFORMANCE—COMEDY
Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon)
Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary (ABC)
Bridget Everett, Somebody Somewhere (HBO)
Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face (Peacock)
Ali Wong, Beef (Netflix) 

BEST SUPPORTING TV PERFORMANCE—COMEDY
Alex Borstein, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon)
Ayo Edebiri, The Bear (FX)
Jeff Hiller, Somebody Somewhere (HBO)
Janelle James, Abbott Elementary (ABC)
Sheryl Lee Ralph, Abbott Elementary (ABC)

BEST TV MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
Kaala Bhairava & Rahul Sipligunj, “Naatu Naatu,” 95th Academy Awards (ABC)
Ariana DeBose, “Angela Bassett Did the Thing (Opening Number),” BAFTA Film Awards (Britbox) 
Bridgett Everett, “Gloria,” Somebody Somewhere (HBO)
Jane Krakowski, “Bells and Whistles,” Schmigadoon! (Apple TV+)
Nick Offerman, “Long, Long Time,” The Last of Us (HBO)

BEST TV DOCUMENTARY OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Pamela, A Love Story (Netflix)
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields (Hulu)
Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror (Shudder)
The Rehearsal (HBO)
The 1619 Project (Hulu)

BEST LGBTQ DOCUMENTARY OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES
The Book of Queer (Discovery+)
Generation Drag (Discovery+)
Mama’s Boy (HBO)
Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror (Shudder)
We’re Here (HBO)

BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS SHOW
The Amber Ruffin Show (Peacock)
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (Comedy Central)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
ZIWE (Showtime)

BEST ANIMATED SHOW
Big Mouth (Netflix) 
Dead End: Paranormal Park (Netflix)
Harley Quinn (HBO Max) 
South Park (Comedy Central)
The Simpsons (Fox) 

BEST REALITY SHOW
Jury Duty (Amazon Freevee)
Queer Eye (Netflix)
RuPaul’s Drag Race (MTV)
The Traitors (Peacock)
The Ultimatum: Queer Love (Netflix) 

MOST VISUALLY STRIKING SHOW
Andor (Disney+)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
The Last of Us (HBO)
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Amazon)
The White Lotus (HBO)

CAMPIEST TV SHOW
Dead Ringers (Amazon) 
Eurovision Song Contest (Peacock)
Hocus Pocus 2 (Disney+)
Schmigadoon! (Apple TV+)
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (Disney+)
Wednesday (Netflix) 

WILDE WIT AWARD
—To a performer, writer or commentator whose observations both challenge and amuse
Joel Kim Booster 
Quinta Brunson 
Lizzo 
Wanda Sykes 
Bowen Yang

GALECA TV Icon Award
—To a uniquely talented star we adore
Jennifer Coolidge

GALECA LGBTQIA+ TV Trailblazer Award
—For creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity
Elliot Page