The Los Angeles Press Club announced Wednesday the historical drama \u201cHamnet\u201d has won its 2026 Veritas Award for best film based on or inspired by real events and people.<\/p>\n
The award, now in its 11th year, is judged by the club\u2019s roughly 1,000 members and recognizes films that combine fidelity to historical subject matter with artistic excellence, according to the organization.<\/p>\n
The film is nominated for eight Academy Awards, including best picture.<\/p>\n
\u201cHamnet\u201d depicts the relationship between William Shakespeare and Agnes Hathaway and the death of their son, Hamnet. While both the film and the novel are fictionalized accounts, the story draws on known events in Shakespeare\u2019s life, including his 1582 marriage to Hathaway and the death of their son in 1596.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe impact of `Hamnet\u2019 does not come from its historical accuracy; instead, it comes from the imagined emotional energy that inspired one of Shakespeare\u2019s greatest tragedies,\u201d Los Angeles Press Club President Danny Bakewell Jr. said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cHamnet\u201d was directed by Chlo\u00c3\u00a9 Zhao, who co-wrote the screenplay with Maggie O\u2019Farrell, author of the novel on which the film is based.<\/p>\n
The film stars Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Zac Wishart, James Lintern, Joe Alwyn, Justine Mitchell, Eva Wishart, Effie Linnen and Emily Watson.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s runners-up were \u201cNuremberg\u201d and \u201cThe Lost Bus,\u201d according to the press club.<\/p>\n
Past recipients of the Veritas Award include \u201cSpotlight,\u201d \u201cHidden Figures,\u201d \u201cThe Post,\u201d \u201cGreen Book,\u201d \u201cBombshell,\u201d \u201cThe Trial of the Chicago 7,\u201d \u201cKing Richard,\u201d and \u201cKillers of the Flower Moon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Officials said they are working to host an awards presentation at the organization\u2019s headquarters in Historic Filipinotown on March 12.<\/p>\n
Founded in 1913, the Los Angeles Press Club represents journalists working across print, broadcast, documentary and online media throughout Southern California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Press Club announced Wednesday the historical drama \u201cHamnet\u201d has won its 2026 Veritas Award for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2975,6758,18929,17017,48,52,51,47,50,49,10159,94886,88895],"class_list":["post-205169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-2975","tag-award","tag-clubs","tag-hamnet","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-press","tag-veritas","tag-wins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}