The Hollywood Reporter has landed 44 nominations for the 66th annual SoCal Journalism Awards, including print journalist of the year for Rebecca Keegan and best website.
Other nominations were bestowed upon THR’s Songwriter Roundtable, podcasts Awards Chatter and It Happened in Hollywood, and the Live Feed and Heat Vision blogs, in addition to THR’s original photography, videos, criticism and social media posts.
The awards are handed out by the Los Angeles Press Club, which noted that more than 2,300 entries were submitted this year. The winners will be announced at an awards dinner gala June 23 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
Below is a list of THR’s nominations. See a full list of noms.
JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
PRINT, over 50,000 circulation
Rebecca Keegan
ALL MEDIA PLATFORMS — Print, Radio, Podcast, TV or Online
MULTIMEDIA PACKAGE
Mesfin Fekadu, THR Photo Team, THR Video Team,, “The Hit Squad: Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo and Dua Lipa on the THR Songwriter Roundtable”
COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS OF FILM
Lovia Gyarkye, “Critic’s Notebook: Three Debut Features Give Depth and Dimension to Black Mothers”
COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS OF TV
Daniel Fienberg, “Critic’s Notebook: Capitalism and TV Today, a Love/Hate Story”
CRITICISM OF TV
Daniel Fienberg, “The ‘Succession’ Series Finale Was a Brilliant Family Nightmare / ‘The Last of Us’ Review: Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey in HBO’s Powerful Video Game Adaptation / ‘Reservation Dogs’ Finale Caps an Unlikely and Magical Series to Cherish”
CRITICISM OF FILM, (Over 1,000 Words; each review)
Jon Frosch, “‘Passages’ Review, ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Review, ‘His Three Daughters’ Review”
David Rooney, “‘Poor Things’ Review, ‘All of Us Strangers’ Review, ‘Past Lives’ Review”
CRITICISM OF FILM, (Under 1,000 Words; each review)
Sheri Linden, “’A Still Small Voice’ Review, ‘Fingernails’ Review, ‘Hesitation Wound’ Review”
PRINT/ONLINE, ANY OUTLET — Including news bureaus and correspondents
OBITUARY/IN APPRECIATION, Film/TV Personalities
Daniel Fienberg, “Critic’s Appreciation: Andre Braugher Was an Intensely Dramatic, Intensely Funny Actor’s Actor”
ART/PHOTOGRAPHY — All Platforms
PORTRAIT PHOTO, Entertainment
Ash Barhamand, Ava Selbach, Peter B. Cury, Lou Escobar, “Ayo Edebiri”
Ash Barhamand, Ava Selbach, Peter B. Cury, Austin Hargrave, “Ben Affleck”
ENTERTAINMENT PHOTO
Ash Barhamand, Ava Selbach, Peter B. Cury, Lou Escobar, “Ayo Edebiri”
Ash Barhamand, Ava Selbach, Peter B. Cury, Austin Hargrave, “The Self-Proclaimed Genius of Lil Dicky”
PHOTO ESSAY (single topic), Culture/Entertainment
Ash Barhamand, Ava Selbach, Peter B. Cury, Obidi Nzeribe, Yotam Shwartz, “The 25 Most Powerful Stylists”
COVER ART
Ash Barhamand, Ava Selbach, Peter B. Cury, Ruvén Afanador, “Adele!”
PRINT — ANY OUTLET
LIFESTYLE FEATURE
Seth Abramovitch, “Succession, With Smoothies: Inside the Erewhon Dynasty”
RACE AND SOCIETY REPORTING
Mia Galuppo, “Years After Becoming the First Black Director to Win an Oscar, Roger Ross Williams Says Hollywood’s Finally Calling”
GENDER AND SOCIETY REPORTING
Hadley Meares, “Living (and Working) in Hostile States Like Florida and Tennessee While LGBTQ”
MAGAZINES — Includes magazines with L.A. bureaus
INVESTIGATIVE
Gary Baum, “Brad Pitt and the Bizarre Charity Mess That’s Left Katrina Victims Stranded Again”
Lacey Rose, Katie Kilkenny, “Inside the Implosion of Justin Roiland’s Animation Empire”
COMMENTARY
Rebecca Sun, “What Michelle Yeoh Taught Me About Motherhood”
FEATURE, Culture/Arts, (Over 1,000 Words)
Rebecca Keegan, “The Auteurs of San Quentin”
FEATURE (Under 1,000 Words)
Gary Baum, Ryan Gajewski, Winston Cho, “How TMZ Became Hollywood’s Grim Reaper”
ENTERTAINMENT FEATURE, TV/Streaming Related
Borys Kit, “‘Daredevil’ Hits Reset Button as Marvel Overhauls Its TV Business”
ENTERTAINMENT FEATURE, Music/Performing Arts Related
Seija Rankin, “That Girl Lay Lay and the Making of the Modern Child Star”
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
Gary Baum, Katie Kilkenny, Lesley Goldberg, “Writers’ Shut-It-Down Strategy Has Been Effective, Executives Privately Concede”
PERSONALITY PROFILE, Film Personalities
Seth Abramovitch, “Ailing ‘Superman’ Star Valerie Perrine Finally Finds Her Hero: ‘The Guy Should Be Sainted’”
James Hibberd, “Harrison Ford: ‘I Know Who the F*** I Am’”
PERSONALITY PROFILE, TV Personalities
Seija Rankin, “Ayo Edebiri Is Suddenly Everywhere”
Rebecca Sun, “Ali Wong Gets Dramatic”
PERSONALITY PROFILE, Politics/Business/Arts Personalities
Seth Abramovitch, “A Pellicano Targer’s Second Act”
TELEVISION/FILM — Broadcast, including online and cable TV, produced in SoCal
HUMAN INTEREST FEATURE (Over 5 Minutes)
Jason Rovou, Chris Gardner, Jason Bass, Edda Gonzalez, Nekesa Mumbi Moody, “Hollywood Atelier: Rob Pickens”
AUDIO JOURNALISM — Radio broadcast, podcast or stream produced in Southern California
PERSONALITY PROFILE/INTERVIEW, Entertainment Personalities (Over 10 Minutes)
Seth Abramovitch, “It Happened in Hollywood: Penelope Spheeris – ‘Wayne’s World’”
Scott Feinberg, “‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast — ‘The Three Amigos’: Alfonso Cuarón (‘Le Pupille’), Guillermo del Toro (‘Pinocchio’) and Alejandro González Iñárritu (‘Bardo’)”
ONLINE — Exclusively published on the Internet
HARD NEWS
Scott Feinberg, “Gruesome Footage of Oct. 7 Atrocities Screens in Hollywood Under Heavy Guard”
LIFESTYLE FEATURE
Beatrice Verhoeven, “Flea-Market Treasure Hunt: Turning Old Film Reels Into Art Objects”
THEATER, ARTS FEATURE
Abbey White, “‘Dark Disabled Stories’ Invites Audiences to an Experiment in Unapologetically Accessible Theater”
PERSONALITY PROFILE, Film/TV Personalities
Seija Rankin, “‘Somebody Somewhere’ Star Bridget Everett on Mining Her Own Life for the Comedy Series: ‘Life in Full Color Is No F***ing Joke’”
BLOG, GROUP
Lesley Goldberg, Rick Porter, Jackie Strause, James Hibberd, “Live Feed”
Borys Kit, Aaron Couch, “Heat Vision”
WEBSITE, TRADITIONAL NEWS ORGANIZATION
The Hollywood Reporter Staff, THR.com
SOCIAL MEDIA — Judged on content, creativity and engagement
BEST USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA TO ENHANCE and/or COVER A STORY By a Journalist Tied to an Organization
Anaja Smith, “2023 Beauty Issue”
BEST USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA TO ENHANCE and/or COVER A STORY By a Group
Ryan Fish, Kirsten Chuba, “Osage Opinions on ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’”
Ryan Fish, Anaja Smith, Dominoe Ibarra, Lesley Goldberg, Katie Kilkenny, Tiffany Taylor, Caitlin Huston, “Strike Coverage”
