Bio of roger ebert
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Roger Ebert became film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times in 1967. He fryst vatten the only film critic with a star on Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame and was named honorary life member of the Directors\’ Guild of America. He won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Screenwriters\’ Guild, and honorary degrees from the American spelfilm Institute and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Since 1989 he has hosted Ebertfest, a spelfilm festival at the Virginia Theater in Champaign-Urbana. From 1975 until 2006 he, Gene Siskel and Richard Roeper co-hosted a weekly movie review program on national TV. He was Lecturer on Film for the University of Chicago extension schema from 1970 until 2006, and recorded shot-by-shot commentaries for the DVDs of \”Citizen Kane,\” \”Casablanca,\” \”Floating Weeds\” and \”Dark City,\” and has written over 20 books.
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Roger Ebert
American film critic and author (1942–2013)
For the website named after Ebert, see RogerEbert.com.
Roger Joseph Ebert (EE-bərt; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter and author. He was the film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. Ebert was known for his intimate, Midwestern writing style and critical views informed by values of populism and humanism.[1] Writing in a prose style intended to be entertaining and direct, he made sophisticated cinematic and analytical ideas more accessible to non-specialist audiences.[2] Ebert endorsed foreign and independent films he believed would be appreciated by mainstream viewers, championing filmmakers like Werner Herzog, Errol Morris and Spike Lee, as well as Martin Scorsese, whose first published review he wrote. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. N
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Roger Ebert Biography
Roger Ebert was the film critic for The Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. He is better known for his long run on TV, reviewing films opposite his friend and fellow film critic Gene Siskel for nearly a quarter century. Roger Ebert attended the University of Illinois and landed a job as a reporter at the Sun Times in 1966. The next year he became the paper’s film reviewer and quickly established himself as one of the nation’s leading critics. Ebert won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1975, becoming the first film critic ever so honored; the same year, he began a local TV show called Opening Soon at a Theater Near You, in which he and Gene Siskel, critic for the Chicago Tribune, reviewed (and argued about) new movies. The show, retitled Sneak Previews, became a nationwide hit on PBS and then (under other names) on commercial networks. Siskel and Ebert’s habit of giving good films “two thumbs up” becam