Heated Rivalry has won multiple awards at the 18th Dorian Awards! The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, one of the largest entertainment journalists’ groups in the world, announced the winners recognizing the best in television and streaming from mainstream to queer-themed programming on Saturday, August 15th.
For Heated Rivalry in particular, GALECA member votes saw the show win for Best TV Drama and Best LGBTQ TV Show; the latter being a huge deal since GALECA is an LGBTQ organization. On the acting side of things, François Arnaud won for Best Supporting TV Performance in a Drama for his role as closeted veteran hockey player Scott Hunter. When it comes to the production side of things, Jacob Tierney won the GALECA LGBTQIA+ TV Trailblazer award for “creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity.”
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Other fan favorites like Hacks was named Best TV Comedy and Best Written TV Show, while Jean Smart won Best TV Performance – Comedy (her third consecutive win) for Hacks’ fifth and final season. And Hannah Einbinder also earned GALECA’s Wilde Wit Award. Richard Gadd’s Half Man won Best TV Movie or Limited Series and Netflix’s The Boyfriend won for Best LGBTQ Non-English Language TV Show.
Another personal favorite (for this writer at least) is Kate O’Flynn winning Best Supporting TV Performance in a Comedy for Widow’s Bay. In the show she played Patricia, the local outcast and assistant to the mayor who you can’t help but love. And the immensely talented Rhea Seehorn won for Best TV Performance in a Drama for Pluribus. In that series she played Carol Sturka, an author who finds herself in a post-apocalyptic world.
See the full list below:
BEST TV DRAMA
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)
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)
Heated Rivalry (HBO Max)
Pluribus (Apple TV)
BEST TV MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES
All Her Fault (Peacock)
Beef (Netflix)
DTF St. Louis (HBO Max)
Half Man (HBO Max)
Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette (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)
Squid Game (Netflix)
The Summer Hikaru Died (Netflix)
BEST LGBTQ NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE TV SHOW
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)
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)
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
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)
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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)
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)
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
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
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)
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (CBS)
BEST TV DOCUMENTARY OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Kylie (Netflix)
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)
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)
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)
The Traitors (Peacock)
BEST ANIMATED SHOW
Bob’s Burgers (Fox)
Invincible (Amazon Prime Video)
Hazbin Hotel (Amazon Prime Video)
Long Story Short (Netflix)
South Park (Paramount+)
MOST VISUALLY STRIKING TV SHOW
Alien: Earth (FX/Hulu) (tie)
Euphoria (HBO Max)
The Gilded Age (HBO Max)
Heated Rivalry (HBO Max)
Pluribus (Apple TV) (tie)
CAMPIEST TV SHOW
All’s Fair (Hulu)
The Comeback (HBO Max)
The Hunting Wives (Netflix)
Palm Royale (Apple TV)
The Traitors (Peacock)
WILDE WIT AWARD
Hannah Einbinder
Stephen Colbert
Cole Escola
Alan Cumming
Richard Gadd
GALECA TV ICON AWARD
Lisa Kudrow
GALECA LGBTQIA+ TV TRAILBLAZER
Jacob Tierney
For more information, follow @DorianAwards on social media and visit GALECA.org.
