Last Thanksgiving, the studio team served more than 5,000 local families via a drive-thru food bank, providing grocery boxes and gift cards to those in need. The presence of Tyler Perry Studios also creates a physical space for community outreach. He was vaccinated on camera for that special, which included informative interviews with doctors to help destigmatize the vaccine. With projects including BET’s “COVID-19 Vaccine and the Black Community,” Perry hopes to use his platform to create change. Over the past year, Perry has used his proficiency as a filmmaker to create widespread change in the community around him. The vaccination event marked the end of the quarantine bubble. There, 250 crew members and their family and friends received the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. On April 3, Perry partnered with Grady Hospital and covered the logistical costs of turning Tyler Perry Studios into a vaccination site.
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In the year since Perry and his team announced their quarantine bubble model, the crew has produced multiple seasons of his BET series “Sistas” and “The Oval,” as well as BET Plus shows “Ruthless,” “Bruh” and the upcoming “All the Queen’s Men.” Perry resumed production in July, hosting about 360 cast and crew on the 330-acre campus at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta for the duration of each project. Perry was one of the first major Hollywood players to tackle the pandemic head-on, developing Camp Quarantine, a multi-step plan to get production up and running. In a year marked by the turmoil and trauma resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, Perry and the MPTF were notable selections for their responses to the crisis. The last time the Academy presented the special award to two parties was in 1993, when Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn (posthumously) were honored. “There has been such widespread generosity in our industry that limiting the Hersholt Humanitarian Award to one recipient, this year in particular, was impossible,” said David Rubin, Academy president, when announcing the honorees in January. For the first time in its history, the prize will also go to an organization. The filmmaker and media mogul will be honored alongside the Motion Picture & Television Fund ( MPTF), after the board of governors amended the rules to allow for two different parties to be recognized. However, Perry, who has been at the forefront of the entertainment industry’s recovery amid the coronavirus pandemic, is just one of this year’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award recipients. Perry’s “Those Who Wish Me Dead” co-star Angelina Jolie received the award in 2013 for her work with refugees and victims of sexual violence. Contemporary honorees include legends Oprah Winfrey, Quincy Jones, Geena Davis and Harry Belafonte, while Hollywood icons Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, Jerry Lewis and Bob Hope are among those who have received the award in the past.
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