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CNN
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
Hollywood Minute: Dakota Johnson eyes the director's chair
Dakota Johnson talks about her directorial debut, Ed Sheeran tops Apple Music's 10-year chart, and home-run-happy Roy Wood Jr. is 'Going, Going, Gone.' David Daniel reports.
CNN
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
Hollywood Minute: Dakota Johnson eyes the director's chair
Dakota Johnson talks about her directorial debut, Ed Sheeran tops Apple Music's 10-year chart, and home-run-happy Roy Wood Jr. is 'Going, Going, Gone.' David Daniel reports.
Daily Mail
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Anna Kendrick stuns in sexy plunging gown at Annual Peabody Awards in LA
looked stunning as she attended the 85th Annual Peabody Awards in Los Angeles, California. The actress, 39, turned heads as she arrived on the red carpet wearing a plunging strapless magenta gown. The Another Simple Favor star kept the rest of her look simple by adding a pair of drop earrings before working her best angles for the cameras. Peabody award winners were announced on May 1, and Netflix led with six awards - four in the documentary category and two in entertainment, per The Hollywood Reporter. Awards boss Jeffrey Jones said in a press release at the time: 'The winners of the 85th annual Peabody Awards encompass a wide range of contemporary and historical issues, including the war in Gaza, rural healthcare, a focus on disabilities, authoritarianism and sexual violence. 'Whether enlightening audiences on global issues or bringing a smile and sense of community through thoughtful entertainment, these works deserve to be recognized and celebrated.' Comedian and actor Roy Wood Jr hosted the ceremony, which was held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
Yahoo
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Roy Wood Jr. Mocks White House, CNN and Patti LuPone in Peabody Awards Monologue
After announcing its full list of winners last month, the Peabody Awards celebrated those honorees in person on Sunday night, with a L.A. ceremony hosted by Roy Wood Jr. The comedian kicked things off inside the Beverly Wilshire by joking, 'Last year's host was Kumail Nanjiani, so that is back-to-back years with a minority host. The Peabodys standing up for diversity, how about that? Which means in a few months, the White House will cut their funding and so they'll have John Mulaney, that's on y'all.' More from The Hollywood Reporter How Reginald Hudlin and Shola Lynch Put Together the Greatest Call Sheet Ever Are Music and Other Celebrity Films Killing the Documentary? Questlove Reveals the Standout Musical Performance He Omitted From 'Ladies & Gentlemen ... 50 Years of SNL Music' - And Why The event honored 34 winners across entertainment, documentary, news, podcast/radio, arts, children'sand youth, public service, and interactive and immersive programming, with a focus on storytelling that reflects the social issues and emerging voices of today. Baby Reindeer, Ripley, Shogun and Will & Harper were among the recognized Hollywood projects. 'We're celebrating the fact that everyone in this room has done one of the boldest things you can do in these times, and that is just straight up tell the truth,' Wood told the crowd, acknowledging the stress of having to know all of the horrible things going on in the world to tell the truth. 'It's hard to create stuff about terrible things without knowing all of the terrible things. It's hard — that's why I quit The Daily Show, it was too much stress.' He then deadpanned, 'I work at CNN now [with comedy show Have I Got News For You], I ain't got to do nothing but plug Jake Tapper's book.' Elsewhere in his monologue, Wood told the winners — who knew they'd be winning ahead of time — to be short and sweet, joking, 'We want your acceptance speeches tonight to be brief and full of sincerities that you don't really mean, like an apology from Patti LuPone.' (The Broadway star apologized on Saturday for previous comments she had made about Kecia Lewis and Audra McDonald.) 'We're celebrating the storytellers who risk, who did, who investigate, who create and illuminate,' the comedian declared before launching into the categories, which featured a star-studded roster of presenters including Aloe Blacc, Anna Kendrick, Andrew Lack, Benito Skinner, Indya Moore, Joel KimBooster, Jurnee Smollett, Linda Perry, Mandy Moore, Marissa Bode, Michael Schur, Nava Mau, Niecy Nash, Randall Park, Stephen Merchant, Uzo Aduba, Van Jones and Yvonne Orji. The night also featured two special honors, the first being the Peabody Institutional Award, given to Saturday Night Live. Jon Hamm presented, musing the 'secret sauce of the show has always been 'holding up a mirror and reflecting America's culture to us — politics, contradictions, all of it, right back at you. Yes, SNL is wigs and cue cards and gigs and gags and all of this stuff, but it's always something that dares to confront who we really are.' Lorne Michaels was on hand to accept, accompanied on stage by alums Amy Poehler, Molly Shannon and Fred Armisen. 'I don't really deserve this, but in a way I do,' Michaels teased, noting, 'During SNL 50 this year, which is stunning to even say, all of those people coming back from the first season on, all being in one room, performing and applauding, I think was one of the most moving experiences of my life. I'm not planning a 60th, but I think that getting to do what I get to do is sort of everything that makes me happy; it also makes me angry.' To close out the night, Andrea Mitchell was given the Career Achievement Award, as she reflected on her early days in news and how far women have come in the business. She added, 'All of us journalists have to be fearless. It is no exaggeration to say that strong journalism, providing accurate information to the American people, is critical to the survival of our democracy. As Thomas Jefferson wrote to the continental Congress in 1787, 'Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.'' Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Studio': 30 Famous Faces Who Play (a Version of) Themselves in the Hollywood-Based Series 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise
Yahoo
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Amy Poehler, Jon Hamm, Kerry Washington & More Walk The Red Carpet At The 2025 Peabody Awards
After announcing its winners list last month, the 85th Peabody Awards ceremony was in full swing tonight at Los Angeles' Beverly Wilshire Hotel — in its third year at the locale — in a fete hosted by comedian Roy Wood Jr. The red carpet ahead of the main show drew stars like Anna Kendrick, Benito Skinner, Joel Kim Booster, Jon Hamm, Amy Poehler, Kerry Washington and Molly Shannon, as well as Peabody awardees like Amber Sealey (Disney+'s Out of My Mind), Shiori Itō (MTV Documentary Films/Showtime's Black Box Diaries), Josh Greenbaum (Netflix's Will & Harper), Richard Gadd (Netflix's Baby Reindeer), the executive producers of Mr Bates vs The Post Office and the cast of Say Nothing. More from Deadline Lady Gaga Closes Out Netflix's Tudum With Mesmerizing On-Theme 'Wednesday' Performance Featuring Viral Dance Lady Gaga's Cameo In 'Wednesday' Confirmed As Netflix Premieres Season 2 Footage 'Stranger Things': Netflix Reveals Premiere Date For Season 5, Split Into Three Volumes The team from Al Jazeera (which took home two Peabody Awards) walked the red carpet while holding placards commemorating the slain journalists in Gaza that read 'Targeting journalists is a crime' and 'They can't kill the story.' Since 1940, the University of Georgia's Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communication-created honors celebrate excellence in entertainment in documentary, news, podcast/radio, arts, youth and public service programming. This year, the Board of Jurors highlighted a 'range of contemporary and historical issues, including the war in Gaza, rural healthcare, a focus on disabilities, authoritarianism, and sexual violence. Whether enlightening audiences on global issues or bringing a smile and sense of community through thoughtful entertainment, these works deserve to be recognized and celebrated,' Peabody executive director Jeffrey Jones said in a statement. Among the winners were Netflix's Ripley and Baby Reindeer, HBO/Max's Fantasmas, FX/Hulu's Shōgun and Say Nothing, Al Jazeera's One Day in Gaza | Close Up and PBS/Masterpiece's Mr Bates vs The Post Office. The earlier announced specialty awards included Andrea Mitchell for the Peabody Career Achievement Award and Saturday Night Live for the Institutional Award. See the red carpet attendees below: Best of Deadline Sean 'Diddy' Combs Sex-Trafficking Trial Updates: Cassie Ventura's Testimony, $10M Hotel Settlement, Drugs, Violence, & The Feds 'Poker Face' Season 2 Guest Stars: From Katie Holmes To Simon Hellberg 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Tonys, Emmys, Oscars & More
