About Us

The Envelope is the most comprehensive year-round awards coverage featuring unparalleled original content, expert contributors, and a media rich experience produced exclusively for the web. From Hollywood's biggest award events including the Academy Awards, Golden Globes and Grammys to business, fashion, celebrity, and more, The Envelope offers a true insider's look at the awards race with insight, analysis, and a Hollywood context not available anywhere else.

Backed by the power, credibility, and regional base of the Los Angeles Times and latimes.com's award-winning editorial staff, entertainment expertise, and extensive archives, The Envelope is the insider awards resource for the entertainment industry, dedicated enthusiasts, and casual users. The Envelope launches on the world wide web November 1, 2005.

The Envelope's exclusive and original online content includes blogs updated 3-5 times a day, 5 to 7 days a week, pod casts, interactive features, forums, polls, lists, roundtables, red carpet photo galleries and more. The Envelope also features key highlights from the Los Angeles Times Archives' eighty-year collection spanning the inception of Hollywood to the modern-day entertainment industry.

Envelope contributors include:

Tom O'Neil, (Writer, Goldderby blog), a respected entertainment journalist, author, on-air personality and creator of the closely watched awards show pundit site, Goldderby.com;

Pete Hammond, (Columnist, Notes on a Season blog), a veteran entertainment writer with decades of industry experience and reportage in his portfolio.

Elizabeth Snead (Writer, Styles & Scenes blog), a veteran fashion and entertainment writer from USA Today and the Washington Post, columnist for E! Online (The Fashion Police) and the Los Angeles Daily News (Spywitness);

Todd Martens, (Writer, Extended Play), a seasoned music journalist, Martens comes to Los Angeles Times following a six-year stint at Billboard where he was an associate editor and featured columnist.

Sheigh Crabtree, (Associate Editor, Entertainment for LATimes.com), currently oversees all editorial content for The Envelope. She is an entertainment journalist for the Los Angeles Times, formerly New Media Editor at Hollywood Reporter, where she reported daily film news, wrote a weekly cinema technology column, and oversaw many of the trade paper's Oscar issues.

The Envelope is a part of the Los Angeles Times and latimes.com, and its parent company, Tribune (www.tribune.com) is one of the country's top media companies, operating businesses in publishing and broadcasting reaching more than 80 percent of U.S. households and is the only media organization with newspapers, television stations, and websites in the nation's top three markets.