Email Author Nikki Finke

Awards

• 2008 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published June 15, 2007

  "Deadline Hollywood: Fade to Black"

• 2008 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published January 26, 2007

  "Deadline Hollywood: The Scars of Oscar"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 6, 2007

  "Deadline Hollywood: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 30, 2007

  "Deadline Hollywood: Dangerous Liaisons"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 2, 2007

  "Deadline Hollywood: Goodbye Baquet, Hello O'Shea"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Deadline Hollywood Daily: Worst Talent Deal Ever?"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Deadline Hollywood Daily: WGA Talks Collapse: East Strike On!"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Deadline Hollywood Daily: NBC Shake-up: My Final Wrap & Analysis"

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  "Deadline Hollywood"

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published November 9, 2007

  "Deals, Lies and Back Channels"

• 2008 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published September 14, 2007

  "Deadline Hollywood: I Know What You Did Last Summer"

• 2007 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published September 21, 2006

  "Cash and Carrey"

• 2007 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published November 2, 2006

  "Blood From Stones"

• 2007 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published August 24, 2006

  "War of the Words"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 24, 2006

  "Blood Diamond Director Blasts Gossip as Appalling..."

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 20, 2006

  "Why Hollywood Gets No Work Done"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 21, 2006

  "Hollywood Minorities Complain to Me"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 23, 2005

  Deadline Hollywood:1

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 15, 2005

  Deadline Hollywood:2

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 28, 2005

  Deadline Hollywood:3

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2004 Stories by Nikki Finke

• Hollywood Overheard

  published December 23, 2004

  "MTV was completely unaware of it." Janet Jackson’s statement after a "wardrobe malfunction" bared her breast during... More >>

• Mistrial of the Century

  published December 16, 2004

  With Hollywood becoming the electoral-season punching bag, how comforting to see that the entertainment biz is a boffo... More >>

• Web Exclusive: NYT Names New TV Beat Reporter

  published December 9, 2004

  The New York Times has gone inside for its New York–based TV entertainment beat reporter, naming Jacques Steinberg. The vetera... More >>

• Web Exclusive: Does Woody Allen Just Write Like Rick Moranis?

  published December 9, 2004

  Do great comic minds think alike? Or is there something more? In the December 13 issue of The New Yorker, Woody Allen imagines... More >>

• All Shook Up?

  published December 9, 2004

  When the William Morris Agency’s board next meets Thursday, what probably won’t be discussed is far more interesting than wh... More >>

• They Hate Me, They Really Hate Me

  published November 25, 2004

  As a journalist, you reach a certain point where you realize your career has come so far, and no farther. I‘ll never win ... More >>

• Failing Upward, a True Hollywood Story

  published November 18, 2004

  Among the many stupid things that Los Angeles Times editorial and opinion editor Michael Kinsley has done since his arrival there,... More >>

• The Gospel Hours

  published November 11, 2004

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• New York Times Searches…Ovitz Screeches

  published November 11, 2004

  Attention, all you TV and movie freelancers for The New York Times suddenly writing daily: Your absurdly low-paying gigs... More >>

• Bush Wins the Air War

  published November 4, 2004

  No doubt Leo, Ben, Bruce, Bon Jovi and the other show-biz campaigners for John Kerry are as despondent post-election as the rest of... More >>

• Lies and the Dirty Liars Who Tell Them

  published October 28, 2004

  THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS in life that disappoint, and people who don’t live up to their billing. But not Michael Ovitz, in what i... More >>

• Where’s Their Sense of Decency?

  published October 14, 2004

  Photo by AP/WideWorld FOR ALL THE BAD RAP that Hollywood receives, its stars do the most good when they get behind medical causes. One... More >>

• When Might Turns Right

  published September 30, 2004

  ON ANY GIVEN DAY, the major TV networks rarely demonstrate good judgment, much less morality, when it comes to accepting a litany of... More >>

• Angel on the Bus

  published September 23, 2004

  Photo by John Clifford Hollywood is so self-obsessed that it tends to associate words like voting and ballot with Emmy and... More >>

• UPDATE: More Buzz in Hirsch’s Hornet’s Nest

  published September 16, 2004

  September 17 — And who ever said Hollywood attorneys were boring? Certainly not Barry Hirsch’s ex–law partners, who today file... More >>

• Does Mr. Middle-of-the-Road Lean Left?

  published September 16, 2004

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• Serving Il Disney Duce’s Head on a Silver Platter

  published September 9, 2004

  Today’s so-called "big" and "stunning" and "end of an era" news that Michael Eisner is going to leave Disney when his contract is up i... More >>

• Strange Love

  published September 2, 2004

  THE PLAYER AGENCY Griffin Mill’s opening remarks at Wednesday’s Motion Picture Meeting: We don’t norma... More >>

• Hirsch’s Hornet’s Nest

  published August 26, 2004

  Illustration by Ryan Ward It’s not often that entertainment attorneys start aiming their stingers at one another, much less inside the sam... More >>

• Newspaper Tigers

  published August 12, 2004

  The war began with a pre-emptive strike at the enemy. It wasn’t long before the first attackers quickly snatched the upper hand. But then th... More >>

• Do You IMDB?

  published August 5, 2004

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• Bernard Weinraub calling it quits at The New York Times

  published July 29, 2004

  After 13 years covering Hollywood, Bernard Weinraub, the veteran New York Times reporter, is calling it quits. He flew to New York... More >>

• Kerry Shoots for the Hip

  published July 29, 2004

  TALK ABOUT DESPERATE. The news networks succeeded only in embarrassing themselves by working way too hard to attract a younger... More >>

• Amy Wallace Leaves L.A. Mag To return to LAT

  published July 22, 2004

  Sounding like journalism’s version of Xena: The Warrior Princess and proclaiming "We’re going to win" the ongoing... More >>

• Giving Conservatives Moore Nightmares

  published July 15, 2004

  He’s as creatively talented as Michael Moore and even more of a political activist, but to this point practically unknown b... More >>