Watch ReeseW and RonanFarrow be honored at THR's annual WomenInEntertainment event
Ahead of the ceremony, A-listers mixed and mingled, with Witherspoon chatting with herguest star Mindy Kaling and sharing a moment on the red carpet with Lansing herself, as Witherspoon's husband Jim Toth, head of acquisitions and talent at Quibi, and her children Ava and Deacon Phillippe looked on.
Theron also announced that Katzenberg and wife Marilyn had created a $10,000 scholarship fund, giving every girl in the program access to aid for books, tuition and travel. Kalis and Katherine, alums of the mentorship program, joined the star on stage to reveal that in honor of Theron, Entertainment Industry Foundation would be awarding one mentee $25,000 for her studies.
Theron then brought up John Legend and Maggie Rogers, and the two musicians presented the first-time $100,000 Spotify scholarship, awarded to Trinity, and a $100,000 scholarship from star Lori Greiner, writer Melissa Blake and attorney Nina Shaw, titled the Angels Scholarship, given to Samantha. The awards brought the program's total to $9.4 million in scholarship money since its inception in 2009.
Witherspoon also spoke about her path from actress to superproducer, where for the first part of her career, "I was a follower. I walked in the path that had been hard won and nicely paved by actual leaders," but now in the second half, said she has realized that through producing, "I know how to do this.”
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