Dorian Awards "The Advocate"), celebrated columnist Michael Musto, and professor of literature Joseph Bristow, one of the world's leading authorities on Oscar Wilde. The Dorian Award is named in honor of the writer Oscar Wilde, in reference to his novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray", and GALECA's Dorian Award certificate includes an image of Oscar Wilde along with a graphic of hands raising a black bow tie. To commemorate the 2015 film and TV awards season, GALECA revealed its first "Ten Best" list, The Ten Best Movies About the Academy Awards. Included were such films as "The Oscar", "California Suite", "For Your
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945 film) Gladys from misfortune by leaving her. After sending Gladys a letter breaking their engagement Gray confronts his portrait and sees a subtle improvement. Attributing the change to his determination not to harm Gladys he resolves to change his life. However, he also resolves to destroy the portrait. He stabs the portrait in the heart, seeking to end the spell, but cries out as if he too has also been stabbed. His friends, realizing what has happened, burst into the school room to discover Dorian Gray dead next to the portrait, his body "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage", now reflecting