This Feb. 24, 2019 file photo shows Netflix chief Ted Sarandos at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif. Sarandos will be honored in early 2020 with an award by the Producers Guild of America. The guild announced Friday, Oct. 25, that Sarandos will receive its top honor, the Milestone Award, at its awards ceremony on Jan. 18. Since 2000, he has led Netflixโs content efforts including its first foray into original programming with โHouse of Cardsโ in 2013. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) --
Netflix chief Ted Sarandos will be honored in early 2020 with an award by the Producers Guild of America.
The guild announced Friday that Sarandos will receive its top honor, the Milestone Award, at its awards ceremony on Jan. 18. Since 2000, Sarandos has led Netflix's content efforts including its first foray into original programming with "House of Cards" in 2013.
Netflix is now the leading streaming platform, with several competitors including Disney, Apple and WarnerMedia set to launch new services next months.
Producers Guild Presidents Gail Berman and Lucy Fisher praised Sarandos' leadership of Netflix in Friday's announcement, saying the company "has forever left its mark on Hollywood."
Previous Milestone Award winners include Clint Eastwood, Disney executive Bob Iger and Steven Spielberg.
Hunter Schafer arrives at the Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Hunter Schafer says "it's important to just keep track of where things are in our country," a day after the "Euphoria" star posted a video in which she revealed her new passport had been issued with a male gender marker.
Speaking to The Associated Press on the red carpet at the Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday, the 26-year-old actor, who is trans, said she felt "it was a good, necessary point" to share. Schafer, also a presenter at the award show, was nominated for best lead performance for "Cuckoo. "
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office instituting a new and narrow federal government definition of the sexes. As part of the order, the federal government defines sex as only male or female and says that must be reflected on official documents, like passports. The State Department, responsible for passports, is no longer issuing passports with the "X" marker that's been available since 2021 and is not honoring requests to change gender markers between "M" and "F."
In an 8 ยฝ-minute video posted to TikTok on Friday, Schafer, who transitioned as a young teen, said the passport that was meant to carry her well into her 30s was stolen while she was filming in Spain. After receiving an emergency passport, she later had to apply for a new, permanent one in Los Angeles. Having had female gender markers on her license and passport since she was a teenager, Schafer marked "female" on her application โ but received a passport that identified her as male, she said. In the video, she said she had not had her birth certificate amended.
Schafer acknowledged the executive order in her TikTok video: "Because our president, you know, is a lot of talk, I was like, 'I'll believe it when I see it.' And, today, I... Read More