GLAAD Media Awards 2015 nominees announced

The nominees for the 26th Annual GLAAD Media Awards have been announced

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Media Awards recognise various forms of media, including film, TV, music and journalism, for “their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the LGBT community and the issues that affect their lives”.

The Imitation Game and Pride – both released last year to major critical acclaim – are among the nominees who are battling it out for the Outstanding Film award.

How To Get Away With Murder – which has recently been criticised for its risqué gay sex scenes – is in contention for Outstanding Drama Series, alongside HBO’s Game of Thrones, Pretty Little Liars and BBC One’s The Last Tango In Halifax.

Meanwhile, Grammy-nominated singer Sam Smith is among the nominees for the Outstanding Music Artist award, which also include the likes of rapper Angel Haze and Mary Lambert.

Check the full list of nominations below:

OUTSTANDING FILM – WIDE RELEASE

The Imitation Game (The Weinstein Company)

Love Is Strange (Sony Pictures Classics)

Pride (CBS Films)

The Skeleton Twins (Roadside Attractions)

Tammy (Warner Bros. Pictures)

OUTSTANDING FILM – LIMITED RELEASE

Dear White People (Lionsgate)

Life Partners (Magnolia Pictures)

Lilting (Strand Releasing)

The Way He Looks (Strand Releasing)

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow (Film Movement)

OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES

Degrassi (TeenNick)

The Fosters (ABC Family)

Game of Thrones (HBO)

Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)

How to Get Away with Murder (ABC)

Last Tango in Halifax (PBS)

Masters of Sex (Showtime)

Orphan Black (BBC America)

Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family)

Shameless (Showtime)

OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES

Brooklyn Nine-Nine (FOX)

Faking It (MTV)

Glee (FOX)

Looking (HBO)

Modern Family (ABC)

Orange Is the New Black (Netflix)

Please Like Me (Pivot)

Sirens (USA Network)

Transparent (Amazon Instant Video)

Vicious (PBS)

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL EPISODE (IN A SERIES WITHOUT A REGULAR LGBT CHARACTER)

“Deep Breath” Doctor Who (BBC America)

“Down a Tree” Good Luck Charlie (Disney Channel)

“Identity Crisis” Drop Dead Diva (Lifetime)

“Let’s Have a Baby” Playing House (USA Network)

“No Lack of Void” Elementary (CBS)

OUTSTANDING TV MOVIE OR MINI-SERIES

The Normal Heart (HBO)

OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY

The Case Against 8 (HBO)

L Word Mississippi: Hate the Sin (Showtime)

Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word (Logo / MTV)

To Russia with Love (Epix)

True Trans With Laura Jane Grace (AOL Originals)

OUTSTANDING REALITY PROGRAM

Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce (Fuse)

B.O.R.N. to Style (FYI)

Make or Break: The Linda Perry Project (VH1)

R&B Divas: Atlanta (TV One)

Survivor: San Juan del Sur (CBS)

OUTSTANDING DAILY DRAMA

Days of Our Lives (NBC)

General Hospital (ABC)

OUTSTANDING MUSIC ARTIST

Against Me!, Transgender Dysphoria Blues (Xtra Mile Recordings)

Angel Haze, Dirty Gold (Island Records/Republic Records)

Mary Gauthier, Trouble & Love (In the Black Records)

Mary Lambert, Heart on My Sleeve (Capitol Records)

Sam Smith, In the Lonely Hour (Capitol Records)

OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK

Hawkeye, written by Matt Fraction (Marvel Comics)

Lumberjanes, written by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis (BOOM! Studios)

Memetic, written by James Tynion IV (BOOM! Studios)

Rat Queens, written by Kurtis J. Wiebe (Image Comics)

Saga, written by Brian K. Vaughan (Image Comics)

OUTSTANDING TALK SHOW EPISODE

“Issues Facing the Transgender Community” Katie (syndicated)

“Laverne Cox Discusses ‘The T Word'” The View (ABC)

“Michael Sam” Oprah Prime (OWN)

“Pepe Julian Onziema” Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO)

“Robin Roberts” The Ellen DeGeneres Show (syndicated)

The GLAAD Media Awards will be held in L.A. on March 21 and in New York City on May 9.

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