Imagen Awards Winners List: ‘Love, Victor’, ‘Encanto’, Eugenio Derbez, ‘Selena: The Series’ Among Honorees
03.10.2022 - 06:25
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The Imagen Awards unveiled the winners of their 37th annual gala honoring Latinos in television and film. Some of the honorees that received the accolade included the animated film Encanto for Best Feature Film, Love, Victor as Best Comedy Primetime Program and Selena: The Series for Best Drama Primetime Program.
Luis Valdez, a writer, director and playwright, was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award. The influential filmmaker was behind La Bamba which celebrated its 35th anniversary since its release.
Television producer and Imagen Awards co-founder Norman Lear, who turned 100 years old this year, was honored with sincere and emotional messages from select audience members. Lear captivated the audience with a heartfelt recorded message over the video monitors.
Winners of the Imagen Awards were determined by an independent panel of entertainment industry executives and Latina and Latino community leaders.
The pre-recorded 37th Annual Imagen Awards will be broadcast on PBS SoCal on Saturday, October 29th, 2022, at 6 p.m. PDT, on KCET on Wednesday, November 2 at 7 p.m. PT, and available to stream nationally on pbs.org.
Encanto (Disney+; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Jared Bush, Byron Howard, and Charise Castro Smith, Encanto (Disney+; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Eugenio Derbez, CODA (Apple TV+; Vendome Pictures / Pathé in association with Apple)
Ariana DeBose, West Side Story (Walt Disney Studios)
Selena: The Series (Netflix; A Campanario Entertainment Production for Netflix)
Love, Victor (Hulu; 20thTelevision)
Book of Love (Prime Video; Amazon Studios)
Jorge R. Gutierrez, Maya and the Three (Netflix)
Oscar Isaac, Scenes From a Marriage (HBO/HBO Max; HBO in association with Sheleg, Media Res,