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Mariah Carey, Stacey Abrams All In, George C. Wolfe and Netflix Named 2021 AAFCA Special Achievement Honorees
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The African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) has selected Mariah Carey, George C. Wolfe, Stacey Abrams’s “All In” and Netflix as its special achievement award honorees for the 12th annual AAFCA Awards.
Carey will receive the Innovator Award, while Wolfe earns the Salute to Excellence. Netflix is the Cinema Vanguard recipient, while the Stanley Kramer Award for Social Justice goes to “All In: The Fight for Democracy” with Stacey Abrams and filmmakers Lisa Cortés and Liz Garbus.
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Way back when in early 2020, Hollywood––and everyone else––was enjoying its pre-pandemic innocence.
Early 2020 was an exciting entertainment awards season with the Golden Globes kicking things off on January 5th; then came the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards (BAFTA) on January 9th; The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Jan 19th; The 62nd Grammy Awards on January 26th; and ultimately, the awards season big finale: The 92nd Academy Awards ceremony on February 9th. Things were certainly good in the ‘Wood back then, but what we didn’t know at the time is that the 2020 Oscars would be one of the country’s last major entertainment events before lockdown began.
First up, Netflix has been driving families crazy with their kid-friendly superhero movie
We Can Be Heroes ever since it was released on New Year’s Day. If you’re among them, maybe you can break up the repeat viewing with this glimpse at the making of the movie, which features plenty of green screen and plenty of filmmaking secrets.
Next, on the Tested channel, Adam Savage shows off the impressive, detailed replica of Chewbacca’s bowcaster from
Star Wars: A New Hope that he built off-camera. It goes with an equally cool Chewbacca cosplay ensemble that is ready for whenever comic book conventions come back around, and it’ll make you want to figure out how to build your own weapon replica at home for all your nerdy gallivanting.