'Parasite' Sweeps Dorian Awards with Five Wins
Thursday, January 9, 2020 at 11:26AM
Murtada Elfadl in Antonio Banderas, Dorian Awards, Parasite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire

by Murtada Elfadl

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


 


 

 

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