Netflix tops GLAAD Media Awards list with 26 nominations
Netflix topped the list of media award nominations introduced Thursday by the LGBTQ advocacy personnel GLAAD with 26, at the side of “Ma Rainey’s Dusky Backside” for prominent film; “Disclosure” for prominent documentary; and “The Umbrella Academy” for prominent drama series.
HBO Max adopted with nine nominations, and Amazon, Hulu and HBO every bought four. The Hallmark Channel bought its first nomination for “The Christmas Dwelling,” the community’s first holiday film featuring a ecstatic lead character.
GLAAD has honored filmmakers, musicians, journalists and assorted media creators for 3 decades for incandescent, incandescent and inclusive representations of lesbian, ecstatic, bisexual, transgender and appealing people on display veil veil. Its newest list entails 198 nominees across 28 classes, at the side of prominent comedy series, prominent online game and prominent TV journalism section.
“Within the direction of an unheard of twelve months of crises and isolation, the nominees for the 32nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards reached LGBTQ individuals with highly effective tales and impressed endless others around the enviornment with bold appears at LGBTQ people and issues,” GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said in an announcement. “As GLAAD continues to steer the warfare for LGBTQ acceptance, this twelve months’s nominees remind us that even in events of political and cultural division, various LGBTQ representation and visibility can order, entertain, and personal lasting switch.”
NBC News bought three nominations: “Dusky Trans Activists on Being the ‘Blueprint for the War for Dusky Freedom‘” for prominent TV journalism section; “Pleasure and Remark: Being Dusky and Atypical in The United States in 2020” for prominent TV journalism, long make; and “Trans, Imprisoned — and Trapped” for prominent online journalism article.
In its “Where We Are on TV” file, released this month, GLAAD chanced on that appealing visibility declined by 33 p.c on cable, 13 p.c on streaming services and a minute over 1 p.c on community tv in the most recent TV season. The group attributes the declines to manufacturing halts due to the the coronavirus pandemic.
Chris Rudolph, an editor and a producer for Logo, ViacomCBS’ LGBTQ daily life and entertainment channel, said that even with the decline, the appealing neighborhood appears to be to consider an array of viewing alternate choices.
“No matter the reported dip in representation, this expanded list of nominations shows us there’s an outstanding vary of quality inform material across genres, networks and platforms for LGBTQ audiences to connect with,” Rudolph told NBC News. “I bear in mind when appealing inform material wasn’t so plentiful and once we didn’t gaze these shows or characters on mainstream tv. Now, at the same time as a appealing person in media, I haven’t even considered all of these titles. The decline in visibility is proof there’s still work to be carried out, nonetheless the numerous list of nominees furthermore shows us how some distance we’ve near.”
For essentially the most necessary time, GLAAD’s file on TV representation chanced on that LGBTQ people of color outnumbered their white counterparts. And various different of this twelve months’s GLAAD award nominees are titles created by and/or superstar LGBTQ people of color, at the side of Lena Waithe’s BET series “Twenties”; Hulu’s “Care for, Victor”; and Fox’s “9-1-1: Lone Neatly-known person,” which made ancient past for casting essentially the most necessary out Dusky trans man, Brian Michael Smith, in a typical series role on community tv.
“It’s amazing and highly effective to discover a Dusky trans actor in the lead on Fox,” Rudolph said of Smith. “Folks across The United States secure to discover him on their monitors, and that visibility is necessary for the trans neighborhood. I genuinely deal with that they are being identified for that.”
Award winners will be introduced throughout a digital ceremony scheduled for April. The fat list of nominees can even be chanced on on GLAAD’s web site.