Variety wins 16 Socal Journalism Awards, including the best website
Variety Won 16 first place prizes on the Socal Journalism Awards Sunday evening, more than any other entertainment outlet. The migration doubled Variety‘S eight of last year, and a new high figure set for the publication at the prices, with the previous peak of 14 granted in 2023.
Under the victories were a top trophy for Variety.com as the best website and an honor for Chris Willman for entertainment journalist of the year.
The Los Angeles Press Club presented the prizes on a sold -out banquet in the Millennium Biltmore attended by more than 550 journalists. The ceremony of 2025 has awarded the work published during the calendar year 2024. Variety Entered the event with 93 nominations in 56 categories.
Variety Staffers and contributors who pick up trophies in the first place were Daniel d’Addario, Jennifer Dorn, Owen Gleiberman, Angelique Jackson, Neil Jamieson, Ted Keller, Haley Kluge, Emily Langereetta, Jonny Marlow, Ramy, Ramy, Ramy, Ramin, Ramy, Ramy, Ramy, Ramy, Ramy, Greg Swales and Abbey White.
Variety‘s Art and Photography Department did well in this year’s prizes, with creative director Haley Kluge and photo director Jennifer Dorn who shared three awards, and design director Ted Keller was also awarded. The prize for the best portrait photo went to a photo of Demi Moore (won by Kluge and Dorn with Greg Swales). Best Hoeskunst was won by the Anna Taylor-Joy cover of the magazine (with honor to Kluge, Dorn and Jonny Marlow). And the team came again with a price for page design, for a “Star Trek” package (awarded to Kluge, Dorn, Keller and Neil Jamieson).
Willman, senior writer and main music critic for VarietyWon four prizes at night. In addition to entertainment journalist of the year, he was awarded Best Magazine Columnist, for a selection of his opinion pieces; Best music function, for his cover story “How Taylor Swift’s Era Tour took over the world”; And best theater function, for ” Randy Newman’s Faust ‘, the brilliant but rarely produced Songwriter’s Stage Musical, stands up again for a weekend in LA in the Soraya. “
Main film critic Owen Gleiberman was a repeated winner in a category that he has often claimed, the best film criticism.
Chief correspondent Daniel d’Addario and Co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh shared the honor for the best film function for the cover story “Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey about making ‘queer’.”
Tatiana Siegel, Variety‘s Executive Editor for Film/Media, won for the best personality profile in the Music Personalities Division for her article’ Fugees founder Pras Michél pronounces while she is confronted in prison for 22 years: ‘I never wanted to be a spy’.
Angelique Jackson, senior entertainment writer for VarietyTackled the Personality Profile Award in the personalities division for her story “Zoe Saldaña restarted: why the Action Star broke her” cycle or sequels “for” Emilia Pérez ” – and her one wish for Marvel’s next Gamora.”
Emily Longeretta, the TV editor of the magazine, won the price for personality profile in the TV Personal Division for “Mariska Hargitay about making a TV icon, Dick Wolf’s ‘Tough Love’, fighting for Kelli Giddish and 20 years of survivors of sexual violence.”
Rebecca Rubin, senior film reporter, was the recipient of the Award for Entertainment News, Performing Arts Division, for her story behind the scenes “Inside the Tony Awards: From Jay-Z’s Lobby Act, a chance F-bomb to overtake louders, here is what you didn’t see on TV.”
J. Kim Murphy, Associate News-Editor for Variety.com, the upper hand for the best TV/streaming/radio function for his story “Welcome to ‘Ren Faire’: Lance Oppenheim’s HBO docuseries follows a festival in a real-life game of Thrones.”
And for the best online theater/performing arts function, the prize to freelance writer Abbey White for their story “Handicapped comedians speak about performance and career bars because of widespread industrial inaccessibility:” I want more of us “.”
The entire staff of Variety.com shared in the publication that won the coveted prize for the best website for a traditional news organization.
Variety Staffers also won more than 25 prizes for the second and third place that were also announced on Sunday evening.
The ceremony at De Biltmore included the usual prizes of the La Press Club for experienced newspapers or celebrities for their work in journalism or philanthropy. A standing ovation went to veteran Los Angeles Times sports columnist Bill Plaschke, who received the Joseph M. Quinn Award for lifelong performance. The Daniel Pearl Award for courage and integrity in journalism went to Clarissa Ward from CNN, who had to accept via a video message because she was on an assignment that covered the breaking situation in the middle. And actress Kim Fields picked up the Bill Rosendahl Public Service Award for contributions to Burgerleven.
The stage was overwhelmed by perhaps more Honorees than ever taken the stage of the press club at the same time before a special price for a stellar reporting of the 2020 forest fires was accepted by news directors for all LA LAT local TV stations. The moving moment followed a mounting of news reporting that was broadcast during the disastrous fire in January. Newspapers stepped up to accept congratulations on behalf of ABC7, FOX11, KCAL News/CBS Los Angeles, KTLA, NBC4, Spectrum News 1, Telemundo 52 and Univision 34.
De La Press Club produces two prize shows every year. The other is the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, which are presented to journalists from all over the country; That event will take place on the Biltmore December 7.
