The Hollywood Reporter Lands 44 SoCal Journalism Awards Noms, Including Best Print Journalist and Website

The Hollywood Reporter Lands 44 SoCal Journalism Awards Noms

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The Hollywood Reporter has landed 44 nominations for the 66th annual SoCal Journalism, 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.

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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”

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