The nominations for the the Los Angeles Press Club's 13th annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards have been announced and some of the nominees are people you definitely read if you're into films and awards. There are many categories so several journalists are double, triple, or quadruple nominated, in that they're honored for their overall work and then for specific articles or podcasts or whatnot. Like any awards body the Press Club mostly only honors very high profile work so if you look at the nominees you'll notice that The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Hollywood Reporter (33 nominations), and Variety (99 nominations) are all over the place.
Congratulations to all the nominees! We've shared six categories that we think might interest you most after the jump...
Journalist of the Year
- Kyle Buchanan, The New York Times
- Makeda Easter, Los Angeles Times
- Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times
- Benjamin Mullin, The Wall Street Journal
- Chris Willman, Variety
Journalist of the Year - Online
- Jem Aswad, Variety
- Scott Feinberg, Hollywood Reporter
- Tim Teeman, Daily Beast
- Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety
- Sharon Waxman, The Wrap
Tim Teeman won this award last year and is nominated again.
Film Critic
- Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
- Owen Gleiberman, Variety
- Angie Han, Mashable
- Eric Kohn, IndieWire
- Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter
Yay, Justin! His writing is so wonderful and he was a guest on the Smackdown during our recently completed supersized lockdown season. As far as we can tell this is only the fourth year of this category (before that all critics were lumped into one cateegory and only nominated for a specific article (?). In the three previous years of this award Justin has won twice and Gleiberman once.
TV Critic
- Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times
- Daniel D'Addario, Variety
- Caroline Framke, Variety
- Inhoo Kang, The Hollywood Reporter
- Ben Travers, IndieWire
And because we love "personality profiles" which are an artform in and of themselves, here are the nominees in that category...
Personality Profile, Film, Under 2500 Words
- Kyle Buchanan "The Planet, The Stars, and Brad Pitt"
- Thomas Floyd "Edward Norton's 'Motherless Brooklyn' is a passion project both personal and professional"
- Lina Lecaro "Blood Brother: Spike Lee Talks New Joint:, the Power of Protest and Changing the World"
- Ruben V Nepales "Film Talk wih Quentin Tarantino: From Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt to Cirio Santiago"
- Gill Pringle "Andie MacDowell: I wish I'd walked around naked in movies earlier'"
Personality Profile, Film, Over 2500 Words
- Kate Arthur "Taika Waitii on Oscars, His JoJo Rabbit Journey and Those 'Star Wars' Rumors"
- Taffy Brodesser-Akner "This Tom Hanks Story Will Make You Feel Less Bad"
- Chrissy Illey "The Handmaid's Tale star Elisabeth Moss on Scientology, feminism, and falling in love"
- Amy Kaufman "How befriending Mister Rogers' widow allowed me to learn the true meaning of his legacy"
- Marc Malkin "Jamie Lee Curtis opens up about being 20 years sober, going public with her addiction"
P.S. There's also a category called Movie Industry Feature Over 1000 Words and one of the nominees is the excellent "Mad Max Fury Road: The Oral History of a Modern Action Classic" by Kyle Buchanan and the announcement came very recently that it's going to be a whole book and Kyle has already written it. It's going to come out sometime this fall...
Witness me: I’ve written a mammoth book about Mad Max: Fury Road and it’s coming out this year. pic.twitter.com/lB2STELIAB
— Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) February 11, 2021
Cannot wait. Kyle won this same category last year for the article "How Will the Movies (As We Know Them) Survive the Next Ten Years"?