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The San Quentin Film Festival — the first-ever film festival held inside a prison — has named its inaugural industry jury, which includes Jeffrey Wright, Billy Crudup, Mary-Louise Parker and more.

The festival, taking place Oct. 10 and 11 at the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center in northern California, will highlight short films and pitches from current and formerly incarcerated filmmakers in front of a jury made up of entertainment industry artists and executives. Separately, an “inside jury” made up of currently incarcerated people will judge narrative and documentary feature films about the prison experience made by filmmakers who have never served prison time.

Actors on the industry jury include Wright, Crudup, Parker and Kathy Najimy.

Directors on the jury include Elegance Bratton, Taylor Hackford, Lynn Novick, Greg Kwedar, Jeff Stanzler and Joe Talbot.

Writer-producers on the jury include Sam Catlin, Lawrence O’Donnell, Piper Kerman (“Orange Is the New Black”) and J.T. Rogers.

The jury also includes Len Amato,...

Columbia Journalism School has announced the 30 Finalists and winners of the 2024 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, honoring outstanding public service audio and video reporting.

David Muir of ABC News and Audie Cornish of CNN hosted Thursday’s ceremony at the Low Memorial Library on Columbia University’s campus.

PBS won three duPont-Columbia Awards: one for courageous reporting from Ukraine in “20 Days in Mariupol,” one from Afghanistan in “Afghanistan Undercover,” and a third for Ken Burns’ six-hour series, “The U.S. and the Holocaust” (Florentine Films/Weta).

ABC News took home two awards for environmental reporting and for ABC News Studios’ “Aftershock.”

Ten of the Finalists honored local newsrooms, including two of the audio Finalists from Wbur and Nhpr.

A jury made up of industry veterans selected 30 finalists and 15 winners. The pool of entries included traditional national and local news outlets from across the country, as well as streaming and entertainment outlets.

PBS and ABC News were among the top winners at the duPont-Columbia Awards, some of the top honors accorded each year to audio and video reporting done in the public interest.

The 15 award winners of 2024 were announced Thursday during a special ceremony. The awards have been administered since 1968 by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

PBS won three duPont-Columbia Awards: one for courageous reporting from Ukraine in “20 Days in Mariupol”; one from Afghanistan in “Afghanistan Undercover” — both in documentaries produced by Frontline, and a thirdfor Ken Burns’ six-hour series “The U.S. and the Holocaust” (Florentine Films/Weta). Meanwhile, ABC News took home two awards — one for environmental reporting and one for ABC News Studios’ “Aftershock.”

A jury made up of industry veterans selected 30 finalists and 15 winners. The pool of entries included traditional national and local news outlets from across the country, as well as streaming and entertainment outlets.

At the last Creative Arts Emmys back in Sept. 2022, “Succession” was tied for the most nominations (13) but took home just one trophy (Drama Casting). This year looks to be different, as according to our current combined odds in 31 categories, the fourth and final season of the smash HBO series will nab at least three victories. Other shows that will score multiple trophies include the enduring game show “Jeopardy!,” the first season of “The Bear” and the TV movie “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.”

These official odds for the Creative Arts Emmys are derived from the predictions of our Experts who write about television year-round, our in-house team of Editors, the Top 24 Users who did the best predicting last year’s ceremony, the All-Star Top 24 who have the highest scores when you combine predictions from the last two years and all our Users who make up the largest and often savviest bloc of predictors.

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.

Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:

Oscars | Emmys | Grammys | Tonys

2023 Emmy Predictions:

Outstanding Documentary of Nonfiction (Series) “Harry & Meghan” was directed by Liz Garbus.

Weekly Commentary: A tight race ensues for acclaimed documentaries. Ken Burns’ powerful “The U.S. and the Holocaust” which premiered at Telluride 2022 before hitting television screens, is a favorite in the category.

Read: Variety’s...

We will update this article throughout the season, along with all our predictions, so make sure to keep checking IndieWire for the latest news from the 2023 Emmys race. The nomination round of voting takes place from June 15 to June 26, with the official Emmy nominations announced Wednesday, July 12. Afterward, final voting commences August 17 and ends the night of August 28. The 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards will now take place Monday, January 15, live on Fox at 8:00 p.m. Et/ 5:00 p.m. Pt.

See our previous thoughts on what to expect at the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards here.

The State of the Race

Months of predictions often lead to plenty of last minute second guessing, but it does seem like HBO has given enough of a last minute boost to “100 Foot Wave” Season 2 for it to go all the way. Again, it really said something last year that the exhilarating...

Please Note: This forecast, assembled by The Hollywood Reporter’s executive editor of awards coverage Scott Feinberg, reflects his best attempt to predict the behavior of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, not his personal preferences. He arrives at these standings by drawing upon consultations with voters and strategists, analysis of marketing and campaigns, results of awards that precede the Emmys and the history of the Emmys itself.

*Best Drama Series*

Projected Standings

Succession (HBO/Max)

The White Lotus (HBO/Max)

The Last of Us (HBO/Max)

Better Call Saul (AMC)

House of the Dragon (HBO/Max)

Andor (Disney+)

The Crown (Netflix)

Yellowjackets (Showtime)

*Best Comedy Series*

Projected Standings

The Bear (FX)

Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)

Abbott Elementary (ABC)

Barry (HBO/Max)

Jury Duty (Amazon Freevee)

Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon)

Wednesday (Netflix)

*Best Limited Or Anthology Series*

Projected Standings

Beef (Netflix)

Dahmer...

Documentary Or Nonfiction Series

100 Foot Wave (HBO)

100 Foot Wave (HBO)

Chris Smith’s program about big-wave surfers is nominated for the second consecutive year (it won for cinematography last year). Season two features half as many episodes but still earned six noms — twice as many as the category’s next highest finishers.

The 1619 Project (Hulu)

The 1619 Project (Hulu)

Nikole Hannah-Jones and Oprah Winfrey exec produced this adaptation of the Pulitzer-winning New York Times feature about the role of racism in U.S. history. While certainly hitting the zeitgeist, it’s one of only two nominees without a directing or writing nom.

Dear Mama (FX/Hulu)

Dear Mama (FX/Hulu)

Allen Hughes’ series shares never-before-released audio and video of Tupac Shakur and his mom. Having bowed in May, more recently than any other nominee, it has a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score but is tied for a category...

If you’re celebrating Rhea Seehorn‘s Television Critics Association Award victory for Individual Achievement in Drama for “Better Call Saul,” you’re not alone. Gold Derby’s savvy, adamant and sometimes brutally honest forum posters have been jumping up and down over her long-overdue recognition ever since the winners for the 39th TCA Awards were announced on Monday, August 7. Our readers were also ecstatic about “Succession” finally nabbing the award for Program of the Year after bids in 2020 and 2022, and Natasha Lyonne taking home a solo honor for her multifaceted work on “Poker Face.” But how did Jeremy Allen White not prevail for two-time champ “The Bear”? And where’s the love for “The White Lotus” and “Never Have I Ever”?

Below, you can take a look at a sampling of the praise and pointed criticism that was leveled at some of this year’s results. Read more of...

The Television Critics Association announced the winners for the 39th annual awards on Monday.

As expected, it was another clean sweep for Succession and The Bear -- both of which have been awards magnets since their debuts.

Check out the complete list of winners below.

Individual Achievement In Drama

Christine Baranski, The Good Fight

Kieran Culkin, Succession

Dominique Fishback, Swarm

Betty Gilpin, Mrs. Davis

Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us

Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us

Rhea Seehorn, Better Call Saul — Winner

Sarah Snook, Succession

Jeremy Strong, Succession

Individual Achievement In Comedy

Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary (2022 Winner)

Ayo Edebiri, The Bear

Harrison Ford, Shrinking

Bill Hader, Barry

Janelle James, Abbott Elementary

Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face — Winner

James Marsden, Jury Duty

Jeremy Allen White, The Bear

Outstanding Achievement In News And Information

30 for 30 (ESPN)

Free Chol Soo Lee (PBS)

Frontline (PBS)

Pepsi, Where’s My Jet? (Netflix)

Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence...

Winners for the 39th annual Television Critics Association (TCA) Awards were announced on Monday and HBO’s Succession emerged victorious. The series was named Program of the Year and took home Outstanding Achievement in Drama honors for the second year in a row.

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The Bear (Season 1) also nabbed two trophies, for Outstanding New...

“Succession” ruled the 39th Television Critics Association Awards with two wins, including the top prize, Program of the Year.

It’s the first time the HBO hit has won TCA’s most prestigious award after bids in 2020 and 2022. “Succession” also won drama series for the third time, following victories in 2020 and 2022, to join “The Americans,” “Homicide: Life on the Street,” “Lost” and “Mad Men” as three-time champs in the category (“The Sopranos” holds the record with four wins). This means that “Succession” has won drama series for three of its four seasons, having only lost on its first nomination in 2019 to “Better Call Saul.”

Along with “The Last of Us” and “The Bear,” “Succession” co-led nominations with five bids. Its other three nominations were in Individual Achievement in Drama for Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook and Jeremy Strong, making it the third show to score three spots in the category after...

HBO’s “Succession” was a critical darling, so it’s probably befitting that the show would end its run with two final lauds from the Television Critics Assn. The 39th Annual TCA Awards — which canceled its in-person event this year due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes — released its list of winners on Monday, with “Succession” grabbing the prizes for program of the year, as well as outstanding achievement in drama (an award it also won in 2022 and 2020).

Other major winners included FX’s “The Bear,” which airs on Hulu. The series’ first season was honored as outstanding new program, as well as outstanding achievement in comedy. The TCA spread the wealth when it comes to individual achievements, honoring “Better Call Saul” star Rhea Seehorn in drama, and “Poker Face” star Natasha Lyonne in comedy.

Also, Netflix’s “Beef” and “I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson” won top prizes,...

“Succession” has been named Program of the Year by the Television Critics Association, the organization’s most prestigious award. The HBO darling also took home Outstanding Achievement in Drama, a TCA Awards category it won in both 2020 and 2022.

Kendall Roy and his family weren’t the only ones to walk away with two of the organization’s coveted 14 awards. FX’s dramedy “The Bear” won both Outstanding New Program and Outstanding Achievement in Comedy.

Overall, there were four networks and streamers that tied with two TCA Awards winners each. HBO won twice thanks to “Succession;” FX had two awards with “The Bear;” Netflix won twice for “Beef” and “I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson;” and Disney+ won twice thanks to “Bluey” and “Ms. Marvel.”

Additionally, Amazon Freevee’s “Jury Duty” won Outstanding Achievement in Reality Programming, Netflix’s “I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson” won Outstanding Achievement in Variety,...

Please Note: This forecast, assembled by The Hollywood Reporter’s executive editor of awards coverage Scott Feinberg, reflects his best attempt to predict the behavior of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, not his personal preferences. He arrives at these standings by drawing upon consultations with voters and strategists, analysis of marketing and campaigns, results of awards that precede the Emmys and the history of the Emmys itself.

*Best Drama Series*

Projected Standings

Succession (HBO/Max)

The White Lotus (HBO/Max)

The Last of Us (HBO/Max)

Better Call Saul (AMC)

Yellowjackets (Showtime)

Andor (Disney+)

The Crown (Netflix)

House of the Dragon (HBO/Max)

*Best Comedy Series*

Projected Standings

The Bear (FX)

Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)

Abbott Elementary (ABC)

Barry (HBO/Max)

Jury Duty (Amazon Freevee)

Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)

Wednesday (Netflix)

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon)

*Best Limited Or Anthology Series*

Projected Standings

Beef (Netflix)

Dahmer...

On the brink of turning 70, Ken Burns will release his very first film, “Working in Rural New England,” which he made as an undergraduate at Hampshire College. The 28-minute docu will be released July 25 on Unum, Burn’s American history digital platform on PBS.

About Old Sturbridge Village, an outdoor history museum in Massachusetts that re-creates life in rural New England from 1790 through the 1830s, the docu was commissioned by the museum in 1973. The film served as Burns’ senior thesis at the liberal arts college in nearby Amherst, Mass. Accompanying the doc on Unum is a pre-recorded conversation between Burns and New York Times literary critic A.O. Scott.

“It in some ways does not look like a Ken Burns film,” Scott says during his conversation with Burns. “It’s moving images in the present day, in color. So, it doesn’t immediately say to a modern viewer, a film by Ken Burns.

Please Note: This forecast, assembled by The Hollywood Reporter’s executive editor of awards coverage Scott Feinberg, reflects his best attempt to predict the behavior of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, not his personal preferences. He arrives at these standings by drawing upon consultations with voters and strategists, analysis of marketing and campaigns, results of awards that precede the Emmys and the history of the Emmys itself.

*Best Drama Series*

Projected Standings

Succession (HBO/Max)

The White Lotus (HBO/Max)

The Last of Us (HBO/Max)

Better Call Saul (AMC)

Yellowjackets (Showtime)

The Crown (Netflix)

Andor (Disney+)

House of the Dragon (HBO/Max)

*Best Comedy Series*

Projected Standings

Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)

The Bear (FX)

Abbott Elementary (ABC)

Barry (HBO/Max)

Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)

Jury Duty (Amazon Freevee)

Wednesday (Netflix)

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon)

*Best Limited Or Anthology Series*

Projected Standings

Beef (Netflix)

Dahmer...

Please Note: This forecast, assembled by The Hollywood Reporter’s executive editor of awards coverage Scott Feinberg, reflects his best attempt to predict the behavior of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, not his personal preferences. He arrives at these standings by drawing upon consultations with voters and strategists, analysis of marketing and campaigns, results of awards that precede the Emmys and the history of the Emmys itself.

*Best Drama Series*

Projected Nominees

Succession (HBO/Max)

The White Lotus: Sicily (HBO/Max)

The Last of Us (HBO/Max)

Better Call Saul (AMC)

Yellowjackets (Showtime)

The Crown (Netflix)

Andor (Disney+)

House of the Dragon (HBO/Max)

Alternate

The Diplomat (Netflix)

Potential Surprise

The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)

Shoulda Been a Contenda

Yellowstone (Paramount)

*Best Comedy Series*

Projected Nominees

Abbott Elementary (ABC)

Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)

The Bear (FX)

Barry (HBO/Max)

Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)

Wednesday (Netflix)

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel...

The Television Critics Association awards nominations went public Friday, and it was great news for some series and sad news for others.

The Last of Us, The Bear, and Succession are in a three-way tie with five nominations apiece.

All three shows were expected to get some awards love, so their performances here are not surprising.

The Bear has been a bonafide hit for FX and Hulu, but there were some more first-year shows in the mix, too.

Andor, Jury Duty, Shrinking, Interview With the Vampire, and Poker Face were all well-represented.

Somewhat surprising: Ted Lasso and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel were shut out.

The news comes after both series have been big hits on the awards front and could set a precedent for upcoming awards shows.

Awards will be handed out at an in-person ceremony on August 7, 2023.

Check out the complete list of nominations below.

Individual Achievement In Drama

Christine Baranski,...

There won’t be a TCA Summer Tour this year, but the Television Critics Association is out with the nominees for its 39th annual TCA Awards. Wrapped HBO Emmy winner Succession, sophomore FX dramedy The Bear and HBO’s freshman drama The Last of Us lead the field with five noms each. See the full list below.

ABC’s Emmy-winning comedy Abbott Elementary and Peacock rookie Poker Face are next with four nominations apiece.

Among networks and platforms, the combined HBO/HBO Max doubled up its closest competition with 20 noms to FX’s 10. Streamers Disney+ and Peacock were next with nine each. PBS/PBS Kids got seven.

There are two new categories this year: Outstanding Achievement in Family Programming and Outstanding Achievement in Children’s Programming. Those nominations were dominated by PBS and/or streamers.

Here are all the nominees for the 2023 TCA Awards, followed by the list of noms...

The final seasons of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and (maybe-probably) Ted Lasso got the cold shoulder from the Television Critics Assoc., which honored the Emmy-winning pair with a total of zero TCA Award nominations.

By contrast, Succession‘s swan song scored a leading five nods, putting the Roy family in a three-way tie with fellow HBO drama The Last of Us and Hulu’s breakout hit The Bear.

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HBO’s Succession and The Last of Us as well as FX/Hulu comedy The Bear lead all nominations for the 39th annual Television Critics Association’s awards.

The nominations, voted on by the more than 200 members of the Television Critics Association, also saw HBO and its streaming counterpart, Max, lead all platforms with a combined 20 nods including five each for Succession and Last of Us and two apiece for Barry, The Other Two and The White Lotus.

FX — which produces The Bear (five) followed in second place with 10, while Disney+ (Andor) and Peacock (Poker Face) tied for third with nine apiece.

The coveted program of the year race featured last year’s winner, ABC’s Abbott Elementary, joined by Andor, AMC’s Better Call Saul, Poker Face, Succession, The Bear, The Last of Us, The Other Two and The White Lotus.

The outstanding new program, which has been a...

Please Note: This forecast, assembled by The Hollywood Reporter’s awards columnist Scott Feinberg, reflects his best attempt to predict the behavior of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, not his personal preferences. He arrives at these standings by drawing upon consultations with voters and strategists, analysis of marketing and campaigns, results of awards that precede the Emmys and the history of the Emmys itself. There will be regular updates to reflect new developments.

*Best Drama Series*

Frontrunners

Succession (HBO/Max)

The White Lotus: Sicily (HBO/Max)

The Last of Us (HBO/Max)

Better Call Saul (AMC)

Yellowjackets (Showtime)

House of the Dragon (HBO/Max)

The Crown (Netflix)

The Diplomat (Netflix)

Major Threats

Andor (Disney+)

The Mandalorian (Disney+)

The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)

The Old Man (FX)

1923 (Paramount+)

Yellowstone (Paramount)

Possibilities

Bad Sisters (Apple TV+)

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (Netflix) — podcast [Shonda Rhimes]

The Boys (Amazon)

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power...

During a recent Gold Derby video interview, news and features editor Ray Richmond spoke in-depth with Ken Burns about the three-part, six-hour documentary film he co-produced and co-directed for PBS, “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” which is eligible at the 2023 Emmy Awards. Watch the full video above and read the complete interview transcript below.

“I will never work on a more important film than this one,” declares Burns of “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” the film documentary he co-produced and co-directed (with frequent collaborators Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein) and released last September. Coming from Burns, that’s a mouthful, considering he is perhaps the most celebrated documentarian of our time and the foremost chronicler of the American experience. He’s a filmmaker who is responsible for many of the most treasured nonfiction series and biographies ever put to film, among them “The Civil War,” “Baseball,” “Jazz,” “Jackie Robinson” and “The Vietnam War.

Please Note: This forecast, assembled by The Hollywood Reporter’s awards columnist Scott Feinberg, reflects his best attempt to predict the behavior of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, not his personal preferences. He arrives at these standings by drawing upon consultations with voters and strategists, analysis of marketing and campaigns, results of awards that precede the Emmys and the history of the Emmys itself. There will be regular updates to reflect new developments.

*Best Drama Series*

Frontrunners

Succession (HBO/Max)

The White Lotus: Sicily (HBO/Max)

The Last of Us (HBO/Max)

Better Call Saul (AMC)

The Crown (Netflix)

Yellowjackets (Showtime)

The Mandalorian (Disney+)

The Diplomat (Netflix)

Major Threats

House of the Dragon (HBO/Max)

Andor (Disney+)

The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)

The Old Man (FX)

1923 (Paramount+)

Yellowstone (Paramount)

Possibilities

Bad Sisters (Apple TV+)

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (Netflix) — podcast [Shonda Rhimes]

The Boys (Amazon)

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power...

100 Foot Wave (HBO/Max) 100 Foot Wave

Chris Smith’s show about big-wave surfing is back in contention for its second season, just a year after its first was nominated in this category and won for cinematography. Surfer extraordinaire Garrett McNamara returns with other surfers and their stories, too.

Dear Mama (FX/Hulu) Dear Mama

Allen Hughes, a nominee in this category in 2018 for The Defiant Ones, profiles Tupac Shakur and his activist mom. (jeen-yuhs, which explored Kanye West’s relationship with his mom, was nominated for this award last year.) It attracted the most viewers ever for an FX unscripted show.

Prehistoric Planet (Apple TV+) Prehistoric Planet

Season one of this David Attenborough-narrated study of dinosaurs was snubbed (its VFX is cutting-edge, but some doc purists object to re-creations). However, voters have a track record of embracing nature/animal-related docs in this category.

The 1619 Project (Hulu...

Documentarian Emily Wachtel met Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward when she was two years old. They were neighbors in Westport. Conn, the dearest of family friends. “I knew them my whole life,” says Wachtel. “They are the reason I am in film.”

Wachtel, producer of CNN Films for Max’s six-part docuseries “The Last Movie Stars,” which paints a sweeping, intimate, romantic portrait of the life, love and careers of Newman and Woodward, describes her childhood with the famed couple as if something out of a suburban New England dream.

“They were incredible people,” says Wachtel. “I was so young when I met them, and I didn’t understand what a movie star was at the time. But part of that is because they were so real. They’d pick you up to go to birthday parties, Joanne made sweaters. They had this big, beautiful barn on the property and...

Please Note: This forecast, assembled by The Hollywood Reporter’s awards columnist Scott Feinberg, reflects his best attempt to predict the behavior of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, not his personal preferences. He arrives at these standings by drawing upon consultations with voters and strategists, analysis of marketing and campaigns, results of awards that precede the Emmys and the history of the Emmys itself. There will be regular updates to reflect new developments.

*Best Drama Series*

Frontrunners

Succession (HBO/Max)

The White Lotus: Sicily (HBO/Max)

The Last of Us (HBO/Max)

Better Call Saul (AMC)

The Crown (Netflix)

Yellowjackets (Showtime)

The Mandalorian (Disney+)

The Diplomat (Netflix)

Major Threats

House of the Dragon (HBO/Max)

Andor (Disney+)

The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)

The Old Man (FX)

1923 (Paramount+)

Yellowstone (Paramount)

Bad Sisters (Apple TV+)

Possibilities

The Boys (Amazon)

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Amazon)

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story...

Please Note: This forecast, assembled by The Hollywood Reporter’s awards columnist Scott Feinberg, reflects his best attempt to predict the behavior of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, not his personal preferences. He arrives at these standings by drawing upon consultations with voters and strategists, analysis of marketing and campaigns, results of awards that precede the Emmys and the history of the Emmys itself. There will be regular updates to reflect new developments.

*Best Drama Series*

Frontrunners

Succession (HBO/Max)

The White Lotus: Sicily (HBO/Max)

The Last of Us (HBO/Max)

Better Call Saul (AMC)

The Crown (Netflix)

Yellowjackets (Showtime)

The Mandalorian (Disney+)

The Diplomat (Netflix)

Major Threats

House of the Dragon (HBO/Max)

The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)

1923 (Paramount+)

Yellowstone (Paramount)

Andor (Disney+)

The Old Man (FX)

The Boys (Amazon)

Bad Sisters (Apple TV+)

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Amazon)

Possibilities

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story...

This story about the docuseries “Stolen Youth” originally ran in the Race Begins issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.

In 2019, a tight close-up of a middle-aged man’s chubby face dominated the cover of New York magazine. His eyes stared gently — though with absolute power — right at us. The article inside described the shocking story of Larry Ray, who moved into his daughter’s dorm building at Sarah Lawrence College and proceeded to systematically brainwash several students into a forced-labor and sex-trafficking cult.

The whole saga is told in “Stolen Youth,” a three-episode Hulu series that examines the sordid details of the Ray case. He was convicted on 15 criminal counts in 2022. But the show also offers an empathetic platform for his victims, some still in the throes of Ray’s mind control. Oscar-nominated director Zachary Heinzerling (“Cutie and the Boxer”) talked about his approach to this complex, tangled web.

“Stolen Youth...

The ongoing WGA writers’ strike has impacted another major Hollywood event, as the Television Academy has announced that “out of deference to those impacted by the ongoing labor dispute,” it has canceled the 2023 Television Academy Honors.

“After discussions with the WGA and out of deference to those impacted by the ongoing labor dispute, the Television Academy is canceling next week’s planned Television Academy Honors reception. We appreciate everyone’s understanding. The Academy would like to congratulate this year’s Honors recipients and thank them on behalf of the entire industry for their groundbreaking and inspiring work,” the organization said in a statement.

Established in 2008, the Television Academy Honors recognize “Television with a conscience,” per the official branding. This year’s recognized productions are “37 Words” (ESPN), “As We See It” (Prime Video), “Mo” (Netflix), “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks” (Peacock), “The U.S. and the Holocaust” (PBS) and...

The Television Academy has canceled plans to hold its 16th Television Academy Honors, which had been slated to take place next Wednesday, May 31. “After discussions with the WGA and out of deference to those impacted by the ongoing labor dispute, the Television Academy is cancelling the Television Academy Honors reception which was scheduled for the evening of May 31. We appreciate everyone’s understanding,” the org said on its website.

“The Academy would like to congratulate this year’s Honors recipients and thank them on behalf of the entire industry for their groundbreaking and inspiring work,” the org added.

HBO Max’s “We’re Here,” Netflix’s “Mo” and Amazon Prime Video’s recently canceled “As We See It” were among the programs set to be recognized at the event.

Honorees that had been selected to be recognized include what the Academy said represented “some of the most significant and impactful television...

The Hollywood Reporter has received 47 nominations for the 65th Annual SoCal Journalism Awards, including best website, best investigative story and best cover art.

Rebecca Keegan is also nominated for journalist of the year in the print (over 50,000 circulation) category.

In addition, Seth Abramovitch, Samuel Braslow, Kim Masters and Scott Roxborough all received nominations for best investigative story in a magazine. Daniel Fienberg and Angie Han are among those nominated in the criticism of TV category, as well as David Rooney in the criticism of film category.

Heat Vision, THR, Esq. and The Live Feed also received nominations for best blog by a group.

The SoCal Journalism Awards gala will be held June 25 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

A complete list of THR’s nominations follows. See the full list of noms here.

Journalist Of The Year

Print, over 50,000 circulation

Rebecca Keegan

All Media Platforms – Print, Radio, Podcast,...

“I will never work on a more important film than this one,” declares Ken Burns of “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” the three-part, six-hour PBS film he co-produced and co-directed (with frequent collaborators Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein) and released last September. Coming from Burns, that’s a mouthful, considering he is perhaps the most celebrated documentarian of our time and the foremost chronicler of the American experience. He’s a filmmaker who is responsible for many of the most treasured nonfiction series and biographies ever put to film, among them “The Civil War,” “Baseball,” “Jazz,” “Jackie Robinson” and “The Vietnam War.” A two-time Oscar nominee and five-time Emmy winner, Burns is without peer on the documentary production stage. And he is as proud of “U.S. and the Holocaust” as anything he’s ever done in his four-decade filmmaking career. Watch the exclusive video interview above.

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HBO Max’s “We’re Here,” Netflix’s “Mo” and Amazon Prime Video’s recently canceled “As We See It” are among the programs set to be recognized at the Television Academy’s 16th Television Academy Honors, the org announced Thursday morning.

The Honors this year recognize “six remarkable television programs and producers who have harnessed the extraordinary power of storytelling to fuel social change.”

Honorees that have been recognized include what the Academy calls representing “some of the most significant and impactful television of 2022.” The programs honored include “37 Words,” “As We See It,” “Mo,” “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks,” “The U.S. and the Holocaust” and “We’re Here.”

The scripted and unscripted honorees tackle subjects that include neurodiversity, civil rights, LGBTQ+ rights, equal rights for women, the experience of immigrants and refugees, and racism, xenophobia and antisemitism.

“These exceptional programs and producers have used television to adeptly address some...

The 16th annual Television Academy are recognizing six titles and their producers that exemplified the power of television to enact social change.

Announced Thursday, the six titles that earned the Academy’s distinction are A24’s “Mo,” ESPN Films’ “37 Words,” Peacock’s “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks,” Amazon’s “As We See It,” Florentine Films and Weta’s “The U.S. and the Holocaust” and HBO Max’s “We’re Here”, representing a mix of scripted, nonfiction and documentary entries.

As part of their mission statement, the Television Academy Honors “celebrates programs across numerous platforms and genres that raise awareness about complex issues facing society represented in both fictional and nonfictional works—that address neurodiversity; civil rights, LGBTQ+ rights; equal rights for women; the experience of immigrants and refugees; and racism, xenophobia and antisemitism.”

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“I’m Jewish, and I thought I knew a fair amount about this topic, and it was revelatory to find out how much I didn’t know, especially about the American side of the story,” admits Lynn Novick, the co-producer and co-director (along with Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein) of the powerful three-part PBS documentary film “The U.S. and the Holocaust.” What Novick and the filmmakers discovered in their deep and impeccable research was that the long-held assumption that Americans helped save the world from Nazism and totalitarianism and were in fact liberators is true only up to a point. During the late 1930s and ’40s, the United States was as guilty of turning its back on Jewish refugees and their brethren being slaughtered by the millions in Europe during Hitler’s industrial-scale program of extermination. Watch the exclusive video interview above.

“I had this idea going in that for Americans,...

It’s a well-known fact that Meryl Streep is the most Oscar-nominated actor of all time, with 21 bids (and three wins) dating as far back as 1978. What many may not realize, however, is that her storied history with the film academy began after she had already clinched an Emmy for her lead performance on the NBC miniseries “Holocaust.” Indeed, she has won as many Emmys as she has Oscars, and she could soon nab at least a fourth TV trophy since her upcoming projects include Apple TV+’s “Extrapolations” and Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building.”

Before she received her first Emmy, Streep made her small screen debut opposite John Lithgow in a 1977 installment of PBS’s “Great Performances,” entitled “Secret Service.” This was essentially a filmed stage play presented as a two-hour movie. Her first proper telefilm was “The Deadliest Season,” in which she portrayed the wife of...

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It would make me happy, or at least relieved, to report that Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein’s new PBS documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust was inessential viewing — that this six-hour cautionary tale about what happens when the United States fails to live up to its humanitarian ideals both domestically and on a global stage just didn’t have anything fresh or relevant to say.

Unfortunately, at a moment at which “America First” rhetoric and anti-immigrant, anti-refugee sentiment remain fervent, as one state after another uses coded language to outlaw the teaching of any piece of our history that dares to deviate from a discernibly false narrative of American exceptionalism, The U.S. and the Holocaust stands as one of the most vital projects in Burns’ five-decade relationship with PBS.

Smartly constructed and packed with avenues for future research and investigation,...

The Telluride Film Festival’s emphasis on documentary has not wavered in recent years. But the prominence of nonfiction fare at the 49th edition has arguably made this year’s Telluride the autumn Sundance, where some of the biggest buzz is for docs.

The lineup, kept under wraps until the eve of the fest’s opening on Sept. 2, includes 16 docs from novice and veteran documentarians, including Steve James (“A Compassionate Spy”), Matthew Heineman (“Retrograde”), Chris Smith (“Sr.”) Ondi Timoner (“Last Flight Home”) and Ryan White (“Good Night Oppy”). (Additional “secret” screenings have yet to be announced.)

The rising level of documentaries at the Colorado fest is largely due to the influence of Telluride executive director Julie Huntsinger.

“This year, there is almost parity with the narrative features in the [main feature] program,” says Huntsinger, who co-directs Telluride with Tom Luddy. “It’s not us actively seeking it. For lack of a better word,...

Telluride Film Festival’s official 2022 lineup has been announced, revealing world premieres of Sam Mendes’ “Empire of Light,” Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking,” Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” and Sebastián Lelio’s “The Wonder.”

In its 49th year, the festival will pay tribute to two-time Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett, whose new film “TÁR,” from director Todd Field, will debut stateside after premiering at the Venice Film Festival.

In addition, the festival will also tribute Academy Award nominee Polley (adapted screenplay for 2006’s “Away from Her”) and acclaimed documentarian Marc Cousins, who has two films dropping at the fest. One is “My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock,” which is based on a fictional monologue between Cousins and the master of suspense. The other is “The March on Rome,” depicting the ascent of fascism in Europe during the 1930s.

Other Venice bows heading over to the Colorado Mountains are Luca Guadagnino’s...