Sean Penn will receive Bob Hope Humanitarian Award

Actor, director and founder of Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE) Sean Penn will be honored with the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at a Television Academy Hall of Fame event, The Hollywood reporter writes.

The event, held at the Television Academy headquarters at the Saban Media Center in North Hollywood, is a ceremony to induct new members into the Hall of Fame.

This year, six new inductees will be in the spotlight, including Debbie Allen, Ken Burns, Bob Daly, Robert L. Johnson, Rita Moreno and Donald A. Morgan. The Hall of Fame honors small screen legends “who have made outstanding contributions in the arts, sciences or management of television over a lifetime career or via singular achievements.”

As for Penn, he is singled out for "decades of activism,” largely because of his work through CORE. The organization started to help after the devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010. Since then, CORE has mobilized for humanitarian emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the situation in Ukraine in 2022.

The Bob Hope Humanitarian Award was established in 2002 to “honor an individual whose philanthropic efforts exemplify Bob Hope’s own decades-long altruism and positive impact on society.” This year's selection committee was chaired by Television Academy Governors Kim Coleman and Michael Spiller. This is one of the highest honors bestowed by the Television Academy Board of Governors.