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The Hollywood Reporter Earns 53 National A&E Journalism Awards Noms

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The Hollywood Reporter earned 53 nominations for the seventeenth annual Nationwide Arts & Leisure Journalism Awards, together with greatest web site and two noms for journalist of the 12 months.

Seth Abramovitch was nominated for print journalist of the 12 months, Mesfin Fekadu for on-line journalist of the 12 months, Lovia Gyarkye for greatest movie critic and Daniel Fienberg for greatest tv critic. David Rooney was nominated for greatest theater and performing arts critic, and Fekadu was once more nominated for greatest music critic.

Within the celeb investigation class, Gary Baum was nominated for his June 2024 story “Get Me Bryan Freedman!” which adopted the leisure energy lawyer in his work with shoppers corresponding to Megyn Kelly, Bethenny Frankel, Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon. THR‘s story “Will Ferrell on Navigating His Greatest Buddy’s Transition in ‘Will & Harper’” was additionally nominated in the identical class, with reporting from Seija Rankin, Jason Rovou, Stephanie Fischette and editors-in-chief Nekesa Mumbi Moody and Maer Roshan.

THR was additionally acknowledged for greatest portrait photograph, greatest characteristic photograph, greatest photograph essay and greatest cowl artwork, with the “Warmth Imaginative and prescient,” “THR, Esq.” and “Reside Feed” blogs every receiving nods as effectively.

Abramovitch’s “A Pellicano Goal’s Second Act” was acknowledged for greatest enterprise/tech/arts, and Fienberg’s “Critic’s Appreciation: Matthew Perry Masterfully Walked the Line Between Mirth and Melancholy” is up for greatest obituary/in appreciation of TV personalities.

Moody was additionally nominated for her story “Oprah and ‘The Coloration Purple’ Stars on the
New Musical Remake: ‘It’s Brilliant. It’s Vibrant. It’s Us’” within the variety within the movie/TV trade class, and Kim Masters’ story “Linda Yaccarino’s Very Unmerry X Mess” was acknowledged for greatest character profile beneath 2,500 phrases. Abramovitch’s Cheryl Hines cowl story and Fekadu’s Adele cowl story additionally acquired nominations.

The awards will likely be handed out at a gala happening Dec. 1 on the Millennium Biltmore Lodge in downtown Los Angeles. Melissa Etheridge, Tiffany Haddish and Kevin Frazier will likely be honored on the occasion.

A full listing of THR’s nominees follows. The entire listing of finalists may be discovered right here.

Print Journalist of the 12 months
Seth Abramovitch

On-line Journalist of the 12 months — Tied to a corporation
Mesfin Fekadu

Movie Critic — Beneath 1,000 phrases
Lovia Gyarkye

TV Critic
Daniel Fienberg

Theater/Performing Arts Critic
David Rooney

Music Critic
Mesfin Fekadu

Movie star Investigative
Gary Baum, “Get Me Bryan Freedman!”
Seija Rankin, Jason Rovou, Stephanie Fischette, Nekesa Mumbi Moody, Maer Roshan, “Will Ferrell on Navigating His Greatest Buddy’s Transition in ‘Will & Harper’”

Portrait Photograph, Music/Arts
Ash Barhamand, Ava Selbach, Peter B. Cury, Julia & Vincent, “Renee Rapp”

Characteristic Photograph
Ash Barhamand, Ava Selbach, Peter B. Cury, Dan Winters, “Nathan Fielder + Emma Stone”

Photograph Essay
Ash Barhamand, Ava Selbach, Naomy Pedroza, Peter B. Cury, Munachi Osegbu, “Hollywood’s High Stylists”

Cowl Artwork
Peter B. Cury, Zuzanna Rogatty, “The Oscar Difficulty”

Enterprise, Tech/Design/Arts
Seth Abramovitch, “A Pellicano Goal’s Second Act”

Obituary/In Appreciation, TV Personalities
Daniel Fienberg, “Critic’s Appreciation: Matthew Perry Masterfully Walked the Line Between Mirth and Melancholy”

Variety within the Movie/TV Business
Nekesa Mumbi Moody, “Oprah and ‘The Coloration Purple’ Stars on the New Musical Remake: ‘It’s Brilliant. It’s Vibrant. It’s Us’”

Persona Profile, Music and Different Arts – Beneath 2,500 Phrases
Kim Masters, “Linda Yaccarino’s Very Unmerry X Mess”

Persona Profile, TV/Streaming Business — Over 2,500 phrases
Seth Abramovitch, “Cheryl Hines … as First Girl? The ‘Curb’ Star on Life After Larry and Marriage to RFK Jr.”

Persona Profile, Music and Different Arts — Over 2,500 Phrases
Mesfin Fekadu, “Adele on Her Dream Hollywood Gig, Her Huge Feelings and Volunteering at Her Son’s Faculty: ‘The Youngsters Don’t Give a Flying F*** Who I Am’”

Movie Business Characteristic — Beneath 1,000 Phrases
Beatrice Verhoeven, Scott Feinberg, “Because the Actors Strike Ends, Many Awards Contenders and Campaigners Are Scrambling to Make Up for Misplaced Time”

TV Business Characteristic — Beneath 1,000 Phrases
Ryan Gajewski, “‘It’s a Lifeless Finish’: TV Writers Assistants Lose Hope for Put up-Strike Profession Development”

TV trade Characteristic — Over 1,000 Phrases
Lacey Rose, “Dan Harmon Is Able to Speak About All of It (Together with the Justin Roiland Drama)”

Music/Performing Arts Business Characteristic — Beneath 1,000 Phrases
Mesfin Fekadu, “Dolly Parton on Turning Down the Tremendous Bowl and Her New Rock Album: ‘I Don’t Need It to Be Half-Ass Nation’”

Movie Business Characteristic — Over 1,000 Phrases
Scott Feinberg, “‘Schindler’s Record’: An Oral Historical past of a Masterpiece”

TV Business Characteristic — Over 1,000 Phrases
Pamela McClintock, “Anderson Cooper on His Sophisticated Vanderbilt Legacy and CNN After Chris Licht”

Visible Arts/Structure Characteristic — Over 1,000 Phrases
Gary Baum, “Museums Are Reckoning With Looted Artwork. Now It’s LACMA’s Flip”

Movie star Characteristic
Rebecca Keegan, Katie Kilkenny, “Fran Drescher’s Position of a Lifetime”

Columnist — Print
Mesfin Fekadu

Commentary Evaluation/Pattern, Movie
Lacey Rose, Lesley Goldberg, “Why Hollywood Is within the Throes of an IP Frenzy”

Commentary Evaluation/Pattern, TV
Lacey Rose, “Bonnie Hammer Is Calling Bullsh**”

Persona Profile, Movie Personalities
Lesley Corral, Francesca Manto, Dominoe Ibarra, Lacey Rose, “Glen Powell Shares His Hollywood Firsts: From Singing ‘Unwritten’ To ‘Spy Youngsters’ Set, Twisters & Extra”

Laborious Information Characteristic — Beneath 5 Minutes
Tiffany Taylor, Jason Bass, “SAG-AFTRA Strike: Actors Out in Full Drive at Netflix, Disney & Extra on First Day”

Comfortable Information Characteristic, Movie — Over 5 Minutes
Jason Rovou, Chris Gardner, Jason Bass, Nekesa Mumbi Moody, Maer Roshan, “Hollywood Atelier: Rob Pickens”

Documentary or Particular Program, Characteristic, Movie/TV (Over 30 Minutes)
Jason Rovou, Lacey Rose, Lesley Corral, Tiffany Taylor, Jason Bass, AMC+, “Off Script – Drama Actress Roundtable with Jennifer Aniston, Jodie Foster, Sofia Vergara, Nicole Kidman, Anna Sawai, Brie Larson and Naomi Watts”

One-on-One Interview, Movie Personalities
Scott Feinberg, “‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast: Martin Scorsese on ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Mixing His Previous Movies, the Marvel Controversy and Virtually Directing ‘Schindler’s Record’”

Greatest Arts or Leisure Common Podcast
Scott Feinberg, “Awards Chatter”

Laborious Information, Movie
Mia Galuppo, Borys Package, “Netflix Enters Its Dan Lin Period”

Laborious Information, Music/Arts
Mesfin Fekadu, “How Jason Aldean Cynically Constructed ‘Small City’ to Enchantment to Trump Nation”

Comfortable Information, TV/Streaming
Mesfin Fekadu, “Hulu’s ‘Beneath the Bridge’ Tells the Story of Reena Virk — and The Infamous B.I.G.”

Comfortable Information, Movie
Ryan Gajewski, “Animation at a Crossroads as Hope Mixes with Anxiousness”

Variety within the TV/Streaming Business
Abbey White, “How The CW’s ‘Sight Unseen’ Constructed a Manufacturing For and Pushed By Blind and Low Imaginative and prescient Creatives”

Variety within the Music/Performing Arts Business
Mesfin Fekadu, “Victoria Monét Displays on Historic Win as First Black Lady to Earn Greatest Engineered Album Grammy”
Abbey White, “A Neuro-Inclusive Tackle ‘Spring Awakening’: ‘We Don’t Have to Break Folks Down’”

Movie Characteristic, Manufacturing/Historical past
Katie Kilkenny, “Unmasking the AMPTP: Hollywood Labor’s Opaque Nemesis”

Columnist — On-line
Mesfin Fekadu

Commentary Evaluation/Pattern, Movie
Carolyn Giardina, “VFX Professionals Expose The Hidden Prices of Promoting a Film as ‘Actual’”
Lovia Gyarkye, “A New Wave of Movies Experiments With How We See Local weather Change”

Commentary Evaluation/Pattern, Different Arts
James Hibberd, “When a Ketamine Remedy Go to Goes Horribly Improper”

Leisure Web site
The Hollywood Reporter Workers, THR.com

Leisure Weblog
Winston Cho, “THR, Esq.”
Aaron Sofa, Borys Package, “Warmth Imaginative and prescient”
Lesley Goldberg, James Hibberd, Rick Porter, Jackie Strause, Etan Vlessing, “Reside Feed”

Greatest Journalistic Use of Social Media to Inform or Improve a Story
Mesfin Fekadu, “The Hollywood Reporter music articles instructed by means of Instagram Tales”

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WME’s Dan Limerick on Megamergers and Tech Giants in Hollywood

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For WME chief working officer Dan Limerick, consolidation in Hollywood gave approach to the tech giants which have encroached upon the territory traditionally held by legacy media.

Limerick, who joined The Hollywood Reporter co-editor-in-chief Maer Roshan on Wednesday in a keynote dialog at THR’s annual Energy Enterprise Managers occasion, introduced by Metropolis Nationwide Financial institution, likened the present state of the leisure business to the 2000s in the course of the top of broadcast TV that began to see incumbents gobble up opponents.

“Instances like this give rise to tech,” he mentioned.

By his pondering, the shift isn’t all that unhealthy. He noticed that the businesses that at the moment are part of the Hollywood panorama are contributing to fixing the problems that the mergers and acquisitions feeding frenzy triggered. “As we consolidate, there’s a variety of sameness that begins to percolate,” he added. “With a extra various slate of studios to work with, the programming will get higher over time.”

Requested about business contraction, Limerick famous that the tech giants introduced some huge cash into Hollywood and that extra content material is being made now than ever earlier than. On the challenges to greenlighting smaller titles as a result of present state of manufacturing, he mentioned that the company purchasers will “must take a bit much less at occasions to have larger backends.” The WME exec additionally pressured the necessity for heightened information transparency round viewership and engagement to measure what studios worth.

“It’s buyer acquisition, which for them is a giant metric?” he questioned. “Is it the variety of views. I don’t know there’ll ever be a typical understanding… On the finish of the day, we wish purchasers paid when content material is profitable. Proper now, it’s a black field.”

From left: The Hollywood Reporter president Joe Shields, WME chief working officer Dan Limerick and THR co-editors-in-chief Nekesa Mumbi Moody and Maer Roshan (Rodin Eckenroth/The Hollywood Reporter through Getty Pictures)

Tech firms which have made their approach into the leisure business in recent times embrace Apple, which launched its personal manufacturing arm and has been spending massive cash creating content material, and Amazon, which purchased MGM Studios in 2022 and has discovered a distinct segment in producing small to mid-budget titles. The settlement to purchase a controlling stake in Nationwide Amusements, the corporate that controls Paramount International, by David Ellison’s Skydance is predicted to shut subsequent yr.

These transactions additional consolidated a shrinking pool of content material patrons which have caught the eyes of regulators and Hollywood’s unions. Disney’s collection of acquisitions — Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and others — have led to ramped up costs for its streaming providers, additional vertically built-in the corporate, pushed creatives to surrender income from future licensing of their TV content material and “decreased output and innovation,” per a 2023 report from the Writers Guild of America. Netflix, in the meantime, as soon as helped to advertise a aggressive atmosphere however is “now utilizing its place as the biggest streaming service on the earth to abuse its leverage as an employer, lower revolutionary content material spending and lift costs for shoppers,” the report alleged.

Honoree John McILwee and Jane Lynch (Rodin Eckenroth/The Hollywood Reporter through Getty Pictures)

In October, Disney shut down its ABC Signature TV studio within the second such transfer by a media conglomerate this month. The reorganization features a merging of scripted growth groups at ABC and Hulu.

There are penalties to firms that take satisfaction in disrupting the established order changing into main gamers in Hollywood, Limerick mentioned. Prompted by Roshan to share his ideas on the scuffle between OpenAI and Scarlett Johansson, he pointed to the emergence of generative synthetic instruments that pilfer WME purchasers’ likenesses and works earlier than calling for laws to be handed that accounts for such theft. He handed on echoing criticism of Sam Altman by Ari Emanuel, who mentioned that the OpenAI founder is a “con man” on the Aspen Concepts Pageant in June.

“I additionally suppose it’s going to [stay] right here,” Limerick continued. “The winners are going to be these which can be ready to make use of it successfully to do what we do in inventive endeavors.”

On Warner Bros. Discovery, the WME exec mentioned that chief government David Zaslav has a “powerful job” in “attempting to navigate a world that’s gotten a lot larger.” He added, “They’ve a extremely sturdy library and historical past and model.”

JaHan Wang, government vp leisure banking at Metropolis Nationwide Financial institution (Rodin Eckenroth/The Hollywood Reporter through Getty Pictures)

The Q&A ended a breakfast at Spago Beverly Hills celebrating Hollywood’s High Enterprise Managers. THR co-editor-in-chief Nekesa Mumbi Moody kicked off a lineup of audio system that included THR president Joe Shields and JaHan Wang, government vp leisure banking for Metropolis Nationwide Financial institution.

This yr’s Enterprise Supervisor Icon honoree was John McILwee, founding father of J. McILwee & Associates, Inc. He’s appeared a number of occasions on THR‘s high Enterprise Managers lists and counts Jane Lynch, Matt Reeves, Kevin Costner, Maura Tierney, Chris Olsen and Kerry Condon as purchasers.

Lynch introduced McILwee the award. She emphasised his unrelenting optimism and work ethic, plus him being the “largest identify dropper I’ve ever met.”

She added, “He carpe diems the shit out of life. However what I really like most about John is that once I current him with one thing that actually confounds me, which is simple to do, he says to me straightforward peasy.”

On the rostrum, McILwee attributed his success within the business to creating win-win conditions at any time when attainable. “A profitable negotiation doesn’t imply another person has to lose,” he defined.

And within the speech that drew loads of laughs from the gang, which included Richard Weisz, he concluded with, “When are we going to get our personal IMDB class?” 

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Hollywood Reporter Wins Best Website at 2024 SoCal Journalism Awards

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The Hollywood Reporter gained greatest web site and Rebecca Keegan was named print journalist of the 12 months on the 66th annual SoCal Journalism Awards, which had been handed out Sunday evening.

THR gained a complete of 11 first-place prizes, together with prizes for critics Daniel Fienberg, David Rooney and Sheri Linden, in addition to a win for greatest characteristic underneath 1,000 phrases by Gary Baum and Ryan Gajewski. On a stellar evening for Rebecca Keegan, she additionally gained an award for greatest tradition/arts characteristic underneath 1,000 phrases for her piece, “The Auteurs of San Quentin.”

There have been additionally wins for Scott Feinberg (greatest audio character profile/interview over 10 minutes), Anaja Smith (greatest use of social media tied to a canopy story) and THR‘s wonderful photograph division picked up awards for single subject photograph essay (tradition/leisure) and leisure portrait photograph.

The awards are handed out by the Los Angeles Press Membership, which beforehand stated that greater than 2,300 entries had been submitted this 12 months. The winners had been introduced at an awards dinner gala on the Millennium Biltmore Lodge in downtown Los Angeles.

Additionally throughout the ceremony, the group bestowed honorary awards upon Jane Seymour, ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith, The Wall Road Journal’s Evan Gershkovich, Fox 11’s Amanda Sala and the Nationwide Press Photographers Affiliation’s Mickey H. Osterreicher.

Smith, who gained the Joseph Quinn Lifetime Achievement Award, referred to as the dignity “an important and gratifying honor of my skilled profession” and he referred to as on journalists “to maintain standing up for the reality” and in opposition to subjective interpretations of the reality in these unsure instances “when information and fact and journalism appear to matter much less.”

“You’re not purported to be favored,” Smith added, earlier than the lights within the ballroom instantly went out throughout his speech. “The lights are off however the microphone ain’t,” he stated to laughter within the room.

A full checklist of THR’s first- and second-place wins follows.

WEBSITE, TRADITIONAL NEWS ORGANIZATION
Winner: The Hollywood Reporter Employees, THR.com

JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR: PRINT, over 50,000 circulation
Winner: Rebecca Keegan

CRITICISM OF TV
Winner: Daniel Fienberg, “The ‘Succession’ Collection Finale Was a Sensible Household Nightmare / ‘The Final of Us’ Assessment: Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey in HBO’s Highly effective Video Recreation Adaptation / ‘Reservation Canines’ Finale Caps an Unlikely and Magical Collection to Cherish”

CRITICISM OF FILM, (Over 1,000 Phrases; every assessment)
Winner: David Rooney, “‘Poor Issues’ Assessment, ‘All of Us Strangers’ Assessment, ‘Previous Lives’ Assessment”

CRITICISM OF FILM, (Underneath 1,000 Phrases; every assessment)
Winner: Sheri Linden, “’A Nonetheless Small Voice’ Assessment, ‘Fingernails’ Assessment, ‘Hesitation Wound’ Assessment”

FEATURE, Tradition/Arts, (Over 1,000 Phrases)
Winner: Rebecca Keegan, “The Auteurs of San Quentin”

FEATURE (Underneath 1,000 Phrases)
Winner: Gary Baum, Ryan Gajewski, Winston Cho, “How TMZ Turned Hollywood’s Grim Reaper”

PHOTO ESSAY (single subject), Tradition/Leisure
Winner: Ash Barhamand, Ava Selbach, Peter B. Cury, Obidi Nzeribe, Yotam Shwartz, “The 25 Most Highly effective Stylists”

PORTRAIT PHOTO, Leisure
Winner: Ash Barhamand, Ava Selbach, Peter B. Cury, Lou Escobar, “Ayo Edebiri”

BEST USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA TO ENHANCE and/or COVER A STORY By a Journalist Tied to an Group
Winner: Anaja Smith, “2023 Magnificence Challenge”

PERSONALITY PROFILE/INTERVIEW, Leisure Personalities (Over 10 Minutes)
Winner: Scott Feinberg, “‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast — ‘The Three Amigos’: Alfonso Cuarón (‘Le Pupille’), Guillermo del Toro (‘Pinocchio’) and Alejandro González Iñárritu (‘Bardo’)”

LIFESTYLE FEATURE
Runner-Up: Seth Abramovitch, “Succession, With Smoothies: Contained in the Erewhon Dynasty”

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
Runner-Up: Gary Baum, Katie Kilkenny, Lesley Goldberg, “Writers’ Shut-It-Down Technique Has Been Efficient, Executives Privately Concede”

PERSONALITY PROFILE, Politics/Enterprise/Arts Personalities
Runner-Up: Seth Abramovitch, “A Pellicano Targer’s Second Act”

HARD NEWS
Runner-Up: Scott Feinberg, “Ugly Footage of Oct. 7 Atrocities Screens in Hollywood Underneath Heavy Guard”

LIFESTYLE FEATURE
Runner-Up: Beatrice Verhoeven, “Flea-Market Treasure Hunt: Turning Previous Movie Reels Into Artwork Objects”

BLOG, GROUP
Runner-Up: Borys Equipment, Aaron Sofa, “Warmth Imaginative and prescient”