‘Andor’ Wins the Peabody Award in the Entertainment Category for 2022
Andor has walked away with a fantastic win at the 83rd Peabody Awards, in the Entertainment category for 2022. While most of us have heard of the Oscars, the BAFTA, and the Critics Choice Awards, among many others, the Peabody Awards are perhaps not as well-known.
To shed some light on what this award represents, this blurb from the official website sums it up nicely:
“The annual Peabody winners are a collection of stories that powerfully reflect the pressing social issues and the vibrant emerging voices of our day. From major productions to local journalism, the Peabody Awards shine a light on the Stories That Matter.”
This is an excellent win for the creators, cast, and crew that made Andor such an entertaining and engaging show. The ratings for Andor definitely support this win, as Star Wars fans and critics alike were united in their praise for the show.
This is what the Peabody Award website had to say about Andor:
“Few other long-running franchises loom as large in today’s contemporary pop cultural imagination than Star Wars. Yet amid stories of destiny-driven heroes and doomed superpowered villains, Tony Gilroy’s Andor tackles that familiar galaxy with plenty of spectacle, but also a keen-eyed commitment to mirroring our own mundane trials and tribulations as it follows scavenger Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), who unwittingly becomes radicalized in the wake of a police state intent on crushing any and all signs of the Rebel Alliance.”
The Peabody Award will sit alongside the Critics Choice Super Award and the American Cinema Editor awards that Andor has already won. The awards celebration will be held for the first time in Los Angeles on Sunday, June 11, at the Beverley Wilshire Hotel.
The second season of Andor returns to Disney Plus in August 2024. While series creator and showrunner Tony Gilroy has paused working on the series in solidarity with the ongoing WGA strike, cameras haven’t stopped rolling.
Meet Julie Gray, a passionate pop culture writer from Aotearoa, New Zealand. A lifelong Star Wars fan, her love for the franchise runs deep, with Luke Skywalker being her all-time favourite character and Anakin Skywalker coming in as a close second. Her outlook on the Star Wars universe is simple yet powerful - "All Star Wars is good Star Wars", a true testament to her undying love for this iconic franchise.
