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In Reply to: Roger Ebert defends himslef against being accused as soft on movies... posted by RGA on January 4, 2006 at 19:35:14:
If I am going into a room to ask about film -- do I trust some hack on a forum making pot shots who likely have no degree in anything - or Roger?"Roger Ebert has had a long and distinguished career, resulting in numerous awards and honors for his contributions to the worlds of cinema, journalism, broadcasting and publishing. Ebert was the first movie critic to receive the Pulitzer Prize for arts criticism in 1975. Ebert has received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the American Film Institute, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Colorado. He is also a member of the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame, and three time recipient of the Peter Lisagor Award for Best Feature Column from the Chicago Headline Club.
Ebert began his career as a sports writer for the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette at the age of 15. He was editor of The Daily Illini at the University of Illinois from 1963-64, was hired by the Sun-Times in 1966, and appointed film critic six months later. Currently, his film reviews for the Chicago Sun Times are syndicated in more than 200 papers in the U.S., Canada, England, Japan and Greece. Ebert is also the author of 17 books. He most recently released The Great Movies II, a second compilation of reviews of 100 great movies, and Movie Yearbook 2005. His best-selling works include The Great Movies, I Hated, Hated, HATED This Movie, Roger Ebert's Book of Film and Ebert's Bigger Little Movie Glossary.
Ebert is currently celebrating his 30th anniversary as a television film critic in 2005, having hosted "Siskel & Ebert" with the late Gene Siskel for 23 years before co-hosting "Ebert & Roeper" with fellow Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper. "Ebert & Roeper" airs weekends on more than 200 stations across the U.S. On television, Roger Ebert is also co-host of the Independent Film Channel's live coverage of the Cannes Film Festival, critic for WLS-TV (ABC) in Chicago, and co-host of syndicated pre- and post-Academy Awards broadcasts for KABC.
Ebert has been a lecturer on film since 1970 at the University of Chicago Fine Arts program, and is an adjunct professor of cinema and media studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is known for sessions conducting shot-by-shot analysis of films at the Universities of Colorado, Virginia and Chicago, the Smithsonian Institution and the Canadian Center for the Advanced Study of Film. Ebert is a jury member of the Sundance, Montreal, Chicago, Hawaii, Karlovy Vary and Venice Film Festivals. He has attended Cannes for more than 25 years and has written a book about it (Two Weeks in the Midday Sun) illustrated with his own sketches. In 1999, Ebert launched his annual "Overlooked Film Festival" showcasing forgotten or ignored movies and genres, which is being held in Urbana-Champaign from April 20-24, 2005."
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