Tuesday, January 13, 2015

The 2014 Dorian Award Nominations


The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, of which I and Movie Dearest contributor Chris Carpenter are members, has announced the nominations for the 6th Annual Dorian Awards honoring the best in film and television for 2014.


Recent Golden Globe winners Birdman, Boyhood and The Grand Budapest Hotel are joined by the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game and gay indie fave Pride as the nominees for the Film of the Year award, with the latter two competing with Love is Strange, Stranger by the Lake and The Way He Looks for the LGBT Film of the Year prize. The nominations as a whole display a wide variety of 2014's cinematic best, with such award season favorites as Foxcatcher, Gone Girl and The Theory of Everything joining underdogs like The Babadook, Xavier Dolan's Mommy and The Skeleton Twins.

Ryan Murphy's acclaimed screen adaptation of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart leads the nominations on the television side, while actor/activist/Star Trek legend George Takei was named this year's recipient of the Timeless Award, given to “an actor or performer whose exemplary career is marked by character, wisdom and wit.”

See the comments section below for the complete list of nominees. Winners will be announced January 20th.

1 comment:

Kirby Holt said...

The 2014 GALECA DORIAN AWARDS NOMINATIONS:

Film of the Year
Birdman
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Pride

Film Performance of the Year - Actor
Steve Carell, Foxcatcher
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler
Michael Keaton, Birdman
Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything

Film Performance of the Year - Actress
Essie Davis, The Babadook
Anne Dorval, Mommy
Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon, Wild

Film Director of the Year
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ava DuVernay, Selma
David Fincher, Gone Girl
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Birdman
Richard Linklater, Boyhood

LGBTQ Film of the Year
The Imitation Game
Love is Strange
Pride
Stranger by the Lake
The Way He Looks

Foreign Language Film of the Year
Force Majeure
Ida
Mommy
Stranger by the Lake
Two Days, One Night

Unsung Film of the Year
Obvious Child
Love is Strangs
Pride
The Skeleton Twins
Snowpiercer

Documentary of the Year
(theatrical release, TV airing or DVD release)
The Case Against 8
CitizenFour
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Life Itself
Regarding Susan Sontag

Visually Striking Film of the Year
(honoring a production of stunning beauty, from art direction to cinematography)
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Interstellar
Snowpiercer
Under the Skin

Campy Flick of the Year
Annie
Gone Girl
Into the Woods
Maleficent
Tammy

TV Drama of the Year
Fargo
The Good Wife
How To Get Away with Murder
Mad Men
The Normal Heart

TV Comedy of the Year
The Comeback
Modern Family
Orange is the New Black
Transparent
Veep

TV Director of the Year
Lisa Cholodenko, Olive Kitteridge
Jodie Foster, Orange is the New Black
Andrew Haigh, Looking
Ryan Murphy, The Normal Heart
Jill Soloway, Transparent

TV Performance of the Year - Actor
Matthew Bomer, The Normal Heart
Matthew McConaughey, True Detective
Mark Ruffalo, The Normal Heart
Kevin Spacey, House of Cards
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent

TV Performance of the Year - Actress
Viola Davis, How to Get Away with Murder
Lisa Kudrow, The Comeback
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black
Frances McDormand, Olive Kitteridge

TV Musical Performance of the Year
Beyonce, MTV Video Music Awards
Neil Patrick Harris, “Sugar Daddy,” The Tony Awards
Jessica Lange, “Life on Mars,” American Horror Story: Freak Show
Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, Madonna, et al., “Same Love,” The Grammys
Prince, Saturday Night Live

LGBTQ TV Show of the Year
Looking
Modern Family
Orange is the New Black
Please Like Me
Transparent

Unsung TV Show of the Year
Getting On
Looking
Orphan Black
Please Like Me
Transparent

TV Current Affairs Show of the Year
Anderson Cooper 360
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Rachel Maddow Show

Campy TV Show of the Year
American Horror Story: Freak Show
How to Get Away with Murder
Jane the Virgin
Peter Pan Live!
Penny Dreadful

Music Video of the Year
Nicki Minaj, “Anaconda”
Perfume Genius, “Queen”
Sia, “Chandelier”
Taylor Swift, “Blank Space”
Meghan Trainor, “All About That Bass”

The “We're Wilde About You!” Rising Star Award
Ansel Elgort
Jack Falahee
Ellar Coltrane
Jack O'Connell
Gina Rodriguez
Finn Wittrock

Wilde Wit of the Year
(honoring a performer, writer or commentator whose observations both challenge and amuse)
Stephen Colbert
Rachel Maddow
Bill Maher
John Oliver
Jon Stewart

Wilde Artist of the Year
(honoring a truly groundbreaking force in the fields of film, theater and/or television)
Xavier Dolan
Neil Patrick Harris
Richard Linklater
Jill Solloway
Tilda Swinton

Timeless Award
(to an actor or performer whose exemplary career is marked by character, wisdom and wit)
George Takei