Dorian Awards

Dorian Awards
Country	United States
Presented by	GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics
First award	2009; 16 years ago (2009)
Website	galeca.org

The Dorian Awards are general and LGBTQ-themed accolades for excellence in film, television and Broadway / Off-Broadway, as voted by the members of GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics. GALECA is an association of professional journalists and critics who regularly report on movies, TV and/or New York City stage productions for print, online, and broadcast outlets mainly in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. The group was founded in 2009 as the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association. As of February 2025, the organization listed approximately 540 members, including those on its advisory board.^[1]

The Dorian Award is named in honor of Oscar Wilde, in reference to the main character from his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the honor's logo includes an illustration of Wilde.

Various versions of the physical award over the years include a framed certificate, a giant cue-card, and a small canvas print showing an illustrated portrait of the winner or a memorable scene from the awarded project.^[2][3] During GALECA's Dorians Film Toast 2021 (airing April 18, 2021 on the streaming platform Revry), actress Carey Mulligan, in accepting the group's best actress award for her work in Promising Young Woman, said her Dorian "might be the coolest prize I've ever seen." ^[4]