Dorian Awards

Dorian Awards
CountryUnited States
Presented byGALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics
First awarded2009; 15 years ago (2009)
Websitegaleca.org
GALECA revised its tagline to The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics in 2017.

The Dorian Awards are film, television and Broadway / Off-Broadway accolades given by GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, founded in 2009 as the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association. GALECA is an association of professional journalists and critics who regularly report on movies, TV and/or New York City stage productions for print, online, and broadcast outlets mainly in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. As of March 2024, GALECA listed approximately 500 members, including those on its advisory board.[1] The awards recognize the best in film, television and New York City theater, with categories ranging from general to LGBTQ-centric.

The Dorian Award is named in honor of Oscar Wilde, in reference to the main character from his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the Society's logo includes an illustration of Wilde. Winners were given a framed certificate with the logo until 2019, when the award was redesigned to mimic a cue card.[2]

Since the group's first televised awards special, Dorians TV Toast 2020, presented on the LGBTQ streaming platform Revry on September 12, 2020, winners have received a small printed canvas with an illustrated portrait of themselves or a memorable scene from their project.[3] During GALECA's Dorians Film Toast 2021 special (airing April 18, 2021), actress Carey Mulligan, in accepting the group's Best Film Performance—Actress award for her work in Promising Young Woman, said her Dorian "might be the coolest prize I've ever seen".[4]

  1. ^ "Members". GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics: Home of The Dorian Awards. Retrieved November 29, 2017
  2. ^ GALECA. "Oscar Fever!". galeca.org. Archived from the original on May 26, 2023. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
  3. ^ Windy City Times, April 19, 2021 "GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics hands out Dorian Awards"
  4. ^ Variety, April 18, 2021, by Jazz Tangcay, "Nomadland and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Named Top Films at Dorian Awards"