Emmy-nominated actress Yvette Nicole Brown will host the 26th Annual Art Directors Guild Awards (ADG, IATSE Local 800). The ADG Awards returns to a live event on Saturday, March 5, 2022, at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown.
Yvette Nicole Brown is a television and motion picture actress, producer, writer, singer, host and moderator at venues including Madison Square Garden, the famed Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con and appearances on numerous game shows.
She currently stars in Big Shot (Disney +) with John Stamos and starred in the NAACP Image Award winning BET miniseries New Edition Story. Past TV shows include Community, Boston Legal and The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.
Movie credits include Dreamgirls, Tropic Thunder and the live-action remake of Lady and the Tramp. Brown has an extensive voiceover career and has been a guest and co-host on such shows as The View, The Talk and The Chew.
As a teenager she was signed to sing for Motown Records. She has sung on MTV and Showtime at the Apollo and continues with this aspect of her career. Her writing work has included an NAACP Image Award nomination for Always a Bridesmaid, currently streaming on BET.
As previously announced, Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Jane Campion, best known for her legendary movies including the recent highly acclaimed The Power of the Dog, will receive the esteemed Cinematic Imagery Award. French Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, celebrated for directing numerous epic movies including the recent highly acclaimed Dune, will be the recipient of the William Cameron Menzies Award.
Production designer Ida Random (AD), scenic artists Michael and Denise Okuda (SDMM), set designer/art director Ann Harris (STG) and concept illustrator and storyboard artist Donna Cline (IMA) will all be presented with Lifetime Achievement Awards for their outstanding legacies and contributions to their crafts.
The ADG Awards honor excellence in production design in theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, music videos and animated feature films. Producer of the 2022 ADG Awards is art director Michael Allen Glover, ADG (The Alienist, Solos and Station Eleven). Joining the team as stage designer is Emmy-winning production designer Brian J. Stonestreet, ADG (Golden Globes, Grammy Awards, Billboard Awards). Nelson Coates is ADG president.
ADG Awards are open only to productions when made within the U.S. by producers signatory to the IATSE agreement. Foreign entries are acceptable without restrictions.
Harvey Weinstein hit with new sex crime charge in New York
Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new sex crime charge in New York, as he awaits retrial in his landmark #MeToo case.
Details of the new allegations were not immediately available. He was charged with committing a criminal sex act.
The jailed ex-movie mogul has long maintained that any sexual activity was consensual.
Prosecutors revealed last week that Weinstein had been indicted on additional sex crime charges that weren't part of the case that led to his now-overturned 2020 conviction. But the new indictment was sealed until his arraignment.
Prosecutors have said that the grand jury heard evidence of up to three alleged assaults — two in hotels in the Tribeca neighborhood and one at a lower Manhattan residential building. The purported incidents took place from the mid-2000s to 2016, prosecutors said.
But it's not clear whether any of those allegations underlie the new indictment.
While bracing for the new charges, Weinstein also is awaiting retrial after New York state's highest court this spring overturned his 2020 conviction on rape and sexual assault charges involving two women. The high court, called the Court of Appeals, ordered a new trial, which is tentatively scheduled to begin Nov. 12.
The Court of Appeals ruled that the then-trial judge unfairly allowed testimony against him based on allegations that were not part of the case. That judge's term expired in 2022, and he is no longer on the bench.
Prosecutors have said they'll seek to fold the new charges into the retrial, but Weinstein's lawyers say it should be a separate case.
Weinstein, who also was convicted in 2022 in a Los Angeles rape case, remains behind bars while awaiting his New York retrial.
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