When Kerry Washington stepped onto the gold and black carpet at the 1 Hotel in West Hollywood for the fifth ABFF Honors ceremony on March 5, she had the trailblazing Black women who forged a path f…
When Kerry Washington stepped onto the gold and black carpet at the 1 Hotel in West Hollywood for the fifth
“’Excellence,’ according to the Oxford Dictionary, is the quality of being outstanding or extremely good,” she began. “I realized that one of the reasons this honor means so much to me is that in my quest for excellence, I have not always gravitated toward playing characters that society would label as ‘extremely good.’”She continued: “I’m most often drawn to projects and to characters with flaws and vulnerabilities and messy, real-life challenges. I think that’s what makes us human.
“But that landscape is shifting,” Washington added. “Gradually, we are watching it evolve in real time before our eyes. But not because we’re being given opportunity, but because we’re demanding it. We’re creating it. We’re making it happen.
Honored with the Renaissance Award, presented by Yvonne Orji, Monáe noted that her mother was the driving force behind her frequent reinvention. In 2018, Brown noted, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for registration and preservation in the United States Film Library for being “culturally, historically and aesthetically significant.”
Last up was Vance, who was honored with the excellence in the arts award, was joined for the special ceremony by he and wife Angela Bassett’s teenage twins Bronwyn and Slater Vance.
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