Awards & Winners

Philip Kennicott

Philip Kennicott is the chief Art and Architecture Critic of The Washington Post. Kennicott won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. He had twice been a Pulitzer Prize finalist before: in 2012, he was a runner-up for the criticism prize, and in 2000, he was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing of a series on gun control he wrote for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 2006, he was an Emmy Award nominee for a Web-based video journal about democracy and oil money in Azerbaijan. He joined the Post in 1999, where he serves as the newspaper's chief art critic. Kennicott graduated summa cum laude with a degree in philosophy from Yale University in 1988.

Awards by Philip Kennicott

Check all the awards nominated and won by Philip Kennicott.

2013


Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
(For his eloquent and passionate essays on art and the social forces that underlie it, a critic who always strives to make his topics and targets relevant to readers.)

Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
For his eloquent and passionate essays on art and the social forces that underlie it, a critic who always strives to make his topics and targets relevant to readers.

2012


Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
For his ambitious and insightful cultural criticism, taking on topical events from the uprisings in Egypt to the dedication of the Ground Zero memorial, causing readers to reflect on the world around them.

2000


Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
For his carefully reasoned editorial campaign against the passage of a proposition to legally allow Missouri residents to carry concealed weapons.