Pop Goes The News – Everything Everywhere All at Once has almost swept the 14th Dorian Film Awards.
Members of GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics chose it as Film of the Year and LGBTQ Film of the Year and recognized Michelle Yeoh with Film Performance of the Year and Ke Huy Quan for Supporting Film Performance of the Year.
Yeoh will also received the Wilde Artist Award, given to “a truly groundbreaking force in film, theatre and/or television.”
Stephanie Hsu was honoured as the Rising Star of the Year.
Everything was also named the Visually Striking Film of the Year and earned directing and screenplay awards for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.
Other Dorian Film Awards winners announced on Feb. 23 include RRR as Non-English Language Film of the Year and Aftersun as Unsung Film of the Year – an award that recognizes “an exceptional movie worthy of greater attention.”
The Animated Film of the Year is Marcel the Shell with Shoes On and Pearl was named Campiest Flick of the Year. Hildur Guðnadóttir’s Tár score earned Film Music of the Year.
Laura Poitra’s documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed won Documentary of the Year and LGBTQ Documentary of the Year.
Janelle Monáe, who gave a memorable performance in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, was named the winner of the GALECA LGBTQIA+ Film Trailblazer Award.
GALECA, which has more than 400 members, is significantly bigger than the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which hands out the Golden Globes.
Canada was represented in the nominations this year by Sarah Polley, who was up for both Director and Screenplay of the Year (for the made-in-Ontario drama Women Talking) and Brendan Fraser, who was nominated for Film Performance of the Year (for The Whale). Avatar: The Way of Water, directed by Canada’s James Cameron, was vying for Visually Striking Film of the Year.
“How great is that the movies are back, from big, exciting blockbuster to personal and quirky stories that hit home for all types of cinema fans?,” said executive director John Griffiths, in a release. “No matter what’s going on in the mind of a certain Florida governor and his ilk, the best movies, and TV too, will only continue to reflect what’s going on in the real world – and parallel ones too.
“Looking at our nominees and winners, you can let out a nice, deep breath.”
14TH DORIAN FILM AWARDS WINNERS LIST
Film of the Year
Aftersun
The Banshees of Inisherin
* Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Tár
LGBTQ Film of the Year
Benediction
Bros
* Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Inspection
Tár
Director of the Year
Todd Field, Tár
* Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Sarah Polley, Women Talking
Charlotte Wells, Aftersun
Screenplay of the Year
Todd Field, Tár
* Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Sarah Polley, Women Talking
Charlotte Wells, Aftersun
Non-English Language Film of the Year
All Quiet on the Western Front
Close
Decision to Leave
EO
* RRR
Unsung Film of the Year
* Aftersun
After Yang
Benediction
The Eternal Daughter
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
The Menu
Emily the Criminal
Film Performance of the Year
Cate Blanchett, Tár
Austin Butler, Elvis
Viola Davis, The Woman King
Danielle Deadwyler, Till
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser, The Whale
Mia Goth, Pearl
Paul Mescal, Aftersun
Jeremy Pope, The Inspection
* Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Supporting Film Performance of the Year
Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Hong Chau, The Whale
Jaime Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Dolly De Leon, Triangle of Sadness
Nina Hoss, Tár
Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
Janelle Monáe, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Keke Palmer, Nope
* Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Documentary of the Year
* All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Fire of Love
Good Night Oppy
Moonage Daydream
Navalny
LGBTQ Documentary of the Year
* All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Framing Agnes
Moonage Daydream
Nelly & Nadine
Sirens
Animated Film of the Year
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
* Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Turning Red
Wendell & Wild
Film Music of the Year
Babylon – score by Justin Hurvitz
Elvis – score and music production by Elliott Wheeler; the music of Elvis Presley; various artists
RRR – score by M.M. Keeravani
* Tár – score and curation by Hildur Guðnadóttir
Women Talking – score by Hildur Guðnadóttir
Visually Striking Film of the Year
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
* Everything Everywhere All at Once
Nope
RRR
Campiest Flick of the Year
Babylon
Bodies Bodies Bodies
Elvis
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
* Pearl
RRR
Rising Star Award
Austin Butler
Frankie Corio
* Stephanie Hsu
Gabriel LaBelle
Jenna Ortega
Jeremy Pope
Wilde Artist Award
Cate Blanchett
Billy Eichner
Janelle Monáe
Keke Palmer
* Michelle Yeoh
GALECA LGBTQIA+ Film Trailblazer Award
* Janelle Monáe
The editor of Pop Goes The News is a member of GALECA and a Dorian Film Awards voter.