Greg Berlanti to receive prestigious Norman Lear Achievement Award

The Producers Guild of America has named producer, author, director Greg Berlanti — recognized for his hand in hit LGBTQ content material — as this 12 months’s honoree for the Norman Lear Achievement Award. Berlanti will obtain the award on the thirty third Annual Producers Guild Awards on Saturday, March 19, 2022 on the Fairmont Century Plaza.

“I’m extremely honored to obtain this award from everybody on the PGA, particularly given it’s named after Norman Lear: the kindest, warmest and wisest legend I’ve ever had the nice fortune of calling a pal. I’m so grateful to everybody on the Producers Guild and all of my coworkers who’ve helped make a second like this doable,” Berlanti mentioned.

The Norman Lear Award acknowledges producers “who’ve made a outstanding affect on the artwork and craft of tv.” Earlier honorees embody Marta Kauffman, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Ryan Murphy, Shonda Rhymes, Dick Wolf, Jerry Bruckheimer, Lorne Michaels, Aaron Spelling, Carsey/Werner/Mandabach, Steven Bochco and David E. Kelley. And naturally, Norman Lear himself has acquired the award.

In a joint assertion, PGA presidents Gail Berman and Lucy Fisher mentioned Berlanti was picked because of his output of critically acclaimed and hit exhibits like “The Flash” and “The Flight Attendant.”

“Greg has produced a few of the most obsession-worthy collection within the historical past of tv,” the duo mentioned. “Greg’s skill to seize the world’s consideration with fascinating characters and progressive storylines, technology after technology, is unparalleled.”

Berlanti started his profession in tv as a employees author on “Dawson’s Creek” and have become an govt producer and showrunner of the collection after just one 12 months on employees. Berlanti’s credit since then embody “Everwood,” “Brothers & Sisters,” “Political Animals,” “Arrow,” “Blindspot,” “The Flash,” “Supergirl,” “You,” “Riverdale,” “Titans,” “Doom Patrol,” “All American” and “The Flight Attendant.”

His profession within the tv and movie business started considerably by chance, he beforehand informed NBC Information.

“I had a play that I had labored on and was going to probably be down in Los Angeles, so I got here out right here for that,” he mentioned. “The play truly by no means obtained completed, however I stayed in L.A. and simply began studying a variety of TV and movie scripts. I fell in love with it that method.”

Upcoming function initiatives for Berlanti embody Amazon’s “My Policeman,” directed by Michael Grandage and starring Harry Kinds and Emma Corrin; an untitled Rock Hudson Biopic, which he’ll direct; “Crimson, White and Royal Blue”; “Be Extra Chill”; and HBO Max’s “Moonshot.”

The 2022 Producers Guild Awards occasion chairs are Chris Thomes, VP, artistic providers for Disney Tv Studios and Melvin Mar, exec producer, The Detective Company. Anchor Road Collective produces the present for the PGA. Branden Chapman is exec producer, Carleen Cappelletti is co-executive producer, Matt Ullian and Jane Sarkin of Boldface Companions are expertise executives, and Jim Piccirillo is director.

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