Adele will obtain the distinguished Sherry Lansing Management Award throughout The Hollywood Reporter‘s annual Ladies in Leisure breakfast gala, which can happen Dec. 7 in Los Angeles.
Attended by greater than 750 trade leaders and VIPs, the invite-only gala coincides with the discharge of The Hollywood Reporter’s extremely anticipated Ladies in Leisure concern (on newsstands Dec. 7), which highlights the Energy 100, an inventory of essentially the most highly effective feminine executives and expertise in leisure.
“We’re past thrilled that Adele will likely be our Sherry Lansing Management Award honoree at this 12 months’s Ladies in Leisure occasion,” stated co-editors-in-chief Nekesa Mumbi Moody and Maer Roshan. “Adele has had a groundbreaking profession that has established her as one of many all-time greats: a superb songwriter, a shocking vocalist, a top-notch performer and an artist whose abilities haven’t any restrict. She has set a typical of excellence not solely as a feminine performer, however a performer, interval. Her accolades — from a number of Grammys to her Emmy and Oscar — attest to that. As well as, she’s used her platform to encourage and assist others. She is actually deserving of this award.”
The Sherry Lansing Management Award acknowledges trailblazers and philanthropists in leisure and media and was established in honor of Sherry Lansing, the primary lady to move a Hollywood studio (Lansing is the previous CEO of Paramount Photos). Previous recipients of this honor embody Charlize Theron, Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Oprah Winfrey, Barbra Streisand and Viola Davis.
“Adele is a singular expertise who has captivated the world along with her unbelievable music,” Lansing stated. “Past that, she paved the way in which for feminine artists to embrace their genuine selves and outline their very own voices and careers at a vital second for girls in music, empowering numerous different feminine artists to do the identical. I couldn’t be extra thrilled that Adele is receiving the award that bears my title.”
Adele is likely one of the best-selling feminine artists of all time, with greater than 120 million information offered worldwide. She has acquired quite a few accolades, together with 16 Grammys, an Emmy, a Golden Globe and an Academy Award. Her fourth and most up-to-date studio album, 30, was the best-selling album of 2021 worldwide. Her present live performance residency in Las Vegas, Weekends With Adele, has garnered constructive critiques and is a industrial success.
The breakfast can even be attended by roughly 35 highschool juniors and seniors at present collaborating in THR’s Ladies in Leisure mentorship program, which pairs the brightest younger ladies from underserved excessive colleges throughout Los Angeles with among the strongest feminine executives in movie and TV. Mentors have included Amazon Studios’ Jennifer Salke, Netflix’s Bela Bajaria and Disney’s Dana Walden. The WIE Mentorship Program, now in its 14th 12 months, is a three way partnership with Massive Brothers Massive Sisters of Better Los Angeles. A complete of 230 college students have taken half in this system, with mentees having acquired greater than $13 million in scholarships over the previous 13 years. An annual spotlight of the breakfast, this 12 months’s celebration will see greater than $1 million in college scholarships offered to highschool seniors from this system.
The Hollywood Reporter’s Ladies in Leisure occasion is offered by Lifetime, which has been one of many WIE Mentorship Program’s largest supporters, having contributed greater than $1.5 million in scholarships over the previous eight years. The occasion can also be sponsored by Cadillac and offered in partnership with Massive Brothers Massive Sisters of Better Los Angeles, Chapman College and Loyola Marymount College.
