'Walk the Line' honored for drugs depiction

LOS ANGELES - The Oscar-winning Johnny Cash movie "Walk the Line," and TV shows "Without a Trace" and "Saturday Night Live" were among the winners at the 10th annual Prism Awards, which recognize accurate depictions of drug, alcohol and tobacco use and addiction in entertainment content.

At a dinner Thursday at the Beverly Hills Hotel, awards also were presented to Kelly Rowan of Fox's "The O.C." for performance in a drama episode, Georgia Engel of CBS' "Everybody Loves Raymond" for performance in a comedy series, S. Epatha Merkerson for performance in a TV movie for HBO's "Lackawanna Blues" and Lori Loughlin of WB Network's "Summerland" for performance in a drama multiepisode story line.

"Walk the Line," which details country music hellraiser Cash's battles with pills, won in the feature film wide release category, while the "Off the Tracks" episode of CBS' "Without A Trace" was honored in the TV drama episode category.

NBC's "SNL" won for TV comedy episode, WB's "Reba" was recognized for TV comedy multiepisode storyline, NBC's "Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Mork & Mindy"' received the nod for TV movie or miniseries, and "The Montel Williams Show - Drug Abuse: Rebuilding a Family" won for TV talk show episode.

The Prism Awards were presented by the Entertainment Industries Council in partnership with the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health, and the FX network.

- REUTERS/Hollywood Reporter