Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association unveils winners of annual Dorian Awards

The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association (GALECA) today announced their number-one choices for the best in film and television of 2012.

I’m a member of the group and am happy to see some of the movies, TV shows and performances I voted for made it to the winner’s circle!

The Dorian Award for Film of the Year went to director Ben Affleck’s fact-based C.I.A. adventure, Argo. Daniel Day-Lewis won Film Performance of the Year — Actor for his robust portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln. Anne Hathaway was chosen in the female Performance of the Year category for her singing turn as Fantine in the movie version of Les Miserables.

My fellow GALECA’s members deemed Ezra Miller worthy of our We’re Wilde About You Rising Star honor for his portrayal of a bullied gay teen in The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

The  LGBT Film of the Year? Director Ira Sachs drama Keep the Lights On.

In the more unusual film categories, the comic drama Bernie, starring Jack Black as a murderous — but supernice — funeral director, was named Unsung Film of the Year. Channing Tatum’s guy-strippers melodrama Magic Mike and the Zac Efron-starring potboiler The Paperboy tied for the group’s novel Campy Film of the Year title.

In the TV Musical Performance race, Jennifer Hudson bested rivals from Smash and Glee to win for her stirring tribute to Whitney Huston on the Grammys. Campy TV Show of the Year honors went to Lifetime’s biopic Liz & Dick, and the Unsung TV Show award was given to ABC’s loony comedy Happy Endings.