The “Shrinking” Season 3 premiere “My Bad,” which expanded its Parkinson’s storyline by featuring guest star Michael J. Fox, and the “Paradise” Season 2 premiere “Graceland,” which told a story of post-apocalyptic survival via guest star Shailene Woodley, were among the 2026 Humanitas Prize winners revealed Wednesday. The honorees, which also included the episode “The Flying Man and the Musician” from limited series “Washington Black,” were announced during the Humanitas Prize Awards Show & Toast, hosted by actor/writer/comedian Ashley Nicole Black at Avalon Hollywood.
Also at the event, “My So-Called Life” creator and “Wicked” writer Winnie Holzman received this year’s Kieser Award from “Thirtysomething” exec producers Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick — who hired Holzman to be a writer on their show and later were EPs on “My So-Called Life.” The Humanitas Prize honors “film and television writers whose work explores the human condition in a nuanced, meaningful way. Prizes are presented at an annual event where winners receive a trophy and a cash prize.” Here are this year’s winners (in bold): “Chicago Med” (“The Book of Charles”): Allen MacDonald “Grey’s Anatomy” (“Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child”): Jess Righthand WINNER: “Paradise” (“Graceland”): Dan Fogelman, Eric Wen “The Testaments” (“Stadium”): Gianna Sobol “Abbott Elementary” (“Goofgirl”): Justin Tan “Long Story Short” (“Yoshi’s Bar Mitzvah”): Raphael Bob-Waksberg “Resident Alien” (“The End is Here”): Chris Sheridan WINNER: “Shrinking” (“My Bad”): Brian Gallivan “Beef” (“Oh, The Comfort, The Inexpressible Comfort”): Lee Sung Jin, Madeleine Pron “DTF St. Louis” (“No One’s Normal.
It Just Looks That Way from Across the Street”): Steven Conrad “Hal & Harper” (“Are You Watching?”): Cooper Raiff WINNER: “Washington Black” (“The Flying Man & the Musician”): Selwyn Hinds “E. White’s Charlotte’s Web” (“Part 3″): Levi Abrino “My Brother the Minotaur” (“Lunacy and Lorcan”): Mark B. Hodkinson “The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder” (“The Shade of It All”): Tiffany Thomas WINNER: “Tab Time” (“When We Lose Someone”): Sean Presant WINNER: “All That’s Left of You”: Cherien Dabis “Preparation for the Next Life”: Martyna Majok “Train Dreams”: Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar WINNER: “Rental Family”: Hikari, Stephen Blahut “The Invite”: Will McCormack, Rashida Jones “The Baltimorons”: Jay Duplass, Michael Strassner “Elio”: Julia Cho, Mark Hammer, Mike Jones, Adrian Molina, Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi WINNER: “Grow”: Nick Güthe, Christos N.
Gage, Ruth Fletcher Gage “KPop Demon Hunters”: Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans, Danya Jimenez, Hannah McMechan “Double Happiness”: Shari Albert, Laura LeeLun “The Birthday Gift”: Stephanie Alison Walker, Paula Pizzi WINNER: “Vital”: Amir Zargara, Gabe Berry “Come See Me in the Good Light”: Ryan White, Jessica Hargrave, Tig Notaro, Stef Willen WINNER: “The Tale of Silyan”: Tamara Kotevska “Life After”: Reid Davenport, Colleen Cassingham “Billy Joel: And So It Goes” (“Part Two”): Susan Lacy, Jessica Levin WINNER: “Katrina: Come Hell and High Water” (“Shelter of Last Resort”): Samantha Knowles “Mel Brooks: The 99-Year-Old Man! (Part Two): Judd Apatow, Michael Bonfiglio, Joe Beshenkovsky “Rise of the 49ers” (“We Built This City”): Ryan Kelly, Nick Mascolo In the case of Holzman, the Kieser Award “honors those who have dedicated their substantial talent, work, and resources to creating transformative stories that celebrate our common humanity.” Past winners include Greg Berlanti, Marta Kauffman, John Sacret Young, John Ridley, Jason Katims, Fay Kanin and Bill Moyers.
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