CENTURY CITY, Calif.,
Sept. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/
-- Television's biggest night took place in Century City, CA Sunday, September 16th, where the
entertainment industry came together for the 12th annual
"Evening Before" party, benefitting MPTF (Motion Picture &
Television Fund).
The television industry, from Emmy presenters and nominees, to
other TV industry members, helped raise funds to support their
industry colleagues and friends who benefit from MPTF's charitable
programs and services such as financial assistance, crisis
counseling, care giving support and of course the legendary
retirement facility in Woodland
Hills that is "home" to television and film veterans
alike.
"I'm incredibly grateful to the corporate sponsors and donors
from the television community who came out to support the Evening
Before. Their generosity enables MPTF to continue to serve
industry workers and their families by providing financial
assistance in tough times, subsidizing childcare, and offering help
when caring for an aging parent," said Jeffrey Katzenberg, Chairman of the MPTF
Foundation.
The 12th Annual "Evening Before" Host Committee
consisted of Julie Bowen,
Rachel Brosnahan, Sterling K. Brown, Ty
Burrell, Darren Criss,
Tracee Ellis Ross, America Ferrera & Ryan Piers Williams, Claire Foy, Sophie
Hunter & Benedict
Cumberbatch, Allison Janney,
Judith Light & Robert Desiderio, Kate
McKinnon, Debra Messing,
Mandy Moore, Elisabeth Moss, Jane Musky & Tony Goldwyn, Bob
Odenkirk, Sandra Oh,
Issa Rae, Keri Russell & Matthew Rhys, Octavia
Spencer, Chrissy Teigen &
John Legend, Milo Ventimiglia, and
Lena Waithe.
The Executive Host Committee included Bob Bakish, Casey
Bloys, Linda & Jerry
Bruckheimer, Paul Buccieri,
Charlie Collier, Cesar Conde, Roma
Downey & Mark Burnett,
Channing Dungey, Pam &
Randy Freer, Robert Greenblatt, Bonnie Hammer, Mike
Hopkins, Toni Knight &
Tony Vinciquerra, Luz &
Robert Kyncl, Katie McGrath & J.J. Abrams, Andrea &
David Nevins, Jeanne &
Gary Newman, Richard Plepler, Kevin
Reilly, Megan & Peter
Rice, Andrea & Peter
Roth, Jennifer Salke,
Josh Sapan, Ted Sarandos, Karen & Ben Sherwood, Dana & Matt Walden, and Ally
Walker & John
Landgraf.
This year's presenting sponsors were Delta Air Lines, Ford Motor
Company, Netflix, PEOPLE, and Target.
Among the celebrities who attended this year's event were
Malin Akerman, Sasha Alexander, Louie
Anderson, Odette & Dave
Annable, Katie Aselton,
Lauren Ash, Kevin Bacon, Sosie
Bacon, Alec Baldwin,
Sara Bareilles, Zazie Beetz,
Betsy Brandt, Amy Brenneman, Madeline
Brewer, Alison Brie, Logan
Browning, Amanda Brugel,
Dan Bucatinsky, Sophia Bush, Ross
Butler, Jessica Capshaw,
D'Arcy Carden, Linda Cardellini, Kristin Chenoweth, Erika
Christensen, Laverne Cox,
Jackie Cruz, Ted Danson, Viola
Davis, Jenna Dewan,
Guillermo Diaz, Nina Dobrev, Mark
Burnett & Roma Downey,
Josh Duhamel, Clark Duke, Mark Duplass, Natalia Dyer,
Jenna Elfman, Nathalie Emmanuel, Alice
Eve, O-T Fagbenle, Fortune Feimster, Georgie Flores, Will
Forte, Tan France,
Hannah Gadsby, Johnny Galecki, Sara
Gilbert, Betty Gilpin,
Ilana Glazer, Ginnifer Goodwin, Kumail
Nanjiani & Emily V.
Gordon, Lauren Graham, Kelsey
Grammar, Max Greenfield,
Rupert Grint, Tiffany Haddish,
Tony Hale, Jon Hamm, Alyson
Hannigan, David Harbour,
Marcia Gay Harden, Justin Hartley, Charlie
Heaton, Marg Helgenberger,
Luke Hemsworth, Marin Hinkle, Anders
Holm, Derek Hough,
Oliver Hudson, Matt Iseman, Gillian
Jacobs, Abbi Jacobson,
Jameela Jamil, Mindy Kaling, Jessica
Parker Kennedy, Aja Naomi
King, Regina King,
Jane Krakowski, Peter Krause, Nick
Kroll, Padma Lakshmi, Katherine
Langford, Ali Larter,
Sandra Lee, Ray Liotta, Melanie
Lynskey, Jason Mantzoukas,
Ricky Martin, Tatiana Maslaney, Kelly
McCreary, Dylan McDermott,
Joel McHale, Stephen Merchant, Chrissy Metz, Alyssa
Milano, Mandy Moore,
Jennifer Morrison, Megan Mullally, Niecy Nash, Andrea
Navedo, Craig T. Nelson,
Thandie Newton, Trevor Noah, Patton
Oswalt, Mandy Patinkin,
Lauren & Aaron Paul,
Tom Payne, Pauley Perrette, Jay
Pharoah, Busy Philipps, Dascha
Polanco, Adina Porter,
Zac Posen, Jaime Pressley, Maggie Q, Issa Rae, Lili
Reinhart, Retta, Sam
Richardson, Britt Robertson,
Debby Ryan, Rodrigo Santoro, Nico
Santos, Angela Sarafyan,
Jonathan Scott, Drew Scott, Amanda
Seyfried, Tony Shalhoub,
Molly Shannon, Sarah Silverman, Brittany Snow, Mira
Sorvino, Mary Steenburgen,
Chris Sullivan, Wanda Sykes, Kenan
Thompson, Ashley Tisdale,
Allison Tolman, Gina Torres, Michelle
Trachtenberg, Skeet Ulrich, Matt
Walsh, Derek Waters,
Mae Whitman, Samira Wiley, Casey
Wilson, Reese Witherspoon,
Evan Rachel Wood, Zach Woods, Jeffrey
Wright, Michael Zegen,
and many more.
The "Evening Before" was designed as a relaxed town square
atmosphere in the park by Silver Birches with specialty food
provided by Carmelized Productions by Jon Shook &
Vinny Dotolo.
The event is designed after the highly successful "Night
Before," another fundraiser held annually before the Academy
Awards® for the past fifteen years to benefit MPTF.
About Delta Air Lines
Delta Air Lines serves more than
180 million customers each year. In 2018, Delta was named to
Fortune's top 50 Most Admired Companies in addition to being named
the most admired airline for the seventh time in eight years.
Additionally, Delta has ranked No.1 in the Business Travel News
Annual Airline survey for an unprecedented seven consecutive years.
With an industry-leading global network, Delta and the Delta
Connection carriers offer service to 309 destinations in 53
countries on six continents. Headquartered in Atlanta, Delta employs more than 80,000
employees worldwide and operates a mainline fleet of more than 800
aircraft. The airline is a founding member of the SkyTeam global
alliance and participates in the industry's leading
transatlantic joint venture with Air
France-KLM and Alitalia as well as a joint venture with
Virgin Atlantic. Including its worldwide alliance partners, Delta
offers customers more than 15,000 daily flights, with key hubs and
markets including Amsterdam,
Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, Los
Angeles, Mexico City,
Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York-JFK
and LaGuardia, London-Heathrow, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Salt Lake City, São Paulo, Seattle, Seoul, and Tokyo-Narita.
Delta has invested billions of dollars in airport facilities,
global products and services, and technology to enhance the
customer experience in the air and on the ground. Additional
information is available on the Delta News Hub, as well as
delta.com, Twitter @DeltaNewsHub and Facebook.com/delta.
About Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company is a
global company based in Dearborn,
Michigan. The company designs, manufactures, markets and
services a full line of Ford cars, trucks, SUVs, electrified
vehicles and Lincoln luxury
vehicles, provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit
Company and is pursuing leadership positions in electrification,
autonomous vehicles and mobility solutions. Ford employs
approximately 201,000 people worldwide. For more information
regarding Ford, its products and Ford Motor Credit Company, please
visit www.corporate.ford.com.
About Netflix
Netflix is the world's leading internet
entertainment service with 130 million memberships in over 190
countries enjoying TV series, documentaries and feature films
across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can watch as
much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on any internet-connected
screen. Members can play, pause and resume watching, all without
commercials or commitments.
About PEOPLE
Meredith Corporation's PEOPLE
revolutionized personality journalism when it launched as a weekly
in 1974 with a mission to celebrate extraordinary people doing
ordinary things and ordinary people doing extraordinary
things. Ubiquitous and still at the center of pop
culture more than 40 years later, the PEOPLE brand is accessible
across all media and platforms (print, digital, video, OTT, mobile,
social) bringing more than 100 million consumers a unique mix of
breaking entertainment news, exclusive photos, video, unparalleled
access to the red carpet, celebrities, and in-depth reporting on
the most compelling newsmakers of our time. An essential component
of PEOPLE's editorial vision remains human interest stories, which
touch and often mirror the lives of our passionate audience.
ComScore ranks the PEOPLE/Entertainment Weekly Digital Network No.
1 in the entertainment news category. And now, the PeopleTV
app offers a free, advertiser-supported OTT streaming video
service. PEOPLE is an award-winning 24/7 news organization
headquartered in NYC with reporters worldwide. For more information
visit PEOPLE.com and follow @people on Twitter and Instagram,
@peoplemag on Facebook, and the PEOPLE channel on YouTube and on
Snapchat's Discover.
About Target
Minneapolis-based Target Corporation (NYSE:
TGT) serves guests at more than 1,800 stores and at Target.com.
Since 1946, Target has given 5 percent of its profit to
communities, which today equals millions of dollars a week. For the
latest store count or more information, visit Target.com/Pressroom.
For a behind-the-scenes look at Target, visit
Target.com/abullseyeview or follow @TargetNews on Twitter.
About MPTF
MPTF (Motion Picture & Television
Fund) supports the entertainment community in living and aging
well, with dignity and purpose, and in helping each other in times
of need.
What began more than 97 years ago as the Motion Picture Relief
Fund has, today, flourished into MPTF, a comprehensive service
organization that remains at the core of the entertainment
industry.
MPTF belongs to everyone in the entertainment business and
its successes are embodied in the spirit of stepping up and giving
back. With the engagement and generosity of thousands of people
from within the entertainment industry
community, MPTF serves thousands in the entertainment
community each year with financial assistance, social services, and
retirement living.
The entertainment industry has a longtime history of taking care
of its own like no other industry in the world. People are at the
heart of what MPTF does each day, and it is the
extraordinary generosity of countless donors, families, and
volunteers that enables the organization to deliver services to
industry members in need.
To learn more,
visit mptf.com, Facebook.com/mptf, Twitter.com/mptf,
and Instagram @MPTF.
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