13 SPORT ‘OSCARS’ NOMINATIONS

THE Mail on Sunday and Daily Mail have 13 nominations for the SJA British Sports Journalism Awards.

Chief Sports Writer OLIVER HOLT (above) leads the way with a nomination as Columnist of the Year and also as Sports Feature Writer of the Year. Holt is already the reigning Sports Commentator of the Year for his brilliant column, which you can read this week on page 70. Daily Mail Chief Sports Writer MARTIN SAMUEL is nominated in the Sports Columnist category. Reigning Sports Reporter of the Year

MATT LAWTON is also shortlisted for two awards. Beating every media outlet to the news that Claudio Ranieri had been sacked by Leicester earned him a nomination for Sports Scoop, while he is also up for the Sports News Reporter award again, along with IAN HERBERT.

ROB DRAPER (right) and NICK HARRIS have been jointly nominated for Investigative Sports Reporter of the Year for their expose of Russian drug cheats and the revelation that London 2012 is the dirtiest Olympics ever. Sportsmail cricket-writing duo

PAUL NEWMAN and LAWRENCE BOOTH have both been nominated again in the Cricket Journalist category while boxing doyen

JEFF POWELL is named in the Specialist Correspondent category.

ADAM CRAFTON and AMITAI WINEHOUSE have been nominated for the Young Sports Writer award, a trophy which is named after legendary Mail writer Ian Wooldridge, while

MAILONLINE has been nominated in the Sports Website category.

The sports industry Oscars take place in London on Monday February 26.