Taking Chance: More Honors
On May 5, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences—the folks who give out the Emmys—held a different kind of awards banquet at the Beverly Hills Hotel in La La Land: one that honored “television with a conscience.”
Among the eight shows honored at this third annual event: HBO’s exceptional film Taking Chance , which told the true story of Marine Corps Captain Mike Strobl escorting the body of Marine Corporal Chance Phelps, who was killed in Iraq, from Dover Air Force Base to Chance’s home in Wyoming.
“This is about the television community and the people who work in it putting their heart and soul into their work, ” Academy Chairman and CEO John Shaffner said. “None of these stories would be told if someone didn’t say, ‘I have to do this.'”
That certainly was the case with Taking Chance . Strobl, who co-wrote the screenplay, received the VVA President’s Award for Excellence in the Arts at the 2009 National Convention in Louisville.
For more info on the awards go to the Academy’s website .
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