Meet Your Gracie Award Winners!
• The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation (AWMF) announced the winners of the 47th Annual Gracie Awards, which will return in-person on May 24 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles with local and student awards given at June 22 at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York. The event will honor some of the most talented women in television, radio and digital media, including radio standouts Ellen K, Angie Martinez, Dana Cortez, Medha Gandhi, Angelica Vale, Christine Nagy, Amanda Orlando, Heather Hunter, Kelly Dzanaj, Melissa “Mo” Wagner, and more.
The list of national television honorees includes Melissa McCarthy, Kelly Clarkson, Elle Fanning, Savannah Guthrie & Hoda Kotb, Kaitlyn Dever, Tamron Hall, Ava DuVernay, Nasim Pedrad and more. The Gala will also recognize entertainment and news programming that highlighted female-driven stories and culturally relevant topics, including 48 Hours, 60 Minutes, NBC Nightly News, The New York Times Presents, Pose and Maid.
“Throughout this past year we have seen a number of remarkable projects by and about inspirational women,” said Heather Cohen, Chair, Alliance for Women in Media Foundation. Becky Brooks, President, Alliance for Women in Media Foundation, noted, “We are honored to shine a spotlight on these women, whose stories have driven cultural awareness, offered entertainment that has made us laugh, cry, and everything in between. This year, we will be returning to the Beverly Wilshire Hotel and are delighted to return to an in-person format so that we can properly celebrate together.” The Gracies celebrate exemplary talent and programming created by, for and about women in radio, television, and digital medias. Honorees are selected in national, local and student markets, including both commercial and non-commercial outlets in entertainment and news. That’s Kelsea Ballerini (left), with Cohen and Brooks pictured at an earlier in-person Gracies event.
Sponsors of The Gracie Awards include Crown Media, CNN, Premiere, WWE, Meruelo Media, HBO, Audacy, TEGNA, Katz Media Group and NCTA – The Cable and Telecommunications Association
The complete list of Gracie Award recipients and honorable mentions is posted at allwomeninmedia.org.
