Clayton Davis

Clayton Davis, Variety's Senior Awards Editor, embarked on his journey with the prestigious Hollywood publication in September 2020. Beyond his role in forecasting upcoming Oscars, Emmys and other awards ceremonies, Davis is a two-time Emmy-nominated host of PBS' "Variety Studio: Actors on Actors." He also co-hosts the award-winning "Variety Awards Circuit Podcast." An acclaimed journalist, Davis received the Excellence in Entertainment Journalism Award from NALIP in 2021 and was named one of the Imagen Foundation's Influential Latinos in Media in 2022, 2023 and 2024. He earned a 2022 Telly Award for co-programming and executive producing the Critics Choice's Celebration of Latino Cinema & Television and a Webby Award in the General Video category for events and live streams as one of the hosts for Variety's Power of Women 2022.