The 2023 Sentinel Awards had been handed out tonight Awards on the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills, and winners included writers for such TV sequence as Gray’s Anatomy, Station 19, Superman & Lois, The Diplomat and Tiny Lovely Issues. See the complete checklist beneath.
Introduced by Hollywood, Well being & Society on the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Heart for greater than twenty years, the Sentinel Awards acknowledge writers for significant and correct portrayals onscreen on such well timed subjects as abortion, systemic racism, local weather change and psychological well being. Larry Wilmore hosted the ceremony, which got here the night time that Lear died at age 101.
Attendees heard an announcement from Lyn Lear learn at first of the present by Marty Kaplan, founding director of the Norman Lear Heart.
“I’d have been there tonight if not for the passing of our beloved Norman,” she wrote. “He was so pleased with the work of The Lear Heart and Hollywood Well being and Society. And he wouldn’t have wished all of us to mourn. He would need us to rejoice the essential exhibits you might be honoring tonight, and most of all… he would need us to giggle.”
Wilmore joked, “Effectively you bought to say this about Norman – the person knew tips on how to make an exit. He knew his viewers. And wished us to verify we had been all listening.”
He continued, “A large has left us and we’re going to do him proud. This night meant so much to Norman, as a result of he believed tv can mirror our greatest. That’s why the Sentinel Awards had been created – to honor tv’s greatest and brightest writing.”
Listed below are the winners of the 2023 Sentinel Awards:
Depiction of Abortion
Julie Wong, Gray’s Anatomy (ABC), “Once I Get to the Border”
Depiction of A.I.
Tara Hernandez & Damon Lindelof, Mrs. Davis (Peacock), “The Closing Intercut: So I’m Your Horse”
Depiction of Breast Most cancers
Brent Fletcher & Todd Helbing, Superman & Lois (The CW), four-episode storyline
Depiction of Disabilities
Matt Fleckenstein, Zach Anner, and Gillian Grassie, Greatest Foot Ahead (Apple TV+), “Halloween”
Depiction of Local weather Change
Scott Z. Burns, Extrapolations (Apple TV+), ‘2046: Whale Fall”
Depiction of Diplomacy
Debora Cahn and Anna Haden, The Diplomat (Netflix), “Some Lusty Twister”
Depiction of Financial Disparities
Chris Estrada, Matt Ingebretson, Pat Bishop, Jake Weisman, This Idiot (Hulu), “Los Botes”
Depiction of Finish of Life
Liz Tigelaar, Tiny Lovely Issues (Hulu), “The Nostril”
Depiction of Maternal Well being
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Hassle (FX on Hulu), “Me-Time”
Depiction of Psychological Well being
Adam Kay, That is Going to Damage (AMC+) “Episode 6”, BBC
Depiction of Systemic Racism
Zoanne Clack and Zaiver Sinnett, Station 19 (ABC), “We Construct Then We Break”
