Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004

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America"s number one movie fan is back with his annual edition of movie reviews. Everyone from Diane Sawyer to Regis Philbin anticipates Roger Ebert"s next release because of the overwhelming cornucopia of movie material it contains. Roger Ebert"s Movie Yearbook 2004 contains every review Ebert wrote from January 2001 to mid-June 2003. Also included are his essays, interviews, film festival reports, and In Memoriams, along with a list of all movies previously appearing in a Video Companion or Movie Yearbook, complete with Ebert"s star ratings.Since 1967, Ebert has been a movie critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. The best-selling author and American institution received an honorary doctorate from the University of Colorado, regularly lectures at the University of Chicago, and was named to the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame. He and his partner-in-crime of 24 years, the late Gene Siskel, gave us the "thumb"s up" and "thumb"s down" that have become part of the American lexicon.

Genres nonfiction

976 pages, Paperback

First published January 12,2004

Series

Roger Ebert/s Video Companion

This edition

Format: 976 pages, Paperback
Published: October 1, 2003 by Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 9780740738340
ASIN: 0740738348
Language: English

About the author

roger ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic and screenwriter.

He was known for his weekly review column (appearing in the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and later online) and for the television program Siskel & Ebert at the Movies, which he co-hosted for 23 years with Gene Siskel. After Siskel's death in 1999, he auditioned several potential replacements, ultimately choosing Richard Roeper to fill the open chair. The program was retitled Ebert & Roeper and the Movies in 2000.

Ebert's movie reviews were syndicated to more than 200 newspapers in the United States and abroad. He wrote more than 15 books, including his annual movie yearbook. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. His television programs have also been widely syndicated, and have been nominated for Emmy awards. In February 1995, a section of Chicago's Erie Street near the CBS Studios was given the honorary name Siskel & Ebert Way. Ebert was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in June 2005, the first professional film critic to receive one. Roger Ebert was named as the most influential pundit in America by Forbes Magazine, beating the likes of Bill Maher, Lou Dobbs, and Bill O'Reilly.[2] He has honorary degrees from the University of Colorado, the American Film Institute, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

From 1994 until his death in 2013, he wrote a Great Movies series of individual reviews of what he deemed to be the most important films of all time. He also hosted the annual Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival in Champaign, Illinois from 1999 until his death.