Roger Ebert

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Roger Ebert was a pioneering American film critic, journalist, and screenwriter renowned for his influential reviews, television programs, and role in popularizing accessible, mainstream film criticism.

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Roger Ebert canonical 4
Ebert 2
Roger Joseph Ebert 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf film critic
human
journalist
screenwriter
television personality
awardReceived Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screenwriters Guild of America
National Society of Film Critics Award
Primetime Emmy Awards
surface form: Primetime Emmy Award

Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
burialPlace Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, United States
surface form: Graceland Cemetery, Chicago
causeOfDeath cancer-related complications
coHost Gene Siskel
Richard Roeper
collaboratedWith Russ Meyer
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1942-06-18
dateOfDeath 2013-04-04
educatedAt University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
employer Chicago Sun-Times
familyName Roger Ebert self-linksurface differs
surface form: Ebert
fieldOfStudy journalism
fullName Roger Ebert self-linksurface differs
surface form: Roger Joseph Ebert
genre film criticism
givenName Roger
hasSignatureStyle clear, conversational prose and strong personal opinions in reviews
influenced many contemporary film critics
knownFor making film criticism accessible to mainstream audiences
popularizing the thumbs up/thumbs down movie rating system
languageSpoken English
marriageStart 1992 (to Chaz Ebert)
notableAchievement first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
notableWork At the Movies
I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie
Life Itself (memoir)
Roeper & Ebert
Roger Ebert’s Movie Home Companion
Siskel & Ebert
Sneak Previews
occupation author
film critic
journalist
screenwriter
television presenter
placeOfBirth Urbana, Illinois, United States
placeOfDeath Chicago, Illinois, United States
positionHeld film critic at the Chicago Sun-Times
religion Roman Catholicism (raised)
screenwriterFor Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
spouse Chaz Ebert
startTime 1967 (as film critic at the Chicago Sun-Times)
website https://www.rogerebert.com

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Graceland Cemetery burialPlaceOf Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert fullName Roger Ebert self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Roger Joseph Ebert
Roger Ebert familyName Roger Ebert self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Ebert
Marwencol reviewedBy Roger Ebert
Friedrich Ebert familyName Roger Ebert
this entity surface form: Ebert
Goodbye Solo reviewedBy Roger Ebert