GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics has announced the winners of its 18th Dorian TV Awards, and Heated Rivalry and Hacks topped the pack.
Heated Rivalry, HBO Max’s hockey romance that turned into one of the year’s breakout hits, won both Best TV Drama and Best LGBTQ TV Show. Star François Arnaud took Best Supporting TV Performance — Drama for his role as a closeted veteran hockey player who comes out on the ice, and series creator Jacob Tierney was named this year’s GALECA LGBTQIA+ TV Trailblazer.
Hacks, a longtime favorite with GALECA voters, won Best TV Comedy and Best Written TV Show for its fifth and final season. Jean Smart took Best TV Performance — Comedy for the third year in a row, and co-star Hannah Einbinder picked up the group’s Wilde Wit Award.
Apple TV had a strong night courtesy of two of its new series. Rhea Seehorn won Best TV Performance — Drama for the post-apocalyptic drama Pluribus, which also tied with FX’s Alien: Earth for Most Visually Striking TV Show. Widow’s Bay took Best Genre TV Show, and Kate O’Flynn won Best Supporting TV Performance — Comedy for her role in it.
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX halftime show won Best TV Musical Performance, beating out Sabrina Carpenter’s Muppets duet and Audra McDonald’s Tony Awards number. The Traitors won Best Reality Show for the third consecutive year, and Netflix’s The Hunting Wives was named Campiest TV Show.
Elsewhere, Richard Gadd’s Half Man won Best TV Movie or Limited Series, Boots took Best Unsung TV Show, and Squid Game won Best Non-English Language TV Show. South Park won Best Animated Show, and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert took Best Current Affairs Show.
In career honors, Lisa Kudrow was named a GALECA TV Icon for her performance in The Comeback‘s final season.
GALECA’s Dorian Awards recognize the best in television and streaming, from mainstream to queer-themed programming. The group has more than 580 members.
Full list of winners below.
BEST TV DRAMA
[winner] — Heated Rivalry (HBO Max)
Industry (HBO Max)
The Gilded Age (HBO Max)
Pluribus (Apple TV)
The Pitt (HBO Max)
BEST TV COMEDY
Abbott Elementary (ABC)
The Comeback (HBO Max)
[winner] — Hacks (HBO Max)
Shrinking (Apple TV)
Widow’s Bay (Apple TV)
BEST LGBTQ TV SHOW
The Comeback (HBO Max)
Hacks (HBO Max)
Half Man (HBO Max)
[winner] — Heated Rivalry (HBO Max)
Pluribus (Apple TV)
BEST TV MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES
All Her Fault (Peacock)
Beef (Netflix)
DTF St. Louis (HBO Max)
[winner] — Half Man (HBO Max)
Love Story (FX/Hulu)
BEST NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE TV SHOW
Blossoms of Shanghai (Criterion Channel)
Dan Da Dan (Netflix)
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End (Crunchyroll)
Mussolini: Son of the Century (Mubi)
[winner] — Squid Game (Netflix)
The Summer Hikaru Died (Netflix)
BEST LGBTQ NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE TV SHOW
[winner] — The Boyfriend (Netflix)
Chosen Home (Netflix)
Go for It, Nakamura-kun! (Crunchyroll)
The Summer Hikaru Died (Netflix)
Tremembé (Amazon MGM)
BEST WRITTEN TV SHOW
The Comeback (HBO Max)
[winner] — Hacks (HBO Max)
Heated Rivalry (HBO Max)
Pluribus (Apple TV)
The Pitt (HBO Max)
BEST TV PERFORMANCE — DRAMA
Marisa Abela, Industry (HBO Max)
Jamie Bell, Half Man (HBO Max)
Carrie Coon, The Gilded Age (HBO Max)
Myha’la Herrold, Industry (HBO Max)
Mark Ruffalo, Task (HBO Max)
[winner] — Rhea Seehorn, Pluribus (Apple TV)
Connor Storrie, Heated Rivalry (HBO Max)
Hudson Williams, Heated Rivalry (HBO Max)
Noah Wyle, The Pitt (HBO Max)
Zendaya, Euphoria (HBO Max)
BEST SUPPORTING TV PERFORMANCE — DRAMA
[winner] — François Arnaud, Heated Rivalry (HBO Max)
Patrick Ball, The Pitt (HBO Max)
Isa Briones, The Pitt (HBO Max)
Richard Gadd, Half Man (HBO Max)
Katherine LaNasa, The Pitt (HBO Max)
Ken Leung, Industry (HBO Max)
Charles Melton, Beef (Netflix)
Sepideh Moafi, The Pitt (HBO Max)
Colman Domingo, Euphoria (HBO Max)
Karolina Wydra, Pluribus (Apple TV)
BEST TV PERFORMANCE — COMEDY
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Wonder Man (Disney+)
Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary (ABC)
Ayo Edebiri, The Bear (FX/Hulu)
Elle Fanning, Margo’s Got Money Troubles (Apple TV)
Ethan Hawke, The Lowdown (FX/Hulu)
Lisa Kudrow, The Comeback (HBO Max)
Dan Levy, Big Mistakes (Netflix)
Matthew Rhys, Widow’s Bay (Apple TV)
Tim Robinson, The Chair Company (HBO Max)
[winner] — Jean Smart, Hacks (HBO Max)
BEST SUPPORTING TV PERFORMANCE — COMEDY
Leslie Bibb, Hacks (HBO Max)
Colman Domingo, The Four Seasons (Netflix)
Paul W. Downs, Hacks (HBO Max)
Hannah Einbinder, Hacks (HBO Max)
Harrison Ford, Shrinking (Apple TV)
Janelle James, Abbott Elementary (ABC)
[winner] — Kate O’Flynn, Widow’s Bay (Apple TV)
Ashley Padilla, Saturday Night Live (NBC)
Michelle Pfeiffer, Margo’s Got Money Troubles (Apple TV)
Meg Stalter, Hacks (HBO Max)
BEST TV MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
Audra McDonald, “Rose’s Turn,” The 78th Tony Awards
[winner] — Bad Bunny, The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show
Miles Caton, Raphael Saadiq, Misty Copeland, Eric Gales, Buddy Guy, Brittany Howard, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Jayme Lawson, Li Jun Li, Bobby Rush, Shaboozey and Alice Smith, “I Lied to You,” The 98th Academy Awards
Sabrina Carpenter and The Muppets, “Manchild,” The Muppet Show
Sabrina Carpenter, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, “Islands in the Stream,” The Muppet Show
BEST UNSUNG TV SHOW
[winner] — Boots (Netflix)
English Teacher (FX/Hulu)
The Four Seasons (Netflix)
From (MGM+)
Murderbot (Apple TV)
BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS SHOW
The Daily Show (Comedy Central)
Hot Ones (YouTube)
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO Max)
Late Night With Seth Meyers (NBC)
[winner] — The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (CBS)
BEST TV DOCUMENTARY OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Kylie (Netflix)
[winner] — Mr. Scorsese (Apple TV)
Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television (HBO Max)
Selena y Los Dinos (Netflix)
The Yogurt Shop Murders (HBO Max)
BEST LGBTQ TV DOCUMENTARY OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Club Cumming (WOW Presents Plus)
Enigma (HBO Max)
It’s Dorothy! (Peacock)
[winner] — Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery (Hulu)
Murder in Glitterball City (HBO Max)
BEST GENRE TV SHOW
Alien: Earth (FX/Hulu)
The Boys (Amazon Prime Video)
It: Welcome to Derry (Max)
Pluribus (Apple TV)
[winner] — Widow’s Bay (Apple TV)
BEST REALITY SHOW
The Boyfriend (Netflix)
Love on the Spectrum (Netflix)
RuPaul’s Drag Race (MTV/Paramount+)
Top Chef (Bravo)
[winner] — The Traitors (Peacock)
BEST ANIMATED SHOW
Bob’s Burgers (Fox)
Invincible (Amazon Prime Video)
Hazbin Hotel (Amazon Prime Video)
Long Story Short (Netflix)
[winner] — South Park (Paramount+)
MOST VISUALLY STRIKING TV SHOW
[winner (tie)] — Alien: Earth (FX/Hulu)
Euphoria (HBO Max)
The Gilded Age (HBO Max)
Heated Rivalry (HBO Max)
[winner (tie)] — Pluribus (Apple TV)
CAMPIEST TV SHOW
All’s Fair (Hulu)
The Comeback (HBO Max)
[winner] — The Hunting Wives (Netflix)
Palm Royale (Apple TV)
The Traitors (Peacock)
WILDE WIT AWARD
[winner] — Hannah Einbinder
Stephen Colbert
Cole Escola
Alan Cumming
Richard Gadd
GALECA TV ICON AWARD
Lisa Kudrow
GALECA LGBTQIA+ TV TRAILBLAZER
Jacob Tierney
