Rita Moreno to Receive Producers Guild’s Stanley Kramer Award

Rita Moreno might be introduced with the Producers Guild’s Stanley Kramer award on the 2022 PGA Awards, the group introduced Wednesday.

The Award honors “a manufacturing, producer or different people whose achievement or contribution illuminates and raises public consciousness of necessary social points.” It’s named for producer and director Stanley Kramer whose movie credit embrace “Inherit the Wind,” On the Seaside,” “The Defiant Ones,” and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.”

Earlier honorees embrace: Jane Fonda, “Get Out,” “Loving,” “Fruitvale Station,” “The Regular Coronary heart,” “Bombshell,” “The Searching Floor,” “An Inconvenient Fact,” and “Resort Rwanda.”

“With grace, intelligence, charisma, and kindness, Rita Moreno made her mark in historical past as a superb entertainer and leveraged that star energy to shepherd tales that faucet into the human expertise and signify individuals and communities we not often see celebrated in movie and TV,” PGA Presidents Gail Berman and Lucy Fisher mentioned in an announcement.

“Past her onscreen contributions, she has used her unmistakable voice to carry a mirror to the prejudices and inequities that she so typically skilled all through her profession,” the assertion learn. “Her activism, energy, and inventive contributions set the precedent for be a changemaker in Hollywood, and it’s our nice honor to current Rita with the Stanley Kramer Award this yr.”

Moreno responded in her personal assertion: “The very last thing I ever dreamed of in my younger life was being honored in any circumstance. That the Producers Guild of America has chosen to honor me not just for my work however for the rules I’ve tried to uphold and stay by all through my life is so gratifying. I’m thrilled.”

An EGOT achiever whose profession spans greater than 70 years, Moreno most not too long ago co-starred in and was an government producer on Steven Spielberg’s “West Facet Story” remake. Her different accolades embrace the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nationwide Medal of Arts, the Display screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, the Peabody Profession Achievement Award and the Kennedy Heart Honor.

The thirty third Annual Producers Guild Awards will happen Saturday, March 19, on the Fairmont Century Plaza.