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Three-time Academy Award-winner and 21-time Emmy Award-winner James L. Brooks will beryllium honored pinch nan Peabody Awards’ inaugural Industry Icon Award astatine nan 86th yearly Peabody ceremonial this May.
“James L. Brooks has shaped nan measurement we understand tv arsenic some an creation shape and a taste force,” said Jeffrey Jones, Executive Director of nan Peabody Awards. “His activity blends humor, humanity, and crisp societal penetration successful ways that person influenced generations of storytellers. It’s an grant to admit his bonzer bequest pinch nan inaugural Industry Icon Award.”
Writer-director-producer Brooks achieved TV icon position done his co-creation of specified tv bid arsenic The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, The Simpsons and nan groundbreaking sitcom Room 222. He besides developed 2 successful Mary Tyler Moore spin-offs, Rhoda and Lou Grant. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant and The Simpsons are each Peabody Award winners.)
Brooks’ movie credits see Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News and As Good arsenic It Gets.
The Peabody Awards ceremonial is group for May 31 astatine nan Beverly Wilshire Hotel successful Los Angeles. Previously honorees astatine this year’s ceremonial see actress, shaper and podcast big Amy Poehler (Career Achievement Award); director, producer, and screenwriter Sterlin Harjo (Trailblazer Award); and programmer PBS Kids (Institutional Award).
The Brooks announcement was made coming by nan Peabody’s Board of Jurors. The Industry Icon Award will beryllium presented successful nickname of his “enduring effect and activity successful shaping nan media landscape.”
In 1986, Brooks founded Gracie Films, pinch nan first show produced being The Tracey Ullman Show, which received 29 Emmy nominations and 8 wins complete nan people of its run. During this time, Matt Groening created The Simpsons, developed by Brooks and Sam Simon. Brooks co-produced and co-wrote The Simpsons Movie successful 2007.
Nominees for nan 2026 Peabody Awards will beryllium announced connected April 7 and April 9 pinch winners announced later that month.
