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Dorian Film Awards 2021...Winners...

GALECA Dorian Awards LogoThe Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA) has unveiled the nominations for the 2021 Dorian Film Awards...

Minari leads the way with six nominations, including best film and best foreign-language film, with the organization declaring "take that, Golden Globes," in reference to the awards show's controversial decision to place Minari in the foreign-language film category. Nomadland scored five nominations, including for best film, best director and screenplay (Chloé Zhao) and best actress (Frances McDormand) and Most Visually Striking Film.

The rest of the best film nominees are Promising Young Woman (four nods overall), First Cow and Sound of Metal (three nods apiece).

Zhao and the late Chadwick Boseman are both up for the group's Wilde Artist Award, with Boseman also nominated for best actor for his work in his last film, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. The other nominees for the Wilde Award, named for Oscar Wilde and given to a "groundbreaking force in entertainment," are Regina King (who made her feature directorial debut in 2020 with One Night in Miami), Dolly Parton and Elliot Page.

The winners will be celebrated in the Dorians Film Toast 2021 special set to air on queer platform Revry on April 18.

Nonprofit organization GALECA was launched in 2009 to explore and celebrate both mainstream and LGBTQ-centered content. Its 250-plus members are all active critics and journalists.


Dorian Film Awards 2021 

BEST FILM 
Nomadland (WINNER)
First Cow
Minari
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal

BEST LGBTQ FILM 
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (WINNER)
Ammonite
I Carry You With Me
Supernova
Uncle Frank
The Boys in the Band

BEST NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM 
Minari (WINNER)
Another Round
Bacurau
I Carry You With Me
La Llorona
Two of Us

BEST DIRECTOR
Chloé Zhao, Nomadland (WINNER)
Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
Kelly Reichardt, First Cow
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Regina King, One Night in Miami

BEST SCREENPLAY (original or adapted)
Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman (WINNER)
Chloe Zhao, Nomadland
Eliza Hittman, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Radha Blank, The Forty-Year-Old Version

BEST UNSUNG FILM
The Forty Year Old Version (WINNER)
Driveways
First Cow
Miss Juneteenth
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Shirley
The Assistant

BEST DOCUMENTARY (tie)
Welcome to Chechnya (WINNER)
Disclosure (WINNER)
Collective
Crip camp
Dick Johnson is Dead
Time

BEST LGBTQ DOCUMENTARY (also a tie) 
Disclosure (WINNER)
Welcome to Chechnya (WINNER)
A Secret Love
Born to Be
Mucho Mucho amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado

BEST FILM PERFORMANCE—ACTRESS
Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman (WINNER)
Frances McDormand, Nomadland
Nicole Beharie, Miss Juneteenth
Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

BEST FILM PERFORMANCE—ACTOR
Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (WINNER)
Anthony Hopkins, The Father
Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods
Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
Steven Yeun, Minari

BEST FILM PERFORMANCE—SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari (WINNER)
Amanda Seyfried, Mank
Candice Bergen, Let Them All Talk
Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Olivia Colman, The Father

BEST FILM PERFORMANCE—SUPPORTING ACTOR
Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah (WINNER)
Chadwick Boseman, Da 5 Bloods
Leslie Odom Jr., One Night in Miami
Paul raci, Sound of Metal
Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago 7

MOST VISUALLY STRIKING FILM 
Nomadland (WINNER)
Birds of Prey: and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
Mank
Soul
Wolfwalkers

CAMPIEST FLICK
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (WINNER)
Bad Hair
Birds of Prey: and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
The Prom
Wonder Woman 1984

“WE’RE WILDE ABOUT YOU!” RISING STAR AWARD
Radha Blank (WINNER)
Alan s. Kim
Kingsley Ben-adir
Maria Bakalova
Sidney Flanigan

WILDE ARTIST AWARD
To a truly groundbreaking force in entertainment
Dolly Parton (WINNER)
Chadwick Boseman
Chloe Zhao
Elliot Page
Regina King

GALECA Trailblazer Award (New! A special Board-picked accolade)
For creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity
Isabel Sandoval

TIMELESS STAR
Honoring an actor or performer whose exemplary career has been marked by character, wisdom and wit
Leslie Jordan