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The Hollywood Reporter won 10 first-place awards at the 67th SoCal Journalism Awards, including two wins for best magazine feature, one for best entertainment commentary and a first-ever nod in the best headline category.

The Los Angeles Press Club handed out the awards at a ceremony held Sunday night inside the Crystal Ballroom at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

The news comes on the heels of The Hollywood Reporter’s award presented by the 2025 American Society of Magazine Editors in its best cover contest. THR was awarded the best local magazine cover for its 2024 “Work Issue,” which hit newsstands on Oct. 30, 2024.

Special honorees at the ceremony were Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times and ESPN, who was presented with the Joseph M. Quinn Award for Lifetime Achievement; CNN’s Clarissa Ward, who received the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism; and actress Kim Fields,...

Turns out life doesn’t just imitate art — sometimes it borrows the script, reboots it with National Guard checkpoints and streams it live from Los Angeles. Case in point: A Day Without a Mexican, the cheeky 2004 sci-fi satire from Mexican filmmakers Sergio Arau and Yareli Arizmendi, in which California wakes up to find every person of Latino descent has vanished into a mysterious haze, leaving Angelenos panicking over who’s going to mow the lawns and run the kitchens. Two decades later, with Ice patrols chasing down undocumented workers at Home Depots and a real fog of fear spreading through the city, the movie suddenly seems less like farce and more like dark prophecy.

“Forget about what happens to the Latinos in the film,” Arizmendi, who starred in and co-wrote it with husband Arau, tells Rambling Reporter. “The point is what happens to you without them.”

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Shot on a shoestring budget — $1.8 million,...

The Hollywood Reporter landed 58 nominations for the 67th SoCal Journalism Awards, including best website and three journalist of the year finalists.

For THR, Gary Baum was nominated for best print journalist (over 50,000 circulation), James Hibberd is up for best online journalist tied to an organization, and Mesfin Fekadu will compete for best entertainment journalist.

In addition, THR’s critics — Daniel Fienberg, Jon Frosch, Lovia Gyarkye, Angie Han and David Rooney — all received nominations.

The Los Angeles Press Club, which hands out the awards, said more than 2,500 entries were submitted this year, breaking last year’s record.

The winners will be announced June 22 at the SoCal Journalism Awards Gala, taking place at the Millennium Biltmore hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

Here are all of The Hollywood Reporter noms. See the full list of this year’s finalists.

Journalist Of The Year

Print Journalist (Over 50,000 Circulation)

Gary Baum

Online Journalist, Tied to...

Pierce Brosnan has weighed in on ongoing speculation around the future of the James Bond franchise, voicing support for actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson as a potential replacement for Daniel Craig.

In a recent interview with Yahoo Entertainment, Brosnan reflected on Taylor-Johnson’s past performance and presence on set. The two previously worked together on the 2009 drama The Greatest, where Taylor-Johnson played a leading role.

“I think he would be very good,” Brosnan said. “I cast him in one of the movies I made a long time ago called The Greatest, actually. And he played ‘the greatest.’ This young man came on the set and took the space, filled the space with passion and energy.”

Brosnan added that Taylor-Johnson has the qualities necessary to take on the role of 007. “If he wished it, wanted it and got it, he would be great.”

Taylor-Johnson, 33, has appeared in a variety of projects, including Kick-Ass,...

A retired 007 is giving his stamp of approval.

Out of all the contenders that are speculated to be filling in the shoes of the next James Bond, Pierce Brosnan has some words of encouragement for Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who he previously worked with in the 2009 drama, The Greatest.

“I think he would be very good,” Brosnan said to Yahoo Entertainment. “I cast him in one of the movies I made a long time ago called The Greatest, actually and he played ‘the Greatest.'”

The MobLand actor continued to praise Taylor-Johnson, adding, “This young man came on the set and took the space, filled the space with passion and energy. So yeah, I think if he wished it, wanted it and got it, he would be great.”

Brosnan, of course, played the iconic suave secret agent in the films Golden Eye (1995), Die Another Day 1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Tomorrow Never Dies...

Nancy Olson, the last living star of Billy Wilder’s seminal Hollywood satire Sunset Boulevard, still remembers Oscar night 1951. The film was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won three.

Olson, 96, shared her recollections on a recent episode of It Happened in Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter‘s eyewitness film history podcast.

Olson was just 22 at the time, and Sunset Boulevard was only her second picture in a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures. The role — Betty, a studio reader with ambitions to be a screenwriter — earned her a best supporting actress nomination.

“I did not expect to win and I did not win,” Olson told host Seth Abramovitch. “I felt very rewarded being nominated and that was quite enough.”

She says she sensed her fate was sealed when she entered the Pantages Theatre and was ushered to her less-than-prime spot. “I was seated in the back, on the side,” Olson says.

The statuette,...

First Responders Get Star Treatment at Chateau Marmont

Chateau Marmont is no stranger to Hollywood luminaries — just days ago, the place was hopping with A-listers partying before the Golden Globes — but now the iconic Sunset Boulevard hotspot is welcoming some truly awe-inspiring superstars: L.A. firefighters. On Jan. 11, the hotel announced on Instagram that it would offer Lafd and Lacfd first responders two free nights at the Chateau’s private cottages, 600- to 700-square-feet poolside suites that usually start at $1,165 a night. The complimentary stays also were extended to grips, camera operators and other below-the-line guild workers who’ve been displaced by the fires (a display, perhaps, of the Chateau’s new union friendliness after its protracted labor struggles in 2022). “Given what’s been going on, I felt it was the right thing to do,” owner André Balazs tells Rambling Reporter. Not surprisingly, the response has been overwhelming; within 45 minutes of the announcement,...

My Mom’s Emmy

Melissa Rivers: TV host and daughter of Joan Rivers

Joan Rivers with her 1990 Emmy for The Joan Rivers Show, which her daughter, Melissa, saved from the fire.

Living in Los Angeles, I have been through a number of evacuations. So once I made sure we had our passports and all of that kind of stuff, I grabbed a picture of my father. I grabbed a baby picture of my son, Cooper, and some photos of me with my mom. All of the other family photos are obviously gone forever. And I grabbed a drawing that my mother did, of Cooper and I sitting on the beach one day when we were on vacation. Just a silly little sketch.

And I grabbed her Emmy because she was so proud of it. And in her entire career, it’s hard to believe she only won one [in 1990 for tt0262164 autoThe...

The likes of Kraven the Hunter star Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Man of Steel actor Henry Cavill, and MCU star Idris Elba have long been favorites for the role of the next James Bond. But a new challenger has now emerged, with The Hollywood Reporter predicting that The Crown and God’s Own Country star Josh O'Connor will be chosen by producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson to don a tuxedo as 007.

The prediction comes as part of a whole host of other forecasts about 2025 at the movies, with the outlet’s Seth Abramovitch reasoning that O’Connor will be chosen as “Bond series producer Barbara Broccoli has always led from the gut, not caved to popular opinion,” pointing out that Daniel Craig was a controversial choice at the time.

“2025 will thus be the year we finally learn the identity of the new James Bond, and it will not be Taylor-Johnson. It...

Netflix is facing a proposed class action from subscribers who were plagued by persistent buffering and freezing glitches that caused them to miss parts of the boxing spectacle between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson.

A Florida resident alleges Netflix was “woefully ill-prepared” for the nine-figure global audience that tuned in to the bout. The lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages on behalf of subscribers who had trouble watching the fight, brings claims for breach of contract and violations of Florida laws surrounding deceptive trade practices and consumer protection.

“Netflix customers experienced massive streaming issues and should have known better because it’s happened before,” states the complaint, filed on Monday in Florida state court.

For Netflix, which declined to comment, the fight emerged as the most viewed sporting event ever on the platform, with 108 million people watching worldwide, according to U.S. viewing tallies from analytics company TVision and Netflix’s first-party data.

The Reason Your Agent Isn’t Calling You Back? Pickleball

If you happened to be passing through Calabasas and heard a loud “twocking” sound, we can explain. On Nov. 16, a slew of Hollywood’s most powerful players (and, in this case, we’re using the word literally) assembled on the courts of the Calabasas Pickleball Club for the Entertainment Pickleball League’s championship tourney. Although they began just a few months ago, Epl’s games are quickly shaping up to be Hollywood’s biggest draw this side of the Academy Gala, with agents and execs from just about every entertainment company forming squads — most with pun-filled names like Disney’s Monster Dinks, NBCUni’s Dis-Pickleball Me and CAA’s Dill Makers — to participate. “We started with four teams,” says Zee Batal, the TV producer who launched the league in late

September with reality TV showrunner Erica Hanson. “Now we have eight.

Quincy Jones, the musical giant who did it all as a record producer, film composer, multi-genre artist, entertainment executive and humanitarian, has died. He was 91.

Jones’ publicist, Arnold Robinson, said that he died Sunday night at his Bel-Air home surrounded by his family.

“Tonight, with full but broken hearts, we must share the news of our father and brother Quincy Jones’ passing,” his family said in a statement. “And although this is an incredible loss for our family, we celebrate the great life that he lived and know there will never be another like him.”

Jones received the Motion Picture Academy’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1995, the Grammy Legend Award in 1991 and 28 Grammys from an all-time best 80 nominations. He was to be presented with an honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards on Nov. 17.

Survivors include one of his seven children, actress Rashida Jones.

In a phenomenal career that spanned more than 60 years,...

The Hollywood Reporter earned 53 nominations for the 17th annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, including best website and two noms for journalist of the year.

Seth Abramovitch was nominated for print journalist of the year, Mesfin Fekadu for online journalist of the year, Lovia Gyarkye for best film critic and Daniel Fienberg for best television critic. David Rooney was nominated for best theater and performing arts critic, and Fekadu was again nominated for best music critic.

In the celebrity investigation category, Gary Baum was nominated for his June 2024 story “Get Me Bryan Freedman!” which followed the entertainment power lawyer in his work with clients such as Megyn Kelly, Bethenny Frankel, Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon. THR‘s story “Will Ferrell on Navigating His Best Friend’s Transition in ‘Will & Harper'” was also nominated in the same category, with reporting from Seija Rankin, Jason Rovou, Stephanie Fischette and editors-in-chief...

Would you gain 100 pounds in the hopes of landing a role?

That was the career conundrum faced by Emile Hirsch, who joined THR‘s It Happened in Hollywood podcast to relive the making of his 2007 breakout film, Into the Wild.

But another film — a planned biopic of comedian John Belushi, in which Hirsch was chosen to play the early Saturday Night Live star — came up in conversation.

In 2013, Hirsch became attached to the lead role in the indie biopic. The funding never came together, and the project fell apart.

“I was a little bit torn [about signing on],” Hirsch, 39, recalls. “I had a conversation with the director at one point, and he was talking about the weight gain. This is how stupid this guy was: He was like, ‘Just gain the weight and then we’ll make the movie.’

“And I’m like, ‘Gain the weight and then we’ll make the movie?...

Where in the World Is Diller’s Memoir?

In late July, when Barry Diller’s forthcoming memoir, Who Knew, suddenly disappeared from Amazon — after it had popped up for presales ahead of a planned fall release — it raised all sorts of eyebrows. Had the book’s publisher, Knopf, pulled the project for some reason? Had there been an issue with Amazon (and Target, too, which also was taking preorders)? Was the tome even real in the first place? After all, Knopf hadn’t announced anything about a book deal with Diller, despite an early leak to Page Six. The answer, it turns out, is none of the above. Sources close to the project tell Rambling Reporter that it was Diller himself who delayed publication. After sending early copies to a close circle of friends for comments, the 82-year-old media mogul turned memoirist decided the manuscript needed some last-minute noodling. He...

Shelley Duvall, the big-eyed, waifish performer who won the Cannes actress award for Robert Altman’s “3 Women” and endured Stanley Kubrick’s intense directing techniques to star in “The Shining,” died Thursday in Blanco, Texas, Variety confirmed with her partner Dan Gilroy. She was 75.

Duvall was known for working with director Altman, who cast her in “Brewster McCloud” as her first screen role. She went on to appear in his films “McCabe & Mrs. Miller” and “Thieves Like Us” before starring as part of the ensemble cast of “Nashville” in 1975. After gaining attention in “Nashville,” Altman cast her in “Buffalo Bill and the Indians,” then gave her unusual screen presence a chance to shine in “3 Women,” for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress as well as a BAFTA nomination.

Also in 1977, Duvall played a Rolling Stone journalist in Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall,...

The Hollywood Reporter won best website and Rebecca Keegan was named print journalist of the year at the 66th annual SoCal Journalism Awards, which were handed out Sunday night.

THR won a total of 11 first places, the most awards for any publication, including prizes for critics Daniel Fienberg, David Rooney and Sheri Linden, as well as a win for best feature under 1,000 words by Gary Baum and Ryan Gajewski. It was a stellar night for Keegan, who also won an award for best culture/arts feature under 1,000 words for her piece “The Auteurs of San Quentin.”

There were also wins for Scott Feinberg (best audio personality profile/interview over 10 minutes), Anaja Smith (best use of social media tied to a cover story), as well as THR‘s excellent photo department, which picked up awards for single topic photo essay (culture/entertainment) and entertainment portrait photo.

The awards are handed out...

Contrary to the common story of celebrity drug addiction, stand-up comedy superstar John Mulaney says that a life in show business didn’t exacerbate his past problems with substance abuse. All fame did for Mulaney’s drug addiction was make his intervention a star-studded affair.

Before Mulaney’s personal life was front-page entertainment news and his behind-the-scenes struggle with heavy drug use were common knowledge, the legendary Saturday Night Live writer and Emmy-winning stand-up explicitly addressed his past problems with alcohol in his breakout hit special John Mulaney: New in Town. “That surprises a lot of audiences because I don't look like someone who used to do anything,” Mulaney commented after revealing that he had to quit drinking after too many binges, “I look like I was just sitting in a room in a chair eating saltines for like 28 years and then I walked right out here.”

Eight years later,...

Nicholas Galitzine: The Artist Formerly Known as a Prince?

He’s played Cinderella’s Prince opposite Camila Cabello, the Prince of England in Red, White & Royal Blue and next will play He-Man, Prince Adam of Eternia, in Masters of the Universe. But is Hollywood’s latest “It” boy an actual prince? There has been a ton of speculation in the press that Nicholas Galitzine, 29, descends from a royal bloodline — specifically Russia’s House of Golitsyn (an alternate spelling of his surname), a noble family whose members were executed and exiled during the Russian Revolution. And many Galitzines did wind up in London, where Nick was eventually born in 1994. Unfortunately, that’s where the fairy tale ends. THR has unearthed documentation confirming that Nick’s paternal grandfather legally changed his name to Edward Ralph Alexander Galitzine on April 9, 1956. His birth name? Edward Ralph Alexander Tier. And while Nick’s financier father,...

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

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,...

Will Smith may have fallen in love with Stockard Channing on the set of 1993’s Six Degrees of Separation, but Channing only felt “motherly” to the rising star, who was 23 and a newly married, first-time father at the time.

Channing — who earned an Oscar nomination playing a New York socialite who connects with a young con artist played by Smith in the film — opened up about working with the rising star in a new episode of The Hollywood Reporter‘s It Happened in Hollywood podcast.

“He made a lot [of money] from his music, or even Fresh Prince [of Bel-Air],” Channing said. “Because I remember we talked about it.” Despite his massive success in music and TV at a young age, “there was no big shot stuff at all” about Smith, she said.

“He had a real survival instinct in him,” Channing added, “which was completely perfect for the part. [There was a] genuine charm and a lovely sweetness about him.

Last October, White House hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a decision to switch parties in his presidential bid by exiting the Democratic party and running as a third-party Independent. The move was quickly denounced by members of his own family, including Oscar-nominated documentarian Rory Kennedy, who joined her siblings in posting a family statement.

“The decision of our brother Bobby to run as a third party candidate against Joe Biden is dangerous to our country. Bobby might share the same name as our father, but he does not share the same values, vision or judgment. Today’s announcement is deeply saddening for us. We denounce his candidacy and believe it to be perilous for our country,” read the Instagram post signed by Rory Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy II and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a group that totals four of the 11 children shared by Ethel and Robert Kennedy.

Rory...

The Hollywood Reporter won best entertainment website, Rebecca Keegan was named print journalist of the year and Daniel Fienberg was named best TV critic at the 16th annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards on Sunday night.

Overall, THR took home a total of 11 wins at the awards, which are handed out annually by the Los Angeles Press Club. Presenters at the event said this year featured the most submissions ever for the Naej Awards.

Also during the event, the Los Angeles Press Club celebrated several honorees with special awards. They included Ava DuVernay (Visionary Award for humanitarian work), Barbara Eden (Legend Award for lifetime achievements and contributions to society), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Luminary Award for career achievement), LeVar Burton (Distinguished Storyteller Award, Literacy, for excellence in storytelling outside journalism) and Roger Corman (Distinguished Storyteller Award, Film, for excellence in storytelling outside journalism).

Sunday night’s gala was held at...

The Hollywood Reporter has landed 46 nominations for the 16th National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, including best entertainment publication and best website.

In addition, Rebecca Keegan was nominated for print journalist of the year, Katie Kilkenny online journalist of the year, Daniel Fienberg for best television critic and Mesfin Fekadu for best online columnist.

In the celebrity investigation category, Kim Masters was nominated for her exposé “What Really Happened With Fred Savage on the Wonder Years” and Lacey Rose and Kilkenny for their industry-shaking story “Inside the Implosion of Justin Roiland’s Animation Empire.”

Two THR stories were nominated in the entertainment industry/arts investigative category, with Gary Baum nominated for “How Les Moonves and His CBS Loyalists Worked to Discredit Accuser: ‘It Was Sort of a Mafia Culture’”; and Samuel Braslow and Kim Masters nominated for “‘Hiding in Plain Sight’: After Being Fired From ‘Scrubs’ for Misconduct, Alleged Rapist Eric Weinberg Kept Working.

The Hollywood Reporter thanks the following 322 members of the global film community — listed alphabetically — for taking the time to cast a ballot to help us determine the 100 greatest film books of all time.

Seth Abramovitch

The Hollywood Reporter journalist/It Happened in Hollywood podcast host

Jo Addy

Soho House group film and entertainment director

Casey Affleck

Oscar-winning actor

Rutanya Alda

Author/actress

Stephanie Allain

Filmmaker

Victoria Alonso

Filmmaker/executive

Tony Angellotti

Publicist

Bonnie Arnold

Filmmaker/executive

Miguel Arteta

Filmmaker

Chris Auer

Filmmaker/film professor

John Badham

Filmmaker/film professor

Amy Baer

Executive

Matt Baer

Filmmaker

Lindsey Bahr

Journalist

Ramin Bahrani

Oscar-nominated filmmaker

Cameron Bailey

Toronto International Film Festival CEO/former film critic

John Bailey

Cinematographer/former Academy president

Bela Bajaria

Executive

Sean Baker

Filmmaker

Alec Baldwin

Oscar-nominated actor/author

Tino Balio

Author/film professor

Jeffrey Barbakow

Executive

Michael Barker

Executive

Mike Barnes

The Hollywood Reporter journalist

Jeanine Basinger

Author/film...

Written by Seth Abramovitch, Gary Baum, Kirsten Chuba, Mia Galuppo, Chris Gardner, James Hibberd, Caitlin Huston, Rebecca Keegan, Mikey O’Connell, Sydney Odman, Lacey Rose, Julian Sancton, Alex Weprin and Abbey White. Additional reporting by J. Clara Chan.

It is the best of times and the worst of times for podcasting. In 2023, the industry put the brakes on a period of lavish spending and nine-digit megadeals and — much as its streaming counterparts did last year — followed largesse with austerity. Facing challenges surrounding the advertising model, macroeconomic concerns and a post-pandemic slowdown, some of the biggest players, including Spotify, Vox Media and NPR, announced mass layoffs. Many others — like SiriusXM and Amazon — cut their podcast budgets significantly. And yet, unlike in other struggling segments of the entertainment business, audiences are continuing to grow with no ceiling in sight. According to an analysis by Edison Research, “Podcasting is ‘back,’ reaching the highest numbers ever,...

Paul Reubens, who disappeared behind a tight gray suit and bright red bow tie to create and star as the awkward man-child Pee-wee Herman onstage, on a groundbreaking kids TV show and on the big screen, has died. He was 70.

His death in Los Angeles was announced Monday on his official Facebook page.

“Last night we said farewell to Paul Reubens, an iconic American actor, comedian, writer and producer whose beloved character Pee-wee Herman delighted generations of children and adults with his positivity, whimsy and belief in the importance of kindness,” a statement read. “Paul bravely and privately fought cancer for years with his trademark tenacity and wit. A gifted and prolific talent, he will forever live in the comedy pantheon and in our hearts as a treasured friend and man of remarkable character and generosity of spirit.”

Reubens created Pee-wee (named for a brand of harmonica he had when...

In terms of the sheer number of entertainment options, there’s never been a better time to be a kid. But it’s also never been more work.

The average 8-year-old in 2013 could turn on one of a few TV channels and park there for an hour or two, and maybe watch a few movies or shows on Netflix or Hulu (in the not-very-likely event their families had an account). YouTube was for teenagers and adults.

A decade later, an 8-year-old can choose from hundreds of titles across a host of streaming platforms and thousands of YouTube channels — as well as an age-protected YouTube Kids app — to say nothing of TikTok and other social media. The shift to streaming is even more pronounced among kids and teenagers than it is in adults: Where a popular network or cable show can still draw maybe half a million adults ages 18-34, no...

Profiles by Seth Abramovitch, Gary Baum, Evan Nicole Brown, Tyler Coates, Kirsten Chuba, Aaron Couch, Scott Feinberg, Mesfin Fekadu, Mia Galuppo, James Hibberd, Rebecca Keegan, Sydney Odman, Rick Porter, Lacey Rose, Julian Sancton, Rebecca Sun and Beatrice Verhoeven

Cris Abrego & Karla Pita Loor Cris Abrego and Karla Pita Loor

Banijay Americas

Abrego is one of the top-ranking Latino execs in English-language media, and Pita Loor is the board chair of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, a major conduit for industry players who are invested in improving inclusion. Under their leadership, Banijay Americas has stepped up initiatives to help people from historically excluded backgrounds break into entertainment. “This work has both financial and cultural bottom lines, and those are not only equally important but also inextricably connected,” says Abrego of the content business. “Success requires attention to both.”

I’m excited about …

Abrego “Mindy Kaling is just laugh-out-loud funny...

The Hollywood Reporter has received 47 nominations for the 65th Annual SoCal Journalism Awards, including best website, best investigative story and best cover art.

Rebecca Keegan is also nominated for journalist of the year in the print (over 50,000 circulation) category.

In addition, Seth Abramovitch, Samuel Braslow, Kim Masters and Scott Roxborough all received nominations for best investigative story in a magazine. Daniel Fienberg and Angie Han are among those nominated in the criticism of TV category, as well as David Rooney in the criticism of film category.

Heat Vision, THR, Esq. and The Live Feed also received nominations for best blog by a group.

The SoCal Journalism Awards gala will be held June 25 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

A complete list of THR’s nominations follows. See the full list of noms here.

Journalist Of The Year

Print, over 50,000 circulation

Rebecca Keegan

All Media Platforms – Print, Radio, Podcast,...

Still to this day, The Shining is thought of as one of the most spine-chilling and iconic horror movies within the past several decades. Its premise paints a creepy scene of a family cloistered in a shadow-filled hotel as torrential snow collects outside. Besides its horrifying internal centering around familial trauma, the other more external and ethereal elements following the Torrance family help to drive home its dreary messages. While the movie is one of the most powerful interpretations of author Stephen King's heap of horror stories, the film's internal fundamentals contain even darker goings-on than audiences might realize at first.

Shelley Duvall, whom audiences often remember in the role of Wendy Torrance, fell victim to some unfortunate and unnecessary experiences during the filmmaking process. Sadly, these took their toll on her serene yet continually bright identity. The several ways in which the making of The Shining negatively affected...

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The Hollywood Reporter was named best entertainment publication at the 15th annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, which were handed out at a gala Sunday night at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Universal City.

THR landed several other big wins during the night, including best columnist for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, best anchor/host for Lesley Goldberg and Daniel Fienberg, and best multimedia package for its Sustainability Issue.

Also at the ceremony, the Los Angeles Press Club handed out several honorary awards. Byron Allen received the Impact Award for contributions to culture and society, Ryan Seacrest accepted the Luminary Award for career achievement, and Marla Gibbs was honored with the Legend Award for lifetime achievement and contributions to society. The Distinguished Storyteller Awards, for excellence in storytelling outside of journalism, were presented to Walt Disney Animation Studios chief creative officer Jennifer Lee (film) and Tanya Tucker (music).

In addition,...

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The Hollywood Reporter has landed 32 nominations for the 15th National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, including best entertainment publication and best website.

In addition, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was nominated for best columnist, David Rooney is up for best critic and Lesley Goldberg and Dan Fienberg are named among the finalists for best arts or entertainment podcast and best podcast anchor/host. THR‘s art and photo teams were also recognized for cover art, portrait photo, page layout and moving graphic.

Two THR blogs are up for best entertainment blog by an individual or group, tied to an organization: The Live Feed (by Goldberg, Rick Porter, James Hibberd and Jackie Strause) and Scott Feinberg’s The Race. Ryan Fish and Christy Piña were nominated for best journalistic use of social media to tell or enhance a story for THR‘s Michelle Yeoh cover feature.

THR landed nominations in various other categories,...

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In the closing moments of the third and final installment of the new Discovery+ docuseries House of Hammer, Casey Hammer reads a letter she recently received from her brother, Michael, the father of actor Armie Hammer.

“If you choose to continue pretending that the stories you have invented are the truth, I will have no choice other than to pursue every legal remedy to set the record straight,” states the letter before it changes course. “Despite all the pain your fabrications have causes, you share the blood running through my veins. You are still my family and I wish you nothing but the best.”

The Hammer bloodline is the subject of the now streaming House of Hammer, and directors Elli Hakami and Julian P. Hobbs use the sexual misconduct allegations lodged against Armie as a jumping-off point to explore all facets of the...

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The Hollywood Reporter won 10 awards at the 64th Southern California Journalism Awards on Saturday night, including print journalist of the year for Seth Abramovitch and best columnist for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Taking place at the Sheraton Universal Hotel, the event distributed awards from the Los Angeles Press Club. Categories included TV and film criticism, crime reporting, investigative journalism, art and photography, news and online features and more.

THR’s honors followed its 39 nominations, announced in May. Abramovitch, who was named print journalist of the year (over 50,000 circulation), also won best entertainment feature for “Searching for Shelley Duvall.” Abdul-Jabbar was awarded best magazine columnist, earning his eighth win from the L.A. Press Club.

Additionally, Gary Baum won best investigative magazine story for “Drugs, Death and Denial at a Rehab for the Rich,” and Rebecca Sun won best magazine personality profile, film/TV personalities, for...

Ed Asner, the legendary TV actor, died Sunday at the age of 91. The Hollywood Reporter conducted the final interview and photo shoot of his career for an installment of our THR Icons series. Here, THR writer Scott Feinberg and photographer Michael Buckner share memories of their interactions with him.

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Scott Feinberg, writer

A few weeks ago, Seth Abramovitch, my esteemed colleague at The Hollywood Reporter, had to take a last-minute trip out of town and asked me if I would assume responsibility for an interview that he had already scheduled with Ed Asner. I was delighted that Seth thought of me because Ed is someone whom I’...

Ed Asner, the legendary TV actor, died Sunday at the age of 91. The Hollywood Reporter conducted the final interview and photo shoot of his career for an installment of our THR Icons series. Here, THR writer Scott Feinberg and photographer Michael Buckner share memories of their interactions with him.

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Scott Feinberg, writer

A few weeks ago, Seth Abramovitch, my esteemed colleague at The Hollywood Reporter, had to take a last-minute trip out of town and asked me if I would assume responsibility for an interview that he had already scheduled with Ed Asner. I was delighted that Seth thought of me because Ed is someone whom I’...

If Covid-19 sounded the death knell for theater and production, it didn’t manage to snuff out acting schools, many of which were quick to adapt (Zoom-based writing collaborations! Radio plays!) to the changing landscape. With the light now at the end of the proverbial tunnel, those schools are deftly mapping out the path back into the classroom. (Columbia is even throwing in a free year.) What the pandemic year has proven is that the appetite for content — and the actors necessary to bring it to life — has never been stronger. As training grounds brace for a ...

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe poster for Hong Sang-soo's latest, Introduction, which will compete at this year's Berlinale. The competition slate for the 71st Berlin International Film Festival features a wide range of heavy hitters, from Hong and Radu Jude to Aleksandre Koberidze and Céline Sciamma. The competing titles, as well as the rest of the lineup, can be found here.The lineup for this year's SXSW Film Festival has been announced. The roster includes the directorial debut of House of Psychotic Women author Kier-La Janisse, a documentary on musician William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops, and a restoration of Les Blank's I Went to the Dance. Recommended VIEWINGFrom February 17 to February 23, the National Gallery of Art is screening the series "The Voice and Vision of Billy Woodberry." The series includes Woodberry's Bless Their Little Hearts, a landmark work of the L.

A great gift for many film fans earlier this week was a wide-ranging profile of reclusive former actress Shelley Duvall in The Hollywood Reporter, which is the first we’ve heard publicly from her since her disturbing 2016 “Dr. Phil” interview. In the segment, the show painted Duvall as someone visibly battling distressing mental illness and paranoid fantasies. In many ways, the THR piece offers redemption for Duvall, who lives in Texas with her partner Dan Gilroy, and prefers to stay outside the limelight.

“I only knew that it didn’t feel right for McGraw’s insensitive sideshow to be the final word on her legacy,” Seth Abramovitch, who wrote the piece, said in the article.

In the story, Duvall touches on her experience with the “Dr. Phil” team. “I found out the kind of person he is the hard way,” Duvall said. “My mother didn’t like him, either. A lot of people,...

By Lee Pfeiffer

Once upon a time in Hollywood, Shelley Duvall was an acclaimed and sought-after star. She defied the tradition of having to be a sex symbol in order to achieve major stardom. In fact, it was Duvall's "girl next door" looks and persona that ingratiated her to both audiences and critics. She was championed by director Robert Altman and graduated from small parts to major roles in his films. Her star burned brightly but flamed out quickly following starring roles in Altman's ill-fated "Popeye" and Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining", which afforded the role movie lovers most remember her for. Duvall began appearing in undistinguished films and eventually just vanished from sight, facing mental health and financial problems and entering self-imposed retirement from the film industry. In fact, Duvall vanished so thoroughly that few people even knew that she ended up moving to a rural community in Texas...

Hollywood legend Shelley Duvall is a bit of a recluse these days, but the star of The Shining and many other classic movies opened up about her life and career in a new interview. The last time most of us saw Duvall, she was featured in a highly-condemned episode of Dr. Phil that was criticized for taking advantage of the retired actress. Speaking with Seth Abramovitch at The Hollywood Reporter, Duvall has reemerged with an interview that's a must-read for all of her fans.

Famously, Stanley Kubrick was a taxing filmmaker to work with, known for being a perfectionist and requiring a ridiculous amount of takes for different scenes. Rumor is he was particularly hard on Duvall so her performance as a terrified housewife would be more believable. To see how the shoot actually was from Shelley's viewpoint, the actress admitted that shooting The Shining really was rather difficult based...

The Hollywood Reporter’s Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was named best columnist at the 62nd Southern California Journalism Awards, which were announced Saturday via a virtual presentation.

This marks Abdul-Jabbar’s fifth straight year winning the award.

Ktla’s Cher Calvin and ABC7’s George Pennacchio hosted the digital gala and announced the winners of the awards, which are handed out annually by the Los Angeles Press Club.

THR also took top honors in several other categories, including best film criticism (Jon Frosch), best blog (group) for THR, Esq (Eriq Gardner and Ashley Cullins), best entertainment news (Chris Gardner and Seth Abramovitch), best news feature, film (Borys ...

The Hollywood Reporter’s Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was named best columnist at the 62nd Southern California Journalism Awards, which were announced Saturday via a virtual presentation.

This marks Abdul-Jabbar’s fifth straight year winning the award.

Ktla’s Cher Calvin and ABC7’s George Pennacchio hosted the digital gala and announced the winners of the awards, which are handed out annually by the Los Angeles Press Club.

THR also took top honors in several other categories, including best film criticism (Jon Frosch), best blog (group) for THR, Esq (Eriq Gardner and Ashley Cullins), best entertainment news (Chris Gardner and Seth Abramovitch), best news feature, film (Borys ...

The origins of the tawdry camp classic from 1995 known as Showgirls are revealed in the latest episode of The Hollywood Reporter podcast It Happened In Hollywood.

“We spoke to 50 or so young women about their experiences," screenwriter Joe Eszterhas tells hosts Seth Abramovitch and Chip Pope of his initial research trip to Las Vegas for the film. "It was really valuable, the interviews were valuable — their experiences were valuable and sometimes horrifying. Rape culture is overwhelming among strippers. Some of the stories were absolutely heartbreaking.”

Eszterhas then went off to write a script. With the help ...

The origins of the tawdry camp classic from 1995 known as Showgirls are revealed in the latest episode of The Hollywood Reporter podcast It Happened In Hollywood.

“We spoke to 50 or so young women about their experiences," screenwriter Joe Eszterhas tells hosts Seth Abramovitch and Chip Pope of his initial research trip to Las Vegas for the film. "It was really valuable, the interviews were valuable — their experiences were valuable and sometimes horrifying. Rape culture is overwhelming among strippers. Some of the stories were absolutely heartbreaking.”

Eszterhas then went off to write a script. With the help ...

Joe Eszterhas — the swaggering screenwriter of such iconic films of the 1980s and '90s as Flashdance, Basic Instinct and the so-bad-it's-good Showgirls — has emerged from self-imposed industry exile to appear on The Hollywood Reporter's new podcast, It Happened in Hollywood.

Discussing his 1992 smash Basic Instinct with co-hosts Seth Abramovitch, a senior writer at THR, and comedy writer Chip Pope, Eszterhas, 73, estimates the controversial thriller would likely be met today with "serious #MeToo protesters," particularly over one scene in the Paul Verhoeven-directed film in which star Michael Douglas, playing an alcoholic cop, appears to date-rape the ...

Joe Eszterhas — the swaggering screenwriter of such iconic films of the 1980s and '90s as Flashdance, Basic Instinct and the so-bad-it's-good Showgirls — has emerged from self-imposed industry exile to appear on The Hollywood Reporter's new podcast, It Happened in Hollywood.

Discussing his 1992 smash Basic Instinct with co-hosts Seth Abramovitch, a senior writer at THR, and comedy writer Chip Pope, Eszterhas, 73, estimates the controversial thriller would likely be met today with "serious #MeToo protesters," particularly over one scene in the Paul Verhoeven-directed film in which star Michael Douglas, playing an alcoholic cop, appears to date-rape the ...

A new title joins the Hollywood Reporter podcast lineup Monday with the launch of It Happened in Hollywood.

Hosted by THR senior writer Seth Abramovitch and Emmy-winning TV writer and comedian Chip Pope, each episode opens the THR vault to revisit an indelible moment from 90 years of entertainment history. Abramovitch and Pope, two friends and pop-culture fanatics who enjoy cracking each other up, are your time-traveling tour guides.

What sets It Happened in Hollywood apart are its special guests — key participants like actors, directors, screenwriters and more, who offer firsthand recollections of some of Tinseltown's most fun and ...

A new title joins the Hollywood Reporter podcast lineup Monday with the launch of It Happened in Hollywood.

Hosted by THR senior writer Seth Abramovitch and Emmy-winning TV writer and comedian Chip Pope, each episode opens the THR vault to revisit an indelible moment from 90 years of entertainment history. Abramovitch and Pope, two friends and pop-culture fanatics who enjoy cracking each other up, are your time-traveling tour guides.

What sets It Happened in Hollywood apart are its special guests — key participants like actors, directors, screenwriters and more, who offer firsthand recollections of some of Tinseltown's most fun and ...