Email Author Nikki Finke

Awards

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

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

• 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"

• 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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2005 Stories by Nikki Finke

• Silent Spielberg, Holy Protest: Will Oscar have the Balls for Munich?

  published December 1, 2005

  There will be no press junket, no premiere and, most importantly, no blowout Oscar marketing campaign for Steven... More >>

• Blame Ovitz: When Art Started Imitating Hollywood

  published November 17, 2005

  Illustrations by Miguel ValenzuelaRising to the highest ranks of Hollywood professionally and socially is not enough for most... More >>

• Props to You, Warren

  published November 10, 2005

  Finally, Warren Beatty has put his body where his mouth is. After years of hiding in his Mulholland mansion, heckling... More >>

• Life Not Quite Imitating Art

  published November 3, 2005

  It's an intriguing image: a brooding President Bush — beset with his multiple woes of more than 2,000 dead GIs in Iraq,... More >>

• Who Hates Their MTV?

  published October 13, 2005

  Let's talk about the end of civilization as we know it, in this case signified by the rise of Laguna Beach: The Real... More >>

• Plantation Hollywood

  published October 6, 2005

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• A Current Affair

  published September 29, 2005

  L.A. WEEKLY: You were hired at The New York Times by Howell Raines when... More >>

• The Andrés Martinez Mystery

  published September 29, 2005

  The Los Angeles Times’ new editorial-and-opinion editor, Andrés Martinez, is the personification of a... More >>

• They Shoot News Anchors: Part II

  published September 15, 2005

  At first, only CNN appeared not to have thoroughly read the proverbial memo. It was the only network, on air and on its Web... More >>

• They Shoot News Anchors, Don’t They?

  published September 8, 2005

  For the first 120 hours after Hurricane Katrina, TV journalists were let off their leashes by their mogul owners, the result... More >>

• The L.A. Times’ Drama-Critic Drama

  published September 1, 2005

  Untitled Document There's been a presidential election, two Olympics, a NASA tragedy and a war. That’s how long the... More >>

• Hollywood to Newsosaurs:Drop Dead

  published August 18, 2005

  In a surprising role reversal, Hollywood is about to deliver bad news to the Los Angeles Times and... More >>

• The Michael Kinsley Experiment Ends

  published July 28, 2005

  Years ago, there was a notorious movie based on a best-selling book called The Harrad Experiment, whose plot... More >>

• Baquet Begins - Web Exclusive Update

  published July 21, 2005

  There was never any doubt that Dean Baquet would lead the Los Angeles Times. The only question was the timing, and... More >>

• Whip It Good

  published July 21, 2005

  Wow, moviegoers really, really hate the moviemakers. That’s the only conclusion I can draw after reading the... More >>

• How to Cure Hollywood’s Summertime Blues

  published July 7, 2005

  If I were a movie mogul, I’d study that episode of Seinfeld when George realizes that, in order to be a... More >>

• Requiem for Anita Busch

  published June 23, 2005

  In the movies, reporters are mostly made out to be sleazy louts (It Happened One Night) or... More >>

• Here’s to You, Mrs. Robinson

  published June 9, 2005

  When I first met Anne Bancroft, she was nursing a sprained ankle, but stylishly so. Draped dramatically along the length of a... More >>

• Bulworth? B.S.

  published June 2, 2005

  Apropos of yet another “will-he-or-won’t-he” media psychodrama starring Warren Beatty as a possible... More >>

• New York Times Names Its Top Culture Vulture

  published May 26, 2005

  After a long, long, long deliberation process that pitted two popular editors — Sam Sifton and Jim Schachter — against one... More >>

• Hollywood Lawyers in Love

  published May 19, 2005

  If you see a porky pixie whiz by your window, don’t panic: It’s just pigs flying in Hollywood now that two... More >>

• Celebs to the Slaughter

  published May 12, 2005

  Judging from Monday’s horrific debut of the humongously pre-hyped celebrity blog the Huffington Post, the Madonna of the... More >>

• Hollywood Lived Here

  published April 28, 2005

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• Really Big Packages

  published April 21, 2005

  What unmitigated gall. Entertainment Weekly suspended its usual pabulum spewing to piss on celebrity perk packages in its... More >>

• Trailer of Tears

  published April 7, 2005

  Adam Sandler looks like Albert Brooks’ older brother. Nicole... More >>