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

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”