FX preview series reserve dogsHulu limited series Dopsik And socially influential content from PBS, Netflix, NPR and Vice News are among the top winners of the 2022 Peabody Awards that will launch this week.
Peabodys, 82, honors the year’s most important content in entertainment, documentaries, news, podcasts / radio, art, children and youth, and public service programming. This year’s awards will be awarded daily until Thursday, including presenters such as Melissa McCarty, Morgan Freeman, John Legend, Kevin Bacon, HER, Ethan Hawke, John Stewart, Hassan Minhaji, Reese Witherspoon, Levar S. Barton, Malcolm Barton and JM The winners were announced on Peabody’s social media.
A total of 30 winners will be revealed via short videos on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook with presenters and welcome speeches. Journalist Dan Retter e Fresh airTerry Gross has already won this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award and Institutional Award respectively.
reserve dogs, created by Taika White and Sterling Harjo, centers on four young Native Americans living in Oklahoma. It has previously earned WGA, Critics’ Choice and Golden Globe nominations and has won AFI Awards, Gotham Awards and a couple of Independent Spirit Awards.
DopsikMeanwhile, which tackles the evolution of the opioid epidemic and was created by Danny Strong, has won SAG and Critics Choice for Best Leading Actor for Michael Keaton, who stars opposite Rosario Dawson, Caitlin Dever, Peter Sarsgaard. and Michael Stulberg.
Other winners today include documentaries in a tall pig From Netflix and PBS Lord Soul! vice series transnational Covering the stories of different trans companies around the world in the news category; and NPR podcasts Line: Afghanistan: World Center, Presented by Malcolm Gladwell.
Check back with Deadline throughout the week as more winners are revealed. In the meantime, below are some of Peabody’s current descriptive descriptions:
Documentary
Tall Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
Nutrition historian Dr. Jessica B. Based on Harris’ research, “High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America” reflects on the evolution of black food routes with clarity and fear. Crossing the Atlantic from Benin to South Carolina and the east coast of the United States, High on the Hog corrects stories that have barred blacks from contributing to the country’s culinary records.
One Story Productions and Pilgrim Media Group for Netflix (Netflix)
Lord soul!
Fun tribute to the local SOUL TV show! And its creator, businessman Ellis Hazlip, the documentary Mr. SOUL! It is a loving celebration of the creative achievements and vitality of blacks in America at the turn of the 20th century, capturing the majesty, self-confidence and revolutionary power of black artists, intellectuals, writers and artists. The period from 1968 to 1972 was an extraordinary period in the history of American culture and television, and SOUL! by Haizlip. There was an uncompromising and relentless black man who served as a visual and audible record of black Americans in their most radical form.
Shoes In The Bed Productions, ITVS, Black Public Media (BPM), WNET (PBS)
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Dopsik
Dopesick is reviving the current opioid epidemic in the United States, courtesy of the now infamous Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma, the company behind the drug OxyContin. The limited series starring Michael Keaton is truly a blow to the mind, forcing us to watch constantly and unblinkingly how the decisions made by the Sackler family and the company have led to the destruction of countless lives and families.
Hulu, Danny Strong Productions, John Goldwyn Productions, The Littlefield Company, 20th Television (Hulu)
reserve dogs
Reserve Dogs follows the senseless adventures of four young Native Americans – Ellora, Bear, Cheese and Will – as they live in Oklahoma. Co-creators Taika White and Sterling Harjo, citizens of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, deliver a long-awaited show that takes to heart the hopes, dreams, and energy of their young native heroes as they battle fatherless families, addiction. , discrimination and misery. aplomb. The series is filled with surreal fantasy and dead humor that clearly describe a sense of excited joy in the midst of a fading dislocation.
Effects Productions (FX)
news
“Politically accused”
ABC15 Arizona’s report on the arrest of street protesters and the highly dubious tactics used against them by local law enforcement is a compelling series that warns us of the continuing erosion of our civil liberties. The investigation found that by 2020 Phoenix police and county prosecutors had routinely inflated and defrauded grand juries to get criminal charges against protesters. As a direct result of this series, 39 criminal protest cases have been closed, high-ranking officials have resigned, police chiefs have been sacked, dozens of officers and prosecutors have been sacked, and the Justice Department has initiated an investigation. full practical investigation.
ABC15 Arizona (KNXV)
transnational
The Vice Transnational series focuses on the stories of transnationals around the world: from the Detroit ballroom to a government-sponsored safe haven in Mexico City, with stops along the way in the UK and Indonesia. By grouping and crossing them, as if to create a transnational collective, the Vice team pushes the perceptions of the global trans community as any kind of monolith that respects the individuality of the collective, many in a few.
Vice News (Vice News tonight)
“Then they know we exist”: Palestinians take power in Gaza
In just 14 exciting minutes, “They Know We Exist” depicts the destruction of civilian life during the 11-day war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza in May 2021. Citizen footage of the attacks and interviews after the incident show a gruesome portrait of the war, from a 10-year-old girl to a teenage sister; A young man who has lost a father; A musician who, among other things, lost his livelihood due to the explosion. The document presents a variety of Palestinian civilian perspectives and testifies to the resilience of people who continue to survive the trauma of war long after a ceasefire.
New York Times
Podcast / Radio
Line: Afghanistan: World Center
Throughline, a three-part miniseries on Afghanistan, offers a long-term vision of a country that Americans often see as a threat, further reflection, or tragedy, especially following the chaotic US military withdrawal in 2021. Background of discussing Afghanistan as an entire “civilization,” the team restores a much-needed sense of scale often lost in countless decades of Western media coverage of the region.
Line (NPR)
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