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Rita Moreno recently received the Stanley Kramer Award during the 33rd Producers Guild of America Awards. According to the trade association representing television producers, film producers, and New Media producers in the United States, the Stanley Kramer Award “honors a production, producer, or other individuals whose achievement or contribution illuminates and raises public awareness of important social issues.” During Moreno’s acceptance speech, the 90-year-old EGOT winner recalled the time she witnessed live when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech at the 1963 March on Washington. Moreno said Harry Belafonte invited her.“I am not a person of religious faith, but for me, film has often been a sacred text that has spurred me to follow what [Abraham Lincoln] called, the better angels of our nature,” she began her acceptance speech.“In 1963, as I sat on Abraham Lincoln’s steps, only a few feet from Dr. King.
I was there. I was there,” Moreno recounted. “I heard his best friend who was sitting next to him, Mahalia Jackson, cry out to him — this is the truth — ‘Tell them about the dream, Martin.
Tell them about the dream.’ Because he had started a different speech, and she wanted people to hear about the dream. And thanks to an invitation from Harry Belafonte, I was there to hear the preacher’s dream.”Known as the first Latina actress to win an Oscar, and to date, the only one with an Academy Award, the 1961’s West Side Story star recognized filmmakers who “keep on preaching and never stop advocating for matters of equity and justice.” “It is so meaningful to me and so gratifying to receive this extraordinary recognition and to be associated with his legacy,” she said. “I am 90 now, and
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It’s been one year since Jennifer Lopez, 52, and Ben Affleck, 49, rekindled their romance and no one remembers it quite like her former co-star, Cheech Marin, 75. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY to Cheech — who worked with J.Lo in March 2021, when they filmed the movie Shotgun Wedding together in the Dominican Republic — at The 4th Annual Griot Gala Oscars After Party, following the Oscars on March 27. And, apparently, it was obvious to everyone on set because Jen was “so happy all the time” during filming!
Two years after Jessica Chastain and husband Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo welcomed their second child, the actress revealed the toddler’s name.
, one of the night’s most highly nominated films with seven awards up for grabs, including best supporting actress for , who plays Anita. (Naturally, the pair shared a hug when they were reunited on the red carpet.) All the way back in 1961, Moreno picked up the award for her performance in the very same role.
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Rita Moreno appeared at Saturday Night’s PGA Awards, accepting the Stanley Kramer Award from the Producers Guild of America.
In accepting the Stanley Kramer Award at the PGAs tonight, EGOT winner and West Side Story actress Rita Moreno, reflected on the time she first heard Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech near the Lincoln monument in Washington D.C. She was invited to the event by Harry Belafonte.
Paul Plunkett When this year’s Producers Guild of America Awards are handed out, along with those being recognized for their achievements in projects over the last year will be a handful of the industry’s top names, receiving the guild’s Honorary Awards.These Honorary Awards were not handed out during last year’s virtual ceremony, adding more excitement to this year’s in-person event.The 2022 Visionary Award, which recognizes a television, film or new media producer for unique or uplifting contributions to our culture through inspiring storytelling or performance, will be awarded to Issa Rae. The producer-actor-writer, whose HBO series “Insecure” wrapped up this year after five seasons, also served as executive producer on “A Black Lady Sketch Show” and “Sweet Life: Los Angeles,” to name a few of her credits.
Sasha Urban editorIn one of the most star-studded lineups of this year’s awards season, Serena Williams, Nick Jonas and Oscar nominees Kristen Stewart and Ciaran Hinds have been tapped as presenters at the 33rd annual Producers Guild Awards Saturday evening, Variety has learned exclusively.They will be joined at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel by Josh Brolin, Rachel Brosnahan, Daniel Durant, Alana Haim, Jude Hill, Chris Pine, Daniel Dae Kim, Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin, Ryan Murphy, Simon Rex and Kerry Washington, as well as previously announced presenters Meryl Streep, Casey Bloys, Jamie Dornan, Michelle Yeoh, Aunjanue Ellis, Jung Ho-yeon, Linda Lavin, David Alvarez, Jessica Chastain, Denis Villeneuve, Troy Kotsur, Andrew Garfield, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Steven Spielberg. The PGA Awards are known to be a strong predictor of which film will take home best picture at the Academy Awards, which will be held on March 27.
Heather Rae Young is opening up about undergoing vocal cord surgery she could no longer avoid.The star took to Instagram on Wednesday and revealed that, in less than 24 hours, she went from soaking up the sun in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico with friends and her husband Tarek El Moussa to laying on a bed recovering from vocal cord surgery.«It was a long time coming for me as I've been battling vocal stress for years,» the luxury real estate agent captioned her post in part. «After resting for 3 months I was never going to be 100% so surgery was my only route.» She had previously opened up about being on bed rest and vocal rest for three months due to inflammation and calluses on her vocal cords.Young, who also thanked her doctors and El Moussa for the care and support, said many fans of the popular Netflix series «noticed the [sic] my voice issues when watching #Sellingsunset and #flipping101 but on the road to recovery.»A post shared by Heather Rae El Moussa (@heatherraeyoung)The surgery comes two months after Young updated fans on her fertility journey as she and El Moussa attempt to expand their family.
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic“The Prank” is no big whoop, but for a good stretch it’s a tartly written, engagingly nasty little comedy of high-school vengeance. It’s set during the senior year of Ben (Connor Kalopsis), the kind of eager, obsessive-compulsive overachiever who prints out several backup copies of his homework assignments, and Tanner (Ramona Young), a hacker, high on energy drinks, who’s his equally brainy but less responsible best friend. These two exist in their own unpopular cloistered geek space.
Rita Moreno is back on the awards season circuit with Steven Spielberg's celebrated new adaptation of the Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim musical and ready to cheer on Ariana DeBose, who is poised to make Oscars history once again with a win for the same role.«I'll tell you what, this is an Oscar part,» Moreno told ET's Will Marfuggi at the 74th Directors Guild of America Awards on Saturday night. «And I can tell you the scene that seals it, and it's the scene in the candy store.
Ariana DeBose is unstoppable! The Afro-Latina won in the best supporting actress category at the 2022 Critics Choice Awards for her stunning performance as Anita in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story.“Wow, this is wild. I wrote some things down, and yet my phone is over there.
The full list of winners has been announced for the 2022 Critics Choice Awards!