Entertainment News
2006-01-24
GLAAD Media
Awards nominations announced
At the Sundance
Film Festival on Monday, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation announced the list of nominees for its
At the Sundance
Film Festival on Monday, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation announced the list of nominees for its
17th annual GLAAD Media Awards. GLAAD recognized 113
nominees in 25 categories and 45 Spanish-language
nominees in 15 categories spanning film, television, and
other media. GLAAD also announced that it will present a
Special Recognition award to Bright Eyes and John
Cameron Mitchell for including gay and lesbian couples
in the music video for the hit single "First Day of My
Life" from the album I'm Wide Awake, It's
Morning. Journalist Anderson Cooper was twice nominated
for episodes of his CNN series. In the competitive
categories, cable networks racked up 16 nominations,
with broadcast networks receiving 13 nominees. Among
cable networks, Showtime took four nominations, while NBC
led broadcast networks with five nominees.
GLAAD also
announced that this year's Barbara Gittings Award will be
presented to the three new LGBT cable networks, Logo, Here,
and Q Television.
The GLAAD Media
Awards recognize and honor mainstream media for their
fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of lesbian,
gay, bisexual, and transgender lives and issues. Gay
media are not included in the competition.
The GLAAD Media
Awards ceremonies will be held in New York on March 27 at
the New York Marriott Marquis; in Los Angeles on April 8 at
the Kodak Theatre; in Miami on May 25 at the Ritz
Carlton Hotel; and in San Francisco on June 10 at the
San Francisco Marriott. GLAAD Media Awards nominees
were published, released, or broadcast between January 1,
2005, and December 31, 2005. Nearly 1,000 media
projects were considered in 25 English-language and 16
Spanish-language categories.
This is the
second year the GLAAD Media Awards will be televised on
Logo, MTV Networks' cable channel for lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender viewers and their allies. This
year, VH1 will air the program for the first time. The
Logo airdate for the GLAAD Media Awards is April 15 at 9
p.m. The VH1 airdate is April 16 at 11 p.m. For the full
list of nominees, go to www.glaad.org.
Nominees include:
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 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
NEWSPAPER OVERALL COVERAGE
San Francisco Chronicle
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
USA Today
The Washington Post
Wisconsin State-Journal
OUTSTANDING
MAGAZINE OVERALL COVERAGE
AsianWeek
Newsweek
People
Time
Time Out New York
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
Spanish-language
nominees include:
OUTSTANDING
NOVELA
Los Sánchez (Azteca América)
Señora del Destino (Telemundo)
La Tormenta (Telemundo)
OUTSTANDING
NEWSPAPER OVERALL COVERAGE
Hoy [New York]
Primera Hora [San Juan, Puerto Rico]
Rumbo [Austin, Texas]
OUTSTANDING
MAGAZINE OVERALL COVERAGE
People en Español
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