Variety won 20 first-place trophies Sunday night at the 18th annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, up from the 14 wins the publication scored in last year’s competition.

Variety scored across a wide spectrum of categories for work published across 2024-25, with the wins coming in divisions ranging from hard news and business reporting to commentary and criticism to photography and cover art. The tally of 20 was the most for any print-based publication in the 2025 competition, sponsored by the Los Angeles Press Club .

Among the accolades was a win for Print Journalist of the Year for chief music critic and senior writer Chris Willman, one of five awards he picked up this year.

Also scoring first-place prizes for writing and reporting were Kate Aurthur, Leo Barraclou

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