MAIN SHOW_ Ramin Setoodeh FULL

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00:00Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to one of the best nights of the year.

00:05And the good news is I am going to be one of the only men on stage tonight.

00:08So we can clap for that.

00:13At Variety, it is our privilege to be able to have a print magazine every single week.

00:18And so we are so proud of our four cover stars.

00:21Can we please give them another huge round of applause?

00:24Zoe, Bella, Amy, and a newcomer actress named Carol Burnett.

00:33One of the big perks of this event is the infamous Variety gift bag.

00:37You will all be receiving one at the end of the night.

00:40And you will also be receiving a print edition of Variety.

00:43And we are so proud again of our print product.

00:45We are so grateful that we get to come out and print every single week.

00:49Invest in photography, invest in long-form journalism.

00:52And I wanted to thank everyone in this room for your support of print.

00:55So can we please give a big hand to print journalism?

01:01Speaking of which, I just wanted to take a second to brag about our newsroom.

01:05For the past 28 consecutive months, Variety has been the number one newsroom covering the business of Hollywood.

01:12And every time we do one of these dinners, that number goes up.

01:15So I am really, really proud of our entire staff.

01:17And just wanted to say thank you to some of them in the room tonight.

01:20Angelique Jackson.

01:23Emily Longoretta.

01:25Katsy Stefan, who wrote some of the cover stories.

01:28Carol Horst, who worked on the impact list.

01:31Haley Kluge, our creative director and ASME-winning journalist.

01:35Jennifer Dorn, who worked on all the visual direction.

01:38And I want to thank some of our partners on the business side.

01:41Donna Penestri, where are you?

01:43You should have your own Power of Woman cover.

01:46Millie Chiavelli, all the way from New York, my partner in crime.

01:51Daya Lawrence, our chief operating officer in pink.