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AWARDEE. Rappler’s ‘Only IN Hollywood’ columnist takes home 3 prizes at the prestigious 14th National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards in te US.
Photo courtesy of Ruben Nepales
Rappler’s ‘Only IN Hollywood’ columnist takes home 3 prizes at the prestigious US-based competition
- Ruben V. Nepales, a columnist for Rappler, received multiple awards at the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards.
- His photojournalism book, Through a Writer’s Lens, was recognized for its quality and content, while he also earned accolades for his essays and blog.
- Nepales has a notable background as a Filipino entertainment photojournalist and has held significant positions within the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
MANILA, Philippines –Rappler’s Only IN Hollywood columnist Ruben V. Nepales has taken home three prestigious prizes from the 14th National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards ceremony, which was done virtually on Friday, February 18, in the US.
Nepales’ photojournalism book Through a Writer’s Lenswon first prize for Best Non-Fiction Book. It was hailed by the judges as an “impressive coffee-table book” that is “beautiful, informative, and trier 1,000 candid portraits of celebrities he had interviewed in a span of over two decades, was released in November 2020
Second and third prizes went to Yahoo Entertainment’s Lyndsey Parker and Mercy Fontenot for Permanent Damage: Memoirs of an Outrageous Girl, and to BookBaby’s Sandro Monetti forConfessions of a Hollywood Insider, respectively.
Nepales also won third prize under the Soft News, Film category for his Only IN Hollywoodessay, From sublime to sassy – what Oscars winners said ‘backstage’,published in Rappler in April 2021. The top prize went to Angelique Jackson from Variety.
Nepales also took home the third prize award for Best Entertainment Blog by an Individual/Group, Tied to an Organization for his Rappler entertainment column, Only IN Hollywood. He is in the top three with first prize recipient Sharon Waxman of The Wrapand The Hollywood Reporter’sAshley Cullins and Eriq Gardner.
The awards ceremony of the US-wide competition, which is usually held at Los Angeles’ Biltmore Hotel, was remotely presented by the Los Angeles Press Club.
Nepales’ Only IN Hollywoodcolumn has exclusively run on Rappler since mid-2020. It previously ran on the Philippine Daily Inquirerfor 15 years.
Nepales, a Filipino entertainment photojournalist and writer, immigrated to the US in the 1980s from his hometown Calasiao, Pangasinan. He became the first Filipino to be a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), an organization of journalists around the globe behind the Golden Globe Awards.
Nepales was also the first and only Filipino to be elected chairman of the HFPA board in 2012. In 2019, he was elected executive secretary and served until 2021. – Rappler.com
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