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Actors Xóchitl Gómez and Xolo Maridueña will be honored on Tuesday evening in Washington, D.C. by the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts at its Noche De Gala.

The foundation also will honor novelist writer and producer George P. Pelecanos with the 2022 Raul Julia Award for Excellence.

Gomez, star of Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, and Maridueña, star of Cobra Kai, will receive the Horizon Award.

The gala raises money for the foundation’s scholarship fund for film and theater graduate students, as well as efforts to expand content and talent development opportunities for those early in their careers.

On the bill to speak at the event are Rep. Tony Cardenas (D-ca), Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (D-co), along with foundation co-founders, Merel Julia and Felix Sanchez. There also will be performances by the 2022 National High School Musical Theatre Awards winners, Kendall Becerra and Nicholas Barrón, and the 2022 Palm Award winners,...

The WGA West’s political action committee has endorsed Joe Biden for president and Kamala Harris for vice president. The guild’s Pac joins entertainment industry unions IATSE, the American Federation of Musicians, and Actors’ Equity in endorsing the Democratic challengers to President Donald Trump and VP Mike Pence.

The WGA West Pac is also supporting the re-election of seven incumbent Democratic U.S. Senators: Cory Booker (NJ), Dick Durbin (Il), Doug Jones (Al), Ed Markey (Ma), Jeanne Shaheen (Nh), Tina Smith (Mn), and Gary Peters (Mi). The Pac is also supporting the election of nine Senate challengers — all Democrats –including Jaime Harrison (Sc), Steve Bullock (Mt), Cal Cunningham (Nc), Mike Espy (Ms), Sara Gideon (Me), Theresa Greenfield (Ia), Mj Hegar (TX), Jon Ossoff (Ga) and Raphael Warnock (Ga).

The Pac says its senatorial endorsements were made “with the goal of flipping the Senate to a pro-writer and pro-union majority.

Michael Schur, creator of The Good Place and Parks and Recreation, is urging his fellow writers to donate to the WGA West’s political action committee to help “flip the Senate and bring in bold leaders who will check the power of the Supreme Court.”

“You undoubtedly already know how far Mitch McConnell and the party of Trump will go to enshrine their far-right agenda,” he said in a message sent out today to the guild’s members. “Now is the time to counter power with power.”

He added: “Your Wgaw Pac is putting its might behind candidates like Theresa Greenfield in Iowa, Steve Bullock in Montana, Cal Cunningham in North Carolina, and Jon Ossoff in Georgia – candidates looking to unseat the same Senators intent on replacing Justice Ginsburg before the November election. These are very close races, where our Wgaw Pac contribution travels far. These candidates, like established allies Cory Booker and Pramila Jayapal,...

Welcome to the February 18, 2015 edition of Outrage Watch, HitFix's daily rundown of all the things folks are peeved about in entertainment. Today's top story: another Beygency is upon us. A round of unretouched photos of the megastar from a recent L'Oreal photo shoot were leaked by long-running fansite Beyonce World to condemnation from her most passionate fans, one of whom tweeted: "I seriously wanna bash the person that photoshopped those pics fucking face in! Like it's to the point where enough is enough!" Couldn't have said it better! The pics have since been deleted by the site, meaning they're now completely erased forever and no one can ever see them again. [Jezebel] Want more? There's plenty of indignation to go around. See below for a full roundup of today's kerfuffles. Outraged: Director John Boorman Target: "American Sniper" Why: The Oscar-nominated "Deliverance" helmer weighed in on Clint Eastwood's Best Picture nominee...

The lack of diversity among this year.s cast of Oscar nominations is a huge blot on the Academy.s reputation. In fact, it.s even threatened to overshadow the ceremony itself. One congressman is so incensed by the lack of recognition to ethnic directors, writers and actors that he has insisted on meeting with the Academy president, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, to discuss the situation. According to Variety, California.s Rep. Tony Cardenas is the man who has taken it upon himself to try and get the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to see the error of their ways. Rep. Cardenas has written a letter to Cheryl Boone Isaacs, which he has also handily provided to the media too. Cardenas passionately insists in his message that "while the issue of diversity in the entertainment industry is a much deeper problem, without an easy solution, it is unfortunate to...

When this year’s Oscar nominations were announced, revealing 20 white acting nominees, a global controversy erupted that spawned the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite, which promptly began trending on social media. On Tuesday, Congressman Tony Cardenas jumped into the fray, writing a letter to AMPAS president Cheryl Boone Isaacs and all of Hollywood’s major studio heads to express his disappointment in seeing “such a revered American institution fail to fully reflect our nation.” While David Oyelowo was certainly overlooked this year for his bold turn as Martin Luther King Jr. in “Selma,” to name one example, the truth is that there simply wasn’t.