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The 29th Annual Webby Awards were announced today by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, with winners to be announced on Tuesday, April 22 in New York.

“The Webby Awards have always been a barometer for digital progress, and this year’s Nominees reflect the deep connection between creativity and innovation,” said Jesse Feister, Executive Director, Webby Media Group. “From visionary creators to the technologists building the tools and platforms behind them, these are the people and companies redefining how we connect, express, and experience life online. As AI continues to transform the Internet, many of this year’s Nominees are not only pushing its creative potential, they’re helping shape its development in thoughtful and responsible ways.”

This year, The Webby Awards introduced a new suite of Creator categories to celebrate the booming creator economy and growing influence of creators who are shaping culture, entertainment and the Internet. These...

The Hollywood Reporter, Zoe Saldaña, Kendrick Lamar, Sabrina Carpenter, Selena Gomez and Travis and Jason Kelce are among the nominees for the 29th Annual Webby Awards, which will be handed out next month in New York.

Other nominees include Amazon MGM Studios, Apple, Hulu, Netflix, the Obama Foundation, Bruno Mars, Cynthia Erivo, Kerry Washington, Matthew McConaughey, Trixie Mattel, Keke Palmer, Jon Stewart, Gracie Abrams, Michael Cera, A$AP Rocky, Bowen Yang, Lady Gaga, Kyle MacLachlan, Charli Xcx, Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Oprah Winfrey, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, Kelly Clarkson and Jennifer Hudson.

The Hollywood Reporter landed two noms: one for best interview or talk show for its Drama Actress Roundtable featuring Jennifer Aniston, Jodie Foster, Nicole Kidman, Brie Larson, Anna Sawai, Sofía Vergara and Naomi Watts and the other for best individual editorial feature for its 2024 Sustainability Issue.

The Webby Awards, presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences,...

As one of seven children born to Nigerian chiefs who are academic-driven, singer-songwriter Lachi defied the status quo of studying medicine to pursue music, a medium she uses to fuse her creative lens into the depths of herself by acknowledging her African heritage, combatting disability erasure and championing self-love.

Born legally blind, the “Black Girl Cornrows” singer has a history of advocating for herself. From being teased at school when she was a child, to a moment at an industry party that radicalized self-acceptance, the star realized disability advocacy starts with her.

In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Lachi shares how she uses her platform to celebrate disability awareness, advice for those with similar intersecting identities and how she uses her glam canes and cornrows as a cultural fashion statement.

I feel like your cornrows are definitely a part of your fashion, a part of your glam, so...

Pop/Edm singer Lachi has probably put as much work into being an artist as she has into being an advocate for the disabled community. She has sung at the Lincoln Center and the White House, spoken at the United Nations and become a member of the Grammy Board, where she has helped make the awards ceremony more accessible for artists with disabilities. The artist has also brought in members with disabilities to the Recording Academy, including Namel Norris, Gaelynn Lea, Siedah Garrett and Ryan Nelson. Lachi has accomplished all this in addition to her work establishing the Ford Foundation-funded global network Rampd, or Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities, which has collaborated with such entertainment giants as Netflix and Sony Pictures Entertainment. The singer, who is legally blind, has penned a new song to honor the late Judy Heumann, special advisor for international disability rights under the Barack Obama administration,...

Before last year’s televised Grammys ceremony began, the award show had already garnered viral attention for its use of Asl interpreters on the red carpet.

An accessibility measure rarely presented during the entertainment industry’s major awards shows, the presence of the sign language interpreters was the byproduct of more than a year’s worth of conversations between the Recording Academy and Recording Artists and Music Professionals With Disabilities (Rampd), a global network of artists who consult and advise around disability inclusion and accessibility for the music and events industry.

Those conversations started informally roughly a year earlier when Edm artist and Grammys New York board governor Lachi connected with Valeisha Butterfield Jones, the Recording Academy’s then vp of diversity, equity and inclusion. The two were on a panel exploring how the Academy could support artists within the larger disability community as Lachi, a Black female musician who...