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2026
Variety: Humanitas Prize Opens Applications Process for 2026 Awards (EXCLUSIVE)
2025
Variety: ‘The Pitt,’ ‘Dying for Sex,’ ‘Heartstopper’ Among 2025 Humanitas Prize Winners (EXCLUSIVE)
Variety: Lena Waithe to Receive Humanitas’ ‘Voice for Change Award’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Variety: Humanitas Opens Submissions Process for 2025 Awards, Expands Documentary Prizes (EXCLUSIVE)
Humanitas: Humanitas Awarded California Arts Council Statewide and Regional Networks Grant
2024
Animation Magazine: Animated Standouts ‘Nimona’ & “Moon Girl’ Awarded Humanitas Prizes
The Boston Globe: Humanitas Prizes go to ‘Hacks,’ ‘Fellow Travelers,’ and ‘Black Cake’
Deadline: ‘Hacks’, ‘Fellow Travelers’, Ava DuVernay’s ‘Origin’ Among 2024 Humanitas Prize Recipients
Awards Watch: 2024 Humanitas Prize Winners: Ava DuVernay’s ‘Origin,’ ‘Fellow Travelers,’ ‘Hacks,’ ‘Nimona’
Variety: ‘Snowfall’ Writer Jeanine Daniels Wins Humanitas’ Inaugural Starz #TakeTheLead Award
Written By, Writers Guild of America West: Post-Strike, Humanitas Continues Groceries for Writers
Deadline: Humanitas Names 2024 New Voices Fellowship And College Screenwriting Award Winners
Variety: ‘Hacks,’ ‘The Sympathizer,’ ‘The Crown’ Among Humanitas Prize 2024 Nominees
Variety: Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael to Host This Year’s Humanitas Prizes Event
Hollywood Reporter: Humanitas’ Food Insecurity Survey Concludes Industry Is “Inherently Financially Unstable” for Hollywood Scribes
Variety: Humanitas Opens 2024 Call for Awards Submissions, Aims to ‘Empower’ More Writers This Year
2023
Humanitas: Humanitas Awarded California Arts Council Statewide and Regional Networks Grant
Variety: Writers Celebrate WGA’s New Contract at 2023 Humanitas Prizes Toast
The Hollywood Reporter: Events of the Week: WSJ Magazine’s Innovator Awards, Halloween Highlights and More
The Hollywood Reporter: Humanitas Launches Groceries for Writers Food Insecurity Survey for Screenwriters
Los Angeles Times: How to give out screenwriting awards during strike season (very carefully)
Los Angeles Times: Humanitas announces 2023 award winners, including Tyler Perry and Guillermo del Toro
The Hollywood Reporter: ‘The Last of Us,’ ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ and WGA Score Humanitas Prizes
Deadline: Humanitas Prize Winners Include ‘The Last Of Us’, Tyler Perry, Cooper Raiff’s ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’
The Hollywood Reporter: Hollywood Food Insecurity Spikes Amid Strikes
The LAist: - Affected By The WGA/SAG Strikes? Here’s Where To Get Help
Writers on the Line: Groceries for Writers
KCRW: Greater LA: Nonprofit Gives Grocery Money to Sustain Striking TV/Film Writers
The Hollywood Reporter: The Charitable Foundations and Local Agencies Stepping in to Support Industry Members During the Writers Strike
Humanitas: 2023 Humanitas Prizes, New Voices Fellowship, and College Screenwriting Awards Open for Submissions
2022
The Hollywood Reporter: Inevitable Foundation Launches $5K Elevate Collective Grants for Disabled Screenwriters, including the Inevitable Foundation x Humanitas Alumni Award
The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Don’t Look Up,’ ‘Black-ish,’ ‘Pachinko’ Among Humanitas Prize Winners: Larry Wilmore hosted the event for the 46th annual awards that also included recognition for 'Encanto' and 'Women of the Movement.'
Variety: ‘Pachinko,’ ‘Black-ish,’ ‘Don’t Look Up’ Among Humanitas Prize Winners
Deadline: Humanitas Prizes: ‘Black-ish’, ‘Encanto’, ‘Pachinko’, ‘Don’t Look Up’ Among Winners Deadline
The Hollywood Reporter: Filmmakers for Ukraine to Receive Humanitas’ Kieser Award; Humanitas Board President Jenny Bicks to Present
Deadline: Starz’s “#TakeTheLead” Initiative To Receive Humanitas Honor; Web Series Winner Announced
Variety: ‘Abbott Elementary,’ ‘Pachinko’ Among Nominees for 46th Annual Humanitas Prizes
Deadline: Humanitas Prize Nominees Revealed
The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Abbott Elementary,’ ‘Pachinko,’ ‘Women of the Movement’ and ‘Maid’ Among 2022 Humanitas Prizes Nominees
Deadline: Humanitas Prize Returning In 2022 With In-Person Awards Ceremony; Submissions Now Open