Weekend took home a good bulk of the awards/nominations including Best Picture
Sometimes I get swept up in the excitement of award shows such as the Oscars, sometimes I find them a bore. But there is something fun about making lists of the things we love. And though the Academy Awards might make you roll your eyes, like when Brokeback Mountain lost out to the retch-inducing Crash in 2006, it’s much more fun to roll your eyes at an award show that’s predicated on LGBT content. It may be better, it may be worse, but I have a feeling the ceremony (or at least the after parties) are way more fun.
These winners were announced last Monday January 16th and the winners are listed below. Go ahead and check out how they compare to our own lists of Best Gay Film and Television of 2011.
The group’s Dorian Award winners this time include two big victories for the bold gay romance Weekend (for Film of the Year as well as LGBT Film of the Year). Meryl Streep earned Film Performance of the Year for her uncanny turn as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the biopic The Iron Lady, while Michael Fassbender nabbed the We’re Wilde About You Rising Star of the Year honor for his daring performance as a sex addict in Shame. In the more unusual film categories, the comic drama 50/50, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a young man diagnosed with cancer, was named Unsung Film of the Year, and The Muppets took Campy (Intentional or Not) Film of the Year.
On the TV side, the FX network’s wild ghosts tale American Horror Story was deemed TV Drama of the Year. The chiller’s star, Jessica Lange, won TV Performance of the Year for her portrayal as a faded actress with a link to the Other Side. The ABC sitcom Modern Family won for both TV Comedy of the Year and LGBT-themed TV Show of the Year, while Fox’s still-popular Glee and the HBO concert special Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour tied for TV Musical Program of the Year. Campy TV Show of the Year honors went to ABC’s buzz-blessed primetime soap Revenge, and the Unsung TV Show title was given to the network’s scrappy family comedy Suburgatory.
The complete list of Dorian Award winners is below. A celebratory toast will be held Sunday, February 19 in Los Angeles.
ABOUT GALECA and the DORIAN AWARDS
The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association (GALECA), formed in 2009, is comprised of over 50 esteemed critics, entertainment journalists and pop culture critics who work for noteworthy newspapers, magazines, websites and TV and radio outlets nationwide. With Oscar Wilde as their patron saint, the group’s collective experience continues to offer society a unique and cherished perspective on popular culture. GALECA members nominate movies, TV programs and performances from a variety of categories, not just LGBT-centric.
*** 2012 DORIAN AWARD WINNERS
FILM OF THE YEAR
Midnight in Paris / Sony Pictures Classics
The Artist / The Weinstein Company
The Descendants / Fox Searchlight
The Skin I Live In / Sony Pictures Classics
The Tree of Life / Fox Searchlight
Weekend / IFC Films
FILM PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
Christopher Plummer / Beginners (Focus Features)
Leonardo DiCaprio / J Edgar (Warner Bros.)
Janet McTeer / Albert Nobbs (Liddell Entertainment)
Meryl Streep / The Iron Lady (The Weinstein Company)
Michael Fassbender / Shame (Fox Searchlight)
Rooney Mara / The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Sony/Columbia)
DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR (Film, DVD or TV)
Carol Channing: Larger Than Life / Entertainment One
Cave of Forgotten Dreams / Sundance
Page One: Inside the New York Times / Magnolia Pictures
Pina / IFC Films
We Were Here / Red Flag Releasing
LGBT-THEMED FILM OF THE YEAR
Albert Nobbs / Liddell Entertainment
Beginners / Focus Features
Pariah / Focus Features
Tomboy / Rocket Releasing
Weekend / IFC Films
LGBT-THEMED DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR
Becoming Chaz / World of Wonder
Bill Cunningham New York / Zeitgeist Films
Making the Boys / 4th Row Films
Vito / HBO
We Were Here / Red Flag Releasing
CAMPY (INTENTIONAL OR NOT) FILM OF THE YEAR
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never / Paramount
Kaboom / Desperate Pictures
The Muppets / Disney
Thor / Paramount
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 / Summit
UNSUNG FILM OF THE YEAR
50/50 / Summit Entertainment
Insidious / FilmDistrict
Jane Eyre / Focus Features
Warrior / Lionsgate
Win Win / Fox Searchlight
TV DRAMA OF THE YEAR
American Horror Story / FX
Downton Abbey / PBS
Homeland / Showtime
Mildred Pierce / HBO
The Good Wife / CBS
TV COMEDY OF THE YEAR
Modern Family / ABC
Louie / FX
30 Rock / NBC
The Big Bang Theory / CBS
Happy Endings / ABC
TV MUSICAL PROGRAM OF THE YEAR
A Very Gaga Thanksgiving / ABC
Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On / HBO
Glee / Fox (TIE)
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour / HBO (TIE)
The Voice / NBC
TV PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
Bryan Cranston / Breaking Bad / AMC
Claire Danes / Homeland / Showtime
Jessica Lange / American Horror Story / FX
Kate Winslet / Mildred Pierce / HBO
Madeleine Stowe / Revenge / ABC
LGBT-THEMED TV SHOW OF THE YEAR
American Horror Story / FX
Happy Endings / ABC
Modern Family / ABC
RuPaul’s Drag Race / Logo
True Blood / HBO
CAMPY (INTENTIONAL OR NOT) TV SHOW OF THE YEAR
American Horror Story / FX
Hot In Cleveland / TV Land
Revenge / ABC
The A List New York / Logo
True Blood / HBO
UNSUNG TV SHOW OF THE YEAR
Enlightened / HBO
Happy Endings / ABC
Louie / FX
Pan Am / ABC
Parenthood / NBC
Suburgatory / ABC
THE WE’RE WILDE ABOUT YOU RISING STAR AWARD
Elizabeth Olsen
Jessica Chastain
Melissa McCarthy
Michael Fassbender
Tom Hardy
WILDE WIT OF THE YEAR AWARD
Kathy Griffin
Kristen Wiig
Louis C.K.
Rachel Maddow
The Staff Writers of Happy Endings
TIMELESS STAR
Betty White
