LGBTQ+ critics love “The Substance.” We mean, really love “The Substance.” Coraline Fargeat’s Best Picture nominee took four honors from GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ 2025 Dorian Awards including Film of the Year, Director of the Year, and Demi Moore for Performance of the Year. The screen icon also took the Timeless Star Award – essentially the organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Other winners included “I Saw the TV Glow” taking LGBTQ Film of the Year and its director, Jane Schoenbrun, winning LGBTQ Screenplay of the Year. ️Justin Kuritzkes recieved the overall Screenplay of the Year award for “Challengers.”
Ariana Grande beat out a super competitive field for the Supporting Performance of the Year for “Wicked.”
“I’m Still Here” won the Non-English Film of the Year while “Emilia Perez” took the LGBTQ Non-English Film of the Year among a questionable field of nominees. “Flow” won Animated Film of the Year while “Will & Harper” took both Documentary of the Year and LGBTQ Documentary of the Year.
“Problemista” won Unsung Film of the Year.
Traditonally, the Dorian Awards are celebrated with a toast in Los Angeles. That was canceled this season out of respect for the recovery from the Los Angeles wildfires.
A complete list of this year’s nominees and winners including categories we really wish the Dorians would rid of, are as follows:
FILM OF THE YEAR
Anora (Neon)
Challengers (Amazon MGM Studios)
I Saw the TV Glow (A24)
Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)
️The Substance (Mubi) – ***WINNER***
LGBTQ FILM OF THE YEAR
Challengers (Amazon MGM Studios)
Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
️I Saw the TV Glow (A24) – ***WINNER***
Love Lies Bleeding (A24)
Queer (A24)
DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist (A24)
️Coralie Fargeat, The Substance (Mubi) – ***WINNER***
Luca Guadagnino, Challengers (Amazon MGM Studios)
RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)
Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow (A24)
SCREENPLAY OF THE YEAR
Sean Baker, Anora (Neon)
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance (Mubi)
️Justin Kuritzkes, Challengers (Amazon MGM Studios) – ***WINNER***
Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow (A24)
Peter Straughan, Conclave (Focus Features)
LGBTQ SCREENPLAY OF THE YEAR
Rose Glass and Weronika Tofilska, Love Lies Bleeding (A24)
Justin Kuritzkes, Challengers (Amazon MGM Studios)
Justin Kuritzkes, Queer (A24)
️Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow (A24) – WINNER
Julio Torres, Problemista (A24)
NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
All We Imagine as Light (Sideshow / Janus Films)
Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
Flow (Sideshow / Janus Films)
️I’m Still Here (Sony Pictures Classics) – ***WINNER***
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Neon)
LGBTQ NON-ENGLISH FILM OF THE YEAR
Crossing (Mubi)
️Emilia Pérez (Netflix) – ***WINNER***
Queendom (Greenwich Entertainment)
Vermiglio (Sideshow / Janus Films)
All Shall Be Well (Strand Releasing)
UNSUNG FILM OF THE YEAR
—To an exceptional movie worthy of greater attention
Didi (Focus Features)
Hundreds of Beavers (Cineverse, Vinegar Syndrome)
My Old Ass (Amazon MGM Studios)
️Problemista (A24) – ***WINNER***
Thelma (Magnolia)
UNSUNG LGBTQ FILM OF THE YEAR
Femme (Utopia)
My Old Ass (Amazon MGM Studios)
National Anthem (Variance, LD Entertainment)
️The People’s Joker (Altered Innocence) – ***WINNER***
Problemista (A24)
FILM PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist (A24)
Daniel Craig, Queer (A24)
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing (A24)
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked (Universal)
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths (Bleecker Street)
Nicole Kidman, Babygirl (A24)
Mikey Madison, Anora (Neon)
️Demi Moore, The Substance (Mubi) – ***WINNER***
Justice Smith, I Saw the TV Glow (A24)
SUPPORTING FILM PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
Michele Austin, Hard Truths (Bleecker Street)
Yura Borisov, Anora (Neon)
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain (Searchlight Pictures)
️Ariana Grande, Wicked (Universal) – ***WINNER***
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)
Jack Haven, I Saw the TV Glow (A24)
Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing (A24)
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist (A24)
Margaret Qualley, The Substance (Mubi)
Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR
Dahomey (Mubi)
Daughters (Netflix)
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin (Netflix)
Sugarcane (National Geographic)
️Will & Harper (Netflix) – ***WINNER***
LGBTQ DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR
Chasing Chasing Amy (Level 33)
Frida (Amazon MGM Studios)
Merchant Ivory (Cohen Media Group)
Queendom (Greenwich Entertainment)
️Will & Harper (Netflix) – ***WINNER***
ANIMATED FILM OF THE YEAR
️Flow (Sideshow / Janus Films) – ***WINNER***
Inside Out 2 (Disney)
Memoir of a Snail (IFC Films)
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Netflix)
The Wild Robot (Universal, DreamWorks)
GENRE FILM OF THE YEAR
Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.)
I Saw the TV Glow (A24)
Nosferatu (Focus Features)
️The Substance (Mubi) – ***WINNER***
Wicked (Universal)
FILM MUSIC OF THE YEAR
The Brutalist (A24) – Daniel Blumberg
️Challengers (Amazon MGM Studios) – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – ***WINNER***
Emilia Pérez (Netflix) – Clément Ducol and Camille
I Saw the TV Glow (A24) – Alex G
Wicked (Universal) – John Powell and Stephen Schwartz, et al.
VISUALLY STRIKING FILM OF THE YEAR
The Brutalist (A24)
Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.)
Nosferatu (Focus Features)
️Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios) – ***WINNER***
The Substance (Mubi)
CAMPIEST FLICK
Hundreds of Beavers (Cineverse, Vinegar Syndrome)
Madame Web (Sony)
Megalopolis (Lionsgate)
️The Substance (Mubi) – ***WINNER***
Trap (Warner Bros.)
“WE’RE WILDE ABOUT YOU!” RISING STAR AWARD
️Jonathan Bailey – ***WINNER***
Vera Drew
Karla Sofía Gascón
Jack Haven
Mikey Madison
Katy O’Brian
Drew Starkey
WILDE ARTIST AWARD
️Colman Domingo – ***WINNER***
Luca Guadagnino
Coralie Fargeat
Jane Schoenbrun
Tilda Swinton
GALECA LGBTQIA+ FILM TRAILBLAZER
Vera Drew
️Cynthia Erivo – ***WINNER***
Luca Guadagnino
Jane Schoenbrun
Julio Torres
TIMELESS STAR (Career Achievement Award)
️ Demi Moore
