The New Yorker receives multiple awards

The New Yorker's short doc A Broken House has been awarded "Best Short Film" at the IDA Awards. The film tells the story of Syrian-born architect and artist Mohamad Hafez who uses found objects to make models of Damascus. Also at the award show, investigative reporter and contributing writer Ronan Farrow won the Truth to Power Award.

Last month, The New Yorker contributors Sarah Stillman and Ian Urbina received Polk Awards on Monday, each in recognition of reporting about migrants facing extraordinary dangers.

A third New Yorker contributor, Luke Mogelson, last week received the inaugural Sydney H. Schanberg Prize, also presented by the George Polk Award program, for his coverage of the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The annual Polk Awards honor exemplary investigative and enterprising reporting. The awards honor the legacy of George Polk, a CBS News correspondent who was murdered in 1948 while covering the civil war in Greece.

Earlier this month, The New Yorker also received two Academy Award nominations.

"Affairs of the Art" and "On My Mind," a pair of short films released by The New Yorker, have been nominated for Academy Awards, joining feature-length nominees that included "The Power of the Dog," "West Side Story," and "Belfast."

Nominated in the Best Animated Short category, “Affairs of the Art,” directed by Joanna Quinn and Les Mills, presents an off-kilter, warm-hearted glimpse into a family of eccentrics. Beryl, a Welsh housewife and the film’s energetic narrator, is “drinking from the cup of creativity” as she shares her interest in drawing and recounts the parallel obsessions of many of her family members, who transform their own passions—toy trains, pet pigeons, revenge—into art through the power of their attention. Quinn and Mills have been making films about Beryl since 1987—“Affairs of the Art” is the fourth—and both won Emmys, in 1999, for their work on an animated adaptation of “The Canterbury Tales.” Quinn’s work has been nominated for an Academy Award once before, for the 1996 animated short film “Famous Fred.”

“On My Mind,” written and directed by the Danish filmmaker Martin Strange-Hansen, is nominated in the Best Live Action Short category and unfolds in a nearly deserted bar, where a man asks to perform a karaoke song with deeply personal meaning. “On My Mind” will début on newyorker.com later this year, and marks the second Academy Award nomination for Strange-Hansen, who won in the same category, in 2003, for the film “This Charming Man.”