Peabody Awards: ‘Reservation Dogs’, ‘Dopesick’ Among This Year’s First Winners
deadline.comFX’s breakout series Reservation Dogs, Hulu’s limited series Dopesick and socially impactful content from PBS, Netflix, NPR and Vice News are among the first winners of the 2022 Peabody Awards, which are being rolled out this week.The Peabodys, in their 82nd year, honor the year’s most powerful content across the fields of entertainment, documentary, news, podcast/radio, arts, children’s and youth, and public service programming.
This year’s awards are being bestowed daily through Thursday, with presenters including Melissa McCarthy, Morgan Freeman, John Legend, Kevin Bacon, H.E.R., Ethan Hawke, Jon Stewart, Hasan Minhaj, Riz Ahmed, LeVar Burton, Jenny Slate, Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Scott announcing winners on Peabody’s social channels.A total of 30 winners will be announced via short videos on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook that will include the awards presenters and an acceptance speech.
Newsman Dan Rather and Fresh Air‘s Terry Gross have already won this year’s Career Achievement Award and Institutional Award, respectively.Reservation Dogs, created and Taika Waititi and Sterlin Harjo, centers on four Indigenous youth as they drift through life in Oklahoma.
It has already scored WGA, Critics Choice and Golden Globe noms, and won an AFI Award, Gotham Award and a pair of Independent Spirit Awards.Dopesick, meanwhile, which takes on the evolution of the opioid epidemic and was created by Danny Strong, won SAG and Critics Choice Best Actor nods for Michael Keaton, who stars alongside Rosario Dawson, Kaitlyn Dever, Peter Sarsgaard and Michael Stuhlbarg.Other winners today include the documentaries High on the Hog from Netflix and PBS’ Mr SOUL!; Vice’s series Transnational which spotlights the stories of various trans
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