The 2026 GLAAD Media Awards took place on Thursday, March 5 in Los Angeles. Jennifer Lopez plays the lead role Kiss from the Spider Woman won the top prize at the event.
Here’s a full list of winners!
Excellent Film – Wide Theatrical Release
- Kiss of the Spider Woman (Winner)
- Blue Moon
- Christy
- Clown in a corn field
- Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
- The history of sound
- I know what you did last summer
- On fast horses
- Twinless
- The wedding banquet
Excellent Film – Limited Theatrical Release
- A nice Indian boy (co-winner)
- In plain clothes (co-winner)
- Cactus pears
- Wonderland
- Griffin in summer
- I wish you all the best
- Ponyboi
- The queen of my dreams
- I’m sorry, honey
- Young hearts
Excellent movie – streaming or TV
- Queen of Coal (Winner)
- 10Dance
- The Christmas baby
- Echo Valley
- Hedda
- A Keller Christmas holiday
- Noah’s Bow: The Movie
- Oh. What. Pleasure.
- The old guard 2
- Parenthood
Excellent documentary
- Come see me in the good light (winner)
- Amy Bradley is missing
- Puzzle
- Increased control
- I am your Venus
- En route
- Love and Anger: Munroe Bergdorf
- ‘A mother apart’, POV
- Pee-Wee as Himself
- Sally
Excellent new TV series
- Heated Rivalry (winner)
- Boots
- Chadian powers
- Clean slate
- The Four Seasons
- The hunting women
- I love LA
- Long story short
- Mid-century modern
- Overcompensation
- Pluribus
Excellent comedy series
- Palm Royale (winner)
- Abbott Elementary
- Big boys
- Ghosts
- Hacking
- Hazbin Hotel
- Loot
- The righteous gems
- Survival of the fattest
- The Upshaws
Excellent drama series
- Stranger Things (winner)
- Brilliant minds
- The buccaneers
- Doctor Who
- The Gilded Age
- The last of us
- Power Book III: Raising Kanan
- The Sandman
- Disconnection
- Yellowjackets
Excellent limited or anthology series
- Quirky (winner)
- The beast in me
- Head of War
- Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy
- Hal & Harper
- ‘Hotel Reverie’, Black Mirror
- Lost boys and fairies
- Mr. Loverman
- Nine perfect strangers
- Great goal
Excellent reality program
- Southern Hospitality (winner)
- Back to the border
- House on fire
- Jay & Pamela
- June farms
- Love on the spectrum
- Next generation NYC
- Selling sunset
- Southern charm
- The ultimatum: strange love
Excellent reality competition show
- The Traitors (winner)
- American Ninja Warrior
- Dragula by the Boulet brothers: Titans
- Dancing with the stars
- Finding Mr. Christmas
- I kissed a boy
- I kissed a girl
- Project job
- RuPaul’s Drag Race
- The voice
Excellent children’s programming
- Fire Buttons (winner)
- Be@rbrick
- “Ghost Town,” Mermicorno: Starfall
- “No Bad Way to Be Yourself,” Sesame Street
- Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures
Outstanding Children’s and Family Programming – Live Action
- XO, Kitty (winner)
- Goosebumps: the disappearance
- Jane
- School ghosts
- ‘Selamiut’, Washington Black
Excellent children’s and family programming – animated
- The bravest knight (winner)
- Jurassic World: Chaos Theory
- Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
- The proud family: louder and prouder
Outstanding music artist
- Young Miko, Do Not Disturb (winner)
- Conan Gray, Wishbone
- Durand Bernarr, BLOOM
- Elton John and Brandi Carlile, who believes in angels
- Ethel Cain, Willoughby Tucker, I will always love you
- G Flip, dream ride
- Lady Gaga, chaos
- Maren Morris, DREAMSICLE
- Renée Rapp, Bite Me
- Ty Herndon, THIRTY, Vol. 1
Excellent Broadway production
- Liberation, by Bess Wohl (winner)
- Oedipus, by Robert Icke
- Goal, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
- Redwood, book by Tina Landau, music by Kate Diaz
- Smash, book by Rick Elice and Bob Martin, music and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.
Excellent podcast
- Great podcast (winner)
- Bald and beautiful
- Las Culturistas
- The daily bean podcast
- Outlaws featuring TS Madison
- The Lees
- Shut up Evan
- So true with Caleb Hearon
- Tactful pettiness
- We can do hard things
