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The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association have taken a look at the movies and television shows from 2012 and chosen their favorites. They recently announced their Dorian Award nominees for multiple categories including LGBT TV Show of the Year, Campy Flick of the Year and Visually Striking Film of the Year. Some of our favorites are on here including Magic Mike, Game of Thrones, Silver Linings Playbook, Cloud Atlas and American Horror Story to name a few.

Check out the full list below, the winners will be announced next Wednesday on January 16.

FILM OF THE YEAR

Argo (Warner Bros.)

Beasts of the Southern Wild (Fox Searchlight)

Keep the Lights On (Music Box)

Les Miserables (Universal)

Lincoln (DreamWorks/Touchstone)

Moonrise Kingdom (Focus)

FILM PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR – ACTOR

Alan Cumming / Any Day Now (Music Box)

Bradley Cooper / Silver Linings Playbook (Weinstein)

Daniel Day-Lewis / Lincoln (DreamWorks/Touchstone)

Hugh Jackman / Les Miserables (Universal)

Joaquin Phoenix / The Master (Weinstein)

John Hawkes / The Sessions (Fox Searchlight)

FILM PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR – ACTRESS

Anne Hathaway / Les Miserables (Universal)

Emmanuelle Riva / Amour (Sony Pictures Classics)

Jennifer Lawrence / Silver Linings Playbook (Weinstein)

Jessica Chastain / Zero Dark Thirty (Sony/Columbia)

Marion Cotillard / Rust and Bone (Sony Pictures Classics)

LGBT FILM OF THE YEAR

Any Day Now (Music Box)

Cloud Atlas (Warner Bros.)

Gayby (Wolfe Releasing/The Film Collaborative)

Keep the Lights On (Music Box)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Summit/Lionsgate)

DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (IFC)

Bully (Weinstein)

Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel (Samuel Goldwyn)

How to Survive a Plague (Sundance Selects)

The Invisible War (Cinedigm)

The Queen of Versailles (Magnolia)

VISUALLY STRIKING FILM OF THE YEAR

(honoring a production of stunning beauty, from art direction to cinematography)

Anna Karenina (Focus)

Cloud Atlas (Warner Bros.)

Les Miserables (Universal)

Life of Pi (Fox)

Moonrise Kingdom (Focus)

CAMPY FLICK OF THE YEAR

2016: Obama’s America (Rocky Mountain)

Cloud Atlas (Warner Bros.)

Magic Mike (Warner Bros.)

The Paperboy (Millennium)

Pitch Perfect (Universal)

Rock of Ages (Warner Bros./New Line)

UNSUNG FILM OF THE YEAR

Bernie (Millennium)

The Cabin in the Woods (Lionsgate)

Chronicle (Fox)

Holy Motors (Indomina)

Looper (Sony)

Your Sister’s Sister (IFC)

TV DRAMA OF THE YEAR

American Horror Story: Asylum (FX)

Breaking Bad (AMC)

Game of Thrones (HBO)

Homeland (Showtime)

Mad Men (AMC)

TV COMEDY OF THE YEAR

The Big Bang Theory (CBS)

Girls (HBO)

Happy Endings (ABC)

Louie (FX)

Modern Family (ABC)

TV PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR – ACTOR

Aaron Paul / Breaking Bad (AMC)

Damian Lewis / Homeland (Showtime)

Jesse Tyler Ferguson / Modern Family (ABC)

Jim Parsons / The Big Bang Theory (CBS)

Jon Hamm / Mad Men (AMC)

TV PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR – ACTRESS

Claire Danes / Homeland (Showtime)

Jessica Lange / American Horror Story: Asylum (FX)

Julianne Moore / Game Change (HBO)

Edie Falco / Nurse Jackie (Showtime)

Lena Dunham / Girls (HBO)

Sofia Vergara / Modern Family (ABC)

TV MUSICAL PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR

Darren Criss, “Teenage Dream,” Glee (Fox)

De’Borah Garner, The Fray’s “You Found Me,” The Voice (NBC)

Jennifer Hudson, Tribute to Whitney Houston, The Grammys (CBS)

Megan Hilty and Katherine McPhee, “Let Me Be Your Star,” Smash (NBC)

Raza Jaffrey, Katharine McPhee and cast: “A Thousand and One Nights,” Smash (NBC)

LGBT TV SHOW OF THE YEAR

American Horror Story: Asylum (FX)

Happy Endings (ABC)

Modern Family (ABC)

The New Normal (NBC)

Smash (NBC)

CAMPY TV SHOW OF THE YEAR

666 Park Avenue (ABC)

American Horror Story: Asylum (FX)

GCB (ABC)

Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (TLC)

Liz & Dick (Lifetime)

Smash (NBC)

UNSUNG TV SHOW OF THE YEAR

Bunheads (ABC Family)

Catfish (MTV)

Fringe (FX)

GCB (ABC)

Happy Endings (ABC)

Parenthood (NBC)

TV OR MOVIE TITLE OF THE YEAR

Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23 (ABC)

GCB (ABC)

I Was Impaled (Discovery Fit & Health)

I’m Having Their Baby (Oxygen)

It’s Christmas, Carol! (Hallmark Channel)

WE’RE WILDE ABOUT YOU (NEWCOMER AWARD)

Andrew Rannells

Anna Camp

Ben Whishaw

Eddie Redmayne

Ezra Miller

WILDE WIT OF THE YEAR

(honoring a performer, writer or commentator whose observations both challenge and amuse)

Bill Maher

Chelsea Handler

Jon Stewart

Lena Dunham

Sarah Silverman

Stephen Colbert

WILDE ARTIST OF THE YEAR

(honoring a truly groundbreaking force in the fields of film, theatre and/or television)

Lena Dunham

Louis C.K.

Ryan Murphy

Tony Kushner

Tig Notaro

TIMELESS AWARD

(honoring an actor or performer whose exemplary career has been marked by character, wisdom and wit)

Sir Ian McKellen

Anti-gay crusader Bryan Fischer is angry with the New Yorker and journalist Jane Mayer for their pay-walled profile on him. Philistine.

The Department of Defense finally has some gay pride. “Now that we’ve repealed ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ [Defense Secretary Leon Panetta] feels it’s important to find a way this month to recognize the service and professionalism of gay and lesbian troops,” said a spokesman.

Matt Bomer held his own at NYC’s Most Stylish Dads Dinner last night.

Meanwhile, Bomer had this to say about manscaping down under for male stripper flick Magic Mike: “I’m not going to say it was fun, and personally I will never do it again, but for that project it was necessary. We were all in the boat together.”

The National Organization for Marriage is really grasping at straws by supporting a flawed study on gay parenting.

Some are wondering if President Obama will legalize marijuana to woo young voters. “Past attempts to bong the vote have been disappointing, in part because stoners aren’t the group anyone would most count on to bother filling out a ballot… [But] several have argued that this could be the year for pro-marijuana turnout.”

A Tennessee pastor claims that gay marriage-supporting singer Carrie Underwood does not understand the Bible. “What she said…has increasingly become a pretty broken understanding of what the Bible is saying. You want to listen to the Scripture in terms of what it says about everything, including marriage, including sexuality,” claimed Scotty Smith, who says he has worked with the writer of Underwood’s track “Jesus Take The Wheel.”

HBO has apologized after it was revealed that Games of Thrones included a scene featuring George W. Bush’s head on a spike.

The Georgian government has made efforts to align with international allies’ pro-equality politics, but that may just further incense far-right activists in the former Soviet state. From the NY Times: “The LGBT community has found itself the subject of heated political attacks, and subsequent social reactions… New homophobic and anti-gay Georgian-language Facebook groups have also emerged, including one in which its members debate the best way to kill gay people.”

AP: “5 Reasons Gay Marriage Losing Streak May Be Over“

Famed cyclist Lance Armstrong is again being accused of using performance enhancing drugs and says he is “considering all options” to combat the latest charges.

Chris Brown and Drake got into a bar fight over who loves Rihanna most…

President Obama speaking in Ohio today: “What’s holding us back is a stalemate in Washington between two fundamentally different views of which direction America should take. And this election is your chance to break that stalemate. At stake is not simply a choice between two candidates or two political parties, but between two paths for our country.”

Mitt Romney was also in Ohio today, and claimed the commander-in-chief’s policies are driving the nation “forward over a cliff.”

Is this what Lindsay Lohan will look like in 50 years?

Did Melissa Etheridge play Pittsburgh Pride simply for the pink dollar?

Is Minka Kelly hiding her face after hooking up with Jake Gyllenhaal? Most of us would be telling the world.

Billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson is willing to give almost any amount of money to make sure Mitt Romney wins the White House.

NASA’s image of the day looks like two galaxies colliding. Don’t worry about potential inhabitants, though: the star systems are in fact tens of millions light years away from one another. Phew!

Posted Jun. 14,2012 at 5:31 PM EST by Andrew Belonsky in Barack Obama, Bryan Fischer, Carrie Underwood, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Game of Thrones, Gay Marriage, Gay Pride, George W. Bush, Jake Gyllenhaal, Leon Panetta, Lindsay Lohan, Marijuana, Matt Bomer, Mitt Romney, News, NOM, Science | Permalink

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