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About

THE BLOG

ScottFeinberg.com is a one-stop-destination for all things awards. The blog’s first-rate writers, each of whom specializes in one of the major mediums — film (Oscars), television (Emmys), or theater (Tonys) — provide regular posts featuring reporting, analysis, interviews, and projections.

THE BLOGGERS

SCOTT FEINBERG
Editor-in-Chief

Scott is one of Hollywood’s most trusted awards analysts. In addition to overseeing the operations of ScottFeinberg.com, he serves as lead awards analyst for The Hollywood Reporter, covering all things Emmys and Oscars in print and on “The Race,” which was recently nominated for the Los Angeles Press Club’s National Entertainment Journalism Award for best blog. He began on the awards beat in 2001, writing for independent websites before eventually joining the Los Angeles Times and then THR.

Over the years he has built one of the world’s best track records at forecasting the Oscars, highlighted by his performances in 2006 and 2013, when he correctly projected the winners in 21 of the 24 categories, tops among all pundits. (The specific calls that he is proudest of making, which virtually no other pundits made, are the best picture nomination of The Reader over The Dark Knight in ’09; the best picture nomination of The Blind Side in ’10; and the best picture nomination of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close in ’11.)

An alumnus of Brandeis University and a member of both the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association, he is currently writing a book about film history for young people, for which he has conducted nearly 500 interviews with high-profile industry figures from across the decades and disciplines of the medium. (You can watch select videos here.)

Scott has been described as having “one of the best Oscar prognostication track records” (Associated Press) and been called “one of the season’s most informed Oscarologists” (New York Times), “an awards oracle” (Variety), “an awards authority” (Vanity Fair), and “a one-man encyclopedia of top-shelf cinema” (New Haven Register). In the words of blogger Jeffrey Wells: “There are 12 or 15 smart Hollywood-driven reporting & commentary sites that you need to check in on regularly. Anyone who works in some corner of ‘the business’ who draws a total blank at the names Sasha Stone or Tom O’Neil or Anne Thompson or David Poland or Scott Feinberg or Nikki Finke or Mike Fleming or Stu Van Airsdale… no offense, but they’re just not playing with a full deck.”

MELISSA BUCKMAN
Managing Editor

Melissa, a graduate of the University of Georgia (where she studied journalism and film and was twice a student judge for the Peabody Awards), resides in Atlanta. She is a student of Millennials’ relationships with popular culture, and is also building an entertainment blog of her own.

RACHEL BENNETT
Television Editor & Columnist

Rachel, a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (where she studied journalism, film, and women’s studies), resides in North Carolina. She has contributed to numerous publications, including J-14 Magazine and Give Me My Remote.

JOEY MAGIDSON
Film Contributor

Joey, a graduate of Stony Brook University (where he studied Cinema and Cultural Studies), resides in Brooklyn, New York. He also contributes to several other film-related websites.

CARSON BLACKWELDER
Television Contributor

Carson, a senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (where he serves as the arts editor for The Daily Tar Heel), resides in North Carolina. He is co-president of the Carolina Association of Future Magazine Editors and spent this past summer working for TV Guide.

MARK PINKERT
Literary Contributor

Mark, a graduate of Emory University (where he studied English and History, and completed an honors dissertation entitled Paradise Lost: An Ontological Debate), resides in Los Angeles.  He is the director of instruction at a test prep start-up, an avid reader, and musician.

MEDIA COVERAGE

USA Today, 3/25/13
Wall Street Journal, 2/23/13
Washington Post, 2/23/13
ABCNews.com, 2/22/13
Reuters, 2/20/13
USA Today, 2/19/13
USA Today, 2/19/13
USA Today, 1/14/13
USA Today, 1/10/13
NPR, 1/3/13
Marketplace, 1/1/13
Associated Press, 1/1/13
FishbowlLA, 12/26/12
New York Times, 12/11/12
USA Today, 11/26/12
PerezHilton.com, 9/11/12
Associated Press, 9/6/12
WA Today, 9/2/12
FishbowlLA, 8/31/12
E! Online, 8/7/12
FishBowlLA, 3/23/12
USA Today, 3/12/12
USA Today, 2/21/12
New York Times, 2/7/12
New York Times, 1/23/12
Wall Street Journal, 1/14/12
Washington Post, 1/5/12
New York Times, 1/2/12
New York Times, 11/29/11
New York Times, 2/15/11
Wall Street Journal, 1/24/11
New York Times, 1/20/11
New England Innocence Project, 9/30/10
Metro, 9/2/10
New York Magazine, 8/27/10
HollywoodNews.com, 4/27/10
Associated Press, 2/2/10
New York Times, 1/8/10
“Entertainment Tonight”, 12/27/09
Associated Press, 2/19/09
Associated Press, 1/20/09
Nerve.com, 1/14/09
New York Times, 4/26/08
Vanity Fair, 2/26/08
New York Magazine, 2/26/08
New York Times, 2/19/08
Vanity Fair, 2/1/08
Vanity Fair, 1/23/08
Associated Press, 1/22/08
USA Today, 1/22/08
Associated Press, 1/22/08
Los Angeles Times, 12/18/07

TELEVISION APPEARANCES

“Will Brits Prevail at Oscars?” (BBC America), 2/20/13
“The Oscars-Globes Connection” (CNN), 1/10/13
“Predicting the Golden Globes” (E!), 1/7/13
“Remembering Jack Klugman” (BBC), 12/25/12
“Dissecting the Nominees for the 84th Oscars” (CBS), 1/25/12
“Final Picks for the 84th Oscars” (WTNH), 12/24/12
“2012 Oscars: Who Will Replace Eddie Murphy?” (KNBC), 11/9/11
“Summer Movie Highlights and Lowlights” (WTNH), 8/18/11
“Remembering Elizabeth Taylor” (WTNH), 3/25/11
“Final Picks for the 83rd Oscars” (WTNH), 2/25/11
“Reacting to the Oscar Nominees” (WTNH), 1/27/11
“Summer Movie Highlights and Lowlights” (WTNH), 7/21/10
“Hurt Locker Producer Gets Private Party” (KNBC), 3/5/10
“Final Picks for the 82nd Oscars” (WTNH), 2/24/10
“Amelia Kicks Off Awards Season” (WTNH), 10/23/09
“Tennis in the Movies” (WTNH), 8/28/09
“Michael Jackson’s Legacy” (WTNH), 6/29/09