Darren Criss, Lena Dunham, Alan Cumming
and Andrew Rannells are among those nominated for a Dorian Award.
Nominations for the Gay & Lesbian
Entertainment Critics' (GALECA) fourth annual Dorian
Awards were announced on Wednesday.
Five films are competing in the LGBT
Film of the Year Category: Any Day Now, Cloud Atlas, Gayby, Keep
the Lights On and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Nominees for best LGBT television show
are American Horror Story, Happy Endings, Modern Family, The New
Normal and Smash.
In the Wilde Artist of the Year
category, Lena Dunham, Louis C.K., Ryan Murphy, Tony Kushner and Tig
Notaro have been nominated.
Best actor in a film nominees include
Alan Cumming (Any Day Now),
Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook), Daniel Day-Lewis
(Lincoln), Hugh Jackman (Les Miserables), Joaquin
Phoenix (The Master) and John Hawkes (The Sessions).
Best actress in a film nominees include
Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables), Emmanuella Riva (Amour),
Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook), Jessica Chastain
(Zero Dark Thirty) and Marion Cotillard (Rust and Bone).
Best actor in a television show
nominees include Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad), Damian Lewis
(Homeland), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family), Jim
Parsons (The Big Bang Theory) and Jon Hamm (Mad Men).
Best actress in a television show
nominees include Claire Danes (Homeland), Jessica Lange
(American Horror Story), Julianne Moore (Game Change),
Edie Falco (Nurse Jackie), Lena Dunham (Girls) and
Sofia Vergara (Modern Family).
Darren Criss has been nominated in the
TV Musical Performance of the Year Category for his performance of
Teenage Dream on Fox's Glee. Also nominated are
De'Borah Garner (You Found Me, The Voice), Jennifer
Hudson (tribute to Whitney Houston, The Grammys), Megan Hilty and
Katherine McPhee (Let Me Be Your Star, Smash), Raza
Jaffrey, Katherine McPhee and cast (A Thousand and One Nights,
Smash.)
In the group's Newcomer Award, nominees
include Andrew Rannells, Anna Camp, Ben Whishaw, Eddie Redmayne and
Ezra Miller.
Winners will be announced on January
16.