Peabodys Honor Lily Tomlin With Career Achievement Award, Issa Rae With Trailblazer Award
deadline.comThe Peabody Awards said Thursday that Lily Tomlin has won the Peabody Career Achievement Award, and Issa Rae the Peabody Trailblazer Award.
The honors will be bestowed during a ceremony for the 83rd annual Peabody Awards on June 11 in Los Angeles. Jessica Williams, who currently stars in the Apple TV+ series Shrinking, has been set to host the ceremony, the first time the event will take place in L.A.
A total of 69 nominees are up for awards honoring 2022’s most compelling and empowering stories in the fields of Entertainment, Documentary, News, Arts, Children’s/Youth, Podcast/Radio, Interactive & Immersive and Public Service.
Those winners will be revealed May 9. Other honorary Peabody winners this year include NBC’s Today, which won the organization’s Institutional Award, and Sundance Film Festival senior programmer Shari Frilot received the first-ever Visionary Award. “Beyond our annual awards recognizing the most compelling stories, Peabody is dedicated to recognizing individuals that inspire and delight us,” Jeffrey Jones, executive director of Peabody said today in a release announcing the news. “Lily Tomlin has made so many people laugh over the decades with her remarkable talent, and Issa Rae has proven herself a profound entertainment storyteller, performer, and force for good.
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