The Environmental Media Awards hosted its annual awards gala on Saturday, with 'The Downside With Jon Stewart' and 'Yellowstone' additionally taking house trophies, in addition to a particular honor for Nikki Reed.
The Environmental Media Affiliation held its annual awards gala on Saturday night time, recognizing the efforts of these working towards a more healthy planet. Don’t Look Up, Abbott Elementary, Yellowstone and The Downside with Jon Stewart have been among the many productions feted for his or her work in following inexperienced practices and telling tales of environmental justice, local weather motion and sustainability.
The occasion, held at Los Angeles’ Sundown Las Palmas Studios, additionally honored famous person Billie Eilish and her mom Maggie Baird with the EMA Missions in Music Award for his or her environmental work. Collectively, the mother-daughter duo created “Overheated,” an additional part to Eilish’s Happier Than Ever, The World Tour, with climate-focused actions together with clothes swaps, documentary screenings and plant-based conversations to speak points associated to sustainable trend. It was organized in collaboration with Baird’s charity, Help + Feed, which takes on meals insecurity and the local weather disaster with plant-based meals.
Eilish and Baird have been available to simply accept the award, as Eilish admitted, “I really feel like I do know nothing on a regular basis, and I by no means really feel like I’m doing sufficient in loads of methods, particularly within the atmosphere and the world, and I’m at all times seeking to do one thing else. I really feel that individuals aren’t fascinated with it as a lot as I need them to, particularly after I work with manufacturers and we make issues — and simply the style business, which I’m such an enormous fan of and actually concerned with. It’s simply horribly upsetting the way in which individuals aren’t actually fascinated with it first.”
“My mother has been the person who is at all times fascinated with it, on this means that I’m simply so in awe of,” Eilish continued. “I’m at all times simply attempting to do what I believe my mother would need me to do, and she or he’s at all times pondering forward and cares a lot concerning the world and folks and animals and beings. I like my mother, and she or he’s actually the rationale that I give a fuck.”
With Finneas O’Connell additionally within the viewers, Baird joked that it “wasn’t tremendous simple to be my kids,” as she forbid them from utilizing paper towels within the house or utilizing paper wrapping at Christmas. “I do know that I used to be annoying, and I’m nonetheless annoying, and the loopy factor was you all went on to have these superb skills and develop this monumental platform that allow me lastly do the factor that I wished to do most, which was feed individuals and discuss local weather change. Now I’m by no means going to close up and go away you alone.”
Holding up a replica of 1971 guide Weight loss program for a Small Planet, Baird additionally famous how “we’ve been extremely sluggish to handle the catastrophe, which is animal agriculture. And it’s time, we don’t have any time left … plant-based meals is just not the one answer to local weather change, however there’s no answer with out it.”
Nikki Reed, an EMA board member, additionally took house the EMA Innovator Award for her eco-friendly life-style and jewellery model, BaYou With Love, with a give attention to sustainable, moral trend and manufacturing. She was introduced the award by Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke, as Reed spoke about her longtime love of animals and making use of that to her enterprise.
“Change takes dedication, but it surely’s time to knock it down — each door, each enterprise, each house. If there isn’t a triple ‘P’ in-built — planet, individuals, revenue — it may well go, each enterprise mannequin can go,” she stated.
The night time, of which The Hollywood Reporter was a sponsor, was hosted by David Spade and Wendie Malick, with musical performances by Bishop Briggs and Samantha Ronson. Malin Akerman, Leslie Odom Jr., Lance Bass, Eli Roth, Peter Facinelli, Emile Hirsch, Paris Jackson and EMA CEO Debbie Levin have been additionally available, as have been many younger environmental activists who introduced alongside the celebs.
After successful, each Jon Stewart and Don’t Look Up director Adam McKay despatched in video acceptance speeches, as McKay famous how for the reason that Netflix movie was launched in December 2021, “it’s gotten nothing however extra related as we’ve all seen the dimensions, scope and price of the warming of the planet enhance in terrifying, terrifying methods.” McKay additionally shouted out the activists on the frontlines, cheering them on to “hold screaming, hold making your voices loud and heard.”
See a full checklist of winners under:
FEATURE FILM
Don’t Look Up — Netflix (WINNER)
Jurassic World Dominion — Common Footage and Amblin Leisure
VARIETY TELEVISION
Ziwe: Scorching! — Showtime
The Downside with Jon Stewart: Local weather Change — Apple TV+ (WINNER)
Saturday Night time Dwell: Episode #1812 — NBCUniversal, Broadway Video
CHILDREN’S TELEVISION
Teen Titans Go!: Polly Ethylene and Tara Phthalate — Cartoon Community/Warner Bros. Animation (Warner Bros. Discovery)
Child Correspondent: Which Snack Is Finest For the Planet? — Participant/YouTube Originals (WINNER)
Mickey Mouse Funhouse: “Crystal Clear Waters” — Disney Branded Tv
DOCUMENTARY FILM
Consuming Our Manner To Extinction — Broxstar Productions LTD and Seine Footage (WINNER)
FIN — Discovery+ (Warner Bros. Discovery)
Burning — Amazon Studios, Propagate Content material, Soiled Movies Youth
Unstoppable: The Rise of the International Youth Local weather Motion — WaterBear, Scythia Movies, Connect4Climate and Artistic Visions
DOCUMENTARY SERIES
The Subsequent Factor You Eat: Sushi — Hulu
The Inexperienced Planet: Human Worlds — BBC Studios The Pure Historical past Unit
America the Lovely: Courageous New World — Nationwide Geographic (WINNER)
Meltdown: Three Mile Island: The Accident — Netflix
PAUL JUNGER WITT COMEDY AWARD
Abbott Elementary: Artwork Trainer — ABC and Scrumptious Non-Sequitur Productions in affiliation with Warner Bros. Tv (Warner Bros. Discovery) and twentieth Tv (WINNER)
American Dad: Dr. Sunderson’s SunSuckers — TBS (Warner Bros. Discovery) in affiliation with twentieth Tv Animation
Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Watermelon — HBO/HBO Max (Warner Bros. Discovery)
TELEVISION EPISODIC DRAMA
The Man Who Fell to Earth: New Angels of Promise — Showtime
Yellowstone: Maintain the Wolves Shut — Paramount Community (WINNER)
Joe Pickett: A Monster on the Gate — Paramount Tv Studios
REALITY TELEVISION
The Finish Is Nye – The Volcano Paradox — Common Tv Different Studio and UCP, divisions of Common Studio Group, and Fuzzy Door (WINNER)
Residence Candy Residence: There’s No TV? — Warner Bros. Unscripted Tv in affiliation with Warner Horizon and ARRAY Filmworks /NBCUniversal
Largest Little Farm: The Return — Nationwide Geographic