OUTSTANDING FILM – WIDE RELEASE

Albert Nobbs

Beginners

J. Edgar



OUTSTANDING FILM – LIMITED RELEASE

Circumstance

Gun Hill Road

Pariah

Tomboy

Weekend



OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY

Becoming Chaz

The Strange History of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

Two Spirits

We Were Here

The World’s Worst Place to be Gay?

Since 1990 the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (or GLAAD) has been celebrating productions that present "Fair, Accurate and Inclusive Representations" of the LGBT community with the Annual GLAAD Media Awards. Giving some perspective on where we stood as a culture at that time of the first GLAAD Media Awards, the premiere winners went to television shows like the willfully transgressive TV dramaand the society-skewering sketch series. It wasn't until the following year that GLAAD honors extended to film, where the allegoricaland AIDs-centered dramawon honors.2012 marks the GLAAD Media Awards 23rd year, and the ceremony has grown from a small affair to a lavish and celebrity-studded string of festivities that take place in New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Fittingly, this year's nominees (via Deadline ) include features with A-listers as well as films from all over the globe.These films explore various shades of the LGBT rainbow. The Glenn Close-fronted, the Spirit-nominated indie, the French coming-of-age drama, and the gender-transition docall center on transgender protagonists, both past and present. The Leonardo DiCaprio-fronted biopicand the British dramafocus on the romance of two gay men, over the long and short term respectively, whileoffers a bittersweet subplot of a recent widower (Christopher Plummer in a heralded portrayal) who finally comes out of the closet, embraces his gay identity and gets politically active.Lesbians get love in, a beautiful coming-of-age indie effort, and the darting Iranian romance,, while the documentariesandmake politics personal with their heartfelt interviews and poignant revelations. In world where films like these are often relegated to the ambiguous "special interest" section, GLAAD is here to draw notice and remind all of us that these are not stories of a special interest group, but of people. The 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards will be held in New York on March 24, Los Angeles on April 21, and San Francisco on June 2.