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Ebert received many awards during his long and distinguished career as a film critic and television host. He was the first film critic to ever win a Pulitzer Prize, receiving the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1975 while working for the Chicago Sun-Times, "for his film criticism during 1974". [271] [272]
The Pulitzer Prizes for 1975, the 59th annual prizes, were ratified by the Pulitzer Prize advisory board on April 11, 1975, and by the trustees of Columbia University on May 5. [1] For the first time, the role of accepting or rejecting recommendations of the advisory board was delegated by the trustees to the university's president, William J ...
The Criticism Pulitzer has been awarded to one person annually except in 1992 when it was not awarded—43 prizes in 44 years 1970–2013. Wesley Morris is the only person to have won the prize more than once, winning in 2012 and 2021. [1] In 2020, podcasts and audio reporting became eligible for the prize. [citation needed]
Ebert was a Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, a co-host of an influential TV program that reviewed movies, as well as a University of Illinois journalism alumnus, and ...
Journalists at the paper have received eight Pulitzer Prizes, mostly in the 1970s; one recipient was the first film critic to receive the prize, Roger Ebert (1975), who worked at the paper from 1967 until his death in 2013.
Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times for nearly half a century, and a game-changing television presenter, died Thursday at the age of 70. Ebert had been in ill health for some time.
He founded the film and media criticism blog The House Next Door. Seitz is known as a leader in the creation of video essays, frequently featured on Moving Image Source[5] and The L Magazine, [6] and served as the publisher of PressPlay, a site for video-based film and television criticism. He was a finalist for the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for ...
Roger Ebert was a film critic who worked for the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper. [1] During his career, he became the first film critic to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, which he won in 1975, and hosted the nationally broadcast film review television program At the Movies with fellow critic Gene Siskel.