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 (1976 TV) having of course been given the most beguiling lines by Wilde". This version accentuates the gay subtext of Wilde's novel more than other versions; e.g. when Dorian wants Alan's help in the disposal of Basil's body, it is strongly suggested that the two had a sexual relationship in the past and when Dorian's seduction attempt fails, he apparently threatens to expose Alan as a homosexual. In the novel and other adaptations the precise nature of Dorian's hold over Alan is mostly left to the imagination of the reader or viewer, respectively. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1976 TV) The Picture