Named for the title character in Oscar Wilde’s basic novel “The Image of Dorian Grey,” the Dorian Awards are introduced yearly by GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Leisure Critics, a company comprised of 500+ leisure critics, journalists, and media icons, in three separate classes: movie, tv, and Broadway, every introduced at completely different occasions in the course of the 12 months. On Feb. 13, the society introduced the winners of its sixteenth annual Dorian Movie Awards, and the checklist of honorees — maybe unsurprisingly — accommodates a variety of picks that received’t be sharing within the glory on Oscar evening.
Reflecting a rising pattern amongst a brand new era of movie reviewers to offer style movies — particularly, maybe, horror films — the identical weight of inventive advantage because the so-called “status” photos that sometimes get all of the kudos at mainstream award ceremonies, the champions for 2025’s honors in a number of main classes have been horror or fantasy movies, most prominently writer-director Coralie Fargeat’s runaway hit satirical chiller “The Substance,” which was topped Movie of the Yr, together with 4 different Dorians in all, together with one for star Demi Moore for Movie Efficiency of the Yr (an all-gender main actor class with a single winner from a pool of nominees) and one for Fargeat as Movie Director of the Yr.
Moore herself scored twice, choosing up the Dorians’ Timeless Star profession achievement award, bestowed on leisure artists with “an exemplary profession marked by character, knowledge and wit,” to hitch the ranks of former winners like Jodie Foster, Jane Fonda, Nathan Lane, John Waters, Rita Moreno, Jane Fonda, George Takei, and Sir Ian McKellen.
Horror was additionally the hook for one more of the 12 months’s large winners, writer-director Jane Schoenbrun’s trans allegory “I Noticed the TV Glow” (essentially the most nominated movie on this 12 months’s Dorian roundup, with nods in 9 classes), which took the prizes for LGBTQ Movie and LGBTQ Screenplay of the Yr.
There have been additionally some much less scary selections with a number of wins: “Will & Harper,” the road-trip documentary about actor Will Ferrell’s longtime friendship with trans comedy author Harper Steele, was named as each Documentary and LGBTQ Documentary of the Yr; and director Luca Guadagnino’s homoerotic tennis-themed love triangle “Challengers” took Screenplay of the Yr for author Justin Kuritzkes, with rock legends Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross incomes Greatest Music for the film’s techno rating.
“Depraved” – nominated in a number of classes – snared a win within the all-gender Supporting Efficiency of the Yr race for Ariana Grande, and whereas her co-stars could have missed out of their classes, out “Bridgerton” heartthrob Jonathan Bailey was given GALECA’s “Rising Star” Award, and Cynthia Erivo was recipient of this 12 months’s LGBTQIA+ Movie Trailblazer award, meant for an artist who “conjures up empathy, reality and fairness,” with previous recipients together with honor Janelle Monáe, Pedro Almodóvar, Isabel Sandoval, and Colman Domingo.
As for Domingo, nominated within the Movie Efficiency race for his work in “Sing Sing,” although he likewise misplaced in his class, he was given one other Dorians particular prize — “Wilde Artist” of the Yr, a particular accolade named in homage to Oscar Wilde reserved for “a very groundbreaking pressure in leisure.”
Different Dorian winners this 12 months included author/director/star Julio Torres’ eccentric comedy “Problemista” and the trans-empowering Batman send-up “The Folks’s Joker,” named as Unsung Movie and Unsung LGBTQ Movie of the 12 months, respectively; director RaMell Ross’s imaginatively conceived literary adaptation “Nickel Boys” was named Visually Putting Movie of the Yr, and the dazzlingly cinematic animal journey “Movement” beat out a formidable roster of opponents to win as Animated Movie of the Yr.
Brazilian protest drama “I’m Nonetheless Right here” was given the Dorian for Non-English Language Movie of the Yr, and “Emilia Pérez” – regardless of the controversies which have emerged to plague the French trans-themed musical epic over the past legs of Awards Season, was nonetheless named as LGBTQ Non-English Language Movie of the Yr.
In saying this 12 months’s Dorian winners, group President Walt Hicket mentioned, “In our sixteenth 12 months, GALECA’s members nonetheless have depraved enjoyable toasting their favorites in movie, each mainstream and LGBTQ-themed.” Added Vice President Diane Anderson-Minshall, “I’m sure even some ultra-conservatives who’re out to erase all types of ‘woke’ phrases and letters (to not point out historical past) are secretly paying attention to our winners. Everybody appreciates the knowledgeable Q+ eye on leisure.”
The whole checklist of nominees and winners is under. Winners are in boldface.
FILM OF THE YEAR
“Anora” (Neon)
“Challengers” (Amazon MGM Studios)
“I Noticed the TV Glow” (A24)
“Nickel Boys” (Orion Photos/Amazon MGM Studios)
“The Substance” (Mubi)
LGBTQ FILM OF THE YEAR
“Challengers” (Amazon MGM Studios)
“Emilia Pérez” (Netflix)
“I Noticed the TV Glow” (A24)
“Love Lies Bleeding” (A24)
“Queer” (A24)
DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Brady Corbet, “The Brutalist” (A24)
Coralie Fargeat, “The Substance” (Mubi)
Luca Guadagnino, “Challengers” (Amazon MGM Studios)
RaMell Ross, “Nickel Boys” (Orion Photos/Amazon MGM Studios)
Jane Schoenbrun, “I Noticed the TV Glow” (A24)
SCREENPLAY OF THE YEAR – Unique or Tailored
Sean Baker, “Anora” (Neon)
Coralie Fargeat, “The Substance” (Mubi)
Justin Kuritzkes, “Challengers” (Amazon MGM Studios)
Jane Schoenbrun, “I Noticed the TV Glow” (A24)
Peter Straughan, “Conclave” (Focus Options)
LGBTQ SCREENPLAY OF THE YEAR
Rose Glass and Weronika Tofilska, “Love Lies Bleeding” (A24)
Justin Kuritzkes, “Challengers” (Amazon MGM Studios)
Justin Kuritzkes, “Queer” (A24)
Jane Schoenbrun, “I Noticed the TV Glow” (A24)
Julio Torres, “Problemista” (A24)
NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
“All We Think about as Mild” (Sideshow / Janus Movies)
“Emilia Pérez” (Netflix)
“Movement” (Sideshow / Janus Movies)
“I’m Nonetheless Right here” (Sony Photos Classics)
“The Seed of the Sacred Fig” (Neon)
LGBTQ NON-ENGLISH FILM OF THE YEAR
“Crossing” (Mubi)
“Emilia Pérez” (Netflix)
“Queendom” (Greenwich Leisure)
“Vermiglio” (Sideshow / Janus Movies)
“All Shall Be Effectively” (Strand Releasing)
UNSUNG FILM OF THE YEAR – to an distinctive film worthy of better consideration
“Didi” (Focus Options)
“Lots of of Beavers” (Cineverse, Vinegar Syndrome)
“My Previous Ass” (Amazon MGM Studios)
“Problemista” (A24)
“Thelma” (Magnolia)
UNSUNG LGBTQ FILM OF THE YEAR – to an distinctive LGBTQ film worthy of better consideration
“Femme” (Utopia)
“My Previous Ass” (Amazon MGM Studios)
“Nationwide Anthem” (Variance, LD Leisure)
“The Folks’s Joker” (Altered Innocence)
“Problemista” (A24)
FILM PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist” (A24)
Daniel Craig, “Queer” (A24)
Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing” (A24)
Karla Sofía Gascón, “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix)
Cynthia Erivo, “Depraved” (Common)
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, “Exhausting Truths” (Bleecker Road)
Nicole Kidman, “Babygirl” (A24)
Mikey Madison, “Anora” (Neon)
Demi Moore, “The Substance” (Mubi)
Justice Smith, “I Noticed the TV Glow” (A24)
SUPPORTING FILM PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
Michele Austin, “Exhausting Truths” (Bleecker Road)
Yura Borisov, “Anora” (Neon)
Kieran Culkin, “A Actual Ache” (Searchlight Photos)
Ariana Grande, “Depraved” (Common)
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, “Nickel Boys” (Orion Photos/Amazon MGM Studios)
Jack Haven, “I Noticed the TV Glow” (A24)
Clarence Maclin, “Sing Sing” (A24)
Man Pearce, “The Brutalist” (A24)
Margaret Qualley, “The Substance” (Mubi)
Zoe Saldaña, “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix)
DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR
“Dahomey” (Mubi)
“Daughters” (Netflix)
“The Outstanding Lifetime of Ibelin” (Netflix)
“Sugarcane” (Nationwide Geographic)
“Will & Harper” (Netflix)
LGBTQ DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR
“Chasing Chasing Amy” (Stage 33)
“Frida” (Amazon MGM Studios)
“Service provider Ivory” (Cohen Media Group)
“Queendom” (Greenwich Leisure)
“Will & Harper” (Netflix)
ANIMATED FILM OF THE YEAR
“Movement” (Sideshow / Janus Movies)
“Inside Out 2” (Disney)
“Memoir of a Snail” (IFC Movies)
“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” (Netflix)
“The Wild Robotic” (Common, DreamWorks)
GENRE FILM OF THE YEAR – for excellence in science fiction, fantasy and horror
“Dune: Half Two” (Warner Bros.)
“I Noticed the TV Glow” (A24)
“Nosferatu” (Focus Options)
“The Substance” (Mubi)
“Depraved” (Common)
FILM MUSIC OF THE YEAR
Daniel Blumberg, “The Brutalist” (A24)
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, “Challengers” (Amazon MGM Studios)
Clément Ducol and Camille, “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix)
Alex G, “I Noticed the TV Glow” (A24)
John Powell and Stephen Schwartz, et al., “Depraved” (Common)
VISUALLY STRIKING FILM OF THE YEAR
“The Brutalist” (A24)
“Dune: Half Two” (Warner Bros.)
“Nosferatu” (Focus Options)
“Nickel Boys” (Orion Photos/Amazon MGM Studios)
“The Substance” (Mubi)
CAMPIEST FLICK
“Lots of of Beavers” (Cineverse, Vinegar Syndrome)
“Madame Internet” (Sony)
“Megalopolis” (Lionsgate)
“The” Substance” (Mubi)
“Entice” (Warner Bros.)
‘WE’RE WILDE ABOUT YOU!’ RISING STAR AWARD
Jonathan Bailey
Vera Drew
Karla Sofía Gascón
Jack Haven
Mikey Madison
Katy O’Brian
Drew Starkey
WILDE ARTIST AWARD
To a very groundbreaking pressure in leisure
Colman Domingo
Luca Guadagnino
Coralie Fargeat
Jane Schoenbrun
Tilda Swinton
GALECA LGBTQIA+ FILM TRAILBLAZER
For creating artwork that conjures up empathy, reality and fairness
Vera Drew
Cynthia Erivo
Luca Guadagnino
Jane Schoenbrun
Julio Torres
TIMELESS STAR (Profession achievement award)
Honoring an exemplary profession marked by character, knowledge and with Demi Moore
