{"id":2204457,"date":"2025-12-18T18:37:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2204457"},"modified":"2025-12-18T18:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:37:20","slug":"the-inaugural-james-earl-jones-prize-will-go-to-the-also-velvet-voiced-laurence-fishburne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-inaugural-james-earl-jones-prize-will-go-to-the-also-velvet-voiced-laurence-fishburne\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inaugural James Earl Jones Prize Will Go to the Also-Velvet-Voiced Laurence Fishburne"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Society of Voice Arts and Sciences<\/a> (Sovas) announced on Thursday that it is establishing a new award, known as the James Earl Jones Prize, at the 2026 Voice Arts Awards, with the inaugural recipient being screen legend Laurence Fishburne<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This new prize was created in honor of one of the world\u2019s most influential artists, not just in the voice acting community, for his roles as Darth Vader<\/a> in \u201cStar Wars<\/a>\u201d and Mufasa<\/a> in \u201cThe Lion King<\/a>,\u201d but in the entertainment industry at large, and will celebrate other performers who embody his artistic excellence, integrity, and cultural impact.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are so excited to introduce the James Earl Jones Prize at this year\u2019s Voice Arts Awards! Having honored James himself at our first ever ceremony in 2014, we knew we wanted to find a more permanent way to commemorate everything that he represents to the voice acting community,\u201d said Rudy Gaskins<\/a>,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Society of Voice Arts and Sciences (Sovas) announced on Thursday that it is establishing a new award, known as the James Earl Jones Prize, at the 2026 Voice Arts Awards, with the inaugural recipient being screen legend Laurence Fishburne. This new prize was created in honor of one of the world\u2019s most influential artists, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2204458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2204457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Inaugural-James-Earl-Jones-Prize-Will-Go-to-the.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2204459,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204457\/revisions\/2204459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2204458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}