'Schitt’s Creek' Tops Dorian TV Award Nominations

The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA) announced nominations for their inaugural Dorian TV Awards Tuesday, and Schitt's Creek leads with seven, including best TV comedy and best supporting TV performance for Dan Levy. Ryan Murphy's Netflix series Hollywood earned six nominations, followed by HBO's miniseries Watchmen and TV movie Bad Education with four nods each. Tiger King was appropriately nominated for the campiest TV show.

"With a global pandemic, severe economic strife, the gut-punches of racism and police brutality proverbially hitting us all--this might not seem like the right time for fluffy showbiz awards," said GALECA president and Pride Media CEO and Editorial Director Diane Anderson-Minshall. "But it may be more important than ever now to embrace and champion quality stories and push the real Hollywood's entitled writers, producers, executives and PR reps out of their bubble and into truly reflecting America's diversity for a change. They have so much power, and entertainment journalism groups like GALECA can make them accountable."

"Stereotypical, or worse, depictions of LGBTQs and People of Color have greatly contributed to the pain America is in right now," said GALECA Executive Director John Griffiths. "GALECA and its partner organization CGEM: Critics Groups for Equality in Media are determined to press media companies to take more responsibility and hire more underrepresented voices, voices that might say, 'Hey, why, in 2020, is every single character on this show white, rich and straight except for the Asian, Latinx or Black baddie/comic foil?'"

In addition to more traditional categories, the Dorians are also know for more off-the-wall awards such as the campiest TV show and the Wilde Wit Award honoring a performer, writer, or commentator who, like the award's namesake, can both challenge and amuse with his or her observations. The Dorians are named in homage to Wilde's classic character Dorian Gray.

Below is a complete list of the nominees.

BEST TV DRAMA

Better Call Saul (AMC)

Killing Eve (BBC America/AMC)

Ozark (Netflix)

The Crown (Netflix)

The Good Fight (CBS All Access)

BEST TV COMEDY

Better Things (FX)

Dead to Me (Netflix)

Insecure (HBO)

Schitt's Creek (Pop)

The Good Place (NBC)

What We Do in the Shadows (FX)

BEST TV MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES

Bad Education (HBO)

Little Fires Everywhere (Hulu)

Mrs. America (FX/Hulu)

Normal People (Hulu)

Watchmen (HBO)

BEST TV PERFORMANCE - ACTRESS

Christina Applegate, Dead to Me (Netflix)

Cate Blanchett, Mrs. America (FX/Hulu)

Linda Cardellini, Dead to Me (Netflix)

Jodie Comer, Killing Eve (BBC America/AMC)

Regina King, Watchmen (HBO)

Laura Linney, Ozark (Netflix)

Catherine O'Hara, Schitt's Creek (Pop)

BEST TV PERFORMANCE - ACTOR

Hugh Jackman, Bad Education (HBO)

Eugene Levy, Schitt's Creek (Pop)

Paul Mescal, Normal People (Hulu)

Jeremy Pope, Hollywood (Netflix)

Ramy Youssef, Ramy (Hulu)

BEST SUPPORTING TV PERFORMANCE - ACTRESS

Uzo Aduba, Mrs. America (FX/Hulu)

Julia Garner, Ozark (Netflix)

Allison Janney, Bad Education (HBO)

Patti LuPone, Hollywood (Netflix)

Annie Murphy, Schitt's Creek (Pop)

Jean Smart, Watchmen (HBO)

BEST SUPPORTING TV PERFORMANCE - ACTOR

Billy Crudup, The Morning Show (Apple TV+)

Harvey Guillen, What We Do in the Shadows (FX)

Dan Levy, Schitt's Creek (Pop)

Joe Mantello, Hollywood (Netflix)

Josh O'Connor, The Crown (Netflix)

Jim Parsons, Hollywood (Netflix)

BEST TV MUSICAL PERFORMANCE

Cynthia Erivo, "Stand Up", 92nd Academy Awards (ABC)

Jake Gyllenhaal, "Music, Music Everywhere!", John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch (Netflix)

Jennifer Lopez & Shakira, Halftime Show, Super Bowl LIV (Fox)

Janelle Monae & Billy Porter, Opening Number, 92nd Academy Awards (ABC)

Noah Reid, "Always Be My Baby", Schitt's Creek (Pop)

BEST LGBTQ TV SHOW

Bad Education (HBO)

Hollywood (Netflix)

RuPaul's Drag Race (VH1)

Schitt's Creek (Pop)

Vida (Starz)

We're Here (HBO)

Work in Progress (Showtime)

BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS PROGRAM

Cheer (Netflix)

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (Comedy Central)

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (TBS)

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC)

Visible: Out on Television (Apple TV+)

BEST UNSUNG TV SHOW

Everything's Gonna Be Okay (Freeform)

Gentefied (Netflix)

The Good Fight (CBS All Access)

Mrs. Fletcher (HBO)

One Day at a Time (Pop)

Vida (Starz)

What We Do in the Shadows (FX)

Work in Progress (Showtime)

MOST VISUALLY STRIKING SHOW

Hollywood (Netflix)

The Crown (Netflix)

The Mandalorian (Disney+)

Watchmen (HBO)

Westworld (HBO)

CAMPIEST TV SHOW

AJ and the Queen (Netflix)

Dolly Parton's Heartstrings (Netflix)

The Great (Hulu)

RuPaul's Drag Race (VH1)

Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (Netflix)

WILDE WIT AWARD

Dan Levy

Randy Rainbow

Hannah Gadsby

Cate Blanchett

Trevor Noah

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