By PTI
ANAHEIM: “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman, “Frozen” workforce — Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell, Jonathan Groff and Josh Gad — in addition to “Grey’s Anatomy” actors Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey had been honoured with the Disney Legends Award at D23 Expo.
Disney’s D23 Expo kick began on Friday.
The Disney Legends Award is given to a person who has made a unprecedented contribution to the Disney legacy.
Boseman, the star of Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther” franchise, was honoured with the award posthumously.
His brother Derrick Boseman accepted the trophy on behalf of him.
“I want that he was right here to obtain this honour…The undeniable fact that he has not been right here has been some extent of immense ache for my circle of relatives. But I take into consideration how he honoured our dad and mom, his household, his mates and all of the contracts that he signed besides the final one. When he honoured them together with his blood in sweat.
“He played these roles and was taking chemo at the same time. Some of these roles had him doing things that were physical. He was so strong that even six days before he died he honoured the promise he made to his partner and married her,” Derrick mentioned within the acceptance speech.
Boseman died in August 2020 following a secret battle with colon most cancers. He was 43.
The Disney Legends Award ceremony, which came about on the Anaheim conference centre right here, was hosted by well-known tv persona Tamron Hall.
Bob Chapek, CEO Disney, offered the trophy to the honourees.
“It is the 35th anniversary of Disney Legends. We are honoured today to present the award to this year’s legends and we are honoured because we have several past Disney Legends that are here for the ceremony,” Chapek mentioned.
Other honourees had been Robert Price “Bob” Foster, Don Hahn, Doris Hardoon, Chris Montan, Rob’t Coltrin, Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross.
Groff, greatest recognized for enjoying ice harvester Kristoff within the “Frozen” films and Holden Ford on “Mindhunter”, mentioned rising up in early Nineties as a younger homosexual boy, Disney VHS tapes had been his main supply of categorical and expression.
“I dressed up as Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella. And one Halloween when I was three-years-old, I dressed up as Mary Poppins. Actually, I have a home video of my grandparents that Halloween, calling me Mary without any sense of irony,” he quipped.
“It is a complete dream come true and it is such an honour to be on this illustrious list of Disney Legends…I want to thank my mom for letting me dress up as whoever I wanted to dress up and always fanning the flame of my creativity,” he mentioned.
Groff additionally expressed his gratitude to “Frozen” administrators Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee for creating an area the place younger boys can placed on their Anna and Elsa (in style characters voiced by Bell and Menzel) attire and sing and categorical themselves.
The winners acquired a two feet-tall bronze Disney Legends sculpture that signifies the creativeness, creativity and magic they’ve delivered to the corporate.
The recipients additionally participated in a handprint ceremony following the occasion.
Their bronzed prints can be displayed within the Disney Legends Plaza on the Company’s Burbank headquarters.
The Disney Legends Awards had been launched in 1987 with actor Fred MacMurray, who starred within the studio’s 1959 comedy movie “The Shaggy Dog”, turning into the primary recipient.
Till now, together with this yr’s honourees, 304 artists have been named Disney Legends.
The record contains Tim Allen, Julie Andrews, Robert Downey Jr, Annette Funicello, Whoopi Goldberg, Sir Elton John, Angela Lansbury, George Lucas, Steve Martin, Robin Roberts, Marty Sklar, Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Walters, Ming-Na Wen, Betty White and Robin Williams.
ANAHEIM: “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman, “Frozen” workforce — Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell, Jonathan Groff and Josh Gad — in addition to “Grey’s Anatomy” actors Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey had been honoured with the Disney Legends Award at D23 Expo.
Disney’s D23 Expo kick began on Friday.
The Disney Legends Award is given to a person who has made a unprecedented contribution to the Disney legacy.
Boseman, the star of Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther” franchise, was honoured with the award posthumously.
His brother Derrick Boseman accepted the trophy on behalf of him.
“I want that he was right here to obtain this honour…The undeniable fact that he has not been right here has been some extent of immense ache for my circle of relatives. But I take into consideration how he honoured our dad and mom, his household, his mates and all of the contracts that he signed besides the final one. When he honoured them together with his blood in sweat.
“He played these roles and was taking chemo at the same time. Some of these roles had him doing things that were physical. He was so strong that even six days before he died he honoured the promise he made to his partner and married her,” Derrick mentioned within the acceptance speech.
Boseman died in August 2020 following a secret battle with colon most cancers. He was 43.
The Disney Legends Award ceremony, which came about on the Anaheim conference centre right here, was hosted by well-known tv persona Tamron Hall.
Bob Chapek, CEO Disney, offered the trophy to the honourees.
“It is the 35th anniversary of Disney Legends. We are honoured today to present the award to this year’s legends and we are honoured because we have several past Disney Legends that are here for the ceremony,” Chapek mentioned.
Other honourees had been Robert Price “Bob” Foster, Don Hahn, Doris Hardoon, Chris Montan, Rob’t Coltrin, Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross.
Groff, greatest recognized for enjoying ice harvester Kristoff within the “Frozen” films and Holden Ford on “Mindhunter”, mentioned rising up in early Nineties as a younger homosexual boy, Disney VHS tapes had been his main supply of categorical and expression.
“I dressed up as Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella. And one Halloween when I was three-years-old, I dressed up as Mary Poppins. Actually, I have a home video of my grandparents that Halloween, calling me Mary without any sense of irony,” he quipped.
“It is a complete dream come true and it is such an honour to be on this illustrious list of Disney Legends…I want to thank my mom for letting me dress up as whoever I wanted to dress up and always fanning the flame of my creativity,” he mentioned.
Groff additionally expressed his gratitude to “Frozen” administrators Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee for creating an area the place younger boys can placed on their Anna and Elsa (in style characters voiced by Bell and Menzel) attire and sing and categorical themselves.
The winners acquired a two feet-tall bronze Disney Legends sculpture that signifies the creativeness, creativity and magic they’ve delivered to the corporate.
The recipients additionally participated in a handprint ceremony following the occasion.
Their bronzed prints can be displayed within the Disney Legends Plaza on the Company’s Burbank headquarters.
The Disney Legends Awards had been launched in 1987 with actor Fred MacMurray, who starred within the studio’s 1959 comedy movie “The Shaggy Dog”, turning into the primary recipient.
Till now, together with this yr’s honourees, 304 artists have been named Disney Legends.
The record contains Tim Allen, Julie Andrews, Robert Downey Jr, Annette Funicello, Whoopi Goldberg, Sir Elton John, Angela Lansbury, George Lucas, Steve Martin, Robin Roberts, Marty Sklar, Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Walters, Ming-Na Wen, Betty White and Robin Williams.
