Selection gained 16 first-place awards on the SoCal Journalism Awards Sunday night time, greater than every other leisure outlet. The haul doubled Selection‘s tally of eight from final 12 months, and set a brand new excessive mark for the publication on the awards, besting the earlier peak of 14 achieved in 2023.

Among the many wins have been a prime trophy for Selection.com as finest web site, and an honor for Chris Willman for leisure journalist of the 12 months.

The Los Angeles Press Membership offered the awards at a sold-out banquet on the Millennium Biltmore attended by greater than 550 journalists. The 2025 ceremony awarded work printed throughout the 2024 calendar 12 months. Selection went into the occasion with 93 nominations in 56 classes.

Selection staffers and contributors choosing up first-place trophies included Daniel D’Addario, Jennifer Dorn, Owen Gleiberman, Angelique Jackson, Neil Jamieson, Ted Keller, Haley Kluge, Emily Longeretta, Jonny Marlow, J. Kim Murphy, Rebecca Rubin, Ramin Setoodeh, Tatiana Siegel, Greg Swales and Abbey White.

Selection‘s artwork and pictures division fared particularly properly on this 12 months’s awards, with inventive director Haley Kluge and picture director Jennifer Dorn sharing three honors, and design director Ted Keller being awarded as properly. The award for finest portrait picture went to {a photograph} of Demi Moore (gained by Kluge and Dorn with Greg Swales). Finest cowl artwork was gained by the journal’s Anna Taylor-Pleasure cowl (with honors going to Kluge, Dorn and Jonny Marlow). And the workforce got here by as soon as once more with an award for web page design, for a “Star Trek” package deal (awarded to Kluge, Dorn, Keller and Neil Jamieson).

Willman, senior author and chief music critic for Selection, gained 4 awards throughout the night time. Along with leisure journalist of the 12 months, he was awarded finest journal columnist, for a number of his opinion items; finest music characteristic, for his cowl story “How Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Took Over the Total World”; and finest theater characteristic, for “‘Randy Newman’s Faust,’ the Songwriter’s Good however Hardly ever  Produced Stage Musical, Rises Once more for a Weekend in L.A. on the Soraya.”

Chief movie critic Owen Gleiberman was a repeat winner in a class he has typically claimed, finest movie criticism.

Chief correspondent Daniel D’Addario and co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh shared the glory for finest movie characteristic for the duvet story “Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey on Making ‘Queer’.” 

Tatiana Siegel, Selection‘s govt editor for movie/media, gained for finest character profile within the music personalities division for her article “Fugees Founder Pras Michél Speaks Out Whereas Going through 22 Years in  Jail: ‘I By no means Wished to Be a Spy’.” 

Angelique Jackson, senior leisure author for Selection, picked up the character profile award within the movie personalities division for her story “Zoe Saldaña Rebooted: Why the Motion Star Broke Her ‘Cycle of  Sequels’ for ‘Emilia Pérez’ — And Her One Want for Marvel’s Subsequent Gamora.”

Emily Longeretta, the journal’s TV options editor, gained the award for character profile within the TV personalities division for “Mariska Hargitay on Making a TV Icon, Dick Wolf’s ‘Powerful Love,’ Combating for Kelli Giddish and 20 Years of Serving to Survivors of Sexual Violence.”

Rebecca Rubin, senior movie reporter, was the recipient of the award for leisure information, performing arts division, for her behind-the-scenes story “Contained in the Tony Awards: From Jay-Z’s Foyer Act, an Unintended F Bomb to Overzealous Ushers, Right here’s What You Didn’t See on TV.” 

J. Kim Murphy,  affiliate information editor for Selection.com, prevailed for finest TV/streaming/radio characteristic for his story “Welcome to ‘Ren Faire’: Lance Oppenheim’s HBO Docuseries Follows a Pageant Trapped in a Actual-Life Recreation of Thrones.” 

And for finest on-line theater/performing arts characteristic, the award went to freelance author Abbey White for his or her story “Disabled Comedians Communicate Out on Efficiency and Profession Obstacles  Due To Widespread Trade Inaccessibility: ‘I Need There to Be Extra of Us’.” 

Your entire employees of Selection.com shared within the publication successful the coveted award for finest web site for a standard information group.

Selection staffers additionally gained greater than 25 second- and third-place awards that have been introduced Sunday night time as properly.

The ceremony on the Biltmore included the L.A. Press Membership‘s customary honorary awards to veteran newspeople or celebrities for his or her work in journalism or philanthropy. A standing ovation went to veteran Los Angeles Occasions sports activities columnist Invoice Plaschke, who was given the Joseph M. Quinn Award for lifetime achievement. The Daniel Pearl Award for braveness and integrity in journalism went to Clarissa Ward of CNN, who needed to settle for through a video message on account of her being on task overlaying the breaking scenario within the Center East. And actress Kim Fields picked up the Invoice Rosendahl Public Service Award for contributions to civic life.

The stage was overrun by maybe extra honorees than had ever taken the Press Membership’s stage concurrently earlier than when a Particular Award for Stellar Protection of the 2020 Wildfires was accepted by information administrators for all of L.A.’s native TV stations. The shifting second adopted a montage of reports protection aired throughout the disastrous hearth in January. Newspeople stepped as much as settle for congratulations on behalf of ABC7, Fox11, KCAL Information/CBS Los Angeles, KTLA, NBC4, Spectrum Information 1, Telemundo 52 and Univision 34.

The L.A. Press Membership produces two awards reveals annually. The opposite is the Nationwide Arts & Leisure Journalism Awards, that are offered to journalists from throughout the nation; that occasion will happen on the Biltmore Dec. 7.