PGA’s Honorary Awards Return This Year, Feting Issa Rae, Rita Moreno and More
variety.comPaul 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. “Issa makes us excited for the future of television.
Beyond Issa’s prolific work, she is a role model and inspiration to the next generation of creatives through her mentorship programs like ColorCreative, and more recently, Project Greenlight.
We are thrilled to honor Issa this year,” say PGA presidents Gail Berman and Lucy Fisher.The prolific Greg Berlanti will receive the 2022 Norman Lear Achievement Award, recognizing a producer or producing team for an extraordinary body of work in television.
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