Thursday, June 17, 2021

GALECA Goes Small Screen


As mentioned with terrific pride on several occasions I became a member of GALECA, the guild for LGBTQ entertainment journalists and critics back in 2018 -- that's right, the year of Call Me By Your Name, which I loved so much I decided I had to lobby for it as hard as I could. Y'all know I'm not the biggest pusher of Awards Season narratives but I think our little group does a better job than most, and I think that's showcased in our just-dropped nominations for this year's TV Awards, which I've got for you below. 

This is the first year our Dorian Awards have been split up, with our Movie Awards happening during the usual Movie Awards Season and our TV Awards happening, well, now. And it makes sense to me -- pre-halfening the list of awards was hella long! This is much more manageable. There are a couple of shows I lobbied hard for this year that didn't make a dent at all (Raoul Peck's Exterminate All the Brutes, which I wrote about at Pajiba awhile back, is an absolute masterpiece that didn't get a single mention) or not much of a dent at all (just one nomination for shows like PEN15, The Underground Railroad, and blasphemies of blasphemies -- and bringing us back to my beginning with this guild -- Luca Guadagnino's We Are Who We Are, although I recognize that show was divisive... 

... but the haters are hella wrong). Still those last three shows did get mentioned, and Steve McQueen's Small Axe masterful miniseries got three nominations, and that's more than most of the TV academies will probably recognize those things. Plus plenty of love for It's a Sin and Hacks and Mare of Easttown, all predictable as far as these things go but excellent all the same. Our winners will be announced on August 29th, but for now hit the jump for the full list of nominees...

COMPLETE LIST OF DORIAN TV AWARD NOMINEES:



BEST TV DRAMA
Bridgerton
The Crown

Lovecraft Country
P-Valley
Pose

BEST TV COMEDY 

The Flight Attendant

Girls5eva
Hacks
PEN15
Ted Lasso

BEST LGBTQ SHOW

I May Destroy You
It's A Sin 
Love, Victor 
Pose
Veneno

BEST TV MOVIE OR MINISERIES

I May Destroy You
It’s a Sin
Mare of Easttown 
Small Axe
The Queen’s Gambit

BEST UNSUNG SHOW

A Black Lady Sketch 
Show
Girls5eva
Love, Victor 
Search Party
Veneno 
We Are Who We Are

BEST TV PERFORMANCE

Michaela Coel, I May Destroy You
Kaley Cuoco, The Flight Attendant
Thuso Mbedu, The Underground Railroad
Elizabeth Olsen, WandaVision
Billy Porter, Pose
MJ Rodriguez, Pose

Jean Smart, Hacks

Jason Sudeikis, Ted Lasso
Anya Taylor-Joy, The Queen's Gambit
Kate Winslet, Mare of Easttown

BEST SUPPORTING TV PERFORMANCE

Gillian Anderson, The Crown

John Boyega, Small Axe

Pappa Essiedu, I May Destroy You

Kathryn Hahn, WandaVision

Marielle Heller, The Queen's Gambit

Callum Scott Howells, It’s a Sin

Dominique Jackson, Pose
Julianne Nicholson, Mare of Easttown

Jean Smart, Mare of Easttown

Bowen Yang, Saturday Night Live

BEST TV MUSICAL PERFORMANCE

Lady Gaga, "The Star-Spangled Banner," Biden-Harris Inauguration
Jonathan Groff, "You’ll Be Back," Hamilton 
Kathryn Hahn, "Agatha All Along,” WandaVision

Elton John & Years & Years, "It’s a Sin,” BRIT Awards 2021

Punkie Johnson, Anya-Taylor Joy, Lil Nas X, Kate McKinnon, Bowen Yang, "Pride Month Song," Saturday Night Live
Bowen Yang (as The Iceberg That Sank the Titanic), “Loverboy,” Saturday Night Live 

BEST TV DOCUMENTARY OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES

Framing Britney Spears
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
Pretend It’s a City
Pride
Tina

BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS SHOW

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Amber Ruffin Show
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Ziwe

BEST ANIMATED SHOW

Big Mouth
Bob’s Burgers
Harley Quinn
Invincible
South Park: The Pandemic Special

BEST REALITY SHOW

Legendary
Nailed It
Queer Eye
RuPaul’s Drag Race
The Great British Bake Off

MOST VISUALLY STRIKING SHOW

Bridgerton
The Crown
Lovecraft Country
Pose
Small Axe
The Mandalorian
WandaVision

CAMPIEST TV SHOW

At Home with Amy Sedaris
Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square
Eurovision Song Contest
Ratched
WandaVision

WILDE WIT AWARD
(
To a performer, writer or commentator whose 
observations both challenge and amuse)
Michaela Coel

Kathryn Hahn

Fran Lebowitz

Randy Rainbow

Bowen Yang    

THE INAUGURAL “YOU DESERVE AN AWARD!” AWARD
(To a uniquely talented TV icon we adore)
Winner TBA

ABOUT GALECA
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ Dorian Awards, formed in 2009, go to all of film and TV, mainstream to LGBTQ, reminding bigots, bullies and at-risk youth that the world looks to the queer eye for leads on great and unique entertainment. The Society currently includes approximately 300 active journalists, and 20 culturally influential Advisory Board members, based in the U.S., Canada, Australia, U.K. and beyond. 


Please show your solidarity with underrepresented entertainment journalists by following @DorianAwards on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. 


For more information about the Society, visit GALECA.org


2 comments:

bdog said...

Ok Jason, I'm going to watch We Are Who We Are, b/c of you.
Also, until June 22nd, if you have Prime, you can get AMC+ and Paramount+ for 99cents a month for 2 months, so Gangs Of London, Kevin Can F*** Himself, Walking Dead World Beyond and Evil will be watched. Among others.

Anonymous said...

So excited to see Julianne Nicholson there! So good in Mare and such an underrated actress in general.

And look, I loved Bowen's iceberg bit as much as the next person, but Best Musical Performance? Seriously?