Oct 4, 2022

"Encanto" and "Maya And The Three" have won the Best Director Award at the Imagen Awards for their live-action work.

L.A.The Imagen Awards will be distributed on Sunday celebrating Latino excellence in film and television, with the top 2 director awards awarded to filmmakers in animation production, and Encanto winning the best feature film in the stacked live-action lineup.

In each category, in fact, the director and his films were mostly against live-action fare, but came to the top with voters realizing that the work was exemplary by any criteria and didn't need to be treated differently simply because it was animated.

Encant was the night's biggest winner in 4 awards, taking the best feature, Best music composer in Film and television, and best music director in Film and Television, in the Best feature category, including Dreamworks fellow animated film "Spirit Untamed" and Natalie Morales' Language Lessons, John M. Chu's "In the Heights" on Netflix. The film, directed by Steven Spielberg and directed by Disney's "West Side Story," has been in the spotlight for the past two years.

The trio of Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Charis Castro Smith, beat Spielberg, Rinaldo Marcus Green (King Richard), Alonso Luis Palacios (cop movie) and shared the award for the direction of the feature for work at Encanto. It was.

Jorge Gutierrez was named Top TV Director of the year for his Netflix limited series Maya and Three, a topping director from the series Stairs,Gentefied, This is us, we own this city, and the last Days of Ptolemy Gray.

In addition, PBS Kids series Alma Road won the Award for Youth Programming.

Best Feature Film

Encant–Walt Disney Studios Film

Best Director–Feature Film

Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Charis Castro Smith Encant

Best Director–Television

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Best Youth Programming

Alma's Way (PBS Kids, Fred Rogers Productions, Pipeline Studios)

Film and television

Lynn Manuel Miranda and Jermaine Franco-Ender Kant

Best music director for film and television

Tom McDougal-Encant