‘The Last of Us,’ ‘Somebody Somewhere’ Lead GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics Dorian TV Award Nominations

Erik Anderson June 15, 2023

GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics today announced its Dorian TV Award nominations for the best in television and streaming where HBO’s apocalyptic drama The Last of Us topped the list with eight nominations, including Best TV Drama, where it faces the same network’s duo of eat the rich parables Succession and The White Lotus, Showtime’s regretful cannibals opus Yellowjackets, and AMC’s fang-banging series version of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire.

Somebody Somewhere, HBO’s poignant comedy about a single Kansas woman and friends navigating the questions of life, notched six nominations, including Best TV Comedy, Best LGBTQ TV Show and Best Unsung Show. Last year’s Dorian winner in that category, Abbott Elementary, chalked up four nods from GALECA, a national group of over 480 professional journalists writing on entertainment for some of the most respected media outlets in the world.

Best LGBTQ Series nominees, which pulls from drama, comedy and limited series, are Interview with the Vampire, The Last of Us, A League of Their Own, The Other Two and Somebody Somewhere.

Succession siblings Sarah Snook and Kieran Culkin, plus Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey of The Last of Us, will go up against past Dorian winner Melanie Lynskey of Yellowjackets for Best TV Performance—Drama. The comedy lead category is comprised entirely of female-identifying actors with Poker Face star and creator Natasha Lyonne, Ali Wong of Netflix’s road-rage tale Beef, Rachel Brosnahan for the final season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Somebody Somewhere hero Bridget Everett, and Quinta Brunson, star and creator of Abbott Elementary. Brunson is also among GALECA’s latest nominees for its special Wilde Wit award, along with Joel Kim Booster, Lizzo, Wanda Sykes and previous winner Bowen Yang.

Other trademark Dorian Awards categories include Visually Striking Show—Disney+’s Star Wars spinoff Andor, Amazon’s Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power are in the mix there—and Campiest TV Show. Pulling the proverbial wigs off in the latter race: Dead Ringers, Eurovision Song Contest,Hocus Pocus 2, Schmigadoon!, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, and Netflix’s cheeky-kooky Wednesday.

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 (Hulu)
The Other Two (HBO Max)
Poker Face (Peacock)
Somebody Somewhere (HBO)

BEST LGBTQ TV SHOW

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

BEST TV MOVIE OR MINISERIES

Beef (Netflix)
Daisy Jones & The Six (Amazon)
Dead Ringers (Amazon)
Fire Island (Hulu)
Rye Lane (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 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 Fahy, The White Lotus (HBO)
Nick Offerman, The Last of Us (HBO)
Aubrey Plaza, The White Lotus (HBO)

BEST 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 (Hulu)
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

Nominations by network/streamer

HBO / HBO Max 32
Netflix 13
Amazon / Amazon Freevee 10
Hulu 6
ABC 5
Peacock 5
Showtime 3
Disney+ 3
AMC 2
Apple TV+ 2
Comedy Central 2
Discovery+ 2
Shudder 2
Britbox 1
Fox 1
FX 1
MTV 1

Programs with more than one nomination

The Last of Us 8
Somebody Somewhere 6
The White Lotus 5
Abbott Elementary 4
Dead Ringers 3
Succession 3
The Bear 2
Beef 2
Interview with the Vampire 2
Jury Duty 2
Los Espookys 2
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel 2
Poker Face 2
The Other Two 2
Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror 2
Schmigadoon! 2
Yellowjackets 2

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Erik Anderson

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.