Monday, October 28, 2013 4:20 PM
Los Angeles Times film critic and book editor Kenneth Turan will receive the Los Angeles Press Club’s highly coveted Luminary Award for Career Achievement at the 6th Annual National Entertainment Journalism Awards Gala on Sunday, November 24th at the Millennium Biltmore hotel, downtown Los Angeles.
Turan’s Luminary Award recognizes and praises his insightful and influential movie reviews as well as honoring his outstanding work for NPR and KUSC, Los Angeles.
He is currently the senior film critic for the Los Angeles Times and NPR’s Morning Edition, as well as the director of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. He has been a staff writer for the Washington Post and TV Guide, and served as the Times‘ book review editor.
In 2006, Turan received a Special Citation Award from the National Society of Film Critics. He is the second film critic acclaimed by the Los Angeles Press Club. Longtime Wall Street Journal critic Joe Morgenstern won for Lifetime Achievement in 2008.
Kenneth Turan is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism; he is the co-author of Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke. He teaches film reviewing and non-fiction writing at USC and is on the board of directors of the National Yiddish Book Center. Some of his books are Sundance to Sarajevo: Film Festivals and the World They Made, Never Coming To A Theater Near You, Now In Theaters Everywhere and most recently Free for All: Joe Papp, The Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told, released in paperback in November 2013.
