IndieWire Earns Six SoCal Journalism Award Nominations, Including Best Website and TV Critic

IndieWire was honored by the LA Press Club for work by current and former staff members and freelance contributors.

IndieWire has received six nominations at the 2026 SoCal Journalism Awards, announced on Monday May 11. The award nominations, honoring the best in entertainment journalism during the 2025 calendar year, were announced by the LA Press Club, which also organizes the National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards.

The staff of the website was nominated for Best Website, for their coverage of the entertainment industry year-round. In addition, IndieWire TV critic Ben Travers was nominated for Best Criticism of TV, for his work covering new releases throughout 2025.

Ryan Lattanzio and Anne Thompson were nominated in the Entertainment Reporting Category for their story “Neon’s Tom Quinn Reveals His Oscar-Whisperer Secrets Ahead of the Cannes Awards,” an episode of the IndieWire podcast “Screen Talk.”

Alison Foreman was nominated in the Entertainment News: Film/Broadcast category for her story “I Survived ‘The Long Walk’ Treadmill Challenge — What 5 Miles with the New Stephen King Classic Felt Like.”

Former IndieWire weekend editor Rance Collins was nominated in the News Feature: Film/Broadcast Related category for his story “When Hollywood ‘Went Gay All of a Sudden’: TCM Highlights Films That Track Queer Evolution.” Collins was additionally nominated in the Lifestyle Feature category for his feature “How Cinespia Turned a Cemetery Into L.A.’s Weekend Hot Spot.”

Collins was also nominated for Online Journalist, Independent/Freelance, for his work at IndieWire as well as the Beverly Press, Los Angeles Magazine, and Variety. Beandrea July was additionally nominated in the Criticism of Film (over 1,000) words category, for her work at IndieWire as well as SEEN Journal.

Last year, IndieWire was nominated for a record 11 SoCal Journalism Awards. The website ultimately won four awards at the 67th ceremony, including Best Website, News Organization Exclusive to the Internet, honoring the entire staff. Additional awards the organization picked up included a Criticism of TV award for Travers; News Feature, Film/Broadcast Related for Brian Welk, honoring his reporting of states using tax credits and other methods to attract film and TV productions; and Regular Podcast for Sarah Shachat and Trevor Wallace for an episode of the “Filmmaker Toolkit” Podcast.

The 68th SoCal Journalism Awards will be held June 28 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.