'Parasite' Sweeps Dorian Awards with Five Wins
Thursday, January 9, 2020 at 11:26AM 
Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite dominated the winners list at the Dorian awards. The season’s front runner managed five wins, including Film of the Year, Director and Screenplay. Renée Zellweger took Performance of the Year—Actress for Judy, with Antonio Banderas the top choice in the Actor race in Pain and Glory. Jennifer Lopez (Hustlers) and Song Kang-ho (Parasite) won the Supporting awards. The Dorian Awards are handed out by GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, comprised of 260 mainly U.S. journalists covering film and television. Among the group’s unique and LGBTQ focused categories, Portrait of a Lady on Fire was named LGBTQ Film of the Year, while Cats was, of course, the choice for Campy Flick of the Year...
On the TV side Pose again won TV Drama of the Year and LGBTQ TV Drama, while its star Billy Porter took best actor. The show won all 3 awards last year as well. Fleabag won Comedy of the Year while its star Phoebe Waller Bridge triumphed as best Actress over stiff competition including Michelle Williams in Fosse/Verdon.
Lady Gaga won 2 awards; the special Wilde Artist of the Decade while her duet with Bradley Cooper on “Shallow” at last year’s Oscars was named the TV Musical Performance of the Year. Catharine O’Hara won the Lifetime Achievement Award or as GALECA calls it; Timeless Star. Here is the list of winners:
Film of the Year
*Parasite
Hustlers
Little Women
Once Upon a Time in … Hollywood
Pain and Glory
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Director of the Year
*Bong Joon-ho, Parasite
Pedro Almodovar, Pain and Glory
Greta Gerwig, Little Women
Sam Mendes, 1917
Celine Sciamma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Film Performance of the Year — Actress
*Renée Zellweger, Judy
Awkwafina, The Farewell
Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
Lupita Nyong’o, Us
Alfre Woodard, Clemency
Film Performance of the Year — Actor
*Antonio Banderas, Pain and Glory
Adam Driver, Marriage Story
Adam Sandler, Uncut Gems
Joaquin Phoenix, Joker
Taron Egerton, Rocketman
Film Performance of the Year — Supporting Actress
*Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers
Laura Dern, Marriage Story
Florence Pugh, Little Women
Margot Robbie, Bombshell
Zhao Shuzhen, The Farewell
Film Performance of the Year — Supporting Actor
*Song Kang-ho, Parasite
Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Al Pacino, The Irishman
Joe Pesci, The Irishman
Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time in … Hollywood
LGBTQ Film of the Year
*Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Booksmart
End of the Century
Pain and Glory
Rocketman
Foreign Language Film of the Year
*Parasite
Atlantics
Pain and Glory
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
The Farewell
Screenplay of the Year
*Bong Joon-ho, Han Jin-won, Parasite
Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story
Greta Gerwig, Little Women
Céline Sciamma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Rian Johnson, Knives Out
Documentary of the Year
*Honeyland
American Factory
Apollo 11
For Sama
One Child Nation
LGBTQ Documentary of the Year
*Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street
Circus of Books
Gay Chorus Deep South
The Gospel of Eureka
5B
Visually Striking Film of the Year ** TIE
*1917*
*Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Midsommar
The Lighthouse
Parasite
Unsung Film of the Year
*Booksmart
Her Smell
Gloria Bell
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Waves
Campy Flick of the Year
*Cats
Greta
Knives Out
Ma
Serenity
TV Drama of the Year
*Pose
Chernobyl
Euphoria
Succession
Unbelievable
TV Comedy of the Year
*Fleabag
The Other Two
PEN15
Russian Doll
Schitt’s Creek
TV Performance of the Year — Actor
*Billy Porter, Pose
Bill Hader, Barry
Dan Levy, Schitt’s Creek
Jharrel Jerome, When They See Us
Jeremy Strong, Succession
TV Performance of the Year — Actress
*Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag
Natasha Lyonne, Russian Doll
Catherine O’Hara, Schitt’s Creek
Mj Rodriguez, Pose
Michelle Williams, Fosse/Verdon
LGBTQ TV Show of the Year
*Pose
Euphoria
The Other Two
Schitt’s Creek
Tales of the City
Unsung TV Show of the Year
*The Other Two
Gentleman Jack
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
PEN15
Years and Years
TV Current Affairs Show of the Year
*Leaving Neverland
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
The Rachel Maddow Show
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV Musical Performance of the Year
*Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, “Shallow,” The 91st Academy Awards
Lizzo, "Truth Hurts,” VMAs 2019
Megan Mullally, “The Man That Got Away,” Will & Grace
Annie Murphy, “A Little Bit Alexis,” Schitt’s Creek
Michelle Williams, “Who’s Got the Pain?,” Fosse/Verdon
Campy TV Show of the Year
*The Politician
American Horror Story 1984
Big Little Lies
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Riverdale
The "We’re Wilde About You!" Rising Star Award
*Florence Pugh
Roman Griffin Davis
Kaitlyn Dever
Beanie Feldstein
Hunter Schafer
Wilde Wit of the Year
(Honoring a performer, writer or commentator whose observations both challenge and amuse)
*Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Dan Levy
Billy Porter
Randy Rainbow
Taika Waititi
Wilde Artist of the Decade (Special Accolade)
*Lady Gaga
Greta Gerwig
Ryan Murphy
Billy Porter
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Timeless Star (Career achievement award)
*Catherine O’Hara
Reader Comments (15)
Isn't this the group that nominated Michelle Pfeiffer for Mother?
They didn't exactly dig deep for interesting nominations this year, I guess. Has anyone?
JF -- yeah, there's not as much variance from other groups this year but there is still a lot more than other voting bodies. for instance the best picture list is quite different than other groups and the best actress list has both awkwafina AND woodard,
can these acting nominees be the ones for the oscars please
Booksmart is an "unsung" movie?
These acting categories would be GREAT Oscar nominations!
Justice for serenity!!
I'd like to tell everybody to see MURDER MYSTERY, Bong's truly authentic masterpiece.
Oh, well.
Now that evryone seem enthused with K-film, see THE YELLOW SEA, POETRY and MOTHER, too.
I think Phillips deserve that last spot. But if not him then Almodóvar and Greta, in that order. Waititi it's a NO for me.
I guess there was just no choice but Judy.
I meant MEMORIES OF MURDER. Damnit, KNIVES OUT.
shout out to Scream, Queen! Great film. If you get a chance to watch it, take it!
@ken s, Booksmart did underperform at the box office so maybe that's what they mean by undersung?
This Best Actress lineup is the best case scenario for the Oscars. I mean, you may not fancy Renée, but getting Oscar nods for Alfre, Awkwafina, and Lupita would be amazing. Fingers crossed.
"Who thanks their agents first? Me!" - going through my head all week
Disappointed that the queer critics group couldn't find any way to honor Schitt's Creek, favoring the wildly overrated Fleabag.
Schitts Creek is not only well done and hilarious, but it has opened conversations with my straight friends and family in ways that no other pop culture product ever has. Ever.
Mareko:
It's just that my idea of an undersung film are things like Sorry Angel or End of the Century or Sauvage/Wild, whose combined total box office probably doesn't add up to Booksmart's first week. I just think choosing Booksmart is kind of lazy.
I would KILL for this to be the eventual Oscar list:
Film Performance of the Year — Supporting Actress
*Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers
Laura Dern, Marriage Story
Florence Pugh, Little Women
Margot Robbie, Bombshell
Zhao Shuzhen, The Farewell
Hooray for Catherine O'Hara!