Finalist: The Village Voice, by Michael Feingold
For his engaging, authoritative drama reviews that fuse passion and knowledge as he helps readers understand what makes a play or a performance successful.
Winners
Prize Winner in Criticism in 2010:
Sarah Kaufman
For her refreshingly imaginative approach to dance criticism, illuminating a range of issues and topics with provocative comments and original insights.
Criticism
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Criticism in 2010:
A.O. Scott
For his incisive film reviews that, with aplomb, embrace a wide spectrum of movies and often explore their connection to larger issues in society or the arts.
The Jury
The Jury
Lisa Kennedy
film critic
Lisa Kresl
deputy managing editor/lifestyles
Manuela Hoelterhoff(chair )*
executive editor/Muse
Martin Bernheimer*
New York music critic
Richard Locke
professor of writing and director of nonfiction
Winners in Criticism
Holland Cotter
For his wide ranging reviews of art, from Manhattan to China, marked by acute observation, luminous writing and dramatic storytelling.
Mark Feeney
For his penetrating and versatile command of the visual arts, from film and photography to painting.
Jonathan Gold
For his zestful, wide ranging restaurant reviews, expressing the delight of an erudite eater.
Robin Givhan
For her witty, closely observed essays that transform fashion criticism into cultural criticism.
2010 Prize Winners
Paul Harding
A powerful celebration of life in which a New England father and son, through suffering and joy, transcend their imprisoning lives and offer new ways of perceiving the world and mortality.
Hank Williams
For his craftsmanship as a songwriter who expressed universal feelings with poignant simplicity and played a pivotal role in transforming country music into a major musical and cultural force in American life.
Liaquat Ahamed
A compelling account of how four powerful bankers played crucial roles in triggering the Great Depression and ultimately transforming the United States into the world's financial leader.
Rae Armantrout
A book striking for its wit and linguistic inventiveness, offering poems that are often little thought-bombs detonating in the mind long after the first reading.