Multi-hyphenate screenwriter, producer, director Greg Berlanti will be honored with the 2024 Governors Award, the Television Academy announced today. Berlanti will be recognized for his significant impact on television and culture by depicting the underrepresented in film and in such iconic series as Dawson’s Creek, Riverdale, All American, The Flight Attendant and You.
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Berlanti began his career in television as a staff writer on the hit show Dawson’s Creek and became the executive producer and showrunner of the series after only one season. He went on to serve as creator, writer and executive producer on over 45 television shows, including Political Animals , Arrow , Blindspot ,
The Flash , Supergirl, Everwood , You , Titans , Riverdale , Doom Patrol , All American , Found and The
Flight Attendant . Berlanti Productions has had a record-breaking 15 shows on the air at one time.
Berlanti has engineered many cultural television-industry firsts via his passion for including the invisible and underrepresented in his storytelling. He helped introduce a gay character into a primetime television show and featured the first same-sex kiss between two men on U.S. network television with Dawson’s Creek .
Berlanti is currently the executive producer of Brilliant Minds , a new NBC series premiering this fall, which features the first single gay lead in a U.S. medical drama.
“Greg is an extraordinary creator, who consistently delivers characters and stories that are in dialogue with the real world,” said Television Academy Chair Cris Abrego. “From the beginning of his career, his commitment to representing three-dimensional LGBTQ+ characters in particular has paved the way for greater cultural understanding and acceptance of a community that is often under attack in both social and political discourse. For seizing the power of television to move our culture forward, the Academy is honored to select Greg Berlanti for this year’s Governors Award.”
The Berlanti Family Foundation was founded in 2019 to support numerous charities and those in need, including F Cancer, ACLU, The Giving Spirit, GLAAD, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Girls Inc., and many more. Additionally, Berlanti and his Foundation gave over $2 million to support those in the industry that were affected by production shutdowns from COVID-19 and the industry strikes with donations to the MPTF, the Entertainment Community Fund, and a direct fund for his own productions.
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“I am beyond grateful to be receiving this overwhelming and humbling honor from the Board of Governors and the Television Academy. Every minute in this business has been the greatest gift that I’m eternally thankful for,” said Berlanti. “It will be nice to have an opportunity to thank all the family, friends, showrunners, execs, cast, crews and audiences that have made an honor like this possible.”
Berlanti will receive the award at the 76th Emmys, which will be broadcast live on ABC on Sunday, September 15 (8-11 pm EDT/5-8 pm PDT) from the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live and stream the next day on Hulu.
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