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IndieWire Receives 6 Nominations at SoCal Journalism Awards in 2026

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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.

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Stephen Colbert Mocks MAGA for Paying for Trump Phone That May Never Launch

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Stephen Colbert roasted MAGA supporters for putting money down on the mobile phone with President Donald Trump’s name on it, as the fine print now suggests it may never ship.

The late night host weighed in on the tech update during Tuesday’s monologue for “The Late Show,” where he explained why some customers for the “T1 Phone,” which was introduced last summer, should carefully read the fine print.

 “I guess not all the news out there is bad,” Colbert said. “Some of it is bad and funny because remember last summer, when Trump rolled out a new phone service, called Trump Mobile, featuring this $499 gold Trump -branded phone handsomely styled to look like a skin tag that fell off C3PO.”

As Colbert went on, he resurfaced the joke he made when the phone was first announced, noting in the throwback clip: “The T1 Phone, which for some reason is in quotes on the website, possibly so they can have plausible deniability when your T1 Phone turns out to be a foil wrapped hash brown.”

Back in the studio, Colbert then shared that the “joke wasn’t fair,” as customers are “not getting hash browns — ’cause you’re not getting anything!”

“Today we learned the terms on the Trump mobile site now indicate that the phones may never arrive,” he added. “His supporters were super excited about this a year ago. Trump got a lot of pre-orders for these non-existent phones. Reportedly, around 600,000 people put down $100 deposits for the phone way back in June of 2025 when it was announced by Trump’s sons, Don Jr. and Eric.”

The comedian proceeded to call out those who put money down, saying, “These people didn’t even get scammed by the top Trump. How humiliating to get bamboozled by his babies. It’s like saying, ‘Yeah, I got shaken down by Capone. Not Al, his son, Kyle Capone. He does a podcast.’”

Per Colbert, the fine print for Trump Mobile’s phone was updated, explaining there was no guarantee that the device will be commercially released or that regulatory approvals will be obtained.

“That is quite the broad caveat,” Colbert said. “I, Mark, take you, Wendy, to be my wife. Vows do not guarantee that I will love, honor, and cherish with any specific time frame or that I don’t have a secret family in Tucson.”

Before moving on, Colbert highlighted that “people are hella pissed” over the update, playing one Trump supporter’s heated response to the news.

Watch Colbert’s full monologue above.

“The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. ET on CBS.

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Jimmy Kimmel Jokes About Disney Pulling Him Off the Air at Upfronts

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Jimmy Kimmel made light of Disney pulling him off the air and Donald Trump’s continued effort to get him fired at Disney’s Tuesday upfronts, joking about how much the target on his back has made him a liability for Disney.

As Kimmel took the New York City stage, he joked that all of the “bulls–t” he’s dealt with in the past year has given him a greater appreciation for the regular “bulls–t” that is May’s infamous upfronts week in the city.

“The president has tried to f–k me twice over the last six months — that’s one way to look at it,” Kimmel said during his monologue. “Another way, you could also say, I’ve generated unparalleled engagement across a variety of platforms.”

In addition to that attention, Kimmel admitted he’s cost Disney “a lot of money this year, billions.” “It is very possible that no employee in the history of any company has cost their employer more,” he said. “Hiring me 24 years ago, just from a purely mathematical standpoint, was the worst personnel decision that Disney Corporation has ever made.”

With that in mind, he jokingly sent out Guillermo Rodriguez into the crowd of advertisers during the rest of his monologue to collect money in a collection basket. “It would help me a lot, if you could kick in a little lecture this year,” Kimmel said.

While Kimmel addressed the heat he’s been getting up top, he wasn’t shy about pointing out the other controversies ABC has faced, including the Taylor Frankie Paul debacle, joking that, typically, to get a show pulled off the network there would’ve been video of its lead throwing a chair.

“As for us at ABC, except for all the domestic violence, we’re doing really great,” he said later on in the presentation.

Outside of ABC, Kimmel fired plenty of shots at the other networks, including CBS, which will see “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” replaced by Byron Allen’s “Comics Unleashed” as they lease the time slot, or as Kimmel calls it the “least likely to offend the president with a rerun of ‘Comics Unleashed’ from 2007 featuring Paula Poundstone and Andy Dick.”

“Poor Stephen — it’s bad enough to lose your job — imagine getting replaced by the owner of the Weather Channel,” he said.

The shade was spread across the other broadcast networks, with Kimmel joking someone at NBC is “f–king the mayor of Chicago” with all the renewals for the “One Chicago” franchise. As for Fox, the “Baywatch” revival jokes nearly wrote themselves.

“Poor Fox was in last place again, and their big plan to turn that around is a revival of ‘Baywatch,’” Kimmel began. “Michael Thorn, the president of Fox, said the new ‘Baywatch’ will bring the California Dream to a whole new generation of fans with fresh stories they can masturbate to in the living room when no one is home.”

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Donald Trump Bears Down on Female Reporter, Says You Dumb Person … You Are Not a Smart Person

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Donald Trump lashed out at yet another female reporter, this time as he was pressed about the increasing price tag of his ballroom

Before boarding his Tuesday flight to China, the president spent several minutes taking questions from the press on the White House lawn when one reporter questioned the doubled budget of Trump’s pet project. He was quick to snap back at her with usual name-calling that has become common practice – especially when it comes to women holding the mic.

“We have a ballroom that’s under budget,” Trump began “It’s going up right here. I’ve doubled the size of it because we obviously need that. And we’re right now on budget, under budget, and ahead of schedule.”

The president was then asked about the price to put up the unnecessary ballroom also jumping in price, and that was when he leaned in closely to the w0man, who was not identified in the video.

“I doubled the size of it, you dumb person!” Trump growled. “Doubled the size! You are not a smart person.”

Estimates for Trump’s ballroom now sit around $400 million, which is indeed twice what was originally reported at $200 million. Republicans in Congress are also working on a $1 billion proposal for the ballroom.

Trump has a growing history of lobbing insults and attacks at female reporters as his second term continues. Toward the end of 2025, the president had a run where he didn’t go more than a few days before making headlines for his latest insult.

Reporters from ABC News, CNN, CBS News, Bloomberg News and the New York Times have all been targeted by Trump following questions he didn’t like. He has used words like “nasty,” “piggy,” “terrible,” “ugly” and “incapable” while attacking female reporters for doing their job.

“President Trump has never been politically correct, never holds back, and in large part, the American people re-elected him for his transparency,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson previously said in a statement. “This has nothing to do with gender – it has everything to do with the fact that the President’s and the public’s trust in the media is at all time lows.”

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