Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert

  • Co-host of "Ebert & Roeper." The show appears on more than 200 stations and continues to rank as the top-rated first-run weekly syndicated half-hour on television. For 23 years, he co-hosted "Siskel & Ebert" with the late Gene Siskel.

  • Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967. Ebert is syndicated in more than 200 papers in the U.S., Canada, England, Japan and Greece.

  • Author of 15 books, Ebert recently released the 2004 edition of his Annual Movie Yearbook, and is working on two upcoming books. The first, The Great Movies II, is a second compilation of reviews of 100 great movies (out February 2005), and his Movie Yearbook 2005 will be available in November 2005. Ebert also has authored the 2002 best-seller The Great Movies, I Hated, Hated, HATED This Movie, the Norton anthology Roger Ebert's Book of Film, and the best-selling Ebert's Bigger Little Movie Glossary.

  • Critic for WLS-TV, the ABC owned-and-operated station in Chicago, and host of the LIVE pre- and post-Academy Awards broadcasts for KABC-TV in Los Angeles, which are carried in many markets. Co-host of the live coverage of the Cannes Film Festival awards on the Independent Film Channel.

  • Lecturer on film, University of Chicago Fine Arts program, since 1970. Adjunct professor of cinema and media studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

  • Known for his 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. Recorded shot-by-shot commentary tracks for the DVD of "Citizen Kane," for which he won the 2001 Video Premiere Award for "Best Audio Commentary." Ebert has also done commentary tracks for the DVDs of "Dark City," "Floating Weeds," "Casablanca," and "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls."

  • Jury member of the Sundance, Montreal, Chicago, Hawaii, Karlovy Vary and Venice Film Festivals. 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, launched his annual "Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival" showcasing forgotten or ignored movies and genres each April at the historic Virginia Theatre in his hometown of Champaign-Urbana, Ill. This year's sixth annual festival was dedicated to the memories of Kim Rotzoll and Hollywood veteran Donald O'Connor. Ebert is also involved in the annual Chicago Outdoor Film Festival, which takes place each summer in Grant Park.

  • Awards and Honors:
    - Pulitzer Prize, 1975;
    - Selected to receive a 2004 Star on the Hollywood Walk
      of Fame;
    - Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, American Film Institute;
    - Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute,
      Chicago;
    - Honorary Doctorate, University of Colorado;
    - Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame;
    - Peter Lisagor Award for Best Feature Column, Chicago
      Headline Club (1998, 1999 and 2003);
    - Honored by the American Society of Cinematographers, 2003;

  • The most-visited movie review site on the web. Ebert's Chicago Sun-Times Web site (www.suntimes.com/ebert), has been named the best film review site of the year by the Online Film Critics' Society. His broadcast reviews appear in streaming audio and video at "Ebert & Roeper's" online site, www.ebertandroeper.tv. Ebert's film reviews also are available to mobile phone users through U.S. Cellular, providing nearly 4,000 reviews in five categories: Now Playing, Great Movies, Search Movies and Rentals, Browse by Genre & Weekly Top 10.

  • Early career: Sports writer for the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette from the age of 15. Editor of The Daily Illini at the University of Illinois, 1963-64. Hired by the Sun-Times in 1966, appointed film critic six months later. In 1967 Ebert quit a doctoral program in English to pursue his career as a critic.

  • Education: Universities of Illinois, Cape Town (on a Rotary Fellowship) and Chicago.

  • Ebert lives with his wife, trial attorney Chaz Hammelsmith Ebert, in Chicago.

  • Interests: Reading, cyberspace, walking, travel, sketching, cosmology, Darwinianism, and using the Japanese rice cooker to cook almost anything.

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