GLAAD Media Awards 2016 Nominees Announced: 27th Annual Ceremony Airs on Logo TV for 1st Time

The 27^th annual GLAAD Media Awards, celebrating the representation and portrayals of LGBT characters in TV and movies, is finally coming to TV in 2016. Airing on the Logo network in a one-hour special premiering in April, this important ceremony is finally getting the recognition it deserves. This week, GLAAD announced this year's nominees. You can check them out below!

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"For nearly three decades, the GLAAD Media Awards have propelled inclusion in media and driven LGBT acceptance forward," GLAAD CEO and President Sarah Kate Ellis said in a statement, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "This year's nominees have raised the bar for creating thoughtful and diverse LGBT images and storylines, deepening audiences' understanding of LGBT people and accelerating acceptance across the world."

There are actually two ceremonies this year; one for April in LA and another for May in NYC.

You can check out the full list of nominees right here, but check out a selection of the GLAAD nominations right here:

Outstanding Film (Wide release)

Carol (The Weinstein Company)
The Danish Girl (Focus Features)
Dope (Open Road Films)
Freeheld (Lionsgate)
Grandma (Sony Pictures Classics)

Outstanding Film (Limited release)

52 Tuesdays (Kino Lorber)
Appropriate Behavior (Gravitas Ventures)
Boy Meets Girl (Wolfe Video)
Drunktown's Finest (Nehst Studios)
Tangerine (Magnolia Pictures)

Outstanding Drama Series

Arrow (The CW)
Black Sails (Starz)
Empire (FOX)
The Fosters (ABC Family)
Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
How to Get Away with Murder (ABC)
Nashville (ABC)
Orphan Black (BBC America)
Sense8 (Netflix)
Shameless (Showtime)

Outstanding Comedy Series

Brooklyn Nine-Nine (FOX)
Faking It (MTV)
Grace and Frankie (Netflix)
Looking (HBO)
Master of None (Netflix)
Modern Family (ABC)
Orange Is the New Black (Netflix)
Please Like Me (Pivot)
Transparent (Amazon Instant Video)
Vicious (PBS)

Outstanding Individual Episode (in a series without a regular LGBT character)

"Gender" The Carmichael Show (NBC)
"Please Don't Ask, Please Don't Tell" Black-ish (ABC)
"The Prince of Nucleotides" Royal Pains (USA Network)
"Rock-a-Bye-Baby" NCIS New Orleans (CBS)
"We Build, We Fight" NCIS (CBS)

Outstanding TV Movie or Limited Series

Banana (Logo)
Bessie (HBO)
Cucumber (Logo)

Outstanding Documentary

Kumu Hina (PBS)
Limited Partnership (PBS)
Mala Mala (Strand Releasing)
Tab Hunter Confidential (The Film Collaborative)
Tig (Netflix)

Outstanding Reality Program

I Am Cait (E!)
I Am Jazz (TLC)
New Girls on the Block (Discovery Life)
The Prancing Elites Project (Oxygen)
Transcendent (Fuse)

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