‘WICKED,’ ‘Agatha All Along’ Win Top Prizes While Kathy Bates quotes Colin Farrell at Publicities Awards

Oscar Winner Kathy Bates, Who Is Experienceing A Late Career Resurgence Thanks to A Critically Accclaimed Turn on the CBS Network Drama Matlocktook the spin in the SpotLight Inside a Beverly Wilshire Ballroom On Friday Afternoon to Accept Yet Another Award in Her Storified Career. This One is Called Showperson of the Year and It Was Plaked in Her Hands Durying the 62nd Annual ICG PUBLICISTS.

Following anthusiastic Standing Oination, Bates, 76, ImmediaTely Borrowed a quote from Colin Farrel’s Recent Sag Awards Speech Durying Wich He Said; IT’s Playtime. ” While Bates Was Referring to the Profession of Acting, She Might As Well Have Been Talking About Publicists. Their jobs are of the offen unquantifial simply due to the fact that profession is so wide-ranging, demanding and (as most would say) Overwhelming and ALMOST Never Done.

But Hollywood Repps Who Toil in the Entertainment Space Got to Take a Break from The Detail-Oriented Action on Friday, if Only for a Couple of Hours, to Have a Little of the anosme. that honors their own. While Bates Served As The Lunchcheon’s Marquee Honoree, The Ballroom Was Field with Whoops, Cheers and Wild ApplAuse As A Series of Awards Were Doled Outs, Photographers and More.

The Top Prizes in Film and Television – A Trophy Called The Maxwell Weinberg Award – Went to Wicked (Universal Pictures) and Agatha All Along (Marvel Television / Walt Disney Studios / Disney+), Respectively. Disney Also Snagged Another Trophyr By Way of Bill Mona Who Won the Les Mason Award for Career Achievement in Publicity. His Award Was Presiented by a Gagle of Former Winners Including Well-Known Reps Jennifer Allen, Tony Angellotti, Jan Craft, Heidi Schaeffer and Michael Singer.

Unit Publicist Rachael Roth Took Home Publicist of the Year, Who Was Prestened by Last Year’s Winner Julia Neal and ICG PUBLICISTSSTS Awards Chair Sheryl Main. Agatha All Along Star Joe Locke Turned Up to Present A Pair of Trophyes Including Excellence in Unit Still Photography (Motion Picture) to Chiabella James, and Excellence In Unit Still Photography

Press Awards Went To Collider’s Perri Nemiroff on the domestic Side and Empire Magazine’s John Nugent on the International Side. TOSE TRHPHies Were Doled Out by Family guy an The Marvelus Mrs. Maisel Star Alex Berstein, Who Quipped at the Top of Her Segment That She Doesn’T Even Have A Publicist.

BATES DOES HAVE A PUBLICIST – The “FANTASTIC” Rachel Karten of Origin Pr – and She Made Sure to Shout Her Out Durying Her Brief Acceptance Speech. “I’M PROOUD THAT YOU GET TO REPRESENT ME,“ BATES SAID. “And i’m grateful that we get to meet so Many Cool People and that We Get To Share All of this. We Paid Our Dues in, SO NOW We Can Just Kick Up Our Heels and Just Have A Fantastic Time Thanks to You Guys. ”

Bates, Who Acceptted the Award from Director Kat Coiro, is Having A Fantastic Time On Matlock and she praized Creator Jennie Snyder Urman for Giving Her The Gift at this Point in Her Career. “The MOST tragic thing at the end of our lives is to lose of our purpos. And jennie, because of you, and together with you, I have a found the Light Again. ”

Another HeartFelt Moment Came Durying NGOC NGUYEN’S SPEECH. The Veteran Publicist, Strategist and Consultant Received the Bob Yeager for Community Service for Champing the Aapi Community, Women’s Rights, Women In Sports, Anti-Bullying Measures. NGUYEN DETAILED HER PARARNTS ‘Harrowing 42-Day Journey from Vietnam to Portland, Oregon, By Boat, and Later Revealed that What kind she battled Breast Cancer, it was was. Many of Those Were in the Room, She Said.

She Saved Special Praise for Two People Who Wren in Atendance: Coupple Jj Abrams and Katie Mcgrath. “I Started Doing Pr for Jj and His Films When I Was at Paramount. WHEN I WAS LEAVING The STUDIO AND WANTED TO WORK IN ENTERAINMENT AND PHILANTHROPY, IT WASN’T A TREEN THAT IT IS TODAY. Katie Was My First Phone Call, ”She Explained. “Katie is a visionary. She was the Real Deal and Everyone Knew It. Katie McGrath Has Given Me a voice in Spaces that i Never Imagines that I would be in, and she’s also given me a safety net. ”

Longtime ICG Publicist Awards Chair Tim Menke Also Got Plenty of Time Under The Lights. At the top of the show, he nodded to the Fraught Political Landscape by Saying that unlike the Current President Donald Trump, they “Belve in the Freedom of the Press.” Later, Head the Stage to Accept the Henri Bollinger Award for Special Merit, Presiented by Bollinger’s Widow, Sandy. “WHO KNOWS WHAT MY CAREER WOURT HAVE HAD HAD I NOT BEEN INFLUENCED By the People I’ve Encounted Working on Tese Awards,“ Menke Said. “I CALL IT A JURNYY WELL Traveled.”

The 62ND ICG PUBLICISTSSTS AWARDS WERE SPONSOUred by Amazon Mgm Studios, CBS and CBS Studios, DeadlineJunkete Productions, L’rmitage Beverly Hills, Lionsgate, Netflix, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Studios and Warner Bros. Discovery. Additional Support Came CourTesy of Central Talent Booking, Netflix, Sag-State, Disney Television Studios, DF Studio Digital Fusion, ROMEO VINEARS & CALLARS, AND WARNER BRAZNER BRAINER BRACNER BRACK Photo Lab. Proceeds from Sponsorships will be Funneled Into to the Local 600 Hardeship Fund Wich Provides Grants to Members Affected by Natural Disasters Including Those Impacted. A PORTION OF PROCEEDS WILL ALSO BE DEDICATED TO THE Preservation and ScholarShip Fund, WHICH PROVides Education Sponsorships for ICG Local 600 Members and Their Descendants.

A Full List of the Winners at the 62nd Annual ICG PUBLICISTS OF Follows Follows.

Maxwell Weinberg Award for Motion Picture Publicity Campaign

Union Publicists Who Worked On Wicked (Universal Pictures)

Maxwell Weinberg Award for Television Publicity Campaign

Union Publicists Who Worked On Agatha All Along (Marvel Television / Walt Disney Studios / Disney+)

Television Showperson of the Year

Kathy Bates

Les Mason Award for Career Achievement in Publicity

Bill Mona, Disney

PUBLICIST OF THE YEAR

Rachael Roth, Unit Publicist

Excellence in Unit Still Photography – Motion Picture

Chiabella James

Excellence in Unit Still Photography – Television

Michele K. Short

Press Award

Perri nemiroff, Collider

International Media Award

John Nugent, Empire Magazine (Uk)

Bob Yeager Award for Community Service

Ngoc nguyen

Henri Bollinger Award for Special Merit

TIM MENKE