Eternals Wins Top Prize at GLAAD Media Awards
Eternals takes home one of the top prizes from the GLAAD Media Awards. The GLAAD Awards took place last night in a ceremony that was hosted by Shangela, Bob the Drag Queen, and Eureka O’Hara. Also in attendance were pop musicians Troye Sivan and Jojo Siwa, with actors Jasmin Savoy-Brown, Mira Sorvino, Ben Platt, Cynthia Erivo, and Andrew Garfield, whose film tick… tick… BOOM! in which he starred as Rent playwright Jonathan Larson, was nominated this year.
The GLAAD Media Awards are self-described as honoring "fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of LGBTQ people," so it makes sense why Eternals would have garnered more attention here than its Marvel peers. In addition to having a racially diverse cast and deaf representation, Eternalsfeatures the MCU's first LGBTQ superhero. That hero is Phastos, the technology wizard played by Brian Tyree Henry. After the Eternals split up hundreds of years before the beginning of the movie, it is discovered that Phastos has recovered from his disappointment in humanity after meeting his husband Ben (Haaz Sleiman) and having a child together.
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Per The Wrap, last night's GLAAD Media Awards recipients include Marvel's Eternals, which won out over films including the Oscar-nominated West Side Story, The Mitchells vs. The Machines, and tick… tick… BOOM! to take home the Outstanding Wide Release Film prize. This is the first major award that Eternals has won, after being shut out by the Oscars, which instead nominated Phase 4 films Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Spider-Man: No Way Home in other categories. Other big projects that took home prizes last night include Pedro Almodóvar's Parallel Mothers,
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