The 100th annual Pulitzer Prize winners were announced today in a live stream on YouTube, and in case that’s not 2016 enough for you, the Drama award went to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s inescapable Broadway hit Hamilton—the first musical to win since 2010. Other winners include Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer for the Fiction award, William Finnegan’s Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life for Biography/Autobiography, and Henry Threadgill’s In For A Penny, In For A Pound for the Music award.
In the journalism categories, The Associated Press won for Public Service, The Los Angeles Times won best Breaking News Reporting, T. Christian Miller from ProPublica and Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project won the Explanatory Reporting award for “An Unbelievable Story Of Rape,” and the Boston Globe’s Jessica Rinaldi won for Feature Photography. Additionally, New Yorker TV critic Emily Nussbaum won the Criticism Pulitzer, and fellow New Yorker writer Kathryn Schulz won for Feature Writing.
The full list of winners is below, along with a video of the full presentation—nearly seven minutes of which is spent on people patiently waiting for the presentation to start.
2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners:
Journalism:
Public Service: The Associated Press
Breaking News Reporting: The Los Angeles Times
Investigative Reporting: Leonora LaPeter Anton and Anthony Cormier of the Tampa Bay News and Michael Braga of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune