2008 roger ebert biography imdb

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.

2008 roger ebert biography imdb

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