2013 Drama Feature Writers: Danny Strong After leaving the South as a young man and finding employment at an elite hotel in Washington, D.C., Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker) gets the opportunity of a lifetime when he is hired as a butler at the White House. Over the course of three decades, Cecil has a front-row […]

2023 Musical, Drama Feature Writer: Marcus Gardley Torn apart from her sister and her children, Celie faces many hardships in life, including an abusive husband. With support from a sultry singer named Shug Avery, as well as her stand-her-ground stepdaughter, Celie ultimately finds extraordinary strength in the unbreakable bonds of a new kind of sisterhood.

2023 Comedy, Drama Feature Writers: Cord Jefferson A novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

2023 Drama Feature Writers: Ava DuVernay While grappling with tremendous personal tragedy, writer Isabel Wilkerson sets herself on a path of global investigation and discovery of how lives today are defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.

2023 Comedy, Drama, Feature Writers: Lewis Colick, Linda Yvette Chávez Richard Montañez, a Frito Lay janitor, disrupts the food industry by channeling his Mexican heritage to turn Flamin’ Hot Cheetos from a snack into an iconic global pop culture phenomenon.

2023 Crime Feature Writers: Harold Jackson Known only as ICEMAN, a newly retired organized crime fixer is pulled back in deeper than he’s ever been.

2023 Drama, Biography Feature Writers: Julian Breece Bayard Rustin, advisor to Martin Luther King Jr., dedicates his life to the quest for racial equality, human rights and worldwide democracy. However, as an openly gay Black man, he is all but erased from the civil rights movement he helped build.

2023 Drama, Feature Writers: Alejandra Marquez, Abella Hernan Jimenez, Bettina Gilois Jose M Hernandez was born in Mexico. While working in the fields, he co-developed the first digital mammography imaging system. He then persevered to become a crew member on Space Shuttle mission STS-128.

2023 Drama, Season 1 Writers: Nkechi Okoro Carroll Recovery specialist Gabi Mosely and her team are dedicated to finding America’s missing people forgotten by the media, law enforcement and the public.

2023 Drama, Thriller Feature Writers: Doug Wright, Maggie Betts Willie E. Gary, an unconventional lawyer, helps Jeremiah Joseph O’Keefe, a funeral home owner with financial troubles, save his family business from a corporate behemoth.