Tuesday, January 24, 2006

GLAAD Announces Nominees for 17th Annual Awards


(Link) Backed by an exhaustive list of corporate sponsors, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) gears up for the annual recognition ceremony of who's made us proud this year. And yes, The L-Word and Melissa Etheridge made the list.

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    And the nominees are...

    OUTSTANDING FILM - WIDE RELEASE

    Brokeback Mountain (Focus Features)
    Capote (Sony Pictures Classics)
    The Family Stone (20th Century Fox)
    Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Warner Bros.)
    Rent (Sony Pictures)

    OUTSTANDING FILM - LIMITED RELEASE

    Beautiful Boxer (Regent Releasing/here! Films)
    Mysterious Skin (TLA Releasing)
    Saving Face (Sony Pictures Classics)
    Transamerica (The Weinstein Company)
    Walk On Water (Samuel Goldwyn Films)

    OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY

    American Experience: Kinsey (PBS)
    Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She (HBO)
    Same Sex America (Showtime)
    TransGeneration (The Sundance Channel/Logo)
    We Are Dad (Showtime)

    OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES

    Commander in Chief (ABC)
    The L Word (Showtime)
    Queer as Folk (Showtime)
    Six Feet Under (HBO)
    South of Nowhere (The N)

    OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES

    Out of Practice (CBS)
    Shameless (BBC America)
    Will & Grace (NBC)

    OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL EPISODE (in a series without a regular gay character)

    "Alien" Law & Order: SVU (NBC)
    "Best Friends" Cold Case (CBS)
    "Pilot" My Name Is Earl (NBC)
    "Someone's in the Kitchen with Daddy" What I Like About You (The WB)
    "Transitions" Without a Trace (CBS)

    OUTSTANDING TELEVISION MOVIE OR MINI-SERIES

    The Long Firm (BBC America)
    Partner(s) (Lifetime)

    OUTSTANDING REALITY PROGRAM

    The Amazing Race 7 (CBS)
    America's Next Top Model 5 (UPN)
    "Boone Luffey/Gillespie" Wife Swap (ABC)
    Queer Eye (Bravo)
    "Straight/Gay" 30 Days (FX)

    OUTSTANDING DAILY DRAMA

    General Hospital (ABC)
    Passions (NBC)

    OUTSTANDING TALK SHOW EPISODE

    "Fighting for My Children" Dr. Phil (syndicated)
    "Twins: Identical But Different" The Montel Williams Show (syndicated)
    "When I Knew I Was Gay" The Oprah Winfrey Show (syndicated)
    "When Your Identical Twin Has a Sex Change" The Oprah Winfrey Show (syndicated)

    OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM - NEWSMAGAZINE

    "Becoming Diane" 20/20 (ABC)
    "Gay Rodeo" Only In America (Discovery Times Channel)
    "Lady Lions: Alleged Discrimination" Outside the Lines (ESPN)
    "Lucky" Dateline NBC (NBC)
    "The Mirror" Nightline (ABC)

    OUTSTANDING TV JOURNALISM - NEWS SEGMENT

    "Andrew Goldstein" ESPN SportsCenter (ESPN)
    "Coming Out" Live From... (CNN)
    "Peter Hams" ESPN SportsCenter (ESPN)
    "School Outing" Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
    "Secret Sex Lives" Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)

    OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

    "A House Divided" by Laura Bond (Westword)
    "The New Radical" by Kim Martineau (The Hartford Courant)
    "Paradise Lost" by Michelle Boorstein (The Washington Post)
    "The Stewards of Gay Washington" by Anne Hull (The Washington Post)
    "When an Employee Switches Gender, What's a Company to Do?" by Stephanie Armour (USA Today)

    OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST

    Marta Donayre (El Observador)
    Margery Eagan (Boston Herald)
    Mark Morford (San Francisco Chronicle)
    Andy Praschak (The San Juan Star)
    Deb Price (The Detroit News)

    OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER OVERALL COVERAGE

    San Francisco Chronicle
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    USA Today
    The Washington Post
    Wisconsin State-Journal

    OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE ARTICLE

    "A Down Low Dirty Shame" by Joshunda Sanders (Bitch)
    "For the Soul of the Church" by Ethan Vesely-Flad (Color Lines)
    "The Gay Rodeo Rides Again" by Michael Joseph Gross (Details)
    "The Murder of a Boy Named Gwen" by Bob Moser (Rolling Stone)
    "What's in a Name?" by Beth Greenfield (Time Out New York)

    OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE OVERALL COVERAGE

    AsianWeek
    Newsweek
    People
    Time
    Time Out New York

    OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM ARTICLE

    "Debajo del Arcoiris" by Emily Alpert (IntheFray.com)
    "Gender Outlaws" by Emily Alpert (IntheFray.com)
    "The Lowdown on the Downlow" by Bruce Dixon (BlackCommentator.com)
    "Now I Get to be Like Everybody Else" by Greg Garber (ESPN.com)
    "Turning Off Gays" by Mark Benjamin (Salon.com)

    OUTSTANDING MUSIC ARTIST

    Antony and the Johnsons, I Am a Bird Now
    Melissa Etheridge, Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled
    Girlyman, Little Star
    Sharon Isbin, Rodrigo, Villa-Lobos, Ponce: Guitar Concertos
    Amy Ray, Prom

    OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK

    Gotham Central by Greg Rucka and Ed Brubaker (DC Comics)
    Strangers in Paradise by Terry Moore (Abstract Studio)
    Top Ten: The Forty-Niners by Alan Moore (ABC Comics/Wildstorm)
    Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughn (Vertigo/DC Comics)
    Young Avengers by Allan Heinberg (Marvel)

    OUTSTANDING ADVERTISING - ELECTRONIC

    "Cupid" MTVu
    "Guy Watcher" Diet Pepsi
    "New Boyfriend" Orbitz
    "Signs" MTVu

    OUTSTANDING ADVERTISING - PRINT

    "Partnership Registry" ABC Carpet and Home
    "So What's Cooking in the Kitchen?" GE Monogram
    "There's One." American Express

    OUTSTANDING LOS ANGELES THEATER

    Bunbury by Tom Jacobson
    I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright
    Porcelain by Chay Yew
    A Pebble in My Shoe: The Life and Times of John Shelby Spong by Colin Cox
    Pera Palas by Sinan Unel

    OUTSTANDING NEW YORK THEATER: BROADWAY & OFF - BROADWAY

    Border/Clash: A Litany of Desire by Staceyann Chin
    The Color Purple book by Marsha Norman, based on the novel by Alice Walker
    Ghetto Superstar (The Man That I Am) by Billy Porter
    Oedipus at Palm Springs by The Five Lesbian Brothers
    Swimming in the Shallows by Adam Bock

    OUTSTANDING NEW YORK THEATER: OFF - OFF BROADWAY

    Busted Jesus Comix by David Johnston
    Christine Jorgensen Reveals created by Bradford Louryk
    Dress Suits to Hire by Holly Hughes in collaboration with Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver
    Golden Age by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
    The Lightning Field by David Ozanich

    SPECIAL RECOGNITION

    "First Day of My Life," Bright Eyes music video, dir. John Cameron Mitchell

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