Colman Domingo and Vera Drew score big LGBTQ+ wins at the Gotham Awards

Awards Season kicked off in a major way last night with the announcement of the winners of the 2024 Gotham Awards!

Out actor Colman Domingo all but assured himself an Oscar nomination, and is gunning for a win for his role as a wrongfully incarcerated man named Divine G who finds purpose and community in his prison's theater group with his win for Outstanding Lead Performance in the movie Sing Sing.

Domingo beat out actors Pamela Anderson (The Last Showgirl), Adrian Brody (The Brutalist), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths), Nicole Kidman (Babygirl), Keith Kupferer (Ghostlight), Mikey Madison (Anora), Demi Moore (The Substance), Saoirse Ronan (The Outrun) and Justice Smith (I Saw the TV Glow).

Domingo's co-star Clarence Maclin also won the Outstanding Supporting Performance award, beating queer actors Brigette Lundy-Paine (I Saw the TV Glow) and Katy O'Brian (Love Lies Bleeding).

Domingo wasn't the only queer star who won at the Gotham Awards, trans director Vera Drew won Breakthrough Director for her film The People's Joker.

In her speech she thanked her parents for encouraging her to "make weird shit" and Warner Bros "for not suing me."She also thanked one of the Gotham Award nominees who had helped her come out decades earlier.

"Miss Kidman, I don't know where you're sitting, but when I was six years old I saw Batman Forever in the theater in Baraboo, Wisconsin, and it was probably the moment I realized I was trans, and I want to thank you for working with Joel Schumaker, and also god," she said.

The next major step in Awards Season is the Golden Globe nominations, which will be announced December 9.