Roy Wood Jr. will host the 14th annual African American Film Critics Association (Aafca) Awards, it was announced Wednesday.
Of hosting, the comedian and Emmy-nominated documentary producer, whose credits include The Neutral Ground and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, said, “I’m honored to host the Aafca Awards where we can come together and celebrate the incredible films and performances that have inspired and uplifted our community.”
“Aafca is excited to have the multi-talented Roy Wood Jr. host the 14th edition of the Aafca Awards. Roy is one of the most electrifying comedic voices in our business. He’s funny, insightful and irreverent and we’re looking forward to a fabulous evening of fun and celebration,” Aafca President/CEO Gil Robertson said in a statement.
Wood is also set to host the annual White House Correspondents Dinner in April. The comedian recently starred in Paramount Pictures’ Confess, Fletch, with...
Of hosting, the comedian and Emmy-nominated documentary producer, whose credits include The Neutral Ground and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, said, “I’m honored to host the Aafca Awards where we can come together and celebrate the incredible films and performances that have inspired and uplifted our community.”
“Aafca is excited to have the multi-talented Roy Wood Jr. host the 14th edition of the Aafca Awards. Roy is one of the most electrifying comedic voices in our business. He’s funny, insightful and irreverent and we’re looking forward to a fabulous evening of fun and celebration,” Aafca President/CEO Gil Robertson said in a statement.
Wood is also set to host the annual White House Correspondents Dinner in April. The comedian recently starred in Paramount Pictures’ Confess, Fletch, with...
- 2/16/2023
- by Lexy Perez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The African American Film Critics Association has set producer and comedian Roy Wood Jr. to host its 14th annual Aafca Awards, set for March 1 at the Beverly Wilshire hotel in Beverly Hills.
Wood’s credits include “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” “Sullivan and Son” and “The Neutral Ground,” as well as his upcoming mini-series “The Pendulum Project.” The Emmy-nominated producer is also featured in “Better Call Saul,” “Only Murders in the Building” and “The Last O.G.” Variety included Wood as one of its 10 Comics to Watch in 2016.
“Aafca is excited to have the multi-talented Roy Wood Jr. host the 14th edition of the Aafca Awards,” Aafca president and CEO Gil Robertson said in a statement. “Roy is one of the most electrifying comedic voices in our business. He’s funny, insightful and irreverent and we’re looking forward to a fabulous evening of fun and celebration.”
Aafca’s appointment...
Wood’s credits include “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” “Sullivan and Son” and “The Neutral Ground,” as well as his upcoming mini-series “The Pendulum Project.” The Emmy-nominated producer is also featured in “Better Call Saul,” “Only Murders in the Building” and “The Last O.G.” Variety included Wood as one of its 10 Comics to Watch in 2016.
“Aafca is excited to have the multi-talented Roy Wood Jr. host the 14th edition of the Aafca Awards,” Aafca president and CEO Gil Robertson said in a statement. “Roy is one of the most electrifying comedic voices in our business. He’s funny, insightful and irreverent and we’re looking forward to a fabulous evening of fun and celebration.”
Aafca’s appointment...
- 2/15/2023
- by Julia MacCary
- Variety Film + TV
‘Daily Show with Trevor Noah’ correspondent Roy Wood Jr. to host 14th Annual Aafca Awards on March 1
Roy Wood Jr., a correspondent for Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” as well as a stand-up comic and radio personality, has been announced to host the 14th Annual Aafca Awards for achievement in film presented by the African American Film Critics Association, which will be handed out March 1 in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills. The following month, he’ll be hosting the annual White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington, D.C.
Wood Jr. is also an Emmy-nominated producer of the PBS documentary “The Neutral Ground,” co-starred opposite Jon Hamm in the 2022 feature “Confess, Fletch” and is scheduled to guest host “The Daily Show” later this spring. And he’s host of the Comedy Central podcast “Beyond the Scenes from The Daily Show.”
Seeaafca Awards 2023 winners: ‘The Woman King’ takes Best Picture; Danielle Deadwyler, Angela Bassett among acting champs
In a statement, Wood Jr.
Wood Jr. is also an Emmy-nominated producer of the PBS documentary “The Neutral Ground,” co-starred opposite Jon Hamm in the 2022 feature “Confess, Fletch” and is scheduled to guest host “The Daily Show” later this spring. And he’s host of the Comedy Central podcast “Beyond the Scenes from The Daily Show.”
Seeaafca Awards 2023 winners: ‘The Woman King’ takes Best Picture; Danielle Deadwyler, Angela Bassett among acting champs
In a statement, Wood Jr.
- 2/15/2023
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
The Critics Choice Association has announced nominees for the sixth annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards.
The awards cover documentaries released in theaters, on TV and on major digital platforms. The awards gala takes place Nov. 14 in Brooklyn, N.Y.
“Ascension” and “Summer of Soul, both from first-time documentarians, led the nominations with six each. “Becoming Cousteau” and “The Rescue” both received five nods each.
“This has been and continues to be a fantastic year for documentary storytelling. And the number of first-time feature documentarians in the mix of nominees, alongside proven veterans, shows that nonfiction cinema continues to have a very bright future,” said Christopher Campbell, President of the Critics Choice Association Documentary Branch. “Our world, from its most amazing wonders to its greatest challenges, is being reflected back on the screen so immediately and creatively by today’s filmmakers, and it’s a tremendous honor for us to recognize all of their achievements.
The awards cover documentaries released in theaters, on TV and on major digital platforms. The awards gala takes place Nov. 14 in Brooklyn, N.Y.
“Ascension” and “Summer of Soul, both from first-time documentarians, led the nominations with six each. “Becoming Cousteau” and “The Rescue” both received five nods each.
“This has been and continues to be a fantastic year for documentary storytelling. And the number of first-time feature documentarians in the mix of nominees, alongside proven veterans, shows that nonfiction cinema continues to have a very bright future,” said Christopher Campbell, President of the Critics Choice Association Documentary Branch. “Our world, from its most amazing wonders to its greatest challenges, is being reflected back on the screen so immediately and creatively by today’s filmmakers, and it’s a tremendous honor for us to recognize all of their achievements.
- 10/18/2021
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
The Critics Choice Association (Cca) has announced the nominees for the sixth annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards (Ccda). This year’s winners will be revealed at a gala on Sunday, November 14, 2021, in Brooklyn, NY. The awards honor the best achievements in nonfiction released in theaters, on TV, or on major digital platforms.
Both films by first-time documentarians, “Ascension” and “Summer of Soul” lead this year’s nominations with six each. “Ascension,” a look at the Chinese dream across social classes, is also up for Documentary Feature, Director (Jessica Kingdon), First Feature, Cinematography, Editing, and Score. Meanwhile, “Summer of Soul” is up for Documentary Feature, Best Director (Ahmir “Questlove’ Thompson), First Documentary, Editing, Archival Documentary, and Music Documentary.
“Becoming Cousteau” and “The Rescue” also picked up five nominations each.
Last year, “Dick Johnson Is Dead” took home the Cca’s top award for Best Documentary as well as the Best Director award for Kirsten Johnson.
Both films by first-time documentarians, “Ascension” and “Summer of Soul” lead this year’s nominations with six each. “Ascension,” a look at the Chinese dream across social classes, is also up for Documentary Feature, Director (Jessica Kingdon), First Feature, Cinematography, Editing, and Score. Meanwhile, “Summer of Soul” is up for Documentary Feature, Best Director (Ahmir “Questlove’ Thompson), First Documentary, Editing, Archival Documentary, and Music Documentary.
“Becoming Cousteau” and “The Rescue” also picked up five nominations each.
Last year, “Dick Johnson Is Dead” took home the Cca’s top award for Best Documentary as well as the Best Director award for Kirsten Johnson.
- 10/18/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival Releases 2021 Lineup
The Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival (Hsdff) has released the lineup of films and honorees for its 30th edition, which will take place Oct. 8-16.
The opening night presentation will be a screening of Samuel D. Pollard and Rex Miller’s “Citizen Ashe,” a biographical piece about the tennis player Arthur Ashe. The centerpiece films will be “The Rescue” directed by E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, which follows Tham Luang cave rescue, and “Neutral Ground,” C.J. Hunt’s film about the 2015 removal of four Confederate monuments from New Orleans. The festival will close with “Julia,” Julie Cohen and Betsy West’s film about Julia Child.
Pollard will be honored with the Hdsff career achievement award. The impact award will go to Garrett Bradley, director of the 2020 documentary “Time.” This year’s honorary festival chair will be Dawn Hudson, CEO of the Academy...
The Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival (Hsdff) has released the lineup of films and honorees for its 30th edition, which will take place Oct. 8-16.
The opening night presentation will be a screening of Samuel D. Pollard and Rex Miller’s “Citizen Ashe,” a biographical piece about the tennis player Arthur Ashe. The centerpiece films will be “The Rescue” directed by E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, which follows Tham Luang cave rescue, and “Neutral Ground,” C.J. Hunt’s film about the 2015 removal of four Confederate monuments from New Orleans. The festival will close with “Julia,” Julie Cohen and Betsy West’s film about Julia Child.
Pollard will be honored with the Hdsff career achievement award. The impact award will go to Garrett Bradley, director of the 2020 documentary “Time.” This year’s honorary festival chair will be Dawn Hudson, CEO of the Academy...
- 9/22/2021
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Physician assistant-turned-screenwriter Carolyn Pierre-Outlar has drawn from her own experience in the medical field for a comedy in the works at NBC.
Pierre-Outlar has teamed up with The Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr. on the untitled series, which is in development at the broadcast network.
The project comes from Universal Television and will be written and co-exec produced by Pierre-Outlar, who first started the project, then known as Rhonda Mitchell M.D, as a web series, and Wood, who also exec produces.
The project focuses on an overbearing doctor after she takes over her father’s Harlem-based practice and struggles to balance her personal and professional life while managing an irreverent group of patients and co-workers.
It is the latest broadcast series developed by Wood Jr., who earlier this year set up a single-camera comedy about the National Guard at Fox with Denis Leary.
The comedian also recently...
Pierre-Outlar has teamed up with The Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr. on the untitled series, which is in development at the broadcast network.
The project comes from Universal Television and will be written and co-exec produced by Pierre-Outlar, who first started the project, then known as Rhonda Mitchell M.D, as a web series, and Wood, who also exec produces.
The project focuses on an overbearing doctor after she takes over her father’s Harlem-based practice and struggles to balance her personal and professional life while managing an irreverent group of patients and co-workers.
It is the latest broadcast series developed by Wood Jr., who earlier this year set up a single-camera comedy about the National Guard at Fox with Denis Leary.
The comedian also recently...
- 8/10/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
In new documentary The Neutral Ground, the attempts to remove Confederate statues is explored along with a troubled history of culpability
“I was just happy somebody else had to go put their ass on the line instead of me,” deadpans Roy Wood Jr, a correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. “I do it enough for Trevor Noah.”
The somebody else was Cj Hunt, a Daily Show field producer and person of colour who puts his “ass on the line” by taking part in a white people’s re-enactment of the American civil war. It makes for a jaw dropping scene in Hunt’s nimble new film, The Neutral Ground, about the struggle to remove monuments to the slave-owning Confederacy and understand why the war never really ended.
“I was just happy somebody else had to go put their ass on the line instead of me,” deadpans Roy Wood Jr, a correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. “I do it enough for Trevor Noah.”
The somebody else was Cj Hunt, a Daily Show field producer and person of colour who puts his “ass on the line” by taking part in a white people’s re-enactment of the American civil war. It makes for a jaw dropping scene in Hunt’s nimble new film, The Neutral Ground, about the struggle to remove monuments to the slave-owning Confederacy and understand why the war never really ended.
- 7/6/2021
- by David Smith in Sarasota, Florida
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – When you are not black in America, you cannot imagine the societal indignities (to say the least) that are endured on a daily basis, both macro and micro. A new documentary on a particular indignity, “The Neutral Ground,” by first time director Cj Hunt, premieres on PBS’s “Pov” on July 5th, 2021. Click for details.
Rating: 5.0/5.0
”The Neutral Ground” is an incredible and personal story about accepting identity and how the ready acceptance of lies by (mostly) white people create our current divisions. The “neutral ground” is New Orleans, during the 2010 decade of debate regarding Confederate statues and monuments that still resided in prominent places, in a city that has a 70 percent black population. Director and reporter Cj Hunt is a biracial (black/Filipino) participant in the debate, coming to terms with an identity that had eluded him before, and exposing the sheer pomposity and blinders that white people...
Rating: 5.0/5.0
”The Neutral Ground” is an incredible and personal story about accepting identity and how the ready acceptance of lies by (mostly) white people create our current divisions. The “neutral ground” is New Orleans, during the 2010 decade of debate regarding Confederate statues and monuments that still resided in prominent places, in a city that has a 70 percent black population. Director and reporter Cj Hunt is a biracial (black/Filipino) participant in the debate, coming to terms with an identity that had eluded him before, and exposing the sheer pomposity and blinders that white people...
- 7/3/2021
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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