Adobe Launches $6M Film and TV Fund to Support Underrepresented Creators
Adobe and the Adobe Foundation are committing $6 million to launch a film and television fund to help underrepresented creators starting out in their careers. The Adobe Film & TV Fund will support the work of existing nonprofits that serve historically excluded communities, with the inaugural cohort of grantees including Easterseals, Gold House, Latinx House, […]
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2023 Emmys Ties Record for Most Winning Actors of Color
The 2023 edition of the Emmys was its most diverse ever. As the awards show celebrated its 75th anniversary, five of the 12 acting Emmys handed out on Monday night — pushed four months to Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a result of the 2023 strikes — went to performers of color, tying the […]
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Most Memorable Emmy Moments, From ‘The Bear’ Stars Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Matty Matheson’s Kiss to Ali Wong and Quinta Brunson Making History
The 75th Emmy Awards were filled with plenty of memorable moments, from historic wins to emotional tributes and a long, sultry onstage kiss. Some of them included Ali Wong and Quinta Brunson wins’ serving as Emmy milestones, Elton John joining the very elusive EGOT club, and Matty Matheson getting a kiss on the mouth from The […]
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Ali Wong Becomes First Asian Woman to Win an Emmy for a Lead Role
Ali Wong has made history. The comedian continued Beef’s awards sweep with television’s highest honor, winning the Emmy for best actress in a limited series. The win makes Wong the first woman of Asian descent ever to win an Emmy for a lead role. Sandra Oh has been nominated three times in the drama series […]
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Emmys: Quinta Brunson Is First Black Comedy Lead Actress Winner in More Than 40 Years
At the 2023 Emmy Awards, a night especially dedicated to celebrating the history of television, Quinta Brunson’s early win evoked a milestone set more than 40 years ago. After earning the statuette for comedy series writing last year, the Abbott Elementary star won for best actress in a comedy series. The first and heretofore only […]
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Eugenio Derbez Tells Yalitza Aparicio About His Dramatic Turn in ‘Radical’: “You Always Have to Be Smiling, And That Makes You Carry a Sadness Inside”
In Radical, Mexican superstar Eugenio Derbez plays Sergio, a teacher in a neglected Mexican school who deploys unorthodox pedagogical methods, throwing the typical curriculum out the window despite skepticism from administrators, corruption from local officials and the life-threatening obstacles faced by his young charges. After winning the festival favorite award at Sundance a year ago, […]
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Improved Awareness But Not Accountability: Anita Hill’s Hollywood Commission Releases Second Workplace Abuse Survey
The good news is that more workers in Hollywood now know how to identify workplace misconduct, and how to report it. The bad news is that even fewer believe reporting such misconduct leads to any real results. These are two of the key takeaways from the 2022-23 Entertainment Industry Survey, the second such report from […]
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‘Queen Sugar,’ ‘With Love,’ ‘Rap Sh!t’ Top Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, Adobe’s First Inclusion List for TV
Ahead of the Emmy Awards on Monday, USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative and the Adobe Foundation have released a new edition of their Inclusion List, this time focused on episodic content. OWN’s Queen Sugar and Netflix’s Raising Dion were the top-ranked series on broadcast/cable and streaming, respectively, while Berlanti Productions’ Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schecter had […]
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‘Past Lives,’ Charles Melton Lead Gold List of Asian Pacific Islander Awards Contenders
After last awards season’s banner haul for artists of Asian descent, Gold House and CAPE are hoping the community will strike gold again. The two leading Asian Pacific nonprofits in the entertainment industry have revealed the results of their fourth annual Gold List, which draws attention to the top API hopefuls in the awards race. […]
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Inside La Cena Los Angeles, a Celebration of Community and Excellence in Latino Hollywood (Exclusive Photos)
Year 2023 will be remembered in Hollywood for various phenomena — the strikes, Barbenheimer — but for Latinos, 2023 was the year that saw a relatively significant number of movies and TV releases from and about their community, in a variety of genres. With actors and writers spending about half of last year unable to […]
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Julianna Margulies, Greg Berlanti, Mayim Bialik Among 260 Signatories of Letter to Film Academy Critiquing Jewish Exclusion from Diversity Standards
Amid Israel’s ongoing war with Hamas, Jewish entertainment figures have come together to issue an open letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences criticizing their exclusion from being specified as an underrepresented group. “An inclusion effort that excludes Jews is both steeped in and misunderstands antisemitism,” reads the letter, organized by the […]
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Sundance’s Second Annual Indigenous House to Feature Fireside Chat with Sydney Freeland (Exclusive)
IllumiNative is bringing its Indigenous House back to the Sundance Film Festival. Now with a third day of programming, the Main Street gathering spot will run Jan. 19-21 and feature music, art and food celebrating Native culture. Talks include a fireside chat with director Sydney Freeland (Navajo), whose latest project is Marvel’s upcoming Disney+ series […]
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