Overview
- The event took place Dec. 9 at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles with Jay Pharoah returning as host.
- Spike Lee received the Career Achievement Award in recognition of his decades of influential filmmaking.
- Ryan Coogler earned the Director Award for Sinners and praised the year’s bold, varied storytelling.
- Tessa Thompson won the Actress Award in Film for Hedda and credited Black creatives for shaping her career.
- The Ensemble Award went to Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, spotlighting breakout Chase Infiniti, and Skye P. Marshall was honored as Supporting Actress in a Series for Matlock.