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 made excisions of some of the most controversial material when revising and lengthening the story for book publication the following year. The longer and revised version of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" published in book form in 1891 featured an aphoristic preface—a defence of the artist's rights and of art for art's sake—based in part on his press defences of the novel the previous year. The content, style, and presentation of the preface made it famous in its own right, as a literary and artistic manifesto. In April 1891, the publishing firm of Ward, Lock and Company, who had distributed