Justin Chang Wins for Film Criticism
Film critic Justin Chang won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for criticism on Monday for a diverse and “massively provocative” body of work that telegraphs how Americans now watch movies.
The New YorkerThe current film critic won the award on Monday for his work 2023. Los Angeles Timeswhere he worked until early 2024. New York Review of Books 2022 Movie Review the wireAnd The New YorkerTheater critic Vinson Cunningham for numerous reviews testified to “a great knowledge of stage and performance mechanics as well as brilliant observations on the human condition”.
During the 2024 event, the late cultural critic Greg Tate—who wrote Village Voice And rolling Stone – Also received a special citation for his work. “His language, intertwined with literature, academia, popular culture and hip-hop, was as influential as the content of his ideas,” Miller said in Monday’s announcement. It added that Tate’s “aesthetics, innovations, and intellectual originality, particularly in his critical hip-hop criticism, continue to influence generations to come, especially writers and critics of color.” Tate died in 2021.
Pulitzer Prize organizer Marjorie Miller announced the winners and nominees for the 2024 awards, considered journalism’s most prestigious, on Monday at Columbia University. Winners of the awards, which span 15 journalism categories and eight categories for letters, drama and music, receive $15,000 in prizes, with one exception: the winner of the public service category receives a gold medal instead.
Breaking news went to the Pulitzer staff during the event. See Santa Cruz Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for reporting on the January 2023 floods that had devastating local effects. The New York Times Author Hannah Dreyer received a Public Service Award for a series of stories exposing immigrant child labor in the U.S. ProPublica received a series of stories exploring the ties of Supreme Court justices to billionaires. while the Reuters staff was awarded the National Reporting Award for investigative reporting. On Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Tesla businesses.
In the arts categories, author Jane Ann Phillips won the fiction prize for her novel The night watchman And Jacqueline Jones won the History Prize for her book. No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggle of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era. Jonathan Egge and Eleon Wu shared biographical Pulitzers for their books. King: A Life And Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedomrespectively, while that of Ebony Booth Primary Trust won the drama award and Tyshawn Sorey’s “Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith)” won the music award.