Best LGBTQ Film of the Year

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Awarded to the best eligible film portraying significant lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or otherwise “queer” characters or themes. The characters don’t have to be leading roles, nor do the themes need to be predominate, but they should be significant enough to register.

Best LGBTQ Film of 2004

Winner

  • Eating Out (2004)

Additional Nominees

  • HellBent (2004)
  • A Home at the End of the World (2004)
  • Latter Days (2004)
  • Straight-Jacket (2004)
  • Touch of Pink (2004)

Best LGBTQ Film of 2005

Winner

  • Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Additional Nominees

  • Happy Endings (2005)
  • My Brother Nikhil (2005)
  • Mysterious Skin (2005)
  • Transamerica (2005)

Best LGBTQ Film of 2006

Winner

  • Shortbus (2006)

Additional Nominees

  • Another Gay Movie (2006)
  • Colma: The Musical (2006)
  • Jackass: Number Two (2006)
  • The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green (2006)
  • Small Town Gay Bar (2006)

Best LGBTQ Film of 2010

Winner

  • The Kids Are All Right (2010)

Additional Nominees

  • Black Swan (2010)
  • Easy A (2010)
  • I Love You, Philip Morris (2010)
  • Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (2010)

Best LGBTQ Film of 2012

Winner

  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

Additional Nominees

  • Cloud Atlas (2012)
  • Gayby (2012)
  • How to Survive a Plague (2012)
  • Scrooge & Marley (2012)
  • Struck By Lightning (2012)

Best LGBTQ Film of 2013

Winner

  • Kill Your Darlings (2013)

Additional Nominees

  • Bridegroom (2013)
  • Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
  • I Am Divine (2013)
  • Stranger by the Lake (2013)
  • Triple Crossed (2013)

Best LGBTQ Film of 2014

Winners (tie)

  • Love Is Strange (2014)
  • Pride (2014)

Additional Nominees

  • The Imitation Game (2014)
  • Lilting (2014)
  • The Skeleton Twins (2014)
  • Test (2014)

Best LGBTQ Film of 2015

Winner

  • Carol (2015)

Additional Nominees

  • The Danish Girl (2015)
  • Freeheld (2015)
  • Grandma (2015)
  • I Am Michael (2015)
  • Tangerine (2015)

Best LGBTQ Film of 2016

Winner

  • Moonlight (2016)

Additional Nominees

  • Holding the Man (2016)
  • Hurricane Bianca (2016)
  • The Pass (2016)
  • Tab Hunter Confidential (2016)
  • Théo & Hugo (2016)

Best LGBTQ Film of 2017

Winner

  • Call Me by Your Name (2017)

Additional Nominees

  • Beach Rats (2017)
  • Boys in the Trees (2017)
  • BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017)
  • A Fantastic Woman (2017)
  • Tom of Finland (2017)

Best LGBTQ Film of 2018

Winner

  • Love, Simon (2018)

Additional Nominees

  • Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
  • Boy Erased (2018)
  • Disobedience (2018)
  • The Favourite (2018)
  • The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)

Best LGBTQ Film of 2019

Winner

  • Rocketman

Additional Nominees

  • Booksmart
  • Gay Chorus Deep South
  • Pain and Glory
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street

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