Stacey Wilson Hunt
Credits: Contributing Editor, The Hollywood Reporter
STACEY WILSON HUNT is an award-winning journalist who has held numerous high-level editorial positions, including Hollywood correspondent for Fortune and New York magazine’s Hollywood Editor. She also served as The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards & Special Projects Editor for nearly six years, managing, editing and producing industry power-lists; awards coverage; and other key print and video initiatives.
Stacey also is a popular moderator for HBO, Netflix, Apple TV+, Amazon, a24, Paramount+, Hulu, Searchlight, Universal, the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, the Paley Center and others. For television, she produced and hosted Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter, the Emmy-nominated roundtable series, from 2012 to 2015; and in 2021, she wrote and hosted the Handmaid’s Tale after-show, One Burning Question on Hulu. She’s also a podcaster, having produced and hosted Nat Geo’s Emmys FYC series, The Making Of; and Inventing Anna: The Official Podcast, the companion to Shonda Rhimes’ hit Netflix series.
Stacey was raised in Portland, Oregon by Illinois-native parents (Italian mom; farm-bred dad) and earned a B.A. in Professional Writing and Spanish from the University of Puget Sound. After starting her career at Microsoft, she earned an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University and logged six years as People magazine’s Northwest-based correspondent. She has written for L.A. Magazine, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Playboy, IndieWire, EW, Variety and earned Society of Professional Journalists and L.A. Press Club awards for her work.
A Contributing Editor for The Hollywood Reporter since 2021, Stacey lives in Los Angeles just down the hill from the Hollywood sign.