Entertainment Industries Council


The Entertainment Industries Council is a United States non-profit organization founded in 1983 that promotes the depiction of accurate health and social issues in film, television, music, and comic books. The Council provides guidelines on the depictions of these issues to the entertainment industry, generally promoting content that includes negative consequences of addiction, dependency and violence.

EIC Awards

The Entertainment Industries Council honors films and television programs that make a positive difference in the world honoring film and TV programs which portray realistic depictions of dependence, in an annual, star-studded, televised awards show.

Prism Awards

The Annual Prism Awards honors the creative community for accurate portrayals of substance abuse, addiction and mental health in entertainment programming. Past winners and nominees have included the films Walk the Line, Thirteen, Ray, City of God, Skins, Blow, Traffic, The Insider and Purgatory House. TV shows, episodes and movies of the week honored have included programs such as: Augusta, Gone, Monk, Private Practice, The Office, Desperate Housewives, Pinky and the Brain, ER, Boston Legal, American Dad!, The Simpsons, Castle in its fourth season for its story arc focusing on Kate Beckett's post traumatic stress disorder
and General Hospital.

Theatrical Feature Film

1997 Trainspotting
1998 Gridlock'd
1999 Down in the Delta
2000 The Insider
2001 Traffic
2002 Blow
2003 Skins
2004 City of God
2006 Self Medicated
2007 Thank You for Smoking and Sherrybaby
2008 Georgia Rule
2009 Rachel Getting Married tied with Rolling
2010 Crazy Heart and The Soloist
2011 Black Swan and The Fighter
2012 Shame tied with and Take Shelter and Warrior
2013 Silver Linings Playbook and Flight
2014 Home and The Spectacular Now
2015 Still Alice

Joyce Foundation Funding

The EIC received an 18 month, $125,000 grant in 2004 from the Joyce Foundation, a major financial sponsor of gun control organizations.