Humanitas Prize
The Humanitas Prize (English Humanitas Prize) is a film prize awarded to film and television productions that emphasize human dignity, freedom of expression or human freedom. In the 1970s, the Ellwood Kieser Prize was first awarded as a television prize.
In 1975 Ray Bradbury , Father "Bud" and Robert Abernathy awarded the prize for the first time on the American Today show .
Prize money totaling US $ 155,000 will be awarded today in nine categories: Feature Film, Prime Time TV 90 minute, Prime Time TV 60 minute, Prime Time TV 30 minute, Children's Live Action, Children's Animation, Sundance Feature Film and The Angell Comedy Fellowship. The latter category has only existed since 2001, when David Angell (including co-inventors of Frasier ) and Lynn Angell perished on American Airlines Flight 11 in the September 11, 2001 attacks .
Award winners (selection)
In 2005, among others, Hotel Ruanda and The West Wing - In the Center of Power were awarded the Humanitas Prize.
In 2006 the documentary An Inconvenient Truth , which is about global warming and was initiated by Al Gore , received a "Special Award" for the first time in 10 years for its outstanding contribution to humanity, communicating values, raising awareness and human behavior motivate.
In 2008, the Scrubs episode, My Long Goodbye, was one of the winners.