104-463: Ava Marie DuVernay ( / ˌ dj uː v ər ˈ n eɪ / ; born August 24, 1972) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer. She is a recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards , two NAACP Image Award , a BAFTA Film Award , and a BAFTA TV Award , as well as a nominee for an Academy Award and Golden Globe . In 2011, she founded her independent distribution company ARRAY . After making her directoral debut, I Will Follow (2010), DuVernay won
208-400: A Nipsey Hussle documentary for Netflix. In 2010 DuVernay founded African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement ( AFFRM ), her own company to distribute films made by or focusing on Black people. DuVernay refers to AFFRM as "not so much a business, but a call to action." Although she sees building strong business foundations for films is a priority, DuVernay has said that she stresses that
312-461: A 10-year sentence. She drops out of medical school in order to have more time and emotional energy to give to her incarcerated spouse. The film explores how the families of the incarcerated are also victims of the system and shows how commonly this burden of incarceration falls upon women of color. In an interview with the LA Times , DuVernay touched on her inspiration for the film, "The idea of looking at
416-466: A 41-minute long history of female hip hop artists. On Thanksgiving 2010, TV One showed DuVernay's 44-minute documentary special Essence Presents: Faith Through the Storm , about two Black sisters who reclaimed their lives after personal devastation during Hurricane Katrina. "It was done for a client, for Essence . They wanted to talk about how faith helped them through, that was very important to them. So it
520-399: A company that produced documentaries and nonfiction programs. CBS News ran cable channel CBS Eye on People from 1997 to 2000 and Spanish-language channel CBS Telenoticias from 1996 to 1998. In 2021, CBS News had set up its own production unit See It Now Studios, to be headed up by Susan Zirinsky . In 2022, CBS News hired former Donald Trump administration official Mick Mulvaney as
624-454: A digital platform for millennial women of color . In 2005, over the Christmas holiday, DuVernay decided to take $ 6,000 and make her first film, a short called Saturday Night Life . Based on her mother's experiences, the 12-minute film was about an uplifting trip by a struggling single mother ( Melissa De Sousa ) and her three kids to a local Los Angeles discount grocery store. The film toured
728-452: A documentary on Venus Williams 's fight for equal prize money. This was to be included in their film series Nine for IX , which aired on July 2, 2013. DuVernay also directed the John Legend episode of the performance-and-interview series HelloBeautiful Interludes Live , which was shown September 14, 2013, on TV One as the series' broadcast premiere. She also directed the eighth episode of
832-508: A junior publicist at 20th Century Fox , Savoy Pictures , and a few other PR agencies. She opened her own public relations firm, The DuVernay Agency, also known as DVAPR, in 1999. Through DVAPR she provided marketing and PR services to the entertainment and lifestyle industry, working on campaigns for movies and television shows, such as Lumumba , Spy Kids , Shrek 2 , The Terminal , Collateral , and Dreamgirls . Other ventures launched by DuVernay include Urban Beauty Collective,
936-503: A late-afternoon political program titled, 'America Decides' and John Dickerson anchors "The Daily Report" Monday-Thursday. + – deceased In 2017, CBS News entered into a content-sharing agreement with BBC News , respectively replacing previous arrangements between the BBC and ABC News, and CBS and Sky News (which was partially controlled by 21st Century Fox until 2018 when ownership was then transferred to Comcast ). The partnership includes
1040-450: A measure of their importance to a particular movie or the lack of a gratuitous link to white actors. In 2013, DuVernay partnered with Miu Miu as part of their Women's Tales film series. Her short film The Door starred actress Gabrielle Union and reunited DuVernay with her Middle of Nowhere star Emayatzy Corinealdi . The film premiered online in February 2013 and was presented at
1144-474: A morning edition is anchored by Steve Kathan and produced by Paul Farry, while a "late edition" is anchored by Dave Barrett and produced by James Hutton. The evening Roundup , previously known as The World Tonight , has aired in its current form since 1956 and has been anchored by Blair Clark, Douglas Edwards , Dallas Townsend and Christopher Glenn (Glenn also anchored the morning Roundup before his death in 2006). The CBS Radio Network provides newscasts at
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#17328591690771248-422: A paid on-air contributor. Mulvaney's hiring stirred controversy within the company due to his history of promoting Trump's false claims and attacking the press. CBS News co-president Neeraj Khemlani told CBS morning show staff: "If you look at some of the people that we've been hiring on a contributor basis, being able to make sure that we are getting access to both sides of the aisle is a priority because we know
1352-498: A promotional network that began in 2003 and had more than 10,000 African-American beauty salons and barbershops in 16 U.S. cities, expanded to 20 in 2008. They were mailed a free monthly Access Hollywood -style promotion program called UBC-TV, the African-American blog hub Urban Thought Collective in 2008, Urban Eye, a two-minute long weekday celebrity and entertainment news show distributed to radio stations, and HelloBeautiful ,
1456-445: A review from Awards Circuit, Angela Davis said " 13th is probably the most important movie you'll ever see." In 2017, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 89th Oscars ; DuVernay became the first Black woman to be nominated by the academy as a director in a feature category. The film also won a Peabody Award in 2017 and a Columbia Journalism School duPont Award in 2018. Her music video for
1560-478: A script with only occasional cutaways to a map or still photograph. When Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941, WCBW (which was usually off the air on Sunday to give the engineers a day off), took to the air at 8:45 p.m. with an extensive special report. The national emergency even broke down the unspoken wall between CBS radio and television. WCBW executives convinced radio announcers and experts such as George Fielding Elliot and Linton Wells to come down to
1664-509: A series of three commercials starring Mary J. Blige , Taraji P. Henson and Kerry Washington . The first ad, Chapter 1 , premiered during Fox 's Emmy broadcast on September 20, 2015. Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 debuted in November 2015 and February 2016, respectively. In 2015, DuVernay executive produced and directed the CBS civil rights crime drama pilot For Justice , starring Anika Noni Rose . It
1768-399: A team are not guaranteed their own trophy. However, winners in large teams (such as writers) can purchase their own trophy for an estimated $ 400. The Primetime Emmy Award is awarded in the following categories: The Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards are awarded in the following categories (some of which separately recognize work based on whether a single-camera or multi-camera setup
1872-434: A team of domestic and global correspondents and freelance reporters dedicated to reporting for affiliates, and offers several different national or international stories fronted by reporters on a daily basis. CBS Newspath also relies heavily on local affiliates sharing content. Stations will often contribute locally obtained footage that may be of national interest. It replaced a similar service, CBS News NewsNet. In late 1999,
1976-465: A two-night premiere on June 20 and 21, 2017. The series was renewed for a third season on July 26, 2017. In August 2018, OWN renewed the series for a fourth season, which premiered on June 12, 2019. 13th In July 2016, the New York Film Festival made the surprise announcement that 13th , a documentary directed by DuVernay, would open the festival. Until the announcement no mention of
2080-570: Is a first for a U.S. 24-hour news channel to forgo cable and be available exclusively only online and on smart devices such as smart TV's Apple TV , Roku , Amazon Fire and others. The channel is based at CBS's New York City headquarters. The morning hours are typically anchored by Anne-Marie Green and Vladimir Duthiers , with afternoons anchored by a rotating team including Lilia Luciano, Tony Dokoupil , Errol Barnett , Lana Zak and Elaine Quijano . Various correspondents in Washington D.C. anchor
2184-503: Is among the vanguard of a new generation of Black filmmakers who are the busily undeterred catalyst for what may very well be a Black film renaissance in the making." He further speaks of DuVernay's mission and "call to action" which constitutes a strategy "to further and foster the Black cinematic image in an organized and consistent way, and to not have to defer and ask permission to traffic our films: to be self-determining." The "DuVernay test"
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#17328591690772288-486: Is an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. In 2021, DuVernay was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Yale University . DuVernay reportedly did not pick up a camera until she was 32. DuVernay's first interest was journalism, a choice influenced by an internship with CBS News . She was assigned to help cover the O.J. Simpson murder trial . DuVernay became disillusioned with journalism, however, and decided to move into public relations, working as
2392-563: Is determined by a jury of highly qualified, experienced engineers in the television industry. A number of awards have been retired throughout the years, including some that have been replaced by similar award categories in the Daytime Emmy Awards , Sports Emmy Awards , and other areas of recognition: CBS News CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS . CBS News television programs include
2496-404: Is interspersed with gospel music, images of Katrina, their home and family." I Will Follow In 2011, DuVernay's first narrative feature film, I Will Follow , a drama starring Salli Richardson-Whitfield , was released theatrically. DuVernay's aunt Denise Sexton was the inspiration for the film. In an interview, DuVernay talked about how her real life experiences differed from the film: "I
2600-563: Is the racial equivalent of the Bechdel test (for women in movies), as first suggested by Guardian writers Nadia and Leila Latif and then by The New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis in January 2016, asking whether "blacks and other minorities have fully realized lives rather than serve as scenery in white stories." It aims to point out the lack of people of color in Hollywood movies, through
2704-474: The CBS Evening News when Walter Cronkite replaced Edwards in 1962. Edwards remained with CBS News with various daytime television newscasts and radio news broadcasts until his retirement on April 1, 1988. From the 1990s until 2014, CBS News operated its own production unit CBS News Productions, to produce alternative programming for cable networks, and CBS EyeToo Productions (later CBS Eye Productions),
2808-484: The CBS Evening News , CBS Mornings , news magazine programs CBS News Sunday Morning , 60 Minutes , and 48 Hours , and Sunday morning political affairs program Face the Nation . CBS News Radio produces hourly newscasts for hundreds of radio stations, and also oversees CBS News podcasts like The Takeout Podcast . CBS News also operates CBS News 24/7, a 24-hour digital news network . Up until April 2021,
2912-659: The 1932 presidential election . In March 1933, White was named vice president and general manager in charge of news at CBS. As the first head of CBS News, he began to build an organization that soon established a legendary reputation. In 1935, White hired Edward R. Murrow , and sent him to London in 1937 to run CBS Radio's European operation. White led a staff that would come to include Richard C. Hottelet, Charles Collingwood , William L. Shirer , Eric Sevareid , Bill Downs , John Charles Daly , Joseph C. Harsch Cecil Brown , Elmer Davis , Quincy Howe , H. V. Kaltenborn , Robert Trout , and Lewis Shollenberger . "CBS
3016-774: The 2012 Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award for her work on the film. DuVernay was commissioned by the Smithsonian 's National Museum of African American History and Culture to create a film about African-American history . Her August 28: A Day in the Life of a People explores six historical events that happened on the same date, August 28, in different years. It debuted at the museum's opening on September 24, 2016. The 22-minute film stars Lupita Nyong'o , Don Cheadle , Regina King , David Oyelowo , Angela Bassett , Michael Ealy , Gugu Mbatha-Raw , André Holland and Glynn Turman . Events depicted include William IV 's royal assent to
3120-628: The Academy Award for Best Picture . Her other film credits include the Academy Award -nominated Netflix documentary 13th (2016) and the Disney fantasy film A Wrinkle in Time (2018), the latter making her the first African-American woman to direct a film with a budget of $ 100 million. In 2023, she directed the biographical film Origin based on Isabel Wilkerson 's book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020). DuVernay's television credits include
3224-654: The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences board of governors as part of the directors branch. Ava Marie DuVernay was born on August 24, 1972, in Long Beach, California . She was raised by her mother, Darlene ( née Sexton), an educator, and her stepfather, Murray Maye. The surname of her biological father, Joseph Marcel DuVernay III, originates with Louisiana Creole ancestry. She grew up in Lynwood, California . She has four siblings. During her summer vacations, she would travel to
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3328-569: The Jay-Z ft. Beyoncé song " Family Feud " premiered December 29, 2017, on Tidal . A Wrinkle in Time In 2010, it was announced that Disney carried the film rights to Madeleine L'Engle's 1962 novel A Wrinkle in Time which follows a young girl traveling through space and time. Following the success of Tim Burton 's Alice in Wonderland , Disney announced the hiring of Jeff Stockwell to write
3432-586: The MTV Video Music Awards , the 2014 ceremony was also shifted to a Monday). The 2018 ceremony and 2022 ceremony , both broadcast by NBC, were moved back to September and aired on a Monday. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) was founded by Syd Cassyd in 1946. The first Emmy ceremony took place on January 25, 1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club . Tickets cost $ 5 and only six awards were presented. The Emmy statuette
3536-501: The OWN drama series Queen Sugar (2016) and two Netflix drama limited series: When They See Us (2019), based on the 1989 Central Park jogger case and Colin in Black & White (2021), based on the teenage years of NFL player Colin Kaepernick . In 2017, DuVernay was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. In 2020, she was elected to
3640-706: The Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards for recognizing significant contributions to the engineering and technological aspects of television. First given out in 1949 , the award was originally referred to as simply the " Emmy Award " until the International Emmy Award and the Daytime Emmy Award were created in the early 1970s to expand the Emmy to other sectors of the television industry. The Primetime Emmy Awards generally air every September, on
3744-703: The UK Slavery Abolition Act in 1833, the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi , the release of Motown 's first number-one song, " Please Mr. Postman " by The Marvellettes , Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 I Have a Dream speech, the landfall of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and the night Senator Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president at the 2008 Democratic National Convention . Michael T. Martin says, "DuVernay
3848-550: The Venice Days sidebar of the 70th Venice International Film Festival in August. Also in August 2013, DuVernay released, through Vimeo , a second branded short film entitled Say Yes . The film was sponsored by cosmetic brand Fashion Fair and starred Kali Hawk and Lance Gross with Julie Dash , Victoria Mahoney , Lorraine Toussaint and Issa Rae appearing as extras. ESPN commissioned DuVernay to produce and direct Venus Vs. ,
3952-927: The alternative hip hop documentary This Is the Life , a history of LA's Good Life Cafe 's arts movement, in which she participated as part of the duo Figures of Speech . This is the Life won audience awards at the ReelWorld Film Festival in Toronto, the Los Angeles Pan-African Film Festival, the Hollywood Black Film Festival, and the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival in Seattle. In 2010, DuVernay directed three TV documentaries. The first, two-hour concert film TV One Night Only: Live from
4056-485: The 2014 Academy Awards . The lack of diversity among the Oscar nominations for 2014 was the subject of much press, especially on Twitter . This film was the only one directed by a person of color that was nominated for the 87th Academy Awards . The award for Best Original Song went to " Glory " from Selma . DuVernay said that she had not expected to be nominated as director, so the omission did not really bother her, but she
4160-531: The ATAS or local hotels. From 2002 to 2014, members could watch submissions at home on DVDs. Starting in 2015, members could watch submissions through secure online platforms, with DVDs being eliminated in 2020. In December 2021, the ATAS and NATAS announced major realignments to the Emmy Awards, accounting for the growth of streaming services by aligning their categories and the ceremonies' scopes around factors such as
4264-636: The Daytime Emmy Awards if they normally air before 8 p.m (including the former " access hour " from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.); otherwise, they are only eligible for the Primetime Emmy Awards. For streaming television programs, they must be available for downloading or streaming to more than 50 percent of the country, and like shows in syndication they can only enter in one of the national Emmy competitions. Shows that are offered for pre-sale to consumers, whether on home video devices or via
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4368-596: The Essence Music Festival , was a mix of live performances and behind-the-scenes vignettes. It aired August 28, 2010, on TV One and showcases the U.S.'s largest annual African-American entertainment gathering, the Essence Music Festival . In 2010 it was held July 2–4 in New Orleans . Two days later, BET premiered its first original music documentary, My Mic Sounds Nice: A Truth About Women and Hip Hop ,
4472-676: The Evolve Entertainment Fund. The fund's mission is to promote inclusion and provide an opportunity for under-served communities to pursue a dream in the entertainment industry. Since May 2019, DuVernay has cohosted The Essentials , a weekly film series on Turner Classic Movies , with Ben Mankiewicz . DuVernay has appeared in wraparounds each Saturday night on the channel, discussing a wide range of films, including Marty , Ashes and Embers , Harlan County, USA and La Pointe Courte . Primetime Emmy Awards The Primetime Emmy Awards , or Primetime Emmys , are part of
4576-570: The Grand Central studios during the evening and give information and commentary on the attack. The WCBW special report that night lasted less than 90 minutes. But that special broadcast pushed the limits of live television in 1941 and opened up new possibilities for future broadcasts. As CBS wrote in a special report to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the unscheduled live news broadcast on December 7 "was unquestionably
4680-461: The Primetime Emmy Awards cannot also be entered into the Daytime Emmy Awards or any other national Emmy competition. For shows in syndication , whose air times vary between media markets, they can either be entered in the Daytime or Primetime Emmy Awards (provided they still reach the 50 percent national reach), but not in both. For game shows that reach the 50 percent threshold, they can be entered into
4784-621: The Republicans are going to take over, most likely, in the midterms". The information on programs listed in this section came directly from CBS News in interviews with the Vice President of Communications and NewsWatch Dallas. According to the CBS News Library and source Sandy Genelius (Vice President, CBS News Communications), the "CBS Evening News" was the program title for both Saturday and Sunday evening broadcasts. The program title for
4888-656: The Sky and set in Compton. In 2015, it was announced that DuVernay would be writing, producing, and directing a fictional account which will focus on the "social and environmental" aspects of Hurricane Katrina while including a love story and a murder mystery. David Oyelowo was said to be part of the project. In 2018, it was announced that DuVernay would be directing a New Gods film for the DC Extended Universe . On May 29, 2019, DuVernay announced that she and Tom King would co-write
4992-596: The Sunday before the official start of the fall television season. Since 1995, the Emmys have been broadcast in rotation among the four major networks ( ABC , CBS , Fox , NBC ), each network taking turns to air the ceremony every four years. If NBC broadcasts it, the ceremony is moved to Monday night (in 2006 , 2010 , and 2014 , NBC aired in late-August), so that it does not conflict with NBC's commitment to broadcasting Sunday-night NFL games (due to another conflict, this time with
5096-425: The Sunday late night news beginning in 1963 was the "CBS Sunday Night News". These titles were also seen on the intro slide of the program's opening. The program airs on Saturday, and Sunday nights at 7:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. UTC (Eastern Time) on CBS. The branch of CBS News that produces newscasts and features to radio stations is CBS News Radio. The radio network is the oldest unit of CBS and traced its roots to
5200-416: The U.S., and argues that slavery has been effectively perpetuated in the U.S. through disproportionate mass incarceration of people of color. The film features several prominent activists, politicians, and public figures, such as Bryan Stevenson , Angela Davis , Van Jones , Newt Gingrich , Cory Booker , Henry Louis Gates Jr. , Michelle Alexander , and others, who discuss such issues as convict leasing,
5304-514: The United States and other nations in the region while providing an alternative to Nazi propaganda. Upon becoming commercial station WCBW (channel 2, now WCBS-TV ) in 1941, the pioneer CBS television station in New York City broadcast two daily news programs, at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. weekdays, anchored by Richard Hubbell (journalist). Most of the newscasts featured Hubbell reading
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#17328591690775408-631: The Washington, D.C. bureau as its president. She stepped down in July 2024. In 1929, the Columbia Broadcasting System began making regular radio news broadcasts—five-minute summaries taken from reports from the United Press, one of the three wire services that supplied newspapers with national and international news. In December 1930 CBS chief William S. Paley hired journalist Paul W. White away from United Press as CBS's news editor. Paley put
5512-510: The Web, are ineligible if the pre-sale period starts more than seven days before the show's initial airing. Also, a show that receives what the academy calls a "general theatrical release" before its first airing (either via television or the Internet) is ineligible. The definition of this phrase excludes limited releases for the specific purpose of award qualification, such as screenings at film festivals or
5616-624: The ability to share resources, footage, and reports, and conduct "efficient planning of news gathering resources to increase the content of each broadcaster's coverage of world events". Although they do not have an official partnership, CNN and CBS News share correspondents and contributors such as Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Gupta . In 2022, CBS News entered into a content-sharing partnership with The Weather Channel , where The Weather Channel meteorologists will appear on CBS News programs, and CBS News correspondents will appear during live coverage of weather events on The Weather Channel. Throughout
5720-596: The assistance of the Department of State , the Office for Inter-American Affairs chaired by Nelson Rockefeller and Voice of America as part of President Roosevelt's support for Pan-Americanism , this CBS radio network provided vital news and cultural programming throughout South America and Central America during the World War II era. Through its operations in twenty nations, it fostered benevolent diplomatic relations between
5824-472: The box office behind Black Panther . Following Disney's Q2 earnings report in May 2018, Yahoo! Finance deduced the film would cost the studio anywhere from $ 86–186 million. Nonetheless, A Wrinkle in Time still made the list for the top 100 grossing movies of 2018, making DuVernay one of four female directors that made the list that year. Upon release, the film received mixed reviews, with critics "taking issue with
5928-511: The branches vote to determine the nominees only in their respective categories (i.e. writers vote for writing awards, actors vote for acting awards). As of July 1, 2021, the various TV industry professions were sorted into 29 Peer Groups. All 16,000 members can vote for nominations in the 14 best program categories (including: Drama Series, Comedy Series, Limited Series, Television Movies, Variety Talk Series, Variety Sketch Series, Competition, and Short Form Series). The final voting poll to determine
6032-605: The childhood home of her stepfather, which was not far from Selma, Alabama . DuVernay said that these summers influenced the making of Selma, as her father had witnessed the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches . Raised Catholic , in 1990 DuVernay graduated from Saint Joseph High School in Lakewood . At the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), she was a double BA major in English literature and African-American studies . DuVernay
6136-477: The company's founding in 1927, and the news division took shape over the decade that followed. The list of CBS News correspondents (below) includes those reporting on CBS News Radio. CBS News Radio produces the oldest daily news show on radio or television, the CBS World News Roundup , which first aired in 1938 and celebrated its 80th anniversary in 2018. The World News Roundup airs twice every weekday:
6240-517: The creation of the separate Daytime Emmy Awards just for daytime programming, run by the sister organization, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS). Cable programs first became eligible for the Primetime Emmys in 1988. Original online-only streaming television programs then became eligible in 2013. Between 1949 and 2001, voting members had to watch submissions at
6344-404: The death of a loved one." I Will Follow was an official selection of AFI Fest , Pan-African Film Festival , Urbanworld and Chicago International Film Festival . It wasn't until after I Will Follow that DuVernay fully left her job in publicity. DuVernay stated: "I knew that as a Black woman in this industry, I wouldn't have people knocking down my door to give me money for my projects, so I
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#17328591690776448-414: The directing award in the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her second feature film Middle of Nowhere , becoming the first black woman to win the award. For her work on Selma (2014), a biopic about Martin Luther King Jr. , DuVernay became the first African-American woman to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director ; the film went on to be nominated for
6552-536: The driving force of the organization is activism. In 2015 the company rebranded itself under the name ARRAY , promising a new focus on women filmmakers as well. DuVernay also owns Forward Movement, a film and television production company. In September 2013, DuVernay started a podcast series called The Call-In, a series of phone conversations recorded by AFFRM of Black filmmakers of feature narrative and documentary work. DuVernay talks about her goals with The Call-In: "For people of color and women filmmakers, so often
6656-458: The eligibility period must be submitted (programs that were cancelled before airing their sixth episode are thus ineligible). For most individual achievement categories, only one episode is required to be submitted; if an episode is a two-parter, both parts may be included on the submitted DVD. Ballots to select the nominations are sent to Academy members in June. For most categories, members from each of
6760-568: The extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the American television industry. Bestowed by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), the Primetime Emmys are presented in recognition of excellence in American primetime television programming. The award categories are divided into three classes: the regular Primetime Emmy Awards, the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards to honor technical and other similar behind-the-scenes achievements, and
6864-493: The festival circuit and was broadcast on February 6, 2007, as part of Showtime 's Black Filmmaker Showcase . DuVernay next explored making documentaries, because they can be done on a smaller budget than fiction films, and she could learn the trade while doing so. In 2007, she directed the short Compton in C Minor, for which she "challenged herself to capture Compton in only two hours and present whatever she found." The following year, she made her feature directorial debut with
6968-553: The film had been made by either DuVernay or Netflix , the film's distributor. Centered on race in the United States criminal justice system , the film is titled after the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution , which outlawed slavery (except as punishment for a crime). DuVernay's documentary opens with the statement that 25 percent of the people in the world who are incarcerated are incarcerated in
7072-545: The film's heavy use of CGI and numerous plot holes" while "celebrating its message of female empowerment and diversity." When They See Us On July 6, 2017, it was announced that Netflix had given the production When They See Us a series order consisting of four episodes. The series was created by DuVernay, who served as executive producer, co-writer, and director. Other executive producers credited, include Jeff Skoll , Jonathan King , Oprah Winfrey , Jane Rosenthal and Berry Welsh. Production companies involved with
7176-596: The film. The movie was no longer moving forward by April 2021. On October 29, 2018, it was announced that DuVernay would be working with the estate of Prince to direct a biopic covering his life for Netflix. However, in August 2019, DuVernay quit as director due to "creative differences". On June 29, 2020, Netflix announced a six-episode series, created by DuVernay and Colin Kaepernick , titled Colin in Black & White , centering on Kaepernick's youth and various events in his life. On February 11, 2020, news reports speculated about DuVernay possibly co-producing and directing
7280-432: The most stimulating challenge and marked the greatest advance of any single problem faced up to that time." Additional newscasts were scheduled in the early days of the war. In May 1942, WCBW (like almost all television stations) sharply cut back its live program schedule and the newscasts were canceled, since the station temporarily suspended studio operations, resorting exclusively to the occasional broadcast of films. This
7384-501: The news-gathering arms of CBS (Newspath), ABC (NewsOne) and Fox (NewsEdge) agreed to form a joint-venture footage sharing pool , known as Network News Service . CBS News 24/7 is a 24-hour streaming news channel which launched on November 4, 2014, as CBSN. At the time as CBSN, the channel features live news from 9 a.m. to midnight on weekdays. The channel makes all of the resources of CBS News available directly on digital platforms with live, anchored coverage 15 hours each week. It
7488-506: The one-week releases in Los Angeles (and, for documentaries, New York City as well) required for Oscar eligibility. Entries must be submitted by the end of April, even if a show is not scheduled to originally air until the following month when the eligibility period ends in May. Most award categories also require entries to include DVDs or tape masters of the show. For most series categories, any six episodes that originally aired during
7592-671: The president and senior executive producer of CBS News was Susan Zirinsky , who assumed the role on March 1, 2019. Zirinsky, the first female president of the network's news division, was announced as the choice to replace David Rhodes on January 6, 2019. The announcement came amid news that Rhodes would step down as president of CBS News "amid falling ratings and the fallout from revelations from an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations" against CBS News figures and Rhodes. On April 15, 2021, CBS Television Stations and CBS News announced that their respective divisions would merge into one entity, to be named CBS News and Stations . It
7696-450: The prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for Television News in 1949. In 1950, the name of the nightly newscast was changed to Douglas Edwards with the News , and the following year, it became the first news program to be broadcast on both coasts, thanks to a new coaxial cable connection, prompting Edwards to use the greeting "Good evening everyone, coast to coast." The broadcast was renamed
7800-534: The project: "I think I'll just say we had different ideas about what the story would be. Marvel has a certain way of doing things and I think they're fantastic and a lot of people love what they do. I loved that they reached out to me." She also expressed her support for the project moving forward, "I love the character of Black Panther, the nation of Wakanda and all that that could be visually. I wish them well and will be first in line to see it." In 2015, Apple Music and their ad agency Translation hired DuVernay to helm
7904-607: The questions we get asked are about being a woman or a person of color. So The Call-In was a space where we could just talk about craft." On October 27, 2013, DuVernay gave one of the Executive Keynote addresses for Film Independent, a non-profit organization that produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, at their 2013 Film Independent Form, a three-day event. She
8008-549: The radio network's news operation at the same level as entertainment, and authorized White to interrupt programming if events warranted. Along with other networks, CBS chafed at the breaking news embargo imposed upon radio by the wire services, which prevented them from using bulletins until they first appeared in print. CBS disregarded an embargo when it broke the story of the Lindbergh kidnapping in 1932, using live on-the-air reporting. Radio networks scooped print outlets with news of
8112-458: The screenplay for Cary Granat and his new Bedrock Studios . Granat had previously worked with Disney on the Chronicles of Narnia and Bridge to Terabithia films. On August 5, 2014, Jennifer Lee was announced as the screenwriter, taking over from Stockwell, who had written the first draft. On February 8, 2016, it was reported that DuVernay had been offered a chance to direct the film, and she
8216-637: The series consisted of Participant Media , Harpo Films , and Tribeca Productions . The series premiered on Netflix on May 31, 2019. Upon its release, the miniseries received universal acclaim. On June 25, 2019, Netflix announced that the miniseries had been streamed by over 23 million viewers within its first month of release. It received a record 16 Emmy nominations, for writing, directing, and acting for stars and supporting actors. Origin In October 2020, her next film, Origin , an adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson 's book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents ,
8320-545: The statue features a female figure holding an electron, the name "Immy" was feminized to "Emmy". The Emmys originally honored shows produced and aired locally in the Los Angeles area, but soon expanded into a national event in 1952 to honor shows aired nationwide on broadcast television . Originally, there was only one Emmy event held per year to honor shows nationally broadcast in the United States. In 1968, an "Outstanding Achievement in Daytime Programming" category
8424-722: The television network's new Director of News Special Events and Sports. Soon thereafter in 1949, he collaborated with one of CBS' original Murrow Boys named Larry LeSueur to produce the innovative news series United Nations In Action . Underwritten by the Ford Motor Company as a public service, these broadcasts endeavored to provide live coverage of the proceedings of the United Nations General Assembly from its interim headquarters in Lake Success, New York. They proved to be highly successful and were honored with
8528-483: The themes and frequency of such programming, rather than dayparts: Among the Primetime Emmy Award rules, a show must originally air on American television during the eligibility period between June 1 and May 31 of any given year. In order to be considered a national primetime show, the program must air between 6:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m., and to at least 50 percent of the country. A show that enters into
8632-422: The third season of the political thriller television series Scandal . The episode, titled " Vermont is For Lovers, Too ", premiered on November 21, 2013, on ABC . Selma DuVernay directed Selma , a $ 20 million budget dramatic film about Martin Luther King Jr. , President Lyndon B. Johnson , and the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights. The movie, produced by Plan B Entertainment ,
8736-607: The top of the hour, regular updates at :31 minutes past the hour, the popular Newsfeeds for affiliates (including WCBS and KYW ) at :35 minutes past the hour, and breaking news updates when developments warrant, often at :20 and :50 minutes past the hour. Skyview Networks handles the distribution. CBS Newspath is CBS News' satellite news-gathering service (similar to CNN Newsource ). Newspath provides national hard news, sports highlights, regional spot news, features and live coverage of major breaking news events for affiliate stations to use in their local news broadcasts. The service has
8840-399: The victims of incarceration – the mothers, sisters and daughters -- really came out of knowing women who were going through it." The film had its world premiere on January 20 at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival , where it played in U.S. dramatic competition. It garnered the U.S. Directing Award: Dramatic for DuVernay. She was the first African-American woman to win the prize. DuVernay also won
8944-511: The war on drugs, and disproportionate arrests, convictions and sentencing of minorities. It was also the first critically acclaimed documentary to highlight the story of Kalief Browder . It was released on October 7, 2016, on Netflix . 13th garnered acclaim from film critics and has a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 94 reviews. The critical consensus says: " 13th strikes at the heart of America's tangled racial history, offering observations as incendiary as they are calmly controlled." In
9048-614: The war, expanded news programs appeared on the WCBW schedule – whose call letters were changed to WCBS-TV in 1946 – first anchored by Milo Boulton, and later by Douglas Edwards . On May 3, 1948, Edwards began anchoring CBS Television News , a regular 15-minute nightly newscast on the CBS television network, including WCBS-TV. It aired every weeknight at 7:30 p.m., and was the first regularly scheduled, network television news program featuring an anchor (the nightly Lowell Thomas NBC radio network newscast
9152-519: The winners is held in August, and is done by judging panels. In June, the academy solicits volunteers among its active members to serve on these panels. All active members may serve on the program panels; otherwise they are restricted to those categories within their own branch. The Primetime Emmy statuette is made of copper, nickel, silver and gold and takes five and a half hours to make. Each Emmy weighs six pounds, twelve ounces. The number of statuettes given to winners varies by category. All members of
9256-426: Was a caregiver for my aunt, Denise Sexton, in the last year and a half of her life. She was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer. She was a fighter and was active in her treatment to the end, which was different than the character in the film who wants to fight in a different way." The film cost DuVernay $ 50,000 and was made in 14 days. Roger Ebert called it "one of the best films I've seen about coming to terms with
9360-490: Was added once, but due to the voting rules of the time, judges could opt to either award one or no Emmy, and in the end they decided that no one should be nominated. This snub outraged soap opera writer Agnes Nixon , causing her to write in The New York Times , "...after viewing the recent fiasco of the Emmy awards, it may well be considered a mark of distinction to have been ignored by this group." This eventually led to
9464-551: Was also announced that Neeraj Khemlani (former Executive Vice President of Hearst Newspapers ) and Wendy McMahon (former President of the ABC Owned Television Stations Group ) were named presidents and co-heads. This transition was completed on May 3, 2021. On August 14, 2023, after Khemlani announced he was stepping down, CBS News named McMahon as its sole President and CEO. The next day on August 15, CBS News appointed Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews , who supervised
9568-464: Was confirmed as director later that same month. A Wrinkle in Time began filming in November 2016. Directing this film made DuVernay the first African-American woman to direct a live-action film with a budget of over $ 100 million, and the second woman to do so after Patty Jenkins (who directed Wonder Woman ). The film was released in March 2018 and brought in $ 33 million in its opening weekend, second at
9672-409: Was designed by Louis McManus . It depicts a winged muse holding an electron, combining visual metaphors for the arts and sciences. The design for the Emmy statuette was chosen after 47 other designs were rejected. The name "Emmy" comes from the nickname "Immy", used to describe the image-orthicon camera tube that was a significant 1940s technical breakthrough in capturing images for television. Because
9776-482: Was disappointed that actor David Oyelowo , who portrayed King, was not nominated as Best Actor. She said that the obstacles to people of color being represented in the Academy Awards were systemic. After Selma , DuVernay was approached by executives to direct Marvel's first film about a superhero of color, Black Panther , but she passed. In an interview with Essence DuVernay provided insight on why she passed on
9880-578: Was getting its ducks in a row for the biggest news story in history, World War II", wrote radio historian John Dunning. In 1940, William S. Paley recruited Edmund A. Chester from his position as Bureau Chief for Latin America at the Associated Press to coordinate the development of the international shortwave radio Network of the Americas ( Cadena de las Américas ) in 1942. Broadcasting in concert with
9984-408: Was happy to make them on the side while working my day job." Middle of Nowhere In the summer of 2011, DuVernay began production on her second narrative feature film, Middle of Nowhere , from a script she had written in 2003 but was unable to finance. The film drew from her own experiences growing up in Compton and Inglewood. The story focuses on the wife of an incarcerated man who is serving
10088-432: Was not picked up for distribution. That same year, DuVernay announced she would be creating and executive producing the drama series Queen Sugar , based on Natalie Baszile's novel . Queen Sugar premiered September 6, 2016, on Oprah Winfrey Network to critical acclaim. DuVernay wrote four episodes and directed two. On August 1, 2016, the series was renewed for a second season ahead of its television premiere; it aired in
10192-609: Was officially announced for Netflix. Netflix later exited the project. The film premiered at the Venice International Film Festival where it competed for the Golden Lion . This made DuVernay the first African American woman to have a film compete for the Golden Lion. The film received critical acclaim and was distributed by Neon . In 2013, DuVernay announced development on a narrative feature film entitled Part of
10296-468: Was one of two keynote speakers along with the chief executive officer of Netflix, Ted Sarandos. DuVernay, in a keynote address at the 2015 SXSW Film Festival , shared that she was the seventh person asked to direct Selma and described her experience at the 2015 Oscars , while being an honor to attend, was just "a room in L.A." In February 2018 it was announced that DuVernay, along with producer Dan Lin and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti , had launched
10400-484: Was primarily because much of the staff had either joined the service or were redeployed to war related technical research, and to prolong the life of the early, unstable cameras which were now impossible to repair due to the wartime lack of parts. In May 1944, as the war began to turn in favor of the Allies, WCBW reopened the studios and the newscasts returned, briefly anchored by Ned Calmer , and then by Everett Holles. After
10504-535: Was released on December 25, 2014, to critical acclaim. DuVernay in an interview at Indiana University stated that Selma would be "the first major feature film in theaters that has anything to do with King's essential character" making it a historical landmark in the history of biopics. She made uncredited re-writes of most of the original screenplay by Paul Webb in order to emphasize King and the people of Selma as central figures. In an October 2020 interview on The Carlos Watson Show , DuVernay claimed that she, not Webb,
10608-551: Was simulcast on television locally on NBC's WNBT—now WNBC —for a time in the early 1940s and the previously mentioned Richard Hubbell, Ned Calmer, Everett Holles and Milo Boulton on WCBW in the early and mid-1940s, but these were local television broadcasts seen only in New York City). NBC 's offering at the time, NBC Television Newsreel (which premiered in February 1948), was simply film footage with voice narration. In 1948, CBS Radio's seasoned journalist Edmund Chester emerged as
10712-472: Was the principal writer, saying that the biggest mistake of her career was allowing Webb "to take credit for writing Selma when I wrote it. In response to criticism by some historians and media sources who accused her of irresponsibly rewriting history to portray her own agenda, DuVernay said that the film is "not a documentary. I'm not a historian. I'm a storyteller." The film was nominated for Best Picture and Best Original Song , but not Best Director , at
10816-432: Was used): The Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards are given specifically for outstanding achievement in engineering. They are presented to an individual, company, or organization for engineering developments so significant an improvement on existing methods or so innovative in nature that they materially affect the transmission, recording, or reception of television. The award, which is television's highest engineering honor,
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