Awards season 2021 is heating up by the day, and now The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA) has entered the race. Today, GALECA announced its nominations for the 2021 Dorian Film Awards, and it looks to be a direct call-out out to other awards shows.
From Minari sweeping the nominations – following its Golden Globes drama – to entering First Cow back into the race, the critics’ group is looking to make a big splash this season. Minari walked away with six nominations, followed by critical darling Nomadland with five. The late Chadwick Boseman also walked away with three nominations, one for “groundbreaking force in entertainment” in the Wilde Award.
“It’s not a surprise that the films that came out in 2020, one of the country’s most tumultuous years, are fascinating works that feel both deeply personal and subversively political,” says GALECA President Diane Anderson-Minshall. “And I’m thrilled that unlike some other critics groups, our members have not relegated Minari—one of the year’s most quintessentially American films—just to the foreign-language category. More than anything, Minari and Nomadland show what it means to live with autonomy and self-direction in America today.”
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.
Check out the full list of nominees below:
Best Film
First Cow
Minari
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
Best LGBTQ Film
Ammonite
I Carry You With Me
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Supernova
Uncle Frank
Best Foreign Language Film
Another Round
Bacurau
I Carry You With Me
La Llorona
Minari
Two of Us
Best Director
Chloe Zhao, NOMADLAND
Emerald Fennell, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Kelly Reichardt, FIRST COW
Lee Isaac Chung, MINARI
Regina King, ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
Best Screenplay (original or adapted)
Chloe Zhao, NOMADLAND
Eliza Hittman, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
Emerald Fennell, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Lee Isaac Chung, MINARI
Radha Blank, THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION
Best Unsung Film
Driveways
First Cow
Miss Juneteenth
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Shirley
The Assistant
Best Documentary
Collective
Crip Camp
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Disclosure: Trans Lives On Screen
Time
Welcome To Chechnya
Best LGBTQ Documentary
A Secret Love
Born To Be
Disclosure: Trans Lives On Screen
Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado
Welcome To Chechnya
Best Film Performance — Actress
Carey Mulligan, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Frances McDormand, NOMADLAND
Nicole Beharie, MISS JUNETEENTH
Sidney Flanigan, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
Viola Davis, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM
Best Film Performance — Actor
Anthony Hopkins, THE FATHER
Chadwick Boseman, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM
Delroy Lindo, DA 5 BLOODS
Riz Ahmed, SOUND OF METAL
Steven Yeun, MINARI
Best Film Performance — SUPPORTING Actress
Amanda Seyfried, MANK
Candice Begen, LET THEM ALL TALK
Marvia Bakalova, BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
Olivia Colman, THE FATHER
Yuh-Jung Young, MINARI
Best Film Performance — SUPPORTING Actor
Chadwick Boseman, DA 5 BLOODS
Daniel Kaluuya, JUDAS, AND THE BLACK MESSIAH
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
Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Mank
Nomadland
Soul
Wolfwalker
Campiest Flick
Bad Hair
Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
The Prom
Wonder Woman 1984
“We’re Wilde About You!” Rising Star Award
Alan S. Kim
Kingsley Ben-Adir
Maria Bakalova
Radha Blank
Sidney Flanigan
Wilde Artist Award
(to a truly groundbreaking force in entertainment)
Chadwick Boseman
Chloe Zhao
Dolly Parton
Elliot Page
Regina King
The winners of the 2021 Dorian Awards will be celebrated in the Dorians Film Toast 2021 special. The special will air on Revry on April 18th.
