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 theme in "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1891) is aestheticism and its conceptual relation to living a double life. Throughout the story, the narrative presents aestheticism as an absurd abstraction, which disillusions more than it dignifies the concept of Beauty. Despite Dorian being a hedonist, when Basil accuses him of making a "by-word" of the name of Lord Henry's sister, Dorian curtly replies, "Take care, Basil. You go too far ..."; thus, in Victorian society, public image and social standing do matter to Dorian. Yet, Wilde highlights the protagonist's hedonism: Dorian enjoyed "keenly the terrible pleasure of a double life",