Variety has been nominated for 97 National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards together with nominations for finest leisure publication and finest leisure information web site.

“We are incredibly proud of the Variety newsroom for another outstanding year as the No. 1 news organization covering the business of Hollywood,” mentioned co-editors-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh and Cynthia Littleton. “We congratulate all these deserving nominees from our editorial staff, art department and video team.”

First up, Variety’s particular WGA strike subject titled, “No Words: What the Writers Strike Means for Hollywood,” was nominated for finest leisure publication of the 12 months. That identical subject was additionally nominated for each its web page format and canopy artwork (managed by artistic director Haley Kluge).

Following last year’s trend, senior music author and chief music critic Chris Willman as soon as once more topped the checklist of nominations. Willman secured 9 nominations: print journalist of the 12 months, finest music critic, finest books critic, motion photograph, music personality profile over 2,500 words for his profile on Jack White, theater characteristic with senior artisans editor Jazz Tangcay, finest superstar information, and humanities characteristic below 1,000 phrases.

Brent Lang follows with six nominations, together with finest film-related enterprise writing (with senior leisure author Adam B. Vary for their piece on Warner Brothers and “Batgirl“), best film personality profile over 2,500 words (“Brendan Fraser’s Triumphant Comeback: How Playing a 600-Pound Gay Man in ‘The Whale’ Resurrected His Career”), and finest TV/streaming persona profile over 2,500 phrases (another cover profiling Michael J. Fox). In addition to his nomination with Lang, Vary additionally obtained 4 nods himself.

Variety.com editor William Earl was nominated in 5 classes together with double noms for laborious information and singular nods for humor writing, persona profile of a TV persona and on-line journalist of the 12 months.

Chief correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister additionally obtained 5 nominations for her movie persona profile on Cate Blanchett, her under-30-minutes quick on Brooke Shields, her work in superstar information and her work in superstar characteristic.

Variety recipients of 4 nominations embody options editor Jenelle Riley, senior music editor Jem Aswad, TV options editor Emily Longeretta, worldwide correspondent Naman Ramachandran, senior TV editor Brian Steinberg and social media editor Katcy Stephan.

Earning three noms every have been TV enterprise reporter Selome Hailu, chief movie critic for Variety Owen Gleiberman (who additionally landed the nom for finest critic), senior awards editor Clayton Davis, senior leisure author Angelique Jackson and senior VP Tim Gray (who was nominated for finest columnist as properly).

With two nods every, the NAEJ honored senior movie author Matt Donnelly, govt editor of movie and media Tatiana Siegel and TV editor Michael Schneider (who was additionally nominated for finest columnist) and Jazz Tangcay.

Other Variety nominations embody senior media reporter Gene Maddaus, chief TV critic Daniel D’Addario, deputy editor Pat Saperstein, Asia editor Patrick Frater, affiliate music editor Thania Garcia, movie and media reporter Rebecca Rubin, affiliate editor Ethan Shanfeld, affiliate editor J. Kim Murphy, editor at giant Kate Aurthur, senior editor Todd Gilchrist, deputy editor Diane Garrett and affiliate internet editor Michaela Zee.

The Variety video group, led by Nicholas Stango, obtained a nod for its broadcast work about range within the TV trade because of their work on “Variety and DIRECTV’s Power of Women ‘On the Carpet’ Pre-Show Live.” This included noms for Jackson, Longeretta, Wagmeister, Davis and supervising producer Laela Schmidt.

“Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast” obtained a nomination for finest hosts, together with Schneider, Davis, Tangcay, Riley and Longeretta.

Visual content material director Jennifer Dorn obtained seven nominations for her work within the visible discipline together with nods for finest photograph essay with photographer Alexi Lumbomirski on Variety’s “Actors on Actors.” Kluge was additionally nominated seven occasions which included the the aforementioned “No Words” cowl together with photographer Platon and Dorn for his or her work on Variety’s Michael J. Fox cowl story.

Variety.com additionally earned the celebrated nomination for finest leisure web site and social media editor Stephan took residence double nominations for finest journalistic use of social media to inform or improve a narrative.

The National Arts & Entertainment Journalism awards are introduced yearly by the Los Angeles Press Club. See the complete checklist of nominees here.