Marvel’s Eternals Wins Outstanding Film At The 33rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards

The
33rd
Annual
GLAAD
Media
Awards
took
place
at
the
Beverly
Hilton
Hotel
in
Los
Angeles
on
Saturday.
Many
big
movies
and
shows
took
home
the
prizes.
Marvel’s

Eternals
won
the
award
for
Outstanding
Film
–
Wide
Release.
The
MCU
film
managed
to
beat

Everybody’s
Talking
About
Jamie,

The
Mitchells
vs.
the
Machines,

tick,
tick…
BOOM!
and

West
Side
Story,
the
other
nominated
movies
in
the
category.

The
GLAAD
Media
Awards
are
given
by
GLAAD
(an
American
non-governmental
media
monitoring
organization)
to
recognize
branches
of
the
media
for
their
representations
of
the
LGBTQ
community.
For
the
uninitiated,

Eternals
was
a
landmark
film
by
Marvel
as
it
featured
the
franchise’s
first
gay
kiss.
In
the
MCU
film,
Phastos
(Brian
Tyree
Henry)
is
married
to
Ben
(Haaz
Sleiman),
and
the
duo
has
a
son
together.

Before

Eternals’
release
last
year,
Sleiman
told

NewNowNext,
“My
gut
feeling
is
you’ll
be
so
proud.
What
Marvel
has
been
able
to
accomplish,
I’m
so
proud
of
them
because
they
approached
it
in
a
very
thoughtful
way,
and
Phastos
is
one
of
the
biggest
superheroes
in
the
film.
I’m
his
husband,
an
architect;
we
have
a
child.
Even
though
I
wished
I
was
the
superhero,
because
when
will
we
see
an
Arab
Muslim
openly
gay
actor
playing
a
superhero?
I
can’t
wait
to
see
it.”

Survivor
Star
Zeke
Smith
Proposes
To
His
‘Other
Half’
Nico
Santos
At
GLAAD
Media
Awards

He
went
on
to
add,
“For
me,
it’s
very
important
to
show
how
loving
and
beautiful
a
queer
family
can
be.
Brian
Tyree
Henry
is
such
a
tremendous
actor
and
brought
so
much
beauty
into
this
part,
and
at
one
point
I
saw
a
child
in
his
eyes,
and
I
think
it’s
important
for
the
world
to
be
reminded
that
we
in
the
queer
community
were
all
children
at
one
point.
We
forget
that
because
we’re
always
depicted
as
sexual
or
rebellious.
We
forget
to
connect
on
that
human
part.”

Grammys
2022
Best
Performances:
Watch
BTS,
Billie
Eilish
&
Olivia
Rodrigo
Rock
The
Stage

Eternals,
which
is
written
by
the
Academy
Award
winner
Zhao,
alongside
Ryan
Firpo,
and
Kaz
Firpo,
is
the
25th
movie
in
the
Marvel
Cinematic
Universe.
The
film
introduced
a
new
group
of
superheroes
whilst
revolving
around
the
alien
beings
who
lived
in
secret
on
earth
for
7000
years.
It
starred
Gemma
Chan,
Richard
Madden,
Kumail
Nanjiani,
Lia
McHugh,
Brian
Tyree
Henry,
Lauren
Ridloff,
Barry
Keoghan,
Don
Lee,
Harish
Patel,
Kit
Harington,
Salma
Hayek
and
Angelina
Jolie
in
the
lead
roles.