The Sunday Times leads the way in The Press Awards nominations with 22 as News UK titles earned a whopping 50 shortlisted entries for the industry ‘Oscars’.

The Times gained 18 nominations and The Sun 10 for the prestigious awards being held at the London Hilton Hotel on March 22.

This tally smashes the 41 total for News UK achieved in the previous year’s nominations, mainly due to The Sun rising from two to 10 shortlisted entries.

All three of our national titles are shortlisted in the blue ribbon Newspaper of the Year and News Team of the Year categories.

The Sunday Times dominates the Broadsheet Interviewer of the Year section with four of the six finalists.

The Sun’s Oliver Harvey takes on five Daily Mail journalists in the Popular Feature Writer of the Year section.

See the full list of our 50 nominations below:

Young Journalist of the Year: Josh Boswell  (Sunday Times); Dean Wilkins (Sun).

Business and finance journalist: Oliver Shah (Sunday Times).

Political Journalist of the Year: Matthew Parris (Times); Tim Shipman (Sunday Times); Rachel Sylvester (Times).

Foreign Reporter of the Year: Christina Lamb (Sunday Times).

Showbiz Reporter of the Year: Richard Brooks (Sunday Times); Will Payne (Sun); Dan Wootton (Sun).

Sports Journalist of the Year: Matthew Syed (Times).

Specialist Journalist of the Year: Dan Jones (S); Sean O’Neill (Times).

Broadsheet Interviewer of the Year: Bryan Appleyard (Sunday Times); Lynn Barber (Sunday Times); Camilla Long (Sunday Times); Krissi Murison (Sunday Times).

Popular Feature Writer of the Year: Oliver Harvey (Sun).

Broadsheet Feature Writer of the Year: Martin Fletcher (Times); Ben Machell (Times).

Broadsheet Columnist of the Year: David Aaronovitch (Times); Giles Coren (Times); Dominic Lawson (Sunday Times).

Critic of the Year: AA Gill (Sunday Times).

Photographer of the Year: Manu Brabo (Sunday Times); Jack Hill (Times).

Sports Photographer of the Year: Marc Aspland (Times).

Cartoonist of the Year: Peter Brookes (Times); Morten Morland (Times); Gerald Scarfe (Sunday Times).

Scoop of the Year: Doping scandal, Insight team (Sunday Times); Fifa investigation, Insight team (Sunday Times); Lord Coke, Stephen Moyes (Sun).

News Reporter of the Year: Stephen Moyes (Sun).

Digital Innovation Award: Times.

Front Page of the Year: Busted (Sun); United We Stand (Times).

Supplement of the Year: Culture (Sunday Times); Style (Sunday Times); Times Magazine.

Sports Team of the Year: Sunday Times; Times.

News Team of the Year: Sun; Sunday Times; Times.

Cudlipp Award: Athletics doping scandal (Sunday Times).

Newspaper of the Year: Sun; Sunday Times; Times.