Friday, January 18, 2013

Awards Watch: The 2012 Dorian Awards


Earlier this week, the Gay & Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association (GALECA), of which I and my fellow Men on Film Chris Carpenter and Neil Cohen were members this past year, announced the winners of the 4th Annual Dorian Awards. These awards are designed to honor not just GLBT-themed films and television programs, but all films and television programs... albeit as seen through a "queer eye".

Topping the list for as the Film of the Year is Ben Affleck's Argo, fresh off its wins at the Golden Globes and the Critics' Choice Awards. The Film Performance of the Year Awards (now split by gender) went to Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln and our Dearie Award-winning Woman of the Year Anne Hathaway in Les Misérables. All three of these winners are poised for possible victory at next month's Academy Awards.


The searing gay drama Keep the Lights On, which was also nominated for Film of the Year, took the prize for LGBT-Themed Film of the Year, while the Oscar nominated How to Survive a Plague won Documentary of the Year. In the new category Visually Striking Film of the Year, Ang Lee's Life of Pi was deemed the most, well, visually striking.

A triple feature of Matthew McConaughey movies round out the film awards, with Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike and Lee Daniels' The Paperboy tied for Campy Film of the Year and Bernie named Unsung Film of the Year.


On the TV side, Homeland and American Horror Story: Asylum not only tied for TV Drama of the Year, the shows' respective stars, Damien Lewis and Jessica Lange won in the TV Performance of the Year categories.  TV Comedy or Musical of the Year went to Girls, while LGBT-Themed TV Show of the Year was shared by Modern Family and the Dearie Award-winning The New Normal. The Campy and Unsung TV Shows were the tragic biopic Liz & Dick and the sitcom Happy Endings.

Capping off the Dorians are a few prizes for individuals, including the "We’re Wilde About You" Rising Star of the Year Award, which went to The Perks of Being a Wallflower's Ezra Miller. "Wilde Wit" and "Wilde Artist" titles were bestowed on The Daily Show's Jon Stewart and Glee/American Horror Story/The New Normal creator Ryan Murphy.  And last, but certainly not least, the "Timeless" Award (the Dorian version of a lifetime achievement honor) went to the one and only Sir Ian McKellen, seen this year in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.


Congratulations to all of this year's Dorian Award winners! The awards will be presented on February 17 in Los Angeles at the Fourth Annual GALECA Dorian Awards Winners Afternoon Tea. See the comments section below for the full list of this year's nominees, and be sure to follow GALECA on Facebook and Twitter.

1 comment:

Kirby Holt said...

FILM OF THE YEAR:
*Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Keep the Lights On
Les Miserables
Lincoln
Moonrise Kingdom

FILM PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR - ACTOR:
Alan Cumming / Any Day Now
Bradley Cooper / Silver Linings Playbook
* Daniel Day-Lewis / Lincoln
Hugh Jackman / Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix / The Master
John Hawkes / The Sessions

FILM PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR - ACTRESS:
* Anne Hathaway / Les Miserables
Emmanuelle Riva / Amour
Jennifer Lawrence / Silver Linings Playbook
Jessica Chastain / Zero Dark Thirty
Marion Cotillard / Rust and Bone

LGBT FILM OF THE YEAR:
Any Day Now
Cloud Atlas
Gayby
* Keep the Lights On
The Perks of Being a Wallflower

DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR:
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Bully
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel
* How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
The Queen of Versailles

VISUALLY STRIKING FILM OF THE YEAR
(honoring a production of stunning beauty, from art direction to cinematography):
Anna Karenina
Cloud Atlas
Les Miserables
* Life of Pi
Moonrise Kingdom
CAMPY FLICK OF THE YEAR — (TIE):
2016: Obama’s America
Cloud Atlas
* Magic Mike
* The Paperboy
Pitch Perfect
Rock of Ages

UNSUNG FILM OF THE YEAR:
* Bernie
The Cabin in the Woods
Chronicle
Holy Motors
Looper
Your Sister’s Sister

TV DRAMA OF THE YEAR — (TIE):
* American Horror Story: Asylum
Breaking Bad
Game of Thrones
* Homeland
Mad Men

TV COMEDY OF THE YEAR:
The Big Bang Theory
* Girls
Happy Endings
Louie
Modern Family

TV PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR - ACTOR:
Aaron Paul / Breaking Bad
* Damian Lewis / Homeland
Jesse Tyler Ferguson / Modern Family
Jim Parsons / The Big Bang Theory
Jon Hamm / Mad Men

TV PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR - ACTRESS:
Claire Danes / Homeland
* Jessica Lange / American Horror Story: Asylum
Julianne Moore / Game Change
Edie Falco / Nurse Jackie
Lena Dunham / Girls
Sofia Vergara / Modern Family

TV MUSICAL PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR:
Darren Criss, “Teenage Dream,” Glee

De’Borah Garner, The Fray’s “You Found Me,” The Voice
* Jennifer Hudson, Tribute to Whitney Houston, The Grammys
Megan Hilty and Katharine McPhee, “Let Me Be Your Star,” Smash
Raza Jaffrey, Katharine McPhee and cast: “A Thousand and One Nights,” Smash

LGBT TV SHOW OF THE YEAR — (TIE):
American Horror Story: Asylum
Happy Endings
* Modern Family
* The New Normal
Smash

CAMPY TV SHOW OF THE YEAR:
666 Park Avenue
American Horror Story: Asylum
GCB
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
* Liz & Dick
Smash

UNSUNG TV SHOW OF THE YEAR:
Bunheads
Catfish
Fringe
GCB
* Happy Endings
Parenthood

TV OR MOVIE TITLE OF THE YEAR:
* Don’t Trust the B—— in Apt. 23
GCB
I Was Impaled
I’m Having Their Baby
It’s Christmas, Carol!

WE’RE WILDE ABOUT YOU (NEWCOMER AWARD):
Andrew Rannells
Anna Camp
Ben Whishaw
Eddie Redmayne
* Ezra Miller

WILDE WIT OF THE YEAR (honoring a performer, writer or commentator whose observations both challenge and amuse):
Bill Maher
Chelsea Handler
* Jon Stewart
Lena Dunham
Sarah Silverman
Stephen Colbert

WILDE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
(honoring a truly groundbreaking force in the fields of film, theatre and/or television):

Lena Dunham
Louis C.K.
* Ryan Murphy
Tony Kushner
Tig Notaro

TIMELESS AWARD (honoring an actor or performer whose exemplary career has been marked by character, wisdom and wit):

* Sir Ian McKellen

* = Winner