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Tara McNamara “Make the movie unlike anything that’s ever been done before.”Scrawled across a production whiteboard, this guiding principle led Sony Pictures Animation’s “The Mitchells vs. the Machines” to break barriers with its fresh perspectives, unique artistry and richly drawn characters.Released on Netflix last April to acclaim from audiences and critics alike, the feature has become one of the most honored animated films of the season, with 30 critics group wins, nominations for best animated feature at the BAFTAs and the Academy Awards and eight nominations for the animation industry’s Annies — a testament to the project’s bold animated style and the wide appeal of its storytelling.

UPDATED with awards dates: The Peabody Awards said Tuesday that it will announce the winning projects in its newest category, Digital and Interactive Storytelling, on March 24. The inaugural awards will be given to legacy media projects, with the category being folded into the main Peabody ceremony beginning in 2023.

Wilson Chapman editorThe Peabody Awards will announce winning projects from its new digital and interactive storytelling awards on March 24, the awards body announced Monday. The Peabody Awards first unveiled its new interactive storytelling categories last June, as a way of recognizing how online storytelling forms have advanced and grown in the last few years.

As has been evident in the Marvel Studios releases over the past year, the multiverse is here and it’s not going away anytime soon. We’ve seen it in “Loki” and “What If?” on Disney+.

Like Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and India Arie, Ava DuVernay’s Array is no longer doing business with Spotify.

Like Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and India Arie, Ava DuVernay’s Array is no longer doing business with Spotify.

William Earl Executives from TikTok, TheSoul Publishing, Roku, Hulu, and NBCUniversal join Variety President and Chief Media Analyst of Variety Intelligence Platform Andrew Wallenstein in the Variety Streaming Room for an exploration into how platforms are developing and producing content that will connect with modern audiences on a large universal scale. Victor Potrel, VP Platform Partnerships, TheSoul Publishing; Tedd Cittadine, Head of Content Partnerships, Roku; Reagan Feeney, SVP Live Content Programming and Partnerships, Hulu; Bryan Thoensen, Head of Content Partnerships, TikTok; and Val Boreland, EVP Content Acquisitions, NBCUniversal, sit down for a conversation about what is crucial in building popular content for modern viewership.  Find out what video categories — long-form, short-form, comedy, family-friendly and more — are widely engaging to audiences of all ages. Panelists will also talk about how mastering content curation and discovering strategies are important to break through in a competitive media landscape. The session will also explore how programmers are developing loyal audiences by extending the footprint of favorite IP and content brands across various channels and platforms. “As our video content has more social views than any other publishing studio in the world, TheSoul Publishing is thrilled to collaborate with Variety to spark a timely conversation around modern storytelling as audiences are continuing to stream their entertainment at massive levels,” said Victor Potrel, VP of Platform Partnerships, TheSoul Publishing.

Patrisse Cullors Black History Month has always been about abolition for me.I may not have known the word abolition as a young girl, but I understood abolition in my spirit. At my core, I witnessed a community ravaged and decimated by police and prisons, and I wanted more for us.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorWomen have always been in the center of Pedro Almodovar’s films, driving his narrative. For the past few years, a woman has also been in the editing chair. For years, José Salcedo Palomeque was his go-to editor, until Palomeque died in 2017.

Award-winning author Graeme Armstrong has joined New College Lanarkshire’s film and TV team for an inspirational discussion.

Gregg Goldstein What brings documentaries to life? For an increasing number of them, it’s colorful characters — literally. Animation is making docs more accessible to a wider audience, allowing filmmakers to dramatize scenes that can’t be shown with footage and bringing them into once-unimagined awards categories.No film has demonstrated this more clearly than Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s refugee saga “Flee.” The Neon/Participant release made Oscar shortlists for both documentary feature and international feature film, won a Gotham Award for documentary and Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary.

Sandra Bullock scored a major hit with the apocalyptic-thriller Bird Box (2018), which had been the most viewed film ever on Netflix up until a few weeks ago.Bullock cemented her own star power with the streaming service when her new film, The Unforgivable, made it into the top 10 of the most watchedtitles.Bullock credited her more recent success, in part, to Netflix, and went as far as to say that many actors would be out of work if wasn't for streaming services. Streaming success: Sandra Bullock, 57, has high praise for streaming services like Netflix, in the wake of her recent films - Bird Box (2018) andThe Unforgivable (2021)'They're good to artists. They're good to filmmakers.

A Christmas storytelling event will be entertaining families across Falkirk this year.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorSterlin Harjo is a Native filmmaker and a name you might recognize — he’s directed an episode of “The Magicians” and he’s the mastermind behind FX’s popular “Reservation Dogs.” Harjo is a Native creative bringing Indigenous stories to life.It’s something he’s always been doing, though Hollywood hasn’t always held its doors open for filmmakers like Harjo… until recently, thanks to the advent of streaming.As part of Native American Heritage Month, Harjo spoke with Variety about how Hollywood wasn’t always so receptive to his ideas and how he found the inspiration to keep going through Native storytelling.I went to the Sundance Writer’s Lab and then the director’s lab.

Denise Downer. Children’s animated television is her playground, where she can blend impactful messages with energetic fun.I had the opportunity to speak with Denise about what it means to be an animation writer, her experience working on the hit show Stillwater, and the joys of creating television for young audiences.Denise Downer grew up with an intense love of storytelling.

Golden Globe winner Sandra Oh is making her return to the small screen in the new Netflix series “The Chair”.

Priyanka Chopra has made headlines recently with her recent achievements. The diva made history by becoming the first-ever Indian to announce Oscar nominees along with her husband Nick Jonas.

Since Sound of Metal was released, the film from writer-director Darius Marder has been getting tons of acclaim and awards season buzz — and it received even more shine on Wednesday morning when star Riz Ahmed earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama for his role as punk drummer Ruben who is slowly losing his ability to hear and is forced to adapt to a new life.

Though it tells a story set 150 years in the past, the Paul Greengrass-directed News of the World re-teams the filmmaker with his Captain Phillips star Tom Hanks in an Old West tale from Universal Pictures about a country trying to heal.

There’s a new hero in town. Javicia Leslie is donning the cape and cowl for the second season of Batwoman on The CW and she is hitting the ground running.

Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentLate last year, Chrissy Teigen and Meghan Markle both shared their personal stories of miscarriage and child loss.On Friday, Netflix’s Oscar-contending film “Pieces of a Woman” is released, shining a light on the taboo topics, which are rarely discussed in society, but highly common for women and families around the world.The subject matter is what attracted star Vanessa Kirby to the project, along with Ellen Burstyn, who says the film is emblematic of the strides Hollywood has taken when it comes to the way women are portrayed in media.“When I started out, I started out in the 1950s, so no, it would not have been possible at all! Not for many reasons.