The writers behind ABC’s Black-ish, Apple TV+’s Pachinko, Disney’s Oscar-winning Encanto and Adam McKay’s satire Don’t Look Up are among the many winners of the forty sixth annual Humanitas Prizes. The honors had been bestowed Friday afternoon in a ceremony on the Beverly Hilton.
Humanitas Prizes have been handed out since 1973 to empower tv and movie writers whose work explores the human situation in a nuanced, significant means. Writers throughout 10 classes obtain $10,000 money prizes.
Different winners included Nanfu Wang for her documentary Within the Identical Breath, Matt Harris for writing the script for Ted Melfi’s The Starling starring Melissa McCarthy and Kevin Kline, and Marissa Jo Cerar for penning the “Mom and Son” episode of ABC’s anthology collection Girls of the Motion.
Additionally in the course of the ceremony emceed by Larry Wilmore, the Humanitas group introduced Filmmakers for Ukraine with the Kieser Award and Starz president and CEO Jeffrey Hirsch with the Voice for Change Award for the community’s #TakeTheLead initiative. There have been additionally recipients of the Carol Mendelsohn School Drama Award and the David and Lynn Angell School Comedy Award, which go to collegiate screenwriters.
Right here’s the total record of winners:
Youngsters’s Teleplay
El Deafo: Written by Cece Bell and Will McRobb
Comedy Characteristic Movie
Don’t Look Up: Written by Adam McKay
Comedy Teleplay
Black-ish: “If A Black Man Cries within the Woods…”: Written by Robb Chavis
Documentary
Within the Identical Breath: Nanfu Wang
Drama Characteristic Movie
The Starling: Written by Matt Harris
Drama Teleplay
Pachinko: “Chapter One”: Written by Soo Hugh
Household Characteristic
Encanto: Written by Charise Castro Smith & Jared Bush
Restricted Collection, TV Film, or Particular
Girls of the Motion: “Mom and Son”: Written by Marissa Jo Cerar
Quick Movie
Women Are Sturdy Right here: Written by Scott Burkhardt
Internet Collection
The Disappointments: Written by Wealthy Burns
The Carol Mendelsohn School Drama Fellowship
Hayley Tibbenham
Paul Coleman
Laura Valín-Peñalba
The David and Lynn Angell School Comedy Fellowship
V Marks
Rafael Diez
Tex Gresham
New Voices Fellows
Albert M. Chan, Devon Kerr, Maurizio Ledezma, Myra Aquino, and Shannon TL Kearns (2022)
Andrew Bluestone, Brian Stampnitsky, Emma Soren, John Lowe, and Katherine Ruppe (2021)
Cara Danielle Brown, Chris Gibbons, Eric Anthony Glover, Eugene Ramos, and Lena Parodi (2020)
