Entertainment Weekly is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

, published by the Time

Time Inc.

Time Inc. is a subsidiary of the media conglomerate Time Warner, the company formed by the 1990 merger of the original Time Inc. and Warner Communications. It publishes 130 magazines, most notably its namesake, Time...

 division of Time Warner

Time Warner

Time Warner is one of the world's largest media companies, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Formerly two separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc...

, that covers film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

, television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

, music

Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

, broadway theatre

Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

, book

Book

A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of hot lava, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf or leaflet, and each side of a leaf is called a page...

s and popular culture

Popular culture

Popular culture is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the...

. Unlike celebrity-focused publications Us Weekly

Us Weekly

Us Weekly is a celebrity gossip magazine, founded in 1977 by The New York Times Company, who sold it in 1980. It was acquired by Wenner Media in 1986. The publication covers topics ranging from celebrity relationships to the latest trends in fashion, beauty, and entertainment...

, People Weekly

People (magazine)

In 1998, the magazine introduced a version targeted at teens called Teen People. However, on July 27, 2006, the company announced it would shut down publication of Teen People immediately. The last issue to be released was scheduled for September 2006. Subscribers to this magazine received...

, and In Touch Weekly

In Touch Weekly

In Touch Weekly is an American celebrity gossip magazine. The magazine is focused on celebrity news, fashion, beauty, relationships and lifestyle, and is geared towards a younger readership, billing itself as "fast and fun", along with making claims about their lower cover price on their front...

, EWs primary concentration is on entertainment media news and critical reviews

Review

A review is an evaluation of a publication, a product or a service, such as a movie , video game, musical composition , book ; a piece of hardware like a car, home appliance, or computer; or an event or performance, such as a live music concert, a play, musical theater show or dance show...

. Unlike Variety

Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...

 and The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter

Formerly a daily trade magazine, The Hollywood Reporter re-launched in late 2010 as a unique hybrid publication serving the entertainment industry and a consumer audience...

, which are aimed at industry insiders, EW targets a more general audience.

History

Created by Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis is an American journalist. Previously he was a television critic for TV Guide and People magazine, creator of Entertainment Weekly, Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News, and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner.-Career:Until recently Jarvis was...

, the magazine's original television advertising soliciting pre-publication subscribers portrayed it as a consumer guide to popular culture, including movies, music, and book reviews, sometimes with video game and stage reviews, too. ("the post-modern Farmers' Almanac").

The first issue was published on February 16, 1990, and featured singer k.d. lang

K.D. Lang

Kathryn Dawn Lang, OC , known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress...

 on its cover. The title word "entertainment" was not capitalized on the cover until mid-1992 and has remained so since. By 2003, the magazine's weekly circulation averaged 1.7 million copies per week. In March 2006, managing editor Rick Tetzeli oversaw an overhaul of EWs graphics and layout to reflect a more-modern look.

Typical content and frequency

The magazine features celebrities on the cover and addresses topics such as television ratings, movie grosses, production costs, concert ticket sales, ad budgets, and in-depth articles about scheduling, producers, showrunners, etc.

It publishes several "double issues" each year (usually in January, May, June and/or August) that are available on newsstands for two weeks; because the magazine numbers its issues sequentially, it counts each double issue as "two" issues so that it can fulfil its marketing claim of 52 issues per year for subscribers.

Layout

Entertainment Weekly follows a typical magazine format by featuring a letters to the editor

Letter to the editor

A letter to the editor is a letter sent to a publication about issues of concern from its readers. Usually, letters are intended for publication...

 and table of contents

Table of contents

A table of contents, usually headed simply "Contents" and abbreviated informally as TOC, is a list of the parts of a book or document organized in the order in which the parts appear...

 in the first few pages, while also featuring advertisements. While many advertisements are unrelated to the entertainment industry, the majority of ads are typically related to up-and-coming television, film or music events.

News and Notes

These beginning articles open the magazine and as a rule focus on current events in pop culture. The whole section typically runs eight to ten pages long, and features short news articles, as well as several specific recurring sections:

• "The Must List" is a two-page spread highlighting ten things (books, movies, songs, etc.) that the staff loves from the week; it usually features one pick from EW readers.
• "First Look", subtitled "An early peek at some of Hollywood's coolest projects", is a two-page spread with behind-the-scenes or publicity stills of upcoming movies, television episodes or music events.
• "The Shaw Report" is a small sidebar
  Sidebar (publishing)
  In publishing, sidebar is a term for information placed adjacent to an article in a printed or Web publication, graphically separate but with contextual connection.The term has long been used in newspaper and magazine layout...
  
   feature, written by Jessica Shaw that rates several trios of related trends: one that is "in"; one that is "five minutes ago" (recently fashionable but no longer so); and one that is "out".
• "The Hit List", written each week by critic Scott Brown, highlights ten major events, with short comedic commentaries by Brown. Typically, there will be some continuity to the commentaries. This column was originally written by Jim Mullen and featured twenty events each week, and Dalton Ross later wrote an abbreviated version.
• "The Hollywood Insider" is a one-page section that reports breaking news in entertainment. It gives details, in the separate columns, on the most-current news in television, movie and music.
• "The Style Report" is a one-page section devoted to celebrity style
  Fashion
  Fashion, a general term for a currently popular style or practice, especially in clothing, foot wear, or accessories. Fashion references to anything that is the current trend in look and dress up of a person...
  
  . Because its focus is on celebrity fashion or lifestyle, it is graphically rich in nature, featuring many photographs or other images. Recently, the page converted to a new format: five pictures of celebrity fashions for the week, graded on the magazine's review "A"-to-"F" scale (see Reviews section below). A spin-off section, "Style Hunter", which finds reader-requested articles of clothing or accessories that have appeared in pop culture recently, appears frequently.
• "The Monitor" is a two-page spread devoted to major events in celebrity lives with small paragraphs highlighting events such as weddings, illnesses, arrests, court appearances, and deaths. Deaths of major celebrities are typically detailed in a one-half- or full-page obituary
  Obituary
  An obituary is a news article that reports the recent death of a person, typically along with an account of the person's life and information about the upcoming funeral. In large cities and larger newspapers, obituaries are written only for people considered significant...
  
   titled "Legacy". This feature is nearly identical to sister publication People
  People (magazine)
  In 1998, the magazine introduced a version targeted at teens called Teen People. However, on July 27, 2006, the company announced it would shut down publication of Teen People immediately. The last issue to be released was scheduled for September 2006. Subscribers to this magazine received...
  
  's "Passages" feature.
• The "celebrity" column, the final section of "News and Notes", is devoted to a different column each week, written by three of the magazine's more-prominent writers:
• "The Pop of King" is Stephen King's
  Stephen King
  Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
  
   column, where he discusses various aspects of popular culture
  Popular culture
  Popular culture is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the...
  
  , including movie or book recommendations among other things.
• "The Final Cut" is written by former executive editor and author Mark Harris. Harris' column focuses on analyzing current popular-culture events, and is generally the most serious of the columns. Harris has written about the writer's strike and the 2008 presidential election, among other topics.
• "Binge Thinking" is written by screenwriter Diablo Cody
  Diablo Cody
  Brook Busey , better known by the pen name Diablo Cody, is an American screenwriter, writer, blogger, journalist, and author. She was first known for her candid chronicling of her year as a stripper in her Pussy Ranch blog and her 2006 memoir, Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper...
  
  . After several profiles of Cody in the months leading up to and following the release of her debut film, Juno
  Juno (film)
  Juno is a 2007 comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody. Ellen Page stars as the title character, an independent-minded teenager confronting an unplanned pregnancy and the subsequent events that put pressures of adult life onto her. Michael Cera, Olivia Thirlby, J. K....
  
   (2007), she was hired to write a column detailing her unique view of the entertainment business.

Feature articles

There are typically four to six major articles (one to two pages each) within the middle pages of the magazine. These articles are most commonly interview

Interview

An interview is a conversation between two people where questions are asked by the interviewer to obtain information from the interviewee.- Interview as a Method for Qualitative Research:"Definition" -...

s, but there are also narrative articles as well as lists. Feature articles tend to focus mostly on movies, music and television and less on books and the theatre. In the magazine's history, there have only been a few cover stories (e.g., John Grisham

John Grisham

John Ray Grisham, Jr. is an American lawyer and author, best known for his popular legal thrillers.John Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University before attending the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981 and practiced criminal law for about a decade...

, Stephen King

Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...

) devoted to authors; there has never been a cover solely devoted to the theater.

Reviews

There are seven sections of reviews in the back pages of each issue (together encompassing up to one half of the magazine's pages). In addition to reviews, each reviews section has a top-sellers list, as well as numerous sidebars with interviews or small features. Unlike a number of Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

an magazines that give their ratings with a number of stars (with normally 4 or 5 stars for the best review), EW grades the reviews academic-style, so that the highest reviews will get a letter grade of "A" and the lowest reviews get an "F", with plus or minus graduations in between assigned to each letter except "F".

The sections are:

• "Movies" typically features all the major releases for that weekend, as well as several independent
  Independent film
  An independent film, or indie film, is a professional film production resulting in a feature film that is produced mostly or completely outside of the major film studio system. In addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies, independent films are also produced...
  
   and foreign films that have also been released. Lisa Schwarzbaum
  Lisa Schwarzbaum
  Lisa Schwarzbaum is an American film critic. She joined Entertainment Weekly as film critic in the 1990s. She has been featured on CNN, co-host on Siskel & Ebert At the Movies as well as a cultural, theater and television reviewer....
  
   and Owen Gleiberman
  Owen Gleiberman
  Owen Gleiberman is an American film critic for Entertainment Weekly, a position he has held since the magazine's launch in 1990. From 1981–89, he worked at the Boston Phoenix....
  
   are the two primary film critics
  Film criticism
  Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films, individually and collectively. In general, this can be divided into journalistic criticism that appears regularly in newspapers, and other popular, mass-media outlets and academic criticism by film scholars that is informed by film theory and...
  
  , with occasional reviews by Scott Brown and Gregory Kirschling. It also includes "Critical Mass" - a table of the grades that have also been given by a number of noted movie reviewers in the American press (such as Ty Burr
  Ty Burr
  Ty Burr has been a film critic for the Boston Globe since 2002 where he reviews films alongside Wesley Morris.Born in 1957, he studied film at Dartmouth College and New York University and has written three books: The Hundred Greatest Movies of All Time, The Hundred Greatest Stars of All Time and...
  
   from The Boston Globe
  The Boston Globe
  The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993...
  
  , Todd McCarthy from Variety
  Variety (magazine)
  Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...
  
   and Roger Ebert
  Roger Ebert
  Roger Joseph Ebert is an American film critic and screenwriter. He is the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.Ebert is known for his film review column and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The...
  
   from the Chicago Sun-Times
  Chicago Sun-Times
  The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. It is the flagship paper of the Sun-Times Media Group.-History:The Chicago Sun-Times is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city...
  
  ). Additionally, this section includes the box-office figures from the previous weekend and some sort of infographic
  Information graphics
  Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics present complex information quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education...
  
  . The only new film that has ever been given an A+ rating by EW is My Left Foot
  My Left Foot (film)
  My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown is a 1989 drama film directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day-Lewis. It tells the true story of Christy Brown, an Irishman born with cerebral palsy, who could control only his left foot. Christy Brown grew up in a poor, working class family, and...
  
   (1989) in one of the magazine's first issues. DVD
  DVD
  A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
  
  s are now profiled in the one-page "Movies on DVD" section that follows.

• "Television" features reviews by chief critic Ken Tucker
  Ken Tucker
  Ken Tucker was an English footballer who played as a left winger....
  
   for made-for-television film
  Television movie
  A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to...
  
  s and new television program or series
  Television program
  A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...
  
  , as well as some television special
  Television special
  A television special is a television program which interrupts or temporarily replaces programming normally scheduled for a given time slot. Sometimes, however, the term is given to a telecast of a theatrical film, such as The Wizard of Oz or The Ten Commandments, which is not part of a regular...
  
  s. There is also a section of sound bites featuring quotations from various television shows. The section also includes the Nielsen ratings
  Nielsen Ratings
  Nielsen ratings are the audience measurement systems developed by Nielsen Media Research, in an effort to determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States...
  
   for the previous week. On the following page is typically a "TV on DVD" section, profiling releases of television films and specials or complete seasons of television shows.

• "What to Watch", currently written by Jessica Shaw, features brief, one- or two-sentence reviews of several television programs on each night of the week, as well as one slightly longer review, usually written by someone else, with a letter grade.

• "Music" reviews major album
  Album
  An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
  
   releases for the week, divided by genre
  Genre
  Genre , Greek: genos, γένος) is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or culture, e.g. music, and in general, any type of discourse, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres are formed by conventions that change over time...
  
  . There is also typically at least one interview or feature, as well as a section called "Download This", highlighting several single
  Single (music)
  In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
  
  s available for download from the Internet. A table displaying record sales and airplay for the previous week is also included.

• "Books" features reviews of books released during the week. Sometimes, authors will write guest reviews of other works. There is also typically one interview or spotlight feature in this section per issue. Bestseller list
  Bestseller
  A bestseller is a book that is identified as extremely popular by its inclusion on lists of currently top selling titles that are based on publishing industry and book trade figures and published by newspapers, magazines, or bookstore chains. Some lists are broken down into classifications and...
  
  s appear at the end of this section.

• "Theater"* reviews productions currently playing, listed by the city where they are running.

• "Games"* reviews current video game releases.

• "Tech"* reviews new websites and products, and profiles current Internet or technology phenomena.

* Not in every issue.

The Bullseye

This section occupies the back page of the magazine, rating the "hits" and "misses" from the past week's events in popular culture on a bullseye

Bullseye (target)

The bullseye, or bull's-eye, is the centre of a target , and by extension the name given to any shot that hits the bullseye...

 graphic. For example, the May 22, 2009, edition featured Justin Timberlake

Justin Timberlake

Justin Randall Timberlake is an American pop musician and actor. He achieved early fame when he appeared as a contestant on Star Search, and went on to star in the Disney Channel television series The New Mickey Mouse Club, where he met future bandmate JC Chasez...

 hosting Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...

 in the center, while the then-drama between Eminem

Eminem

Marshall Bruce Mathers III , better known by his stage name Eminem or his alter ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter and actor. Eminem's popularity brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition...

 and Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut with the release of her eponymous studio album in 1990, under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, whom she later married in 1993...

 missed the target completely for being "very 2002". At the time when this was printed on a small part of a page, events that were greatly disliked were shown several pages away.

Specialty issues

Every year the magazine publishes several specialty issues. These issues are often published as double issues (running for two consecutive weeks). Many times these features are so long that they replace all other feature articles.

Common specialty issues include:

• Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter Preview issues — Generally each quarter the magazine reports on upcoming releases in movies, music, television, live shows and books. Typically the summer issue's focus will be on upcoming movies only unless major television series or events, music releases or book releases are occurring then.
• The Photo issue — Once a year, an issue is dedicated to featuring (aside from the normal reviews and news content) only photographs of celebrities. Unlike tabloid issues, these photographs done with the celebrities' cooperation, and often they use some form of artistic expression. A wide variety of celebrities have been used, including Green Day
  Green Day
  Green Day is an American punk rock band formed in 1987. The band consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool...
  
  , Reese Witherspoon
  Reese Witherspoon
  Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon , better known as Reese Witherspoon, is an American actress and film producer. Witherspoon landed her first feature role as the female lead in the film The Man in the Moon in 1991; later that year she made her television acting debut, in the cable movie Wildflower...
  
  , Morrissey
  Morrissey
  Steven Patrick Morrissey , known as Morrissey, is an English singer and lyricist. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the alternative rock band The Smiths. The band was highly successful in the United Kingdom but broke up in 1987, and Morrissey began a solo career,...
  
  , the cast of the television series Arrested Development, Tobey Maguire
  Tobey Maguire
  Tobias Vincent "Tobey" Maguire is an American actor and producer. He began his career in the 1980s, and has achieved his greatest fame for his role as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films.-Early life:...
  
   and Cameron Diaz
  Cameron Diaz
  Cameron Michelle Diaz is an American actress and former model. She became famous during the 1990s with roles in the movies The Mask, My Best Friend's Wedding, and There's Something About Mary. Other high-profile credits include the two Charlie's Angels films, voicing the character Princess Fiona...
  
  . Generally, the photographs will contain some descriptive text, sometimes about the person or sometimes a commentary from the photographers who photographed them for a story.
• Academy Awards issues — In the past the magazine devoted at least four cover stories per year to the Academy Awards; "The Oscar Race Begins" issue in January predicts the nominees, the "Nominees" issue in February profiles the recently announced Oscar contenders, the "Oscar Odds" issue predicts the winners the week before the awards, and the "After-Awards" issue covers the ceremony the week after it airs. Virtually every issue mentions the Oscars in some capacity, often on the cover, and a film or actor's Academy-Award chances are often noted in the magazine's reviews. In comparison, music's Grammy Award
  Grammy Award
  A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
  
  s, television's Emmy Award
  Emmy Award
  An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
  
  s, and theater's Tony Award
  Tony Award
  The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
  
  s are given relatively limited coverage.

List of Oscar Nomination Predictions

LIST 1996 Year Category Predictions Contenders FYC EW Pick Nominees 1996 Best Actress Frances McDormand-Fargo Brenda Blethyn-Secrets and Lies Kristin Scott Thomas-The English Patient Debbie Reynolds - Mother Courtney Love - The People Vs. Larry Flynt Emily Watson-Breaking The Waves Diane Keaton - Marvin's Room Meryl Streep - Marvin's Room Gwyneth Paltrow - Emma Winona Ryder - The Crucible Gena Rowlands - Unhook The Stars Kathy Bates - The War At Home Shirley MacLaine - The Evening Star Madonna - Evita Laura Dern - Citizen Ruth Brenda Blethyn- Secrets and Lies Diane Keaton - Marvin's Room Frances McDormand - Fargo Kristin Scott Thomas- The English Patient Emily Watson- Breaking The Waves Supporting Actress Joan Allen - The Crucible Barbara Hershey - The Portrait of a Lady Lauren Bacall - The Mirror Has Two Faces Marion Ross - The Evening Star Juliette Binoche -The English Patient - Kate Winslet - Hamlet Renee Zellweger - Jerry Maguire Marianne Jean-Baptiste - Secrets and Lies FYC Meg Ryan - Courage Under Fire Actor Geoffrey Rush - Shine Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire Ralph Fiennes - The English Patient Woody Harrelson - The People Vs. Larry Flynt Denzel Washington - Courage Under Fire - Daniel Day-Lewis - The Crucible Liam Neeson - Michael Collins Kenneth Branagh - Hamlet John Travolta - Phenomenon Nathan Lane - The Birdcage Billy Bob Thornton - Sling Blade FYC- Eddie Murphy - The Nutty Professor Supporting Actor Edward Norton - Primal Fear ( The People Vs. Larry Flynt & Everyone Says I Love You) Samuel L. Jackson - A Time To Kill William H. Macy - Fargo Paul Scofield - The Crucible Cuba Gooding Jr. - Jerry Maguire - Armin Mueller Stahl - Shine Harry Belafonte - Kansas City Leonardo DiCaprio - Marvin's Room Derek Jacobi - Hamlet James Woods - Ghosts of Mississippi FYC-Noah Taylor- Shine Year Category Predictions Contenders FYC EW Pick Nominees 1996 Best Picture The People Vs. Larry Flynt The English Patient Jerry Maguire Shine Fargo Evita Secrets and Lies Hamlet The Crucible Breaking the Waves Trainspotting Big Night Lone Star Shine The English Patient Jerry Maguire Secrets and Lies Fargo Director Milos Forman - The People Vs. Larry Flynt Joel Coen - Fargo Scott Hicks - Shine Mike Leigh - Secrets and Lies Anthony Minghella - The English Patient -- Jane Campion - The Portrait of A Lady Barbra Streisand - The Mirror has Two Faces Lars Von Trier - Breaking The Waves Nicholas Hytner - The Crucible Woody Allen - Everyone Says I Love You Danny Boyle - Trainspotting Alan Parker - Evita Cameron Crowe - Jerry Maguire FYC- Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott - Big Night 1997 ACTOR Jack Nicholson - As Good As It Gets Matt Damon - Good Will Hunting Peter Fonda - Ulees Gold Robert Duvall - The Apostle Djimon Hounsou - Amistad - Dustin Hoffman - Wag The Dog Al Pacino - Donnie Brasco Daniel Day-Lewis - The Boxer Samuel L Jackson - Jackie Brown Ralph Fiennes - Oscar and Lucinda Kevin Kline - In & Out Leonardo DiCaprio - Titanic FYC Ian Holm - The Sweet Hereafter SUPPORTING ACTOR Burt Reynolds - Boogie Nights Robin Williams - Good Will Hunting Rupert Everett - My Best Friends Wedding Anthony Hopkins - Amistad Kevin Spacey - L.A. Confidential - Greg Kinnear - As Good As It Gets James Cromwell - L.A. Confidential Danny DeVito - L.A. Confidential Jon Voight - John Grisham's The Rainmaker Robert Forster - Jackie Brown FYC John Travolta - She's So Lovely Actress Judi Dench - Mrs. Brown Helena Bonham Carter - The Wings of The Dove Kate Winslet - Titanic Julie Christie - Afterglow Helen Hunt - As Good As It Gets - Jodie Foster - Contact Jessica Lange - A Thousand Acres Julia Roberts - My Best Friends Wedding Pam Grier - Jackie Brown FYC NONE No good roles for American actresses. Where’s Meryl Streep or Susan Sarandon or Laura Dern Supporting Actress Gloria Stuart - Titanic Joan Cusack - In & Out Sigourney Weaver - The Ice Storm Kim Basinger - L.A. Confidential Minnie Driver - Good Will Hunting - Julianne Moore - Boogie Nights Anne Heche - Donnie Brasco or Wag The Dog Judy Davis - Deconstructing Harry Kirstie Alley - Deconstructing Harry Christina Ricci - The Ice Storm FYC-Debbi Morgan - Eve's Bayou PICTURE Titanic L.A. Confidential As Good As It Gets Good Will Hunting Amistad (GG, DGA, PGA) -- The Sweet Hereafter Boogie Nights The Full Monty The Ice Storm Wag The Dog The Wings of the dove The Boxer FYC-Donnie Brasco DIRECTOR James L. Brooks - As Good As It Gets Curtis Hanson - L.A. Confidential James Cameron - Titanic Steven Spielberg - Amistad Barry Levinson - Wag The Dog -- Gus Van Sant - Good Will Hunting Ang Lee - The Ice Storm Paul Thomas Anderson - Boogie Nights Woody Allen - Deconstructing Harry Atom Egoyan - The Sweet Hereafter FYC-Victor Nunez - Ulees Gold Nominee not mentioned Peter Cattaneo - The Full Monty 1998 ACTOR Nick Nolte - Affliction Ian McKellen - Gods and Monsters Warren Beatty - Bulworth Roberto Benigni - Life Is Beautiful Tom Hanks - Saving Private Ryan - Jim Carrey - The Truman Show Michael Caine - Little Voice Stephen Fry - Wilde Brendan Gleeson - The General Joseph Fiennes - Shakespeare In Love Robin Williams - Patch Adams John Travolta - A Civil Action (not Primary Colors) FYC- Edward Norton - American History X Supp Actor Robert Duvall - A Civil Action Bill Murray - Rushmore Billy Bob Thronton - A Simple Plan Geoffrey Rush-Shakespeare In Love (not Elizabeth) Ed Harris - The Truman Show - Donald Sutherland - Without Limits David Kelly - Waking Ned Devine Dylan Baker - Happiness Nick Nolte - The Thin Red Line Tom Sizemore - Saving Private Ryan William H. Macy - Pleasantville FYC - Jeremy Davies - Saving Private Ryan Winner not mentioned - James Coburn - Affliction Best Actress Meryl Streep - One True Thing Susan Sarandon - Stepmom Fernando Montenegro - Central Station Gwyneth Paltrow - Shakespeare In Love Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth - Cameron Diaz - There's Something About Mary Helena Bonham Carter - The Theory of Flight Emily Watson - Hilary and Jackie Jane Horrocks - Little Voice Ally Sheedy - High Art Holly Hunter - Living Out Loud Oprah Winfrey - Beloved FYC - Christina Ricci - The Opposite of Sex Supporting Actress Lisa Kudrow - The Opposite of Sex Joan Allen - Pleasantville Kathy Bates - Primary Colors Judi Dench - Shakespeare In Love Lynn Redgrave - Gods and Monsters - Thandie Newton - Beloved Kimberly Elise - Beloved Nicoletta Braschi - Life Is Beautiful Brenda Blethyn - Little Voice Sharon Stone - The Mighty FYC - Patricia Clarkson - High Art Nominee not mentioned Rachel Griffiths - Hilary and Jackie Picture Saving Private Ryan Shakespeare In Love Life Is Beautiful Waking Ned Devine The Truman Show - The Thin Red Line Beloved Pleasantville Elizabeth Central Station Gods and Monsters Affliction FYC - A Simple Plan Director Robert Benigni - Life Is Beautiful Steve Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan John Madden - Shakespeare In Love Terrence Malick - The Thin Red Line Peter Weir - The Truman Show - Sam Raimi - A Simple Plan Warren Beatty - Bulworth Shekhar Kapur - Elizabeth Bill Condon - Gods and Monsters Gary Ross - Pleasantville John Boorman - The General FYC- Todd Solondz - Happiness 1999 Actor Matt Damon - The Talented Mr. Ripley Denzel Washington - The Hurricane Richard Farnsworth - The Straight Story Kevin Spacey - American Beauty Russell Crowe - The Insider - Jim Carrey - The Man on The Moon Tom Hanks - The Green Mile Anthony Hopkins - Titus Al Pacino - The Insider or Any Given Sunday Terrence Stamp - The Limey Sean Penn - Sweet and Lowdown Ralph Fiennes - The End of The Affair Tobey Maguire - The Cider House Rules FYC- Jim Broadbent - Topsy Turvy Supporting Actor Tom Cruise - Magnolia Haley Joel Osment - The Sixth Sense Jude Law - The Talented Mr. Ripley John Malkovich - Being John Malkovich Christopher Plummer - The Insider - Hoffman-The Talented Mr Ripley - Magnolia Michael Caine - The Cider House Rules Delroy Lindo - The Cider House Rules Chris Cooper - American Beauty Wes Bentley - American Beauty Michael Clarke Duncan - The Green Mile Doug Hutchison - The Green Mile Mark Wahlberg - Three Kings Ice Cube - Three Kings Max Von Sydow - Snow Falling on Cedars Eddie Murphy - Bowfinger FYC- Jamie Foxx - Any Given Sunday Director Norman Jewison - The Hurricane David Lynch - The Straight Story Anthony Minghella - The Talented Mr. Ripley Sam Mendes - American Beauty Michael Mann - The Insider - David O. Russell - Three Kings Mike Leigh - Topsy Turvy Spike Jonze - Being John Malkovich Paul Thomas Anderson - Magnolia Neil Jordan - The End of The Affair Frank Darabont - The Green Mile M. Night Shayamalan - The Sixth Sense Kimberly Peirce - Boys Don't Cry Milos Forman - The Man on the Moon FYC- Pedro Almodovar - All About My Mother Nominee not mentioned - Lasse Hallstrom - The Cider House Rules ACTRESS Janet McTeer - Tumbleweeds Hilary Swank - Boys Don't Cry Julianne Moore - The End of The Affair Sigourney Weaver - A Map of The World Annette Bening - American Beauty - Frances O'Connor - Mansfield Park Cecelia Roth - All About My Mother Meryl Streep - Music of The Heart Jodie Foster - Anna and The King Susan Sarandon - Anywhere But Here Kate Winslet - Holy Smoke Reese Witherspoon - Election Winona Ryder - Girl, Interrupted FYC - Julia Roberts - Notting Hill Best Supporting Actress Catherine Keener - Being John Malkovich Chloe Sevigny - Boys Don't Cry Angelia Jolie - Girl, Interrupted Toni Collette - The Sixth Sense Samantha Morton - Sweet and Lowdown - Cameron Diaz - Being John Malkovich Jean Smart - Guinevere Kimberly J. Brown - Tumbleweeds Natalie Portman - Anywhere But Here Gwyneth Paltrow - The Talented Mr. Ripley Cate Blanchett - The Talented Mr. Ripley Julianne Moore - Magnolia SAG (not for A Map of The World, Cookies Fortune, or An Ideal Husband GG) Sissy Spacek - The Straight Story Cherry Jones - Cradle Will Rock FYC - Jessica Lange - Titus PICTURE The Sixth Sense American Beauty The Insider Being John Malkovich The Talented Mr. Ripley - The Green Mile The Straight Story The Hurricane The End of the affair The Cider House Rules Man on the moon magnolia Topsy Turvy Boys Don't Cry FYC-Three Kings 2000 ACTOR Tom Hanks - Cast Away Geoffrey Rush - Quills Russell Crowe - Gladiator Michael Douglas - Wonder Boys Javier Bardem - Before Night Falls - Sean Connery - Finding Forrester Matt Damon - All The Pretty Horses Denzel Washington - Remember The Titans Ralph Fiennes - Sunshine Jamie Bell - Billy Elliot Mark Ruffalo - You Can Count On Me FYC - Ed Harris - Pollock ACTRESS Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich Laura Linney - You Can Count On Me Ellen Burstyn - Requiem For A Dream Juliette Binoche - Chocolat Joan Allen - The Contender - Bjork - Dancer In The Dark Renee Zellweger - Nurse Betty Brenda Blethyn - Saving Grace Michelle Yeoh - Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Cate Blanchett - The Gift FYC - Gillian Anderson - The House of Mirth Supporting Actor Albert Finney - Erin Brockovich Benicio Del Toro - Traffic Willem Dafoe - Shadow of The Vampire Joaquin Phoenix - Gladiator (not for Quills or The Yards) Bruce Greenwood - Thirteen Days - Michael Douglas - Traffic Michael Caine - Quills Fred Willard - Best In Show Jeff Bridges - The Contender FYC - Jeffrey Wright - Shaft Supp Actress Julie Walters - Billy Elliot McDormand - Almost Famous Kate Hudson - Almost Famous Judi Dench - Chocolat Marcia Gay Harden - Pollock - Lena Olin - Chocolat Catherine Zeta-Jones - Traffic Laura Linney - The House of Mirth Catherine Deneuve - Dancer In The Dark Kate Winslet - Quills Connie Nielson - Gladiator FYC - Zhang Ziyi - Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Picture Gladiator Traffic Erin Brockovich Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Cast Away - Chocolat Finding Forrester You can count on me Almost famous Wonder boys Sunshine Quills Billy Elliot FYC - Thirteen Days Adapted Screenplay Wonder Boys Quills Traffic Chocolat House of Mirth - Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Meet The Parents Requiem For A Dream All The pretty horses Before night falls Pollock FYC - High Fidelity Nominee not mentioned O Brother Where Art Thou Original Screenplay You Can Count On Me State and Main Almost Famous Erin Brockovich Thirteen Days - Gladiator Cast Away Unbreakable Nurse Betty Dancer in the Dark Chicken Run The Contender Sunshine Billy Elliot FYC - Best In Show DIRECTOR Steven Soderbergh - Erin Brockovich Steven Soderbergh - Traffic Ridley Scott - Gladiator Ang Lee - Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Philip Kaufman - Quills - Cameron Crowe - Almost Famous Terence Davies - The House of Mirth Curtis Hanson - Wonder Boys Kenneth Lonergan - You Can Count on Me Robert Zemeckis - Cast Away Stephen Daldry - Billy Elliot Lasse Hallstrom - Chocolat FYC - Darren Aronofsky - Requiem For A Dream 2001 ACTOR Russell Crowe - A Beautiful Mind Gene Hackman - The Royal Tannenbaums Will Smith - Ali Denzel Washington - Training Day Tom Wilkinson - In The Bedroom - Billy Bob Thornton The Man Who Wasn't There - Monter's Ball Sean Penn - I Am Sam John Cameron Mitchell - Hedwig and The Angry Inch Kevin Spacey - The Shipping News Guy Pearce - Memento FYC - Ewan McGregor - Moulin Rouge Actress Halle Berry - Monster's Ball Judi Dench - Iris Nicole Kidman - Moulin Rouge not The Others Sissy Spacek - In The Bedroom Naomi Watts - Mulholland Drive - Tilda Swinton - The Deep End Audrey Tautou - Amelie Renee Zellweger - Bridget Jones's Diary Thora Birch - Ghost World Reese Witherspoon - Legally Blonde Stockard Channing - The Business of Strangers FYC - Charlotte Rampling - Under The Sand Supporting Actor Jim Broadbent - Iris not Moulin Rouge Steve Buscemi - Ghost World Hayden Christensen - Life As A House Ben Kingsley - Sexy Beast Jon Voight - Ali - Ian Mckellen - The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring Ed Harris - A Beautiful Mind Jude Law - A.I. Ben Stiller - The Royal Tannenbaums Carl Reiner - Ocean's 11 FYC - Tony Shalhoub - The Man Who Wasn't There Nominee not mentioned - Ethan Hawke - Training Day Supporting Actress Jennifer Connelly - A Beautiful Mind Helen Mirren - Gosford Park Maggie Smith - Gosford Park Marisa Tomei - In The Bedroom Kate Winslet - Iris - Cameron Diaz - Vanilla Sky Anjelica Huston - The Royal Tannenbaums Gwyneth Paltrow - The Royal Tannenbaums Judi Dench - The Shipping News FYC - Fionnula Flanagan - The Others Picture A Beautiful Mind Black Hawk Down In The Bedroom The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring Moulin Rouge - The Royal Tannenbaums Mulholland Drive Shrek Amelie Ali Gosford Park FYC - Memento Original Screenplay Amelie Gosford Park The Man Who Wasn't There Memento The Royal Tannenbaums - Ali Mullholland Drive The Others FYC - Monster's Ball Adapted Screenplay A Beautiful Mind Ghost World In the Bedroom The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring Shrek - Bridget Jones's Diary Iris Black Hawk Down The Shipping News FYC - Lantana Director Robert Altman - Gosford Park Ron Howard - Cinderella Man Peter Jackson - The Lord Of the Rings The Fellowship of the Rings Baz Luhrman - Moulin Rouge David Lynch - Mulholland Drive - Ridley Scott - Black Hawk Down Steven Spielberg - A.I. Michael Mann - Ali Christopher Nolan - Memento Todd Field - In The Bedroom FYC- Jean-Pierre Jeunet - Amelie 2002 Actor Adrien Brody - The Pianist Nicolas Cage - Adaptation Michael Caine - The Quiet American Daniel Day-Lewis - Gangs of New York Jack Nicholson - About Schmidt - Robin Williams - One Hour Photo Tom Hanks - Road To Perdition Hugh Grant - About a Boy Richard Gere - Chicago Leonardo Dicaprio - Catch Me If You Can not Gangs Of New York Kieren Culkin - Igby Goes Down Campbell Scott - Rodger Dodger Derek Luke - Antwone Fisher Sam Rockwell - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind FYC - Dennis Quaid - The Rookie Actress Nicole Kidman - The Hours Diane Lane - Unfaithful Julianne Moore - Far From Heaven Meryl Streep - The Hours Renee Zellweger - Chicago - Isabelle Huppert - The Piano Teacher Maggie Gyllenhaal - Secretary Salma Hayek - Frida Nia Vardalos - My Big Fat Greek Wedding Catherine Keener - Lovely & Amazing Jennifer Aniston - The Good Girl FYC - Alison Lohman - White Oleander Supporting actor Chris Cooper - Adaptation Ed Harris - The Hours Paul Newman - Road To Perdition Dennis Quaid - Far From Heaven Christopher Walken - Catch Me If You Can - Alan Arkin - Thirteen Conversations About One Thing John C. Reilly - Chicago (not for The Hours - Gangs of New York or The Good Girl) Viggo Mortensen - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Willem Dafoe - Auto Focus Ray Liotta - Narc Alfred Moilna - Frida FYC - Andy Serkis - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Supp Actress Kathy Bates - About Schmidt Patricia Clarkson - Far From Heaven Julianne Moore - The Hours Meryl Streep - Adaptation Catherine Zeta-Jones - Chicago - Edie Falco - Sunshine State Queen Latifah - Chicago Michelle Pfeiffer - White Oleander Susan Sarandon - Moonlight Mile OR Igby Goes Down Laine Kazan - My Big Fat Greek Wedding Cameron Diaz - Gangs of New York Toni Collette - About A Boy Bebe Neuwirth - Tadpole FYC - Tovah Feldshuh - Kissing Jessica Stein Picture Chicago Gangs of New York The Hours The Lord of The Rings The Two Towers The Pianist -- My Big Fat Greek Wedding About Schmidt Adaptation Road to Perdition Antwone Fisher Far From Heaven FYC - Talk to Her Original Screenplay Far From Heaven Gangs of New York My Big Fat Greek Wedding Punch Drunk Love Talk to Her -- Igby Goes Down Rodger Dodger Sunshine State The Good Girl Lovely and Amazing Thirteen Conversations about one thing Antwone Fisher FYC - Y tu mama Tambien Best Adapted Screenplay About Schmidt Adaptation Chicago The Hours The Lord of The Rings The Two Towers -- The Quiet American Nicholas nickleby Catch Me If Youo Can The Pianist 25th hour FYC - Personal velocity Nominated not mentioned - About A Boy Director Stephen Daldry - The Hours Todd Haynes - Far From Heaven Peter Jackson - The Lord of The Rings The Two Towers Rob Marshall - Chicago Martin Scorsese - Gangs of New York -- Roman Polanski - The Pianist Alexander Payne - About Schmidt Spike Jonze - Adaptation Pedro Almodovar - Talk To Her Sam Mendes - Road To Perdition Denzel Washington - Antwone Fisher FYC - Steven Spielberg - Minority report 2003 ACTOR Russell Crowe - Master and Commander: The Far Side of The World Ben Kingsley - House of Sand and Fog Jude Law - Cold Mountain Bill Murray - Lost In Translation Sean Penn - Mystic River not 21 Grams -- Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of The Black Pearl Jack Nicholson - Something's Gotta Give Paul Giamatti - American Splendor Peter Dinklage - The Station Agent Chiwetel Ejifor - Dirty Pretty Things Paddy Considine - In America Tom Cruise - The Last Samurai FYC - Jack Black - School of Rock Actress Jennifer Connelly - House of Sand and Fog Diane Keaton - Something's Gotta Give Nicole Kidman - Cold Mountain Charlize Theron - Monster Naomi Watts - 21 Grams -- Samantha Morton - In America Patricia Clarkson - The Station Agent Gwyneth Paltrow - Sylvia Cate Blanchett - The Missing before Veronica Guerin Jamie Lee Curtis - Freaky Friday Hope Davis - The Secret Lives of Dentists Uma Thurman - Kill Bill Volume 1 Helen Mirren - Calendar Girls Scarlett Johansson - Girl With a Pearl Earring FYC - Evan Rachel Wood - Thirteen Nominated not mentioned - Keisha Castle Hughes - Whale Rider Best Supporting Actor Alec Baldwin - The Cooler Benici Del Toro - 21 Grams Albert Finney - Big Fish Tim Robbins - Mystic River Ken Watanabe - The Last Samurai -- Kevin Bacon - Mystic River Paul Bettany - Master and Commander: The Far Side of The World Djimon Hounsou - In America Bill Nighy - Love Actually Eugene Levy - A Mighty Wind Sean Astin - The Lord of The Rings The Return of The King Chris Cooper - Seabiscuit Jeff Bridges - Seabiscuit William H. Macy - Seabiscuit FYC - Peter Sarsgaard - Shattered Glass Best Supporting Actress Patricia Clarkson - Pieces Of April Marcia Gay Harden - Mystic River Holly Hunter - Thirteen Scarlett Johansson - Lost In Translation Renee Zellweger - Cold Mountain -- Shohreh Aghdashloo - House of Sand and Fog Maria Bello - The Cooler Geraldine McEwan - The Magdalene Sisters Laura Linney -Mystic River Jessica Lange - Big Fish Hope Davis - American Splendor Ellen Degeneres - Finding Nemo --FYC - Emma Thompson Love Actually Best Picture Cold Mountain The Lord of The Rings The Return of The King Lost in Translation Master and commander - The Far Side of The World Mystic River -- The Last Samurai Big Fish Seabiscuit In America House of Sand and Fog 21 Grams American Splendor FYC - Finding Nemo Original Screenplay Finding Nemo In America Lost In Translation The Last Samurai 21 grams -- Thirteen The Station Agent The Barbarian Invasions Dirty Pretty Things Love Actually Somethings Gotta Give FYC - A mighty wind Adapted Screenplay American Splendor Cold Mountain The Lord of The Rings The Return of The King Master and commander - The Far Side of The World Mystic River -- Seabiscuit House of Sand and Fog Girl with a pearl Earring FYC - Secret lives of dentists Nominated not mentioned - City of God Director Peter Jackson - The Lord of The Rings The Return of The King Anthony Minghella - Cold Mountain Sofia Coppola - Lost In Translation Peter Weir - Master and commander - The Far Side of The World Clint Eastwood - Mystic River -- Gary Ross - Seabiscuit Ed Zwick - The Last Samurai Jim Sheridan - In America FYC - Alejandro Gozales Inarritu - 21 Grams Nominated not mentioned - Fernando Meirelles - City of God 2004 Don Cheadle - Hotel Rwanda Johnny Depp - Finding Neverland Leonardo DiCaprio - The Aviator Jamie Foxx - Ray Paul Giamatti - Sideways -- Liam Neeson - Kinsey Javiar Bardem - The Sea Inside Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby Jim Carrey - Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind Sean Penn - The Assassination of Richard Nixon Kevin Bacon - The Woodsman Kevin Spacey - Beyond The Sea FYC -- Jeff Bridges - The Door In the Floor Best Actress Annette Bening - Being Julia Catalino Sandino Moreno - Maria Full of Grace Imelda Staunton - Vera Drake Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby Kate Winslet - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind -- Julia Roberts - Closer Uma Thurman - Kill Bill Volume 2 Ziyi Zhang - House of Flying Daggers Emmy Rossum - Andre Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of The Opera Laura Dern - We Don't Live Here Anymore Sigourney Weaver - Imaginary heroes Kerry Washington - Ray FYC - Julie Delpy - Before Sunset Best Supporting Actor Thomas Haden Church - Sideways Jamie Foxx - Collateral Morgan Freeman - Million Dollar Baby Clive Owen - Closer Peter Sarsgaard - Kinsey (not Garden State) -- Mark Wahlberg - I (heart) Huckabees Alan Alda - The Aviator John Lithgow - Kinsey David Carradine - Kill Bill Volume 2 Phil Davis - Vera Drake Freddie Highmore - Finding Neverland FYC - James Garner - The Notebook Supp actress Cate Blanchett - The Aviator Laura Linney - Kinsey Virginia Madsen - Sideways Natalie Portman - Closer Kate Winslet - Finding Neverland -- Cloris Leachman - Spanglish Gena Rowlands - The Notebook Sharon Warren -Ray Regina King - Ray Minnie Driver - Andre Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of The Opera Lynn Collins - The Merchant of Venice Kyra Sedgwick - The Woodsman Sophie Okonedo - Hotel Rwanda Meryl Streep - The Manchurian Candidate FYC - Sharon Warren - Ray Picture The Aviator Finding Neverland Million Dollar Baby Ray Sideways -- Hotel Rwanda Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind Collateral Closer Kinsey Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom Of The Opera The Incredibles Fahrenheit 9/11 The Motorcycle Diaries House of Flying Daggers A Very long engagement The Passion Of The Christ FYC - Maria full of grace Best original screenplay The Aviator Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind Hotel Rwanda The Incredibles Kinsey -- Ray Maria full of Grace Collateral The Sea Inside Kill Bill 2 Bad Education Vera Drake FYC - Imaginary heroes Best adapted screenplay Closer Find Neverland Million Dollar Baby The Motorcycle diaries Sideways -- Spiderman 2 A very long Engagement We don't live here anymore FYC - Friday night lights Nominated not mentioned - Before Sunset Director Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby Marc Forster - Finding Neverland Alexander Payne - Sideways Martin Scorsese - The Aviator Zhang Yimou - House of Flying Daggers -- Mike Nichols - Closer Bill Condon - Kinsey Taylor Hackford - Ray Terry George - Hotel Rwanda Michael Mann - Collateral FYC - Michel Gondry - Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind Nominated not mentioned - Mike Leigh - Vera Drake 2005 Russell Crowe - Cinderella Man Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain Joaquin Phoenix - Walk The Line David Strathairn - Good Night and Good Luck -- Terrence Howard - Hustle and Flow Jeff Daniels - The Squid and The Whale Viggo Mortensen - A History of Violence Eric Bana - Munich Cillian Murphy - Breakfast on Pluto FYC - Ralph Fiennes - A History of Violence Actress Judi Dench - Mrs. Henderson Presents Felicity Huffman - Transamerica Keira Knightley - Pride and Prejudice Charlize Theron - North Country Reese Witherspoon - Walk The Line -- Ziyi Zhang - Memoirs of a Geisha Joan Allen - The Upside of Anger Clare Danes - Shopgirl Naomi Watts - King Kong Vera Farmiga - Down To The Bone Gwyneth Paltrow - Proof Julianne Moore - The Prizewinner of Defiance Ohio Q'orianka Kilcher - The New World FYC - Laura Linney - The Squid and The Whale Best Supporting Actor George Clooney - Syriana Matt Dillon - Crash Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain Terrence Howard - Crash -- Ed Harris - A History of Violence William Hurt - A History of Violence Bob Hoskins - Mrs. Henderson Presents Kevin Costner - The Upside of Anger Chris Cooper - Capote Frank Langella - Good Night and Good Luck Don Cheadle - Crash FYC - Donald Sutherland - Pride and Prejudice Best Supporting Actress Amy Adams - Junebug Maria Bello - A History of Violence Catherine Keener - Capote (not for The Ballad of Jack and Rose, The Interpreter, or The 40 year-old Virgin) Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener Michelle Williams - Brokeback Mountain --- Diane Keaton - The Family Stone Shirley MacLaine - In Her Shoes Gong Li - Memoirs of A Geisha Scarlett Johansson - Match Point Thandie Newton - Crash Frances McDormand - North Country FYC - Taraji P. Henson - Hustle and Flow Best Picture Crash Brokeback Mountain Capote Good Night and Good Luck Munich -- Walk The Line Cinderella Man Match Point Pride and Memoirs Of A Geisha Syriana A History of Violence The Constant Gardener King Kong --FYC The 40 year old virgin (Original) Original Screenplay The Squid and The Whale Match Point Cinderella Man Good Night And Good Luck Crash -- The 40 year old Virgin Cache FYC - Junebug (Original)Best Adapted Screenplay Syriana Capote Munich The Constant Gardener Brokeback Mountain Revised Original Screenplay Crash Good Night And Good Luck Match Point The Squid and the Whale Syriana Revised Adapted Screenplay Brokeback Mountain Capote The Constant Gardener A History of Violence Munich Director George Clooney - Syriana David Cronenberg - A History of Violence Paul Haggis - Crash Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain Steven Spielberg - Munich -- Woody Allen - Match Point James Mangold - Walk The Line Bennet Miller - Capote Peter Jackson - King Kong Fernando Meirelles - The Constant Gardener Michael Haneke - Cache FYC - Ron Howard - Cinderella Man 2006 Best Picture Babel The Departed Dreamgirls Little Miss Sunshine The Queen -- United 93 Letters From Iwo Jima Flags of Our Fathers Little Children Notes on a Scandal The Devil Wears Prada Thank You For Smoking Blood Diamond Pan’s Labyrinth Children of Men Bobby FYC: Children of Men Best Actor Leonardo Dicaprio, The Departed Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson Peter O'Toole, Venus Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland -- Greg Kinnear – Little Miss Sunshine Edward Norton – The Painted Veil Ken Watanabe – Letters From Iwo Jima Daniel Craig – Casino Royale Aaron Eckhart – Thank You For Smoking Sacha Baron Cohen – Borat FYC: Matt Damon, The Good Shepherd Best Actress Penélope Cruz, Volver Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal Helen Mirren, The Queen Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada Kate Winslet, Little Children -- Ellen Page – Hard Candy Annette Bening – Running With Scissors Beyonce Knowles – Dreamgirls Cate Blanchett – The Good German Naomi Watts – The Painted Veil FYC: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Sherrybaby Best Supp. Actor Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children Djimon Honsou, Blood Diamond Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls Jack Nicholson, The Departed -- Mark Wahlberg – The Departed Adam Beach – Flags of Our Fathers Ben Affleck – Hollywoodland Michael Sheen – The Queen Brad Pitt - Babel FYC: Stanley Tucci, The Devil Wears Prada Best Supp. Actress Adirana Barraza, Babel Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls Rinko Kikuchi, Babel -- Emily Blunt – The Devil Wears Prada Emma Thompson – Stranger Than Fiction Catherine O’Hara – For Your Consideration Toni Collette – Little Miss Sunshine Shareeka Epps – Half Nelson Anika Noni Rose – Dreamgirls FYC: Frances McDormand, Friends With Money Best Director Bill Condon, Dreamgirls Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima Stephen Frears, The Queen Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Babel Martin Scorsese, The Departed -- Paul Greengrass – United 93 Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris – Little Miss Sunshine Alfonso Cauron – Children of Men Pedro Almodovar – Volver FYC: Guillermo Del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth Best Original Screenplay Babel Little Miss Sunshine Letters From Iwo Jima Pan's Labyrinth The Queen -- United 93 Stranger Than Fiction Half Nelson The Good Shepherd FYC: Volver Best Adapted Screenplay Children of Men The Departed Little Children Notes on a Scandal Thank You For Smoking -- Dreamgirls Flags of Our Fathers FYC: Borat 2007 Best Picture Atonement Juno Michael Clayton There Will Be Blood No Country For Old Men -- Into The Wild The Diving Bell and the Butterfly American Gangster Sweeney Todd Charlie Wilson’s War The Kite Runner The Great Debaters Hairspray 3:10 To Yuma FYC: The Bourne Ultimatum Best Director Joel and Ethan Coen – No Country For Old Men Joe Wright – Atonement Sean Penn – Into The Wild Julian Schnabel – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Paul Thomas Anderson – There Will Be Blood -- Jason Reitman – Juno Tony Gilroy – Michael Clayton Ridley Scott – American Gangster Tim Burton – Sweeney Todd David Fincher - Zodiac Sidney Lumet – Before The Devil Knows Your Dead FYC David Cronenberg – Eastern Promises Best Actor Daniel Day Lewis – There Will Be Blood George Clooney – Michael Clayton Johnny Depp – Sweeney Todd Viggo Mortensen – Eastern Promises Ryan Gosling – Lars and The Real Girl -- Emile Hirsch – Into The Wild James McAvoy – Atonement Tommy Lee Jones – In The Valley of Elah Frank Langella – Starting Out In The Evening Josh Brolin – No Country For Old Men Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Savages or The Devil Knows Your Dead Denzel Washington – American Gangster not The Great Debaters FYC: Christian Bale – Rescue Dawn Best Actress Julie Christie – Away From Her Ellen Page – Juno Marion Cotillard – La Vie En Rose Angelina Jolie – A Mighty Heart Laura Linney – The Savages -- Keira Knightley – Atonement Helena Bonham Carter – Sweeney Todd Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth: The Golden Age Amy Adams – Enchanted FYC: Nicole Kidman – Margot at the Wedding Best Supporting Actor Javier Bardem – No Country For Old Men Philip Seymour Hoffman – Charlie Wilson’s War Tom Wilkinson – Michael Clayton Hal Holbrook – Into The Wild Casey Affleck – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford -- John Travolta- Hairspray Paul Dano – There Will Be Blood Max Von Sydow – The Diving Bell and The Butterfly Ben Foster – 3:10 To Yuma Jason Bateman – Juno Steve Zahn – Rescue Dawn Tommy Lee Jones – No Country For Old Men FYC: J.K. Simmons – Juno Best Supporting Actress Amy Ryan – Gone Baby Gone Cate Blanchett – I’m Not There Tilda Swinton – Michael Clayton Ruby Dee – American Gangster Catherine Keener – Into The Wild -- Vanessa Redgrave – Atonement Julia Roberts – Charlie Wilson’s War Jennifer Jason Leigh – Margot at the Wedding Allison Janney – Juno Kelly McDonald – No Country For Old Men Jennifer Garner – Juno Saoirse Ronan – Atonement FYC: Emily Mortimer – Lars and The Real Girl Best Original Screenplay Diablo Cody – Juno Tamara Jenkins – The Savages Nancy Oliver – Lars and The Real Girl Tony Gilroy – Michael Clayton Brad Bird – Ratatoullie -- Eastern Promises I’m Not There Knocked Up 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days FYC: Before the Devil Knows Your Dead Adapted Screenplay Joel and Ethan Coen – No Country For Old Men Christopher Hampton – Atonement Ronald Harwood – The Diving Bell and The Butterfly Paul Thomas Anderson – There Will Be Blood Aaron Sorkin – Charlie Wilson’s War -- American Gangster The Kite Runner Away From Her Zodiac FYC: Into The Wild 2008 Picture The Dark Knight Milk The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost/Nixon Slumdog Millionaire -- The Reader Wall E Revolutionary Road Doubt FYC: The Wrestler Best Director Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight Gus Van Sant – Milk David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire Ron Howard – Frost Nixon -- Andrew Stanton – Wall E Sam Mendes – Revolutionary Road Mike Leigh – Happy-Go-Lucky Darren Aronofsky – The Wrestler FYC – Tom McCarthy – The Visitor Best Actor Sean Penn – Milk Clint Eastwood – Gran Torino Brad Pitt – The Curious of Benjamin Button Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler -- Richard Jenkins – The Visitor Leonardo DiCaprio – Revolutionary Road FYC: Mark Ruffalo – What Doesn’t Kill YOU Best Actress – Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road Meryl Streep – Doubt Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky Angelina Jolie – Changeling Anne Hathaway – Rachel getting Married -- Melissa Leo – Frozen River Kristin Scott Thomas – I’ve Loved You So Long Cate Blanchett – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button FYC: Emma Thompson – Last Chance Harvey 2009 Picture Avatar An Education The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Invictus The Messenger Precious based on the Novel Push by Sapphire A Serious Man Up Up in the Air -- It's Complicated District 9 Nine FYC: Star Trek Actor Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart George Clooney - Up in the Air Colin Firth - A Single Man Morgan Freeman - Invictus Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker -- Tobey Maguire - Brothers Viggo Mortensen - The Road Ben Foster - The Messenger FYC: Matt Damon - The Informant! Actress Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side Helen Mirren - The Last Station Carey Mulligan - An Education Gabourey Sidibe - Precious Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia (not for It's Complicated) -- Emily Blunt - The Young Victoria FYC: Maya Rudolph - Away We Go Supporting Actor Matt Damon - Invictus Woody Harrelson - The Messenger Christopher Plummer - The Last Station Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds -- Christian McKay - Me and Orson Welles Alfred Molina - An Education FYC: Alec Baldwin - It's Complicated Supporting Actress Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air Mo'Nique - Precious Julianne Moore - A Single Man Samantha Morton - The Messenger -- Penelope Cruz - Nine Diane Kruger - Inglourious Basterds FYC: Catherine Keener - Where the Wild Things Are Nominee not mentioned - Maggie Gyllenhaal - Crazy Heart Director Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker James Cameron - Avatar Clint Eastwood - Invictus Jason Reitman - Up in the Air Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds -- Lee Daniels - Precious Pete Docter - Up Lone Scherfig - An Education FYC: Neill Blomkamp - District 9 Adapted Screenplay An Education - Nick Hornby District 9 - Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell Fantastic Mr. Fox - Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach Precious - Geoffrey Fletcher Up in the Air - Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner -- Julie and Julia - Nora Ephron A Single Man - Tom Ford and David Scearce Original Screenplay (500) Days of Summer - Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber The Hurt Locker - Mark Boal Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino A Serious Man - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen Up - Bob Peterson and Pete Docter -- It's Complicated - Nancy Meyers 2010 Best Picture The Social Network The King's Speech Inception The Fighter Toy Story 3 Black Swan True Grit The Kids Are All Right Winter's Bone The Town -- 127 Hours FYC - Blue Valentine Best Actor Jeff Bridges - True Grit Robert Duvall - Get Low Jesse Eisenberg - The Social Network Colin Firth - The King's Speech James Franco - 127 Hours -- Mark Wahlberg - The Fighter Ryan Gosling - Blue Valentine Javier Bardem - Biutiful FYC - Aaron Eckhart - Rabbit Hole Actress Annette Bening - The Kids Are All Right Natalie Portman - Black Swan Nicole Kidman - Rabbit Hole Jennifer Lawrence - Winter's Bone Michelle Williams - Blue Valentine -- Hilary Swank - Conviction Halle Berry - Frankie and Alice Lesley Manville - Another Year FYC - Julianne Moore - The Kids Are All Right Supporting Actor Christian Bale - The Fighter Andrew Garfield - The Social Network Jeremy Renner - The Town Mark Ruffalo - The Kids Are All Right Geoffrey Rush - The Kings Speech -- John Hawkes - Winter's Bone Michael Douglas- Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Sam Rockwell - Conviction FYC: Armie Hammer - The Social Network Supporting Actress Amy Adams - The Fighter Helena Bonham Carter - The King's Speech Mila Kunis - Black Swan Melissa Leo - The Fighter Hailee Steinfeld - True Grit -- Jacki Weaver - Animal Kingdom FYC: Ann Guilbert - Please Give Best Director Darren Aronofsky - Black Swan Joel Coen & Ethan Coen - True Grit David Fincher - The Social Network Tom Hooper - The King's Speech Christopher Nolan - Inception -- David O. Russell - The Fighter Ben Affleck - The Town Danny Boyle - 127 Hours FYC: Mike Leigh - Another Year Best Adapted Screenplay Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy - 127 Hours Aaron Sorkin - The Social Network Michael Arndt - Toy Story 3 Joel Coen & Ethan Coen - True Grit Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini - Winter's Bone -- David Lindsay-Abaire - Rabbit Hole Ben Afleck, Peter Craig, and Aaron Stockard - The Town Original Screenplay Mike Leigh - Another Year Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson - The Fighter Christopher Nolan - Inception Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg - The Kids Are All Right David Seidler - The King's Speech -- Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, and John McLaughlin - Black Swan

• The "Must List" - A double-sized issue that is usually timed for release in the last week of June. It focuses on what the magazine considers "musts" in entertainment with the latest hot movies, TV shows, music projects and novels along with previews of upcoming projects in those media that are gaining interest.
• The Fall TV Preview issue - Generally released in early September, this issue has the magazine detailing the upcoming fall season of both new and returning series.
• End-of-the-Year issue — The last issue of each year, whose cover shows the "Entertainer of the Year" chosen by readers at EWs official website. The issue features the ten-best releases in theater, film, television, music, DVD, literature and (as of last year) fashion that year. Music, television and film have two critics give their top ten; the others only have one. Each section also has a five-worst list (film is the only section in which both critics give the worst). Also in the issue are special sections devoted to the Entertainer of the Year, great performances, newly arrived stars, a timeline
  Timeline
  A timeline is a way of displaying a list of events in chronological order, sometimes described as a project artifact . It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labeled with dates alongside itself and events labeled on points where they would have happened.-Uses of timelines:Timelines...
  
   of infamous celebrity mishaps, and obituaries of stars who died (this used to be in a separate issue; it was combined with the "end-of-the-year" issue in 2003). This is the only issue without any reviews.

The complete list of the annual "Entertainer of the Year" winners:

• Bart Simpson
  Bart Simpson
  Bartholomew JoJo "Bart" Simpson is a fictional main character in the animated television series The Simpsons and part of the Simpson family. He is voiced by actress Nancy Cartwright and first appeared on television in The Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night" on April 19, 1987...
  
   (1990)
• Jodie Foster
  Jodie Foster
  Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is an American actress, film director, producer as well as a former child actress....
  
   (1991)
• the cast of the television series Saturday Night Live
  Saturday Night Live
  Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...
  
   (1992)
• Steven Spielberg
  Steven Spielberg
  Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...
  
   (1993)
• Tom Hanks
  Tom Hanks
  Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks is an American actor, producer, writer, and director. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies, gaining wide notice in 1988's Big, before achieving success as a dramatic actor in several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, the title...
  
   (1994)
• the cast of the television series Friends
  Friends
  Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
  
   (1995)
• Rosie O'Donnell
  Rosie O'Donnell
  Roseann "Rosie" O'Donnell is an American stand-up comedian, actress, author and television personality. She has also been a magazine editor and continues to be a celebrity blogger, LGBT rights activist, television producer and collaborative partner in the LGBT family vacation company R Family...
  
   (1996)
• Ellen DeGeneres
  Ellen DeGeneres
  Ellen Lee DeGeneres is an American stand-up comedienne, television host and actress. She hosts the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and was also a judge on American Idol for one year, having joined the show in its ninth season....
  
   (1997)
• Leonardo DiCaprio
  Leonardo DiCaprio
  Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio is an American actor and film producer. He has received many awards, including a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Aviator , and has been nominated by the Academy Awards, Screen Actors Guild and the British Academy of Film and Television...
  
   (1998)
• Ricky Martin
  Ricky Martin
  Enrique "Ricky" Martín Morales , better known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican and Spanish pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Latin boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991.During his career he has sold more than 60 million album copies worldwide...
  
   (1999)

• Russell Crowe
  Russell Crowe
  Russell Ira Crowe is a New Zealander Australian actor , film producer and musician. He came to international attention for his role as Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, a...
  
   (2000)
• Nicole Kidman
  Nicole Kidman
  Nicole Mary Kidman, AC is an American-born Australian actress, singer, film producer, spokesmodel, and humanitarian. After starring in a number of small Australian films and TV shows, Kidman's breakthrough was in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm...
  
   (2001)
• Denzel Washington
  Denzel Washington
  Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and film producer. He first rose to prominence when he joined the cast of the medical drama, St. Elsewhere, playing Dr...
  
   (2002)
• the cast of the film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a 2003 epic fantasy-drama film directed by Peter Jackson that is based on the second and third volumes of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings...
  
   (2003)
• Jon Stewart
  Jon Stewart
  Jon Stewart is an American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian...
  
   (2004)
• the cast of the television series Lost
  Lost (TV series)
  Lost is an American television series that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010, consisting of six seasons. Lost is a drama series that follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island...
  
   (2005)
• the cast of the television series Grey's Anatomy
  Grey's Anatomy
  Grey's Anatomy is an American medical drama television series created by Shonda Rhimes. The series premiered on March 27, 2005 on ABC; since then, seven seasons have aired. The series follows the lives of interns, residents and their mentors in the fictional Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital in...
  
   (2006)
• J. K. Rowling
  J. K. Rowling
  Joanne "Jo" Rowling, OBE , better known as J. K. Rowling, is the British author of the Harry Potter fantasy series...
  
   (2007) (the first entertainer named known primarily for writing)
• Robert Downey, Jr. (2008)
• Sandra Bullock
  Sandra Bullock
  Sandra Annette Bullock is an Academy Award winning American actress and producer who rose to fame in the 1990s after roles in successful films such as Demolition Man, Speed, The Net, A Time to Kill, and While You Were Sleeping. She continued with films such as Miss Congeniality, The Lake House,...
  
   (2009)

• Taylor Swift
  Taylor Swift
  Taylor Alison Swift is an American country pop singer-songwriter, musician and actress.In 2006, she released her debut single "Tim McGraw", then her self-titled debut album, which was subsequently certified multi-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America...
  
   (2010)

1,000th issue and redesign

The 1,000th issue was released July 4, 2008, and included the magazine's top-100 list for movies, television shows, music videos, songs, Broadway shows, and technology of the past twenty-five years (1983–2008).

As of its 1,001st issue, EW drastically revamped the look, feel and content of the publication — increasing font

Font

In typography, a font is traditionally defined as a quantity of sorts composing a complete character set of a single size and style of a particular typeface...

 and picture sizes and making all columns' word count

Word count

The word count is the number of words in a document or passage of text. Word counting may be needed when a text is required to stay within certain numbers of words. This may particularly be the case in academia, legal proceedings, journalism and advertising. Word count is commonly used by...

 shorter.

Website

The magazine's website EW.com, under managing editor Cyndi Stivers (creator of TimeOut New York), provides users with daily content, breaking news

Breaking news

Breaking news, also known as a special report or news bulletin, is a current event that broadcasters feel warrants the interruption of scheduled programming and/or current news in order to report its details. Many times, breaking news is used after the news network has already reported on this story...

, blog

Blog

A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...

s, original video programming, entertainment exclusive

Exclusive

Exclusive typically means not with other things or not including other things.The terms inclusive and exclusive are contrasting terms, and often appear in the same context to describe contrasting things.Exclusive may refer to:...

s and serves as an archive for past magazine interviews, columns and photos.

As of April 2011, EW.com was ranked as one of the ten most popular Entertainment News property in the United States by comScore

ComScore

comScore is a Internet marketing research company providing marketing data and services to many of the Internet's largest businesses. comScore tracks all internet data on its surveyed computers in order to study online behavior....

 Media Metrix.

comScore US Rank	Entertainment News Web Properties	March 2011 Readers
1	OMG! by Yahoo	23.7 million
2	TMZ	18.5 million
3	People Magazine	13.5 million
4	BuzzMedia Entertainment	12.8 million
5	CNN Entertainment	10.1 million
6	Zimbio	8.9 million
7	Entertainment Weekly (EW.com)	8.2 million
8	E! Online	7.5 million
9	GossipCenter Network	7.1 million
10	Mail Online	6.5 million

EWwy Award

The EWwy Award is a television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 production award created by Entertainment Weekly to honor worthy actors and series not nominated for the Primetime Emmy

Primetime Emmy Award

The Primetime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in American primetime television programming...

s. The Ewwy is awarded in ten categories and no person nominated for an equivalent Primetime Emmy is eligible. Votes and nominations are cast online by anyone who chooses to participate. The categories are: Best Drama Series; Best Comedy Series; Best Actor in a Drama Series; Best Actor in a Comedy Series; Best Actress in a Drama Series; Best Actress in a Comedy Series; Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series; Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series; Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series; and Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.