America Ferrera is still feeling incredibly close to her Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants costars more than 15 years after the last movie came out.
19.12.2023 - 05:45 / variety.com
Caroline Brew editor America Ferrera will receive the eighth annual SeeHer Award at the 29th annual Critics Choice Awards, the Critics Choice Association announced. She will receive the honor at the event on Jan.
14, 2024, which will be hosted by Chelsea Handler and broadcast on The CW at 7-10 p.m. ET.
The SeeHer Award is given to a woman who “advocates for gender equality, portrays characters with authenticity, defies stereotypes and pushes boundaries,” per the release. A leading global movement for accurate portrayals of women and girls in media, SeeHer is comprised of marketers, media organizations and industry influencers that are committed to creating gender-bias-free advertising and media.
Most recently starring in “Barbie” and “Dumb Money,” Ferrera is best known for her roles in “Ugly Betty,” “Real Women Have Curves,” “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” and “Superstore.” An award-winning actor, director and producer, Ferrera received an Emmy, a Screen Actors Guild Award and ALMA and Imagen Awards for her breakthrough performance in “Ugly Betty.” Ferrera has executive produced and directed episodes for Seasons 1 and 2 of Netflix’s “Gentefied” and NBC’s “Superstore.” She will make her feature directorial debut with an adaptation of Erika Sánchez’s novel “I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter.” As for her work in activism, Ferrera launched “Poderistas” in 2020 with nine other women, including Eva Longoria Bastón and Christy Haubegger. A digital lifestyle community and non-profit, “Poderistas” is intended to inform, affirm and inspire Latinas to transform their lives, community and nation through leveraging their power.
America Ferrera is still feeling incredibly close to her Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants costars more than 15 years after the last movie came out.
Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music N.W.A, Laurie Anderson, Gladys Knight, Donna Summer, Tammy Wynette and the Clark Sisters will receive 2024 Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Awards during this year’s Special Merit Awards ceremony, the Academy announced today. Also being honored are longtime Linda Ronstadt/ James Taylor producer/manager Peter Asher, hip-hop pioneer DJ Kool Herc and veteran attorney (and longtime Academy executive) Joel Katz with Trustees Award recipients; Tom Kobayashi and Tom Scott with Technical Grammy Awards; and “Refugee,” written by K’naan, Steve McEwan, and Gerald Eaton (a.k.a.
America Ferrera‘s monologue emerged as one of the most heartwarming moments in 2023′s blockbuster Barbie. However, it was not without critics.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director America Ferrera has found herself in the Oscar race for supporting actress thanks to her role in “Barbie,” which is largely defined by a nearly three-minute monologue in which her character, Gloria, passionately rails against double standards women face on a daily basis. Both the speech and “Barbie” at large have been criticized by some for being an oversimplification of feminism, but Ferrera rejected such criticism during a recent interview with The New York Times. “We can know things and still need to hear them out loud.
America Ferrara opened up in a new interview.
The Critics Choice Awards is on the move.
The UK’s leading film critics will present Colman Domingo with the first ever Derek Malcolm Award for Innovation at their upcoming awards ceremony.
America Ferrera was awarded the CCA Groundbreaker Award at The Whitby Hotel in New York City. The reception was filled with joy and excitement as Ferrera was celebrated by her friends and former co-stars, including Blake Lively, Amber Tamblyn, and Alexis Bledel.
America Ferrera has been set to receive the annual SeeHer Award at the 29th annual Critics Choice Awards, with the honor to be bestowed during next month’s ceremony.
record-breaking film “Barbie” in NYC. “The Sisterhood came through all in pink to celebrate my performance in Barbie last night,” Ferrera, 39, wrote on Instagram. “I love these women with all my heart.” In the post, the “Ugly Betty” alum radiates in an off-white ruched dress while posing for several pictures with Blake Lively, 36, Amber Tamblyn, 40, and Alexis Bledel, 42.
A trip to a special screening of Barbie in New York City turned into a pretty in pink reunion of the cast from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
The Sisters are together again!
The Critics’ Choice Association announced their 2024 nominations this morning and “Barbie” took the wheel. Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster earned 18 nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Margot Robbie), Best Supporting Actress (America Ferrera), and three Best Song nominations.
Barbie has broken the Critics Choice Award Nomination this year, after scoring 18 nominations.The 29th annual Critics Choice Awards, which are due to take place next January in LA, will see Barbie nominated in all the major categories including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Comedy, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Young Actor/Actress.It was also nominated in categories for acting ensemble, cinematography, editing, production design, costume design, hair and makeup and score. It also has three out of the six nominations in the Best Original Song category.The previous record for Critics Choice film nominations was 14, set by last year’s Best Picture winner, Everything Everywhere All at Once.Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things received 13 nominations each, while Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon received 12.Meanwhile, Bradley Cooper’s Maestro and Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers received eight nominations each.The nominations for the awards are made by members of the Critics Choice Association, which is made up of more than 650 critics and journalists.Check out the full list of nominations below:BEST PICTUREAmerican FictionBarbieThe Color PurpleThe HoldoversKillers of the Flower MoonMaestroOppenheimerPast LivesPoor ThingsSaltburnBEST ACTOR Bradley Cooper – Maestro Leonardo DiCaprio – Killers of the Flower Moon Colman Domingo – Rustin Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer Jeffrey Wright – American FictionBEST ACTRESS Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall Greta Lee – Past Lives Carey Mulligan – Maestro Margot Robbie – Barbie Emma Stone – Poor ThingsBEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Sterling K.
Leo Barraclough International Features Editor International Film Festival Rotterdam has revealed that Belgian cinematographer Grimm Vandekerckhove will be the recipient of the fifth annual Robby Müller Award, which pays homage to the craft of artists working behind the lens in the spirit of the celebrated cinematographer. Vandekerckhove is “known for delicately capturing the inner lives of characters,” the festival said, such as a cleaning lady on a late-night journey in “Ghost Tropic” or the encounter of a foreign construction worker and a moss researcher in “Here,” both directed by Bas Devos.
Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor It didn’t take long for America Ferrera to find the personal connection in the speech she delivers as Gloria in the box-office smash “Barbie.” “I think when we’re not historically meant to be in a room, it’s very difficult to show up in those spaces as your whole self,” she says on Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast. “Because you are taught to be grateful, you’re in the room.
America Ferrera is opening up about the potential for an Ugly Betty reboot!
Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor The Producers Guild of America has announced Martin Scorsese as the recipient of the David O. Selznick Achievement Award for his six decades of producing. Scorsese will accept the honor at the PGA Awards on Feb.
Camila Morrone and Charles Melton both received special honors at the Critics Choice Association’s Celebration of Cinema & Television: Honoring Black, Latino and AAPI Achievements.
The Santa Barbara Film Festival on Tuesday rounded out the list of recipients for its Virtuosos Award, its annual honor recognizing noteworthy performances in films this season. It marks the latest awards announcement from SBIFF, which has become a must-stop on the movie circuit in the run-up to the Oscars.