African American Film Critics’ Association to Honor Steve McQueen, More – Deadline

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The African American Film Critics’ Association announced on Tuesday that its Special Achievement winners will be celebrated at the third AAFCA TV Honors on August 21. They include Steve McQueen, Wanda Sykes, Naomi Ackie, and Michaela Coel.

“We could not be more proud to bestow AAFCA’s highest accolades on this remarkable group of awardees responsible for diverse and inclusive content that uplifts and inspires,” said AAFCA President Gil Robertson. “Our hope is that our industry continues to make tremendous strides towards a landscape of diversity and inclusion. Over the past year in particular we have achieved this and more and look forward to a glorious event celebrating the best that we can strive for in our creative and earthly realms.

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McQueen will receive the 2021 AAFCA TV Honors Special Achievement Game Changer Award for Small Ax, his five-part limited series from Amazon Studios chronicling the life of the West Indian community in London from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Sykes will receive the 2021 AAFCA TV Honors Special Achievement Salute to Excellence Award for “broadening the parameters of diversity and inclusion for black and LGBTQ communities, as well as for women everywhere at all stages of her illustrious career,” said writes the group.

Ackie will receive the 2021 AAFCA TV Honors Special Achievement Horizon Award for his performances in Master of None and Small Ax.

Coel is the recipient of the 2021 AAFCA TV Honors Special Achievement Breakout Creative Award (featured with ADColor) for his limited series I May Destroy You, which addressed sexual assault in the 21st century. “For the series, which aired in the UK and US, Coel wore multiple hats, stretching as a writer, director, producer and actor, among other roles. Additionally, she raised the voice in favor of equitable compensation for creatives, as well as diversity and inclusion, ”wrote the AFFCA.

Here are the other nominees unveiled today, with commentary from AAFCA:

Lupine, Netflix’s cat and mouse series set in Paris and starring French pioneer Omar Sy, won the 2021 AAFCA TV Honors Special Achievement Best International Production Award for expanding the field, as well as the possibilities, for accessible global stories with a black lead actor.

Queen Sugar, directed by Ava DuVernay on OWN, is the recipient of the 2021 AAFCA TV Honor’s Impact Award for its season 5 in which he addressed the Covid crisis in the black community, proving how television can be both compelling while at the same time serving the general public well.

HBO / HBO Max will receive the 2021 AAFCA TV Honors Special Achievement Inclusion Award for the network’s long history of producing diverse and inclusive transformative programming, including Lovecraft Country, I May Destroy You, Tina, Insecure, A Black Lady Sketch Show, In Treatment and more fair over the past year. The consistency of diverse and inclusive content has made HBO, and its now companion HBO Max, a model for what the industry can and will continue to do.

Individual winners will be announced at a later date.

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