CAROL BURNETT TO BE HONORED AT LA PRESS CLUB’S AWARDS GALA
LA Press Club hosts the 11th Annual National Arts & Entertainment journalism Awards (NAEJ), tonight, Sunday, December 2nd, 2018. The gala takes place at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
Legendary comic and actress, Carol Burnett, will accept the Legend Award.
The Legend Award honors individuals within the Entertainment Industry for both their Lifetime Achievement and their Contributions to Society – artistically as well as on a humanist level.
ABC7’s Entertainment Reporter George Pennacchio will receive the Luminary Award for Career Achievement in Media. The Los Angeles Times Food Critic Jonathan Gold will be honored posthumously with the Impact Award, accepted by his wife Laurie Ochoa. Author, former crime reporter and producer Michael Connelly will accept the Distinguished Storyteller Award.
The Los Angeles Press Club has a long and storied history as one of the oldest and most prestigious journalist organizations in the country, serving the Southland since 1913. The NAEJ event is a fundraiser for the LA Press Club, a 501c3 charitable organization.
The club established the NAEJ Awards in 2008 to recognize and honor quality journalism in the fastest growing segment of the modern media revolution. It remains the sole acknowledgement of its kind in the nation and has become a much anticipated celebration for those covering the Entertainment Industry and its artists.
FINALIST OF THE 11TH ANNUAL LA PRESS CLUB NATIONAL ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALISM AWARDS 2018
JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR—Print
Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times
Simi Horwitz, Film Journal International and American Theatre
Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times
Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter
Ramin Setoodeh, Variety
JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR— Broadcast/Online
Madeleine Brand, KCRW
Matt Donnelly, TheWrap
Kacey Montoya, KTLA 5 News
Morris O’Kelly (Mo’Kelly), KFI AM640/iHeartRadio
Tim Teeman, The Daily Beast
PHOTO JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Phil Ige, KTLA 5 News
Osceola Refetoff, KCET Link Artbound
CRITIC
Any Media Platform
(Print, Broadcast or Online)
Film
Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Owen Gleiberman, Variety
Angie Han, Mashable
Simi Horwitz, Film Journal International
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
TV
Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, “How TV images of migrant children overrode media
pundits and changed the immigration debate”
Daniel D’Addario, Variety
Kevin Fallon, The Daily Beast
Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter
Caroline Framke, Variety
Performing Arts (theater, music, dance)
Robert Hofler, TheWrap
Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times, “Taylor Swift’s talent remains intact on ‘Reputation,’ her
most focused, most cohesive album yet”
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
Stereo Williams, The Daily Beast
Chris Willman, Variety, “Concert Review: Paul Simon Aces His Finals in Farewell Tour’s Hollywood Bowl Stop”
Books/Art/Design
Alexis Camins, Truthdig
Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, “Bellini masterpieces at the Getty make for one of the year’s best museum shows”
MG Lord, New York Times Book Review, “The Paradoxes and Glory of Apollo 8”
Carolina Miranda, Los Angeles Times, “Alejandro Inarritu’s terrifying crossing”
Shana Nys Dambrot, Flaunt, “Amir H. Fallah: A Stranger in Your Home”
Food/Culture
Sarah Bennett, Long Beach Lunch/Times OC, Food Criticism
Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register, “Journeyman, Nate’s, Roux and El Coyotito”
Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, Video Game Criticism
Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, “In a divisive political climate, E3 shows that maybe vides games had it right all along”
Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, “On Art and Culture”
ANY MEDIA PLATFORM
(Print, Broadcast or Online)
Business
Phil Ige, KTLA 5 News, “The Record Parlor”
Daniel Miller, Priya Krishnakumar and Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times, “Anaheim’s
Subsidy Kingdom”
Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, “How I Fought to Become TV’s $20 Million Woman”
Brian Steinberg, Variety, “Inside Late-Night TV’s Ever-Expanding Content Factory”
Brian Steinberg, Variety, “Killing Mr. Whipple: TV Will Test Exit From Traditional
Commercials”
Industry/Arts Investigative
Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, “The Mystery of Angelyne is Solved”
Daniel Holloway, Variety, “‘One Tree Hill’ Cast, Crew Detail Assault, Harassment Claims
Against Mark Schwahn”
Kim Masters and Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, “Amazon Studios’ Roy Price:
Inside the Fall of a Top Executive”
Daniel Miller, Priya Krishnakumar and Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times, “Anaheim’s
Subsidy Kingdom”
*Lucas Shaw and Mark Bergen, Bloomberg Businessweek, “YouTube’s Plan to Clean Up the Mess That Made It Rich”
Celebrity Investigative
Lachlan Cartwright, The Daily Beast, “The Nightclub King Whose Properties Were Harvey
Weinstein’s Hunting Grounds”
Daniel Holloway, Variety, “‘Lethal Weapon’: Inside the On-Set Clashes That Nearly Killed the Fox Series (EXCLUSIVE)
Scott Johnson and Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, “Her Darkest Role (Allison
Mack)”
Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, “‘Murder, Mayhem and Torture’ Off the Sunset
Strip”
Ramin Setoodeh and Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, “Matt Lauer Accused of Sexual
Harassment by Multiple Women (EXCLUSIVE)”
Multimedia Package
Bill Keith, Entertainment Weekly, “Entertainment Weekly’s: The Awardist”
Steve Lopez and Francine Orr, Los Angeles Times, “A drummer’s dream”
Jeanie Pyun, Seth Abramovitch, Gregg Kilday , Mark Morrison, Tatiana Siegel and Jen
Laski, The Hollywood Reporter, “Hollywood Legacies: Exclusive Photos of the Hustons,
Poitiers, Sutherlands and More Showbiz Families”
Lacey Rose, Jennifer Laski, Stephanie Fischette, Michelle Stark, Miller Mobley and
Christian Huguenot, The Hollywood Reporter, “’It’s a Revolution’: The Hollywood Reporter
Drama Actress Roundtable”
Elizabeth Wagmeister and Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, “Tom Brokaw Accused of Sexual
Harassment By Former NBC Anchor”
Obituary/In Appreciation
Brad Wieners, The Red Bulletin, “The Art of Disruption”
Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times, “Tom Petty’s final interview: There was supposed to have
been so much more”
Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, “Sam Shepard, the Cowboy Playwright Who Rewrote
the Rules of the American Stage”
Tim Teeman, The Daily Beast, “What Martin Landau Told Me”
Chris Willman, Variety, “An Appreciation of Tom Petty: Rock’s Superstar Everyman”
Humor Writing
Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, “The royal wedding: Fairy tale or ‘Game of Thrones’?”
David Jerome, Orange County Register, “Cheers! Drink A Beer With Norm”
Tim Molloy, TheWrap, “What ‘It’ Gets Right About Being a Kid in 1989”
BOOK
Non-Fiction Book
Ben Fritz, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, “The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies”
Keach Hagey, HarperCollins, “The King of Content: Summer Redstone’s Battle for Viacom,
CBS, and Everlasting Control of His Media Empire”
Gerrick Kennedy, Simon & Schuster, “Parental Discretion is Advised: The Rise of N.W.A.
and the Dawn of Gangsta Rap”
Alessandra Mattanza, White Star, “Street Art: Famous Artists Talk About Their Vision”
Allison Yarrow, HarperCollins, “90’s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of
Gender Equality”
Fiction Book
Joseph Cassara, Ecco/HarperCollins, “The House of Impossible Beauties”
Newspapers or Magazine
General News
Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, “Music’s Grim New Must-Have: Terrorism
Insurance Policies”
Amy Kaufman, Daniel Miller and Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times, “Ratner-Simmons
Sexual Misconduct Allegations”
Brent Lang, Variety, “‘The Dark Tower’: Clashing Visions, Brutal Test Screenings Plagued
Journey to Big Screen”
Kim Masters and Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, “Amazon Studios’ Roy Price:
Inside the Fall of a Top Executive”
Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, “38 women have come forward to accuse director James
Toback of sexual harassment”
Celebrity News
Janet R. Nepales, Manila Bulletin, “Lily Collins opens up about her eating disorder”
Ruben V. Nepales, Philippine Daily Inquirer, “Angelina Jolie talks about her ‘very difficult year’”
Tatiana Siegel, The Hollywood Reporter, “Playmate to Politico: How Pamela Anderson
Became an International Woman of Mystery”
Personality Profile, Movie Industry Related – Under 2,500 words
Tre’vell Anderson, Los Angeles Times, “For master producer Charles D. King, success lies in thinking Macro with diverse stories”
Chrissy Iley, UK Sunday Times Magazine, “Denzel Washington on prejudice, black power and why America needs to get behind President Trump”
Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, “A Voice of Defiance”
Jenelle Riley, Variety, “Mark Hamill Joins Galaxy of Stars on Hollywood Walk of Fame”
Malina Saval, Variety, “Nick Nolte Reflects on What Acting’s Meant for Him Ahead of Walk of Fame Honor”
Personality Profile, TV and Other Arts — Under 2,500 words
Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, “Cecilia Peck ’80: A Filmmaker With a Mission”
Michael Idato, The Sydney Morning Herald, “The softer side of Kathy Griffin”
Gill Pringle, The i Newspaper, UK, “Julianna Margulies interview: ‘If I was Jon Hamm, they’d pay me more’”
Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, “Artist John Wullbrandt lost his entire body of vital
paintings in the Thomas fire, but found renewal in fighting the flames”
Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, “At 89, Robert Irwin finds beauty in the benign (and
talks about the new artwork that’s not for sale — sort of)”
Personality Profile — Over 2,500 words
Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, “A Comic in Exile”
Chrissy Iley, UK Sunday Times Magazine, “Return of the Punk Priestess”
Derrik Lang, American Way, “Mark Hamill: Star Man”
Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, “Tiffany Takes Flight”
Neil Strauss, Rolling Stone Magazine, “Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow”
TV/Movie Industry Feature
Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, “They Got the Wrong Envelope!”: The Oral History
of Oscar’s Epic Best Picture Fiasco
Chrissy Iley, UK Sunday Times Magazine, “Sex: The New Rules”
Lucas Shaw, Bloomberg Businessweek, “Are Trekkies the Key to CBS’s Future?”
Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, “Chadwick Boseman and Ryan Coogler on How ‘Black Panther’
Makes History”
Lisa Richwine, Reuters, “Serenades and selfies with stars tempt TV’s Emmy voters”
Arts Feature
Laura Snapes, The Red Bulletin, “Fever Pitch”
Steven Gaydos, Variety, “Director-Choreographer-Performer Tommy Tune Talks About the
Start of His Stage Career”
Felix Gillette, Bloomberg Businessweek, “The Legend of Nintendo”
Louisa McCune, Alana Salisbury, Steven Walker, Susan Ebert, Kathy McCord and Larry Keigwin, ArtDesk magazine, “#BOYSDANCETOO— Four dancers share their experience in conversation with Larry Keigwin of New York dance company KEIGWIN + CO”
Lucas Shaw, Bloomberg Businessweek, “Spotify Saved Music. Can It Save Itself?”
TV/Movie Industry Feature – Over 1,000 words.
Tre’vell Anderson, Los Angeles Times, “Black while funny and female: 18 comedic actresses
on working in Hollywood”
Robert Jackson, LMU Magazine, “Hollywood Caste”
Brent Lang and David Lieberman, Variety, “Do Media Chiefs Deserve the Lavish Pay
Packages They Rake In?”
Brent Lang and Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, “Judgment Day: Harvey Weinstein Scandal Could Finally Change Hollywood’s Culture of Secrecy”
Cynthia Littleton, Variety, “Talent Agencies Face Conflicts of Interest as Parent Companies
Storm Into Production Arena”
Arts Feature – Over 1,000 words.
Simi Horwitz, American Theatre, “Enter Stage Right”
Ted Johnson, Variety, “Inside the Intense, Combative World of Covering the Trump White
House”
Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, “A masterpiece of Baroque painting, missing for
more than a century, is hiding somewhere in L.A.”
Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times, “Music rolls on at Folsom Prison 50 years after Johnny
Cash made history”
Lucas Shaw, Bloomberg News, “A Band Without a No. 1 Hit Is Outselling Bruno Mars and Ed Sheeran”
Celebrity Feature
Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, “‘The Worst Thing You Can Do in Life Is Be
Satisfied’”
Brent Lang, Variety, “Keira Knightley on ‘Colette,’ Pushing for Social Change, and if She’ll
Ever Direct”
Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times, “Kacey Musgraves talks breaking the formula and entering ‘cosmic country’ with third album, ‘Golden Hour’”
Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, “My Disastrous Tea With Glenda Jackson”
Janet R. Nepales, Manila Bulletin, “Del Toro’s First Grown Up Movie”
Columnist
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Hollywood Reporter
Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times
Kristin Marguerite Doidge, GOOD Magazine
Sean Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, “The Cricket Column”
Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times
Headline
Katie Hasty, Entertainment Weekly, “Nautical by Nature”
Sandro Monetti, Hollywood International Filmmaker Magazine, “Mouse Gobbles Up Fox”
Danielle Parenteau-Decker, Los Angeles Times, “Straight outta Asia”
Gerry Smith and Rob Golum, Bloomberg News, “What’s a Seven-Letter Word for Money at
the Times? Puzzles”
Kristopher Tapley, Variety, “¡Si Se Puede!”
Page Layout
Jennie Chang, Variety, “Bob Iger v. Brian Roberts Gloves Are Off”
Robert Festino, Variety, “Facedown”
Robert Festino, Variety, “Making Waves”
Shanti Marlar, Kelsey Stefanson and Owen Freeman, The Hollywood Reporter, “’Murder,
Mayhem and Torture’ Off the Sunset Strip”
Ross May and Edel Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times, “Horrifying”
Entertainment Publication – Magazine or supplement
Steve Chagollan, Directors Guild of America, “DGA Quarterly Winter 2018”
Henry Goldblatt, Entertainment Weekly, “Avengers: Infinity War”
The Hollywood Reporter, “Oscars 2018” Variety, “Game Over”
Sharon Waxman, Steve Pond and Ada Guerin, TheWrap, “EmmyWrap 2018: The Race
Begins”
TV/ VIDEO/FILM
News – Hard or breaking news
Claire Collins, Los Angeles Times, “Artist John Wullbrandt lost vital paintings in the Thomas fire, but found renewal in fighting the flames”
James Desborough and Brodie Cooper, Daily Mail UK, “Peter Fonda: ‘Had I known, I would have had Harvey KILLED!’”
James Desborough and Brodie Cooper, Daily Mail UK, “Fashion Designer Donna Karan
Comes to Harvey Weinstein’s Defense”
Nicholas Stango, Elizabeth Wagmeister and Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, “Tom Brokaw
Accused of Sexual Harassment By Former NBC Anchor”
Tom Walters and Liam Hyland, CTV- Canadian Television, “The Death of Anthony
Bourdain”
Personality Profile
Mike Amor, Andrea Keir, Luke Thomas and Duncan McLeod, 7 Network Australia,
Sunday Night, “Goldie’s Comeback”
John Bathke, Mark DiPietro and Adam Jenkins, News 12 New Jersey, “On The Scene with John Bathke: Dance Across Cultures – Choreography of Carolyn Dorfman”
Angela Boisvert, Adebukola Bodunrin, Matt Crotty, Juan Devis, Justin Cram and
Amanda Pinedo, KCET, “Artbound — Open Your Eyes: Lula Washington Dance Theatre”
Victoria McKillop, Stephanie Fischette, Jon Alain Guzik, Erin Hughes, Ryan Heraly and Victor Klaus, The Hollywood Reporter, “Michael Fassbender Race Prep at Laguna Seca”
Kacey Montoya and Paul Sanchez, KTLA-5 News, “Artist Aspires to Beat World Records
with Massive Mural”
Hard News Feature – Under 5 Minutes
Jen Laski, Stephanie Fischette, Jason Averett, Tiffany Taylor and Jason Bass; The
Hollywood Reporter, “THR News – Seth MacFarlane Used ‘Family Guy’ to Drop Hints About
Weinstein, Spacey Sexual Misconduct Claims”
Kacey Montoya and Paul Sanchez, KTLA 5 News, “Inmates Shelter Dogs”
Kacey Montoya and Nick Simpson, KTLA 5 News, “WWII Veterans Make Emotional
Pilgrimage”
Soft News Feature – Under 5 Minutes.
John Bathke, Ed Hannen and Adam Jenkins, News 12 New Jersey, “On The Scene With
John Bathke: Painted Love-An Artist’s Journey From Broom To Brush”
Mike Glier and Mira Zimet, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, “Hitler in
Los Angeles”
Kaj Goldberg, Brian Choo and Marcus Wilson-Smith, KTLA 5 News, “Heroes At Home:
Officer Scott Saves Teen”
Natalie Heltzel, Brian Porreca, Aaron Couch, Patrick Shanley and Alfred Aquino II, The
Hollywood Reporter, “Heat Vision Breakdown: Why Only Certain Sequels With Long Gaps
Between Them Work”
Phil Ige, KTLA 5 News, “’Emergency!’ Cast Meets LA County FD”
Feature – Over 5 Minutes.
Mike Amor, Andrea Keir, Duncan McLeod and Leigh Hubner, 7 Network Australia,
Sunday Night, “Priscilla Remembers”
Nic Cha Kim and Dina Demetrius, KCET, “Made in L.A.”
Stephen Galloway, Jennifer Laski, Stephanie Fischette and Laela Zadeh, The Hollywood
Reporter, “Women in Entertainment Mentorship Program: This is not just a one-year bond”
Doug Kolk, Romeo Escobar and Michael Joseph James, KTLA 5 News, “Teen Cancer
America”
Victoria Mckillop, Francine Nazario, Ryan Heraly, Vince Patrick and Minh Bui, The
Hollywood Reporter, “Compère Lapin — Where Hollywood Eats in New Orleans”
Documentary or special program, short under 30 minutes.
Juan Devis, Matthew Crotty, Nathan Masters, Logan Kibens, and Nonetheless
Productions, KCET, “Dream Factory” (Season 2, Episode 4)
Jennifer Laski, Victoria Mckillop, Vince Patrick, Victor Klaus and Erin Hughes, The
Hollywood Reporter, “Magic Hour: Photographer to the Stars Frank Ockenfels 3 Talks David
Bowie Friendship, Portraiture and Light”
Kacey Montoya and Nick Simpson, KTLA 5 News, “Honor Flight”
George Pennacchio and Cheryl Diano, KABC-TV, “Kobe Bryant Shoots For An Oscar”
Meredith Woerner, Preston Northrop and Stuart Oldham, Variety, “That’s Life: Grey’s
Anatomy & Station 19’s Jason George”
Documentary or special program, feature over 30 minutes.
Juan Devis, Matthew Crotty, Austin Simons, Christopher Stoudt and Nathan
Masters, KCET, “Descanso Gardens”
*Juan Devis, Christopher Hawthorne, Matthew Crotty, Jac Reyno and Travis
Labella, KCET, “That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles”
KTLA 5 Entertainment/Special Projects Team, KTLA-TV, “KTLA: Live from the 90th
Oscars 2018”
KTLA 5 Entertainment/Special Projects Team, KTLA-TV, “KTLA: Live from the Critics
Choice Awards 2018”
Peter Musurlian and Sabrina Fair Thomas, Globalist Films and KLCS, “Holocaust
Soliloquy”
RADIO/PODCASTS
News or Hard News Feature
Frances Anderton and Avishay Artsy, KCRW, “Boyle Heights gallery offers protesters
‘symbolic’ closure”
Frances Anderton and Avishay Artsy, KCRW, “Deconstructing Kanye”
Steve Chiotakis, Benjamin Gottlieb and Eric J. Lawrence, KCRW, “Remembering rock icon Tom Petty”
Steve Chiotakis and Benjamin Gottlieb, KCRW, “What happens after you win an Oscar?”
Morris O’Kelly (Mo’Kelly), KFI AM640/iHeartRadio, “Remembering 9/11 from INSIDE the
White House”
One-on-One Interview – Film personalities
John Horn and Darby Maloney, KPCC, “Sexual harassment on set is ‘the status quo,’ says
Zoe Kazan”
Ted Johnson and Patrick Ferrise, Variety/Sirius XM PopPolitics, “Al Gore on PopPolitics
with Variety’s Ted Johnson”
Evan Kleiman, KCRW, “’Bao’”
Robert Scheer, Scheer Intelligence, “Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black on Risking Career for
LGBT Rights”
Kristopher Tapley, Variety, “Playback: Greta Gerwig and Saoirse Ronan on ‘Lady Bird’ and
Coming of Age”
One-on-One Interview – TV personalities
Debra Birnbaum, Variety, “Remote Controlled: Carrie Coon on ‘The Leftovers’ Finale,
‘Fargo’s’ Appeal and Her Emmy Plans”
John Horn, Darby Maloney and Monica Bushman, KPCC, “Lena Waithe on ‘The Chi,’
Time’s Up and the Aziz Ansari allegations”
Kim Masters and Kaitlin Parker, KCRW, “Personal accounts of sexual harassment in
Hollywood”
Robert Scheer, Scheer Intelligence, “Norman Lear Reflects on His Life”
Sarah Sweeney and Madeleine Brand, KCRW, “Emmy nominee Sterling K. Brown is
optimistic about black stories on TV”
One-on-One Interview – Other Arts Personalities
Frances Anderton and Avishay Artsy, KCRW, “A life in objects, with LA antique dealer Joel Chen”
Steve Chiotakis and Sarah Sweeney, KCRW, “David Sedaris on his life as a struggling young writer”
Gordon Cox, Variety, “Stagecraft Podcast: ‘Angels’ Star Andrew Garfield on Difference
Between Tonys and Oscars”
Rico Gagliano, The Dinner Party Download, “Flying Lotus Champions the Artistry In His
Nightmarish ‘Kuso’”
Gina Pollack and Madeleine Brand, KCRW, “LA shapes artistic vision of photographer
Catherine Opie”
Hard News Feature
See G1
Soft News Feature
Steve Chiotakis, Benjamin Gottlieb and Eric J. Lawrence, KCRW, “Remembering Bob
Dorough”
John Van Driel, KUSC, “Pacific Opera Projects”
Devika Girish, Ampersand/USC Annenberg online arts & culture magazine, “Demystifying
Bollywood”
Elizabeth Kulas, KCRW, “Remembering Anthony Bourdain: NYC’s tribute to Tony”
Jonathan Shifflett, KPCC, “Writer and musician Our Lady J preaches the gospel of Dolly
Parton”
ONLINE
Hard News
Matt Donnelly, TheWrap, “APA Agent Tyler Grasham Fired After Accusations of Sexual
Assault Against Boys”
Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, “John Lasseter’s Pattern of Alleged Misconduct
Detailed by Disney/Pixar Insiders”
Tim Molloy, TheWrap, “3 More Women Accuse ‘Atomic Blonde’ Producer David Guillod of
Rape: ‘I Was Covered in Blood’”
Tim Molloy, TheWrap, “Inside the ‘NCIS’ Mess: How a Dog Bite Kept Pauley Perrette and
Mark Harmon Apart on Set”
Amy Zimmerman, The Daily Beast, “New Allegations in #MeToo”
Soft News
Allen Barra, Truthdig, “RIP, Printed Village Voice”
Monica Bushman, KPCC, “La La Land’ gets a drag parody that’s so bad it’s good”
Melissa Leon, The Daily Beast, “‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Director Rian Johnson”
Marlow Stern, The Daily Beast, “Ma Anand Sheela, Villain of Netflix’s ‘Wild Wild Country,’
Has No Regrets”
Tim Teeman, The Daily Beast, “Meet Shula and Harry, The Brilliant New York City Seniors
Remaking Woody Allen’s ‘Annie Hall’”
Celebrity News
ETonline staff, ETonline.com, “The Royal Wedding”
Mark Kernes, AVN Media Network, “How All The News Coverage Might Get Stormy Daniels
Killed”
Jon Levine, TheWrap, “Laura Ingraham Bounces Back From Boycott Pariah”
Asawin Suebsaeng, The Daily Beast, “Silicon Valley’ Star TJ Miller Accused of Sexually
Assaulting and Punching a Woman”
*Amy Zimmerman, The Daily Beast, “The Indie Rocker Accused of Sexually Abusing Young
Fans”
Personality Profile
Kevin Fallon, The Daily Beast, “Pose Star Billy Porter’s Epic Fight for Survival: I Can
Breathe Again”
Melissa Leon, The Daily Beast, “How AIDS Shaped ‘Beauty and the Beast’”
Lucas Shaw, Bloomberg News, “YouTube’s Unlikely Peacemaker Has a Plan to Make
Musicians Rich”
Brian Steinberg, Variety, “CNN Made Primetime Panels Popular. Chris Cuomo Hopes to
Avoid Them”
*Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, “Why YouTube Megastar KevJumba Mysteriously
Disappeared”
Film/TV/Theater Feature
Kenneth Carlson, Truthdig, “Finding Calcutta in ‘The Heart of Nuba’”
Aaron Couch and Byron Burton, The Hollywood Reporter, “’X-Men’ at 25: The Unlikely
Story of the Animated Hit No Network Wanted”
Kristin Marguerite Doidge, The Atlantic, “The Pop Innovations of a 50-Year-Old
Soundtrack”
Tim Teeman, The Daily Beast, “Tippi Hedren: Weinstein Reminds Me of Hitchcock’s Abuse”
Arts & Entertainment Feature
Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, “Death in a Hollywood Sex Dungeon: How a
Top Agency Executive’s “Mummification” Ritual Ended in Tragedy”
James Desborough and Brodie Cooper, Daily Mail, “I had my ear cut off in one of cinema’s
most gruesome moments- and people STILL think it really happened, says star of infamous
‘Reservoir Dogs’ torture scene”
Simi Horwitz, Film Journal International, “Everyone is a critic (literally)!: ‘FJI’ in
conversation with Manohla Dargis, David Rooney, Peter Debruge, Alonso Duralde and more”
Jess Joho, Mashable, “The new sex scene: How to improve onscreen steam after Hollywood’s reckoning”
Jenny Lumet, The Hollywood Reporter, “Writer Jenny Lumet: Russell Simmons Sexually
Violated Me”
Celebrity Feature
Mark Ebner, The Daily Beast, “Picked Apart by Vultures:’ The Last Days of Stan Lee”
Kevin Fallon, The Daily Beast, “A Day of Worship at the Church of Oprah: It’s Gonna Be All
Right”
Terry Flores, Variety, “Mark Hamill on Working With Guillermo del Toro on Animated Series ‘Trollhunters’”
Philiana Ng, ETonline.com, “Texas Forever: Taylor Kitsch is Doing Hollywood His Way”
Gino Terrell, MCXV, “Internet’s marvelous pioneer Cindy Margolis: How she shaped today’s
digital world and beyond”
Commentary Analysis/Trend — TV
Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, “Critic’s Notebook: ‘Curb,’ Corden and Fallon —
Do We Expect Too Much From Our Clowns?”
Owen Gleiberman, Variety, “Donald Trump’s Pop-Culture Presidency Enters Its Thriller
Phase (Opinion)”
Clive Irving, The Daily Beast, “The Crown”
Mark Kernes, AVN Media Network, “In AMC’s ‘Preacher,’ Jesus Has Sex. Later, Religionists
Go Nuts.”
Yoonj Kim, Slate, “When Race Is the Punchline on Prime Time”
Commentary Analysis/Trend — Film
Allen Barra, Truthdig
Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Owen Gleiberman, Variety
Simi Horwitz, Film Journal International
Clifford Johnson, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Commentary Analysis/Trend — Business/Politics/Social issues
Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg News, “Black Art Spurs Gold Rush as Collector Stampede
Drives Up Prices”
Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, “How Europe Is Fighting Back Against Fake
News”
Marlow Stern, The Daily Beast, “Louis CK’s Powerful Army of Celebrity Enablers”
Andrew Wallenstein, Variety, “How FANG Left the Media Business Snakebitten”
Sharon Waxman, TheWrap, “‘Harvey Weinstein’s Media Enablers’? The New York Times Is
One of Them”
Commentary — Diversity/Gender
Sarah Bennett, OC Weekly, “SoCal’s Latin Music Scene Is More Than Just a Crossover
Trend”
Stereo Williams, The Daily Beast
Steve Pond, TheWrap, “Grammys Analysis: Damn, Kendrick, They Did It to You Again”
Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, “HBO’s Slavery Drama ‘Confederate’ Faces Minefield
of “Fundamentally Problematic” Issues”
Jing Zhang, The Hollywood Reporter, “#MeToo Has Reached China, But Will It Have an
Impact?”
Entertainment Website
Donna Balancia, California Rocker, CaliforniaRocker.com
Matthew Belloni and Tom Seeley, The Hollywood Reporter, THR.com
ETonline staff, Entertainment Tonight, ETonline.com
Variety staff, Variety, Variety.com
Sharon Waxman, Tim Molloy and Thom Geier, TheWrap, TheWrap.com
Entertainment Blog by an individual, Independent
Donna Balancia, California Rocker, CaliforniaRocker.com
Joanie Harmon, Making Life Swing, “Angela and Chris Levey/Peter Erskine”
Joanie Harmon, Making Life Swing, “Schoolhouse Rock”
Joanie Harmon, Making Life Swing, “Patrick Williams”
Entertainment Blog by an individual or group, tied to an organization
Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, “Live Feed”
Borys Kit, Aaron Couch, Graeme McMillan, Ryan Parker, Pamela McClintock and
Patrick Shanley, The Hollywood Reporter, “Heat Vision”
Claudia Oberst, VIP.de, “Hollywood Blog”
Richard Stellar, TheWrap, “What Happens When We Dress Up as Monsters, or Nazis” and
“Rocket Man”
Kristopher Tapley, Variety, “In Contention”
SOCIAL MEDIA
Best Journalistic use of Social Media by an Individual
Jem Aswad, Alex Stedman, Meredith Woerner and Maane Khatchatourian, Variety, “Live From Kanye West’s #ProjectWyoming”
Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times, “Tom Petty’s final interview: There was supposed to have
been so much more”
Best Journalistic use of Social Media by an Organization
Chelsea Guglielmino, Getty Images, “2018 MET Gala – Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the
Catholic Imagination”
Jennifer Liles, Shannon O’Connor and Natalya Jaime, The Hollywood Reporter, “Ellen
Pompeo, TV’s $20 Million Woman, Reveals Her Behind-the-Scenes Fight for ‘What I Deserve’”
Jennifer Liles, Shannon O’Connor and Natalya Jaime, The Hollywood Reporter, “’It’s a
Revolution’: The Hollywood Reporter Drama Actress Roundtable”
Christina Schoellkopf, Los Angeles Times, “Hollywood History in the Making: Harvey
Weinstein’s Arrest”
Meredith Woerner and Alex Stedman, Variety, “TV Directors Talk Navigating a Male-
Dominated Trade”
PHOTOGRAPHY
(Print or Online)
News Photo
Jennifer Laski, Shanti Marlar, Carrie Smith and Miller Mobley, The Hollywood Reporter,
“Ronan Farrow”
Portrait Photo
Robert Festino, Michelle Hauf and Art Streiber, Variety, “Cate Blanchett”
Jennifer Laski, Shanti Marlar, Carrie Smith, Kate Pappa and Martha Galvan, The
Hollywood Reporter, “Willem Dafoe”
Kirk D. McKoy, Los Angeles Times, “Shape of Water”
Coreky Nickols and Ada Guerin, TheWrap, “Ted Danson Trolls Viewers”
Osceola Refetoff, Orange County Register, “Gregorio Escalante”
Feature Photo
Ruven Afanador, Entertainment Weekly, “Entertainment Weekly’s Outlander Cover”
Elisabeth Caren and Ada Guerin, TheWrap, “The Stars of ‘The Assasination of Gianni
Versace’”
Jennifer Laski, Shanti Marlar, Carrie Smith and Ruven Afanador, The Hollywood
Reporter, “Ryan Murphy”
Luis Sinco, Los Angeles Times, “24 Hours With Taylor Mac”
Dan Winters, Entertainment Weekly, “Stranger Things’ Millie Bobby Brown”
Action Photo
Miko Lim, The Red Bulletin, “The Real Damme Deal”
Donna Balancia, California Rocker, “Valerie June is a Dynamic New Music Star”
Allen Schaben, Los Angeles Times, “Commanding the stage”
Gino Terrell, City Pages, “Demi & Friends Keep it Cool for the Sota”
Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times, “A steady hand”
Photo Essay
Ada Guerin, TheWrap, “The Cannes Directors Portfolio”
Billy Kidd, Variety, “Toronto International Film Festival”
Jennifer Laski, Shanti Marlar, Carrie Smith, Michelle Stark and Miller Mobley, The
Hollywood Reporter, “The Drama Actress Roundtable”
Mark Mennie, iHeart Media/KFI 640AM, “Red, Gold and Wood”
Osceola Refetoff, KCETLink Artbound, “A Glimpse of Another America”
STUDENT JOURNALISM
Any Platform
Best Arts or Entertainment News Story
Juliette Boland, The Anglophile Channel, “Jodie Whittaker Makes Television History as First Female Doctor Who in 50 Years!”
Paula Kiley, Daily 49er, “30th annual campus Couture Fashion Show”
Diane Ortiz, Daily Titan, “Brea Improv previews the upgrades they’ve made to their new, expanded location”
Best Arts or Entertainment Feature
Brian Alvarado, Daily Titan, “Rapper IDK hits stage at House of Blues for ASAP Ferg’s Mad
Man Tour”
Brian Alvarado, Daily Titan, “The Smokers Club Festival lights up the Queen Mary with
musical energy”
Brian Alvarado, Daily Titan, “Ty Dolla $ign concert has star-studded surprises at The
Observatory”
*Juliette Boland, The Anglophile Channel, “Doctor, I Let You Go: Farewell to Doctor Who
Peter Capaldi”
Carlos Villicana, Daily 49er, “How Long Beach Comic-Con gave me a greater appreciation of fandom”
Best Arts or Entertainment Profile
Priscilla Carcido, Daily Titan, “CSUF master’s student helps paint positivity with artistic
passion”
Lauren Diaz, Daily Titan, “CSUF student and award-winning artist Josephine Hernandez
overcomes visual impairment”
Anwar Torres, Collegian Times, “Chuck the Condor Takes Flight”
William Torres, Collegian Times, “Urban Hoofer Still Stomping”
*Liz Warner, AMPERSAND LA/USC Annenberg, “A Look Back at Roxy Music’s Inventive
Start”
Best Arts or Entertainment Photo
Katie Albertson, Daily Titan, “Dancing drag queens celebrate LGBTQ culture at CSUF”
Brian Alvarado, Daily Titan, “Rapper IDK hits the stage at the House of Blues during ASAP
Ferg’s Mad Man Tour”
Brian Alvarado, Daily Titan, “The Smokers Club Festival lights up the Queen Mary with
musical energy”
Anwar Torres, Collegian Times, “Chuck the Condor Takes Flight”
Best Commentary/Critique
Rosemarie Alejandrino, Ampersand LA/USC Annenberg School of Journalism, “From
Bleachers to Barricade: Jack Antonoff is a Live Pop Force”
Samantha Diaz, Daily 49er, “’Step Sisters’ trips over its own message”
Harrison Faigen, Daily Titan, “Avengers: Infinity War introduces Thanos, the best Marvel
villain yet”
Liam Hayes, Los Angeles Collegian, “Hip Hop Artist Makes History”
Sophie-Marie Prime, Ampersand LA/USC Annenberg School of Journalism, “Arts Journalists Must Stand with Survivors”
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