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On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 — The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association (GALECA) today announced their number-one choices for the best in film and television of 2012.

The group’s Dorian Award for Film of the Year went to director Ben Affleck’s fact-based C.I.A. adventure, Argo (Warner Bros.). Daniel Day-Lewis won Film Performance of the Year — Actor for his robust portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln. Anne Hathaway was chosen in the female Performance of the Year category for her singing turn as Fantine in the movie version of Les Miserables.

GALECA’s members deemed Ezra Miller worthy of their We’re Wilde About You Rising Star honor for his portrayal of a bullied gay teen in The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Summit). LGBT Film of the Year? Director Ira Sachs’ edgy NYC romance Keep the Lights On (Music Box).

In the more unusual film categories, the comic drama Bernie, starring Jack Black as a murderous — but supernice — funeral director, was named Unsung Film of the Year. Channing Tatum’s guy-strippers melodrama Magic Mike and the Zac Efron-starring potboiler The Paperboy tied for the group’s novel Campy Film of the Year title.

On the TV side, the FX network’s wild ghosts tale American Horror Story won for TV Drama of the Year for the second straight year (Story’s “Asylum” edition tied in the category with Showtime’s conspiracy thriller Homeland). The chiller’s star, Jessica Lange, won TV Performance of the Year a second time as well. HBO’s freshman season of the edgy 20-somethings tale Girls won TV Comedy of the Year, while ABC’s Modern Family and NBC’s freshman gay-life satire The New Normal tied for LGBT TV Show of the Year. In the TV Musical Performance race, Jennifer Hudson bested rivals from Smash and Glee to win for her stirring tribute to Whitney Huston on the Grammys. Campy TV Show of the Year honors went to Lifetime’s biopic Liz & Dick, and the Unsung TV Show award was given to ABC’s loony comedy Happy Endings.

In new categories, GALECA named Ryan Murphy, co-creator of American Horror Story, The New Normal and other seminal TV hits, as Wilde Artist of the Year. Fox’s Life of Pi was the group’s pick for Visually Striking Film of the Year. As for TV or Movie Title of the Year, Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 bested the likes of I Was Impaled and It’s Christmas, Carol! for that silly, er, title.

The complete list of Dorian Award winners is below. A celebratory toast will be held Sunday, February 17 in Los Angeles. Winners and their representatives are welcome to attend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ABOUT GALECA and the DORIAN AWARDS:
The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association (GALECA), founded in 2008, is comprised of 80 established film and TV critics and entertainment journalists who cover those fields for recognized media outlets across America and the United Kingdom. Our members write or report for the likes of TV Guide, Us Weekly, Entertainment Weekly, Movies.com, ETOnline, The Advocate, Out, The Huffington Post, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, major TV network affiliates, and regional titles such as The Boston Globe, San Jose Mercury News, Frontiers L.A. and InsideOut Nashville. With Oscar Wilde as their patron saint, the group’s collective experience continues to offer society a unique and cherished perspective on popular culture. GALECA is home to the annual Dorian Awards, which honor movies and TV programs of all types. Overall, GALECA’s aim is to generate camaraderie in an unsettling media environment, to preserve and champion the crafts of criticism and entertainment journalism, and to help elevate the screen arts and culture at large. For more information, visit http://www.galeca.com also like them at: https://www.facebook.com/galecadorianawards

Source: GALECA

The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association Announces The Dorian Award nominees for 2012

On Wednesday, January 9, 2013, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association have announced their Dorian Award nominees for 2012′s best in film and television across 20 categories, including Visually Striking Film of the Year, Campy Flick of the Year, TV Musical Performance of the Year and LGBT TV Show of the Year. In addition, Sir Ian McKellen is this year’s recipient of GALECA’s Timeless Award.

Winners will be announced Wednesday, January 16.

See list of all the nominees below:

THE GAY AND LESBIAN ENTERTAINMENT CRITICS ASSOCIATION DORIAN AWARD NOMINEES: 

FILM OF THE YEAR 
Argo (Warner Bros.)

Beasts of the Southern Wild (Fox Searchlight)

Keep the Lights On (Music Box)

Les Miserables (Universal)

Lincoln (DreamWorks/Touchstone)

Moonrise Kingdom (Focus)

 

FILM PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR – ACTOR
Alan Cumming / Any Day Now (Music Box)

Bradley Cooper / Silver Linings Playbook (Weinstein)

Daniel Day-Lewis / Lincoln (DreamWorks/Touchstone)

Hugh Jackman / Les Miserables (Universal)

Joaquin Phoenix / The Master (Weinstein)

John Hawkes / The Sessions (Fox Searchlight)

 

FILM PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR – ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway / Les Miserables (Universal)

Emmanuelle Riva / Amour (Sony Pictures Classics)

Jennifer Lawrence / Silver Linings Playbook (Weinstein)

Jessica Chastain / Zero Dark Thirty (Sony/Columbia)

Marion Cotillard / Rust and Bone (Sony Pictures Classics)

 

LGBT FILM OF THE YEAR
Any Day Now (Music Box)

Cloud Atlas (Warner Bros.)

Gayby (Wolfe Releasing/The Film Collaborative)

Keep the Lights On (Music Box)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Summit/Lionsgate)

 

DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (IFC)

Bully (Weinstein)

Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel (Samuel Goldwyn)

How to Survive a Plague (Sundance Selects)

The Invisible War (Cinedigm)

The Queen of Versailles (Magnolia)

 

VISUALLY STRIKING FILM OF THE YEAR
(honoring a production of stunning beauty, from art direction to cinematography)

Anna Karenina (Focus)

Cloud Atlas (Warner Bros.)

Les Miserables (Universal)

Life of Pi (Fox)

Moonrise Kingdom (Focus)

 

CAMPY FLICK OF THE YEAR
2016: Obama’s America (Rocky Mountain)

Cloud Atlas (Warner Bros.)

Magic Mike (Warner Bros.)

The Paperboy (Millennium)

Pitch Perfect (Universal)

Rock of Ages (Warner Bros./New Line)

 

UNSUNG FILM OF THE YEAR
Bernie (Millennium)

The Cabin in the Woods (Lionsgate)

Chronicle (Fox)

Holy Motors (Indomina)

Looper (Sony)

Your Sister’s Sister (IFC)

 

TV DRAMA OF THE YEAR
American Horror Story: Asylum (FX)

Breaking Bad (AMC)

Game of Thrones (HBO)

Homeland (Showtime)

Mad Men (AMC)

 

TV COMEDY OF THE YEAR
The Big Bang Theory (CBS)

Girls (HBO)

Happy Endings (ABC)

Louie (FX)

Modern Family (ABC)

 

TV PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR – ACTOR
Aaron Paul / Breaking Bad (AMC)

Damian Lewis / Homeland (Showtime)

Jesse Tyler Ferguson / Modern Family (ABC)

Jim Parsons / The Big Bang Theory (CBS)

Jon Hamm / Mad Men (AMC)

 

TV PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR – ACTRESS 
Claire Danes / Homeland (Showtime)

Jessica Lange / American Horror Story: Asylum (FX)

Julianne Moore / Game Change (HBO)

Edie Falco / Nurse Jackie (Showtime)

Lena Dunham / Girls (HBO)

Sofia Vergara / Modern Family (ABC)

 

TV MUSICAL PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR 
Darren Criss, “Teenage Dream,” Glee (Fox)

De’Borah Garner, The Fray’s “You Found Me,” The Voice (NBC)

Jennifer Hudson, Tribute to Whitney Houston, The Grammys (CBS)

Megan Hilty and Katherine McPhee, “Let Me Be Your Star,” Smash (NBC)

Raza Jaffrey, Katharine McPhee and cast: “A Thousand and One Nights,” Smash (NBC)

 

LGBT TV SHOW OF THE YEAR
American Horror Story: Asylum (FX)

Happy Endings (ABC)

Modern Family (ABC)

The New Normal (NBC)

Smash (NBC)

 

CAMPY TV SHOW OF THE YEAR
666 Park Avenue (ABC)

American Horror Story: Asylum (FX)

GCB (ABC)

Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (TLC)

Liz & Dick (Lifetime)

Smash (NBC)

 

UNSUNG TV SHOW OF THE YEAR 
Bunheads (ABC Family)

Catfish (MTV)

Fringe (FX)

GCB (ABC)

Happy Endings (ABC)

Parenthood (NBC)

 

TV OR MOVIE TITLE OF THE YEAR
Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23 (ABC)

GCB (ABC)

I Was Impaled (Discovery Fit & Health)

I’m Having Their Baby (Oxygen)

It’s Christmas, Carol! (Hallmark Channel)

 

WE’RE WILDE ABOUT YOU (NEWCOMER AWARD)
Andrew Rannells

Anna Camp

Ben Whishaw

Eddie Redmayne

Ezra Miller

 

WILDE WIT OF THE YEAR
(honoring a performer, writer or commentator whose observations both challenge and amuse)

Bill Maher

Chelsea Handler

Jon Stewart

Lena Dunham

Sarah Silverman

Stephen Colbert

 

WILDE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
(honoring a truly groundbreaking force in the fields of film, theatre and/or television)

Lena Dunham

Louis C.K.

Ryan Murphy

Tony Kushner

Tig Notaro

 

TIMELESS AWARD
(honoring an actor or performer whose exemplary career has been marked by character, wisdom and wit)

Sir Ian McKellen

 

About GALECA:
The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, founded in 2008 by Us Weekly television critic John Griffiths, is comprised of over 80 established film and TV critics and entertainment journalists who cover those fields for recognized media outlets across America and the United Kingdom. Our members write or report for the likes of TV Guide, Us Weekly, Entertainment Weekly, Movies.com, ETOnline, The Advocate, Out, The Huffington Post, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, major TV network affiliates, and regional titles such as The Boston Globe, San Jose Mercury News, Frontiers L.A. and InsideOut Nashville. GALECA is home to the annual Dorian Awards, which honor movies and TV programs of all types. Overall, GALECA’s aim is to generate camaraderie in an unsettling media environment, to preserve and champion the crafts of criticism and entertainment journalism, and to help elevate the screen arts and culture at large. For more information, please visit: galeca.com and facebook.com/galecadorianawards

Editor’s Note: Congratulations to all the Galeca nominees and we wish good luck.

We Will Always Love You: A Grammy Salute To Whitney Houston to air Friday, Nov. 16 on CBS

YOLANDA ADAMS, CELINE DION, JENNIFER HUDSON, USHER AND CECE WINANS PERFORM ON ”WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU: A GRAMMY^®SALUTE TO WHITNEY HOUSTON.

Halle Berry, Taraji P. Henson, LL COOL J, and Britney Spears to Present Special Clips of Performances and Interviews.

“We Will Always Love You: A GRAMMY^®Salute To Whitney Houston” is set to air this Friday, Nov. 16 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on the CBS Television Network (www.cbs.com). The special, which was taped last month at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE.

Four-time GRAMMY® Award winner Yolanda Adams and 10-time GRAMMY® Award winner CeCe Winans are the latest performers announced for WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU: A GRAMMY® SALUTE TO WHITNEY HOUSTON.  They join previously announced five-time GRAMMY® Award winner Celine Dion, GRAMMY and Academy Award® winner Jennifer Hudson, and seven-time GRAMMY® Award winner Usher for the one-hour special. The show will celebrate Houston’s life and artistry through performances and interviews with various artists paying homage to the six-time GRAMMY® Award winner, and will include Houston’s own most memorable performances of her career.


WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU will include highlights of nearly all of Houston’s GRAMMY® broadcast performances, her classic performance of the national anthem at Super Bowl XXV in 1991 and her first-ever television appearance on “The Merv Griffin Show” in the early ‘80s, among other iconic performances and exclusive interviews. The special will also feature other artists sharing their memories of Houston, as well as additional highlights of her career.

The first-ever definitive single disc collection of Houston’s greatest hits, I Will Always Love You — The Best Of Whitney Houston, will be released on Tuesday, Nov. 13 and feature 18 tracks, including two never-before-released songs. Additionally, an official Houston photo tribute book, Whitney: Tribute To An Icon, will be available for sale on Tuesday, Nov. 27.

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“Whitney! Celebrating the Musical Legacy of Whitney Houston” is a current GRAMMY Museum® exhibit that explores the extraordinary life and career of the six-time GRAMMY Award® winner, and provides an in-depth look at all aspects of Houston’s creative life. Presented in conjunction with the Houston family, the collection features diverse artifacts as well as rare photographs and footage, and includes dozens of items from the private collection of the Houston family. “Whitney!” will be on display in The GRAMMY Museum’s® Special Exhibits Gallery through February 2013.

Houston was one of the biggest pop stars — male or female — of all time, selling a combined 170 million albums, songs and videos, and garnering six GRAMMY and two Emmy Awards, among countless other awards and accolades. She graced the GRAMMY® Stage eight times over the years — one of a few artists to have had the distinction of performing the most times on the annual broadcast. Most recently, she appeared as a presenter at the 51st Annual GRAMMY® Awards in 2009 (ultimately presenting Jennifer Hudson with her first GRAMMY® Award, for Best R&B Album).

WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU: A GRAMMY® SALUTE TO WHITNEY HOUSTON is produced by AEG Ehrlich Ventures, LLC. Ken Ehrlich is the executive producer. Louis J. Horvitz is director. Clive Davis, Tom Corson, and Kevin Beisler are producers.

About The Recording Academy:
Established in 1957, The Recording Academy is an organization of musicians, songwriters, producers, engineers and recording professionals that is dedicated to improving the cultural condition and quality of life for music and its makers. Internationally known for the GRAMMY Awards — the preeminent peer-recognized award for musical excellence and the most credible brand in music — The Recording Academy is responsible for groundbreaking professional development, cultural enrichment, advocacy, education and human services programs. The Academy continues to focus on its mission of recognizing musical excellence, advocating for the well-being of music makers and ensuring music remains an indelible part of our culture. For more information about The Academy, please visit www.grammy.com.

Sources: The Recording Academy, CBS
Photos credit to: Cliff Lipson,  Francis Specker/CBS

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