Winners for the 15th Dorian Film Awards from GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics

By John Corrado

Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott in ALL OF US STRANGERS. Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2023 Searchlight Pictures All Rights Reserved.

Today, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (of which I am a member) has announced the winners of their 15th annual Dorian Film Awards, voted on by the critics group’s over five hundred members.

Andrew Haigh’s excellent queer drama All of Us Strangers took home the top awards for Film of the Year and LGBTQ Film of the Year (incidentally, the same two awards that Haynes’ breakout Weekend won back in 2011). Greta Gerwig was awarded Director of the Year for Barbie, while the two gender-neutral leading and supporting acting categories went to Lily Gladstone for Killers of the Flower Moon and Charles Melton for May December, respectively.

Finally, LGBTQ trailblazer and Nyad star Jodie Foster was selected as the recipient of the group’s Timeless Star career achievement award, “honoring an exemplary career marked by character, wisdom and wit.” The complete list of winners (including in the three new awards categories LGBTQ Screenplay of the Year, LGBTQ Non-English Language Film and Genre Film of the Year) is below.

Film of the Year:

🏆 All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Barbie (Warner Bros.)
May December (Netflix)
Past Lives (A24)
Poor Things (Searchlight)

LGBTQ Film of the Year:

🏆 All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Bottoms (MGM)
Passages (MUBI, SBS)
Rustin (Netflix)
Saltburn (Amazon MGM)

Director of the Year:

🏆 Greta Gerwig, Barbie (Warner Bros.)
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Todd Haynes, May December (Netflix)
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer (Universal)
Celine Song, Past Lives (A24)

Screenplay of the Year – Original or Adapted:

Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig, Barbie (Warner Bros.)
🏆 Samy Burch, May December (Netflix)
Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Arthur Harari, Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall (NEON)
Celine Song, Past Lives (A24)

LGBTQ Screenplay of the Year (New):

🏆 Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Arthur Harari, Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall (NEON)
Dustin Lance Black, Julian Breece, Rustin (Netflix)
Arlette Langmann, Ira Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias, Passages (MUBI)
Emma Seligman, Rachel Sennott, Bottoms (MGM)

Non-English Language Film of the Year:

🏆 Anatomy of a Fall (NEON)
The Boy and the Heron (GKIDS)
Godzilla Minus One (Toho)
Past Lives (A24)
The Zone of Interest (A24)

LGBTQ Non-English Language Film of the Year:

Afire (Janus Films, Sideshow)
🏆 Anatomy of a Fall (NEON)
Cassandro (Amazon MGM)
Monster (Well Go USA, Gaga, Toho)
Rotting in the Sun (MUBI)

Unsung Film of the Year – To an exceptional movie worthy of greater attention:

🏆 Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret (Lionsgate)
Monica (IFC)
Origin (NEON)
Theater Camp (Searchlight)
A Thousand and One (Focus Features)

Film Performance of the Year:

Colman Domingo, Rustin (Netflix)
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers (Focus Features)
🏆 Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple)
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall (NEON)
Greta Lee, Past Lives (A24)
Trace Lysette, Monica (IFC)
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer (Universal)
Natalie Portman, May December (Netflix)
Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Emma Stone, Poor Things (Searchlight)

Supporting Film Performance of the Year:

Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple (Warner Bros.)
Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer (Universal)
Jodie Foster, Nyad (Netflix)
Claire Foy, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Ryan Gosling, Barbie (Warner Bros.)
Rachel McAdams, Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret (Lionsgate)
🏆 Charles Melton, May December (Netflix)
Paul Mescal, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Rosamund Pike, Saltburn (Amazon MGM)
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers (Focus Features)

Documentary of the Year:

American Symphony (Netflix)
Beyond Utopia (Roadside Attractions, Fathom Events)
🏆 Kokomo City (Magnolia)
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (Apple)
20 Days in Mariupol (PBS Distribution)

LGBTQ Documentary of the Year:

Every Body (Focus Features)
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (HBO, Confluential Films)
🏆 Kokomo City (Magnolia)
Little Richard: I Am Everything (Magnolia)
Orlando, My Political Biography (Janus Film, Sideshow)

Animated Film of the Year:

🏆 The Boy and the Heron (GKIDS)
Elemental (Disney)
Nimona (Netflix, Annapurna)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (SONY)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Paramount)

Genre Film of the Year (New) – For excellence in science fiction, fantasy and horror:

All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)
Godzilla Minus One (Toho)
M3GAN (Universal)
🏆 Poor Things (Searchlight)
Talk To Me (A24)

Film Music of the Year:

🏆 Barbie — Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt, et al. (Warner Bros.)
The Boy and the Heron — Joe Hisaishi (GKIDS)
The Color Purple — Stephen Bray, Allee Willis, Brenda Russell, Kris Bowers, et al. (Warner Bros.)
Oppenheimer — Ludwig Göransson (Universal)
The Zone of Interest — Mica Levi (A24)