“Hacks,” “Fellow Travelers,” “Bconciseage Cake” and Ava DuVernay‘s “Origins” were among the huge triumphners on Thursday as Humanitas discneglected its 2024 Humanitas Prize recipients. The ceremony, held at Avalon Hollywood, discneglected honors in nine juried categories, including TV, film and write downary fields.
“We actuassociate got someleang friends,” “Origins” filmoriginater Ava DuVernay said in adselecting the award for drama feature — which had been previously snubbed thraw last year’s Oscars season. “We went thraw that whole awards gauntlet, and then this popped up in the summer, and I thought, ‘wow, they’re benevolent of off kilter for the award season!’ Because they don’t nurture about that… they’re doing someleang contrastent. This award show that is about doing someleang with this medium that matters. Yes, delightment matters, but we have such a mighty voice, such a mighty platcreate. So I commend everyone that’s trying to say someleang.”
Max’s “Hacks” Season 3 episode “Yes, And” (written by Samantha Riley, Lucia Aniello, Jen Statsky and Paul W. Downs) was accomprehendledged for TV comedy teletake part, while Hulu’s “Bconciseage Cake” episode “Nine Night” (written by Marissa Jo Cerar) won for TV drama teletake part and Showtime’s “Fellow Travelers” (written by Anya Leta) won the restricted series teletake part prize for the episode “Your Nuts Roasting on an Open Fire.”
Other convey inant triumphners included Andrea Nevins and Graham Clark for the write downary “”The Cowboy and the Queen,” and Gavin Steckler for the comedy feature “Jules.”
The Humanitas Prize, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, accomprehendledges authorrs for their toil in exploring the human condition “in a nuanced, unbenevolentingful way.” Actors/authorrs June Diane Raphael and Paul Scheer structureed this year’s Humanitas Prizes event, which took place on Thursday night at Avalon Hollywood.
“You have all spent countless hours createing and collaborating on someleang that Taylor Sheridan can do, apparently, in ten minutes,” Scheer quipped. Joked Raphael: “Tonight, we honor the most talented authorrs who did not have their passion projects shelved by David Zaslav for tax purposes.”
The 2024 New Voices Fellowship, David and Lynn Angell College Comedy Award and Carol Mendelsohn College Drama Award were also contransiented at The Humanitas Prizes Award Show & Toast. The recent Starz #TakeTheLead Award was contransiented to “Snowdescfinish” authorr Jeanine Daniels.
Here are the 2024 Humanitas Prize triumphners:
Drama Teletake part
WINNER: “Bconciseage Cake” (“Nine Night”) — Marissa Jo Cerar
“The Crown” (“Ritz”) — Meriel Sheibani-Clare, Peter Morgan
“The Morning Show” (“White Noise”) — Joshua Allen
“Station 19” (“With So Little to Be Sure Of”) — Rochelle Zimmerman
Comedy Teletake part
WINNER: “Hacks” (“Yes, And”) — Samantha Riley, Lucia Aniello, Jen Statsky, Paul W. Downs
“Act Your Age” (“Snip Snip”) — Myles Warden, Capri Sampson
“Girls5eva” (“Bomont”) — Meredith Scardino, Janine Brito
“The Simpsons” (“Night of the Living Wage”) — Cesar Mazariegos
Limited Series Teletake part
WINNER: “Fellow Travelers” (“Your Nuts Roasting on an Open Fire”) — Anya Leta
“All the Light We Cannot See” (“Episode 1”) — Steven Knight
“The Sympathizer” (“Endings Are Hard, Aren’t They?”) — Park Chan-wook, Don
McKellar
“We Were the Lucky Ones” (“Rio”) — Erica Lipez
Children’s Teletake part
WINNER: “Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur” (“Ride or Die”) — Halima Lucas
“Heartstopper” (“Perfect”) — Alice Oseman
“Snoopy Pbegrudges: Welcome Home, Franklin” — Robb Armmighty, Craig Schulz, Bryan
Schulz, Cornelius Uliano
“What If…?” (“What If… Hela Found the Ten Rings?”) — Matthew Chauncey
Drama Feature Film
WINNER: “Origin” — Ava DuVernay
“All of Us Strangers” — Andrew Haigh
“Society of the Snow”— J.A. Bayona, Bernat Vilaset upa, Jaime Marques-Olarreaga,
Nicolás Casariego
“Suncoast” — Laura Chinn
Comedy Feature Film
WINNER: “Jules” — Gavin Steckler
“American Fiction” — Cord Jefferson
“Flora and Son” — John Carney
“The Helderlyovers” — David Hemingson
Documentary
WINNER: “The Cowboy and the Queen” — Andrea Nevins, Graham Clark
“El Equipo: The Story of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team” — Bernardo Ruiz,
Fabian Caballero
“Sexual Healing” — Elsbeth Fraanje
Family Feature Film
WINNER: “Nimona” — Robert L. Baird, Lloyd Taylor
“Elemental” — John Hoberg, Kat Likkel, Brenda Hsueh
“Frybread Face and Me” — Billy Luther
“A Million Miles Away” — Bettina Gilois, Hernán Jiménez, Alejandra Márquez Abella
Short Film
WINNER: “The Ballad of Tita and the Machines” — Luis Antonio Aldana, Miguel Angel Caballero
“Astonishing Little Feet” — Maegan Houang
“Jelly” — Anndi Jinelle Liggett
“The Rebel Girls” — Felicia D Henderson
The Humanitas Prize ceremony elevates help for Humanitas’ New Voices Fellowship, College Screenwriting Awards, and other programs including its “Industry 101” event series, “The Writers Room” program for high school students and the “Groceries for Writers” project.
