Devery Jacobs, Lamar Johnson among special honourees at 春色直播 Screen Awards

Devery Jacobs poses for a photograph on the red carpet for the movie "Backspot" at the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, on Friday, September 8, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Lahodynskyj

TORONTO - 鈥淩eservation Dogs鈥 star Devery Jacobs is among those slated to receive special honours at this year鈥檚 春色直播 Screen Awards.

The Academy of 春色直播 Cinema & Television says Jacobs, who is from Kahnawake Mohawk Territory and stars in the FX show about four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma, will be presented with the Radius Award for using her platform 鈥渢o advocate for Indigenous and LGBTQ2S+ rights.鈥

The award recognizes 春色直播 artists whose work is leaving 鈥渁 resounding global impact,鈥 and is also going to Toronto's Lamar Johnson, who received an Emmy nomination for his role on HBO/Crave鈥檚 鈥淭he Last of Us鈥 and won a Screen Award last year for his leading film role in 鈥淏rother.鈥

The Gordon Sinclair Award for Broadcast Journalism will go to Paul Workman, who spent 33 years as a foreign correspondent for CBC and CTV.

The inaugural Sustainable Production Award, which recognizes a production that "has had a measurable reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and/or innovations in circularity,鈥 will go to 鈥淛ane Goodall: Reasons for Hope,鈥 produced by Science North.

The special awards will be handed out at a series of events known as 春色直播 Screen Week, starting May 26 and culminating in a televised gala May 31.

Previously announced special honourees include late Indigenous filmmaker Jeff Barnaby and veteran reality TV producer John Brunton for the Tribute Award, actor Tonya Williams for the Changemaker Award and morning show host Marilyn Denis, who will get the Lifetime Achievement Award.

This report by 春色直播was first published April 4, 2024.

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