GLAAD has announced its nominations for its annual Media Awards.
According to the website, nominations are based on four criteria: fair, accurate and inclusive representations; boldness and originality; impact; and overall quality.
Among the many nominees are TV shows The Fosters, Shameless, Pretty Little Liars, Orange Is the New Black, Orphan Black and Modern Family; movies Blue Is the Warmest Color, Dallas Buyers Club and Philomena; and The Advocate, Black Enterprise and Rolling Stone magazines.
Following are a few facts about this year’s nominees:
—Several GLAAD Media Award nominees have received other nominations this season from the Academy Awards (Philomena, Dallas Buyers Club) and the Golden Globe Awards (Philomena, Dallas Buyers Club, Orange is the New Black, Orphan Black, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Modern Family, Behind the Candelabra), among others.
—Both Netflix (Orange is the New Black) and the new cable channel Pivot (Please Like Me and Raising McCain) garnered first-time nominations this year.
—The transgender community is represented in several nominees, including Dallas Buyers Club, Orange is the New Black, Glee, the “Snow Angels” episode of Elementary (CBS) and Dream School (Sundance Channel).
—Orange is the New Black (Netflix), Grey’s Anatomy (ABC), Glee (Fox), “Why Bisexuals Stay in the Closet” by Emily Alpert (Los Angeles Times), and “Bisexuals Get Their Turn in the White House” by Alyona Minkovski (Live.HuffingtonPost.com) include representations of the bisexual community.
—Among the networks receiving multiple nominations are MSNBC, ABC, CNN, Univision and HBO (in the world of television); The Advocate, The New Yorker and Live.HuffingtonPost.com (print/digital journalism); and Sony Pictures, The Weinstein Company and Breaking Glass Pictures (film).
The award ceremonies will take place in Los Angeles on April 12 and New York City on May 3. See www.glaad.org/mediaawards.