Roger Ebert's Movie Trivia

Roger Ebert (1942-2013) was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. He is the only film critic with a star on Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame and was named honorary life member of the Directors’ Guild of America. He won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Screenwriters’ Guild, and received honorary degrees from the American Film Institute and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Starting in 1989, he hosted Ebertfest, a film festival at the Virginia Theater in Champaign-Urbana. From 1975 until 2006, he, Gene Siskel, and Richard Roeper co-hosted a weekly movie review program on national TV. He was lecturer on film for the University of Chicago extension program from 1970 until 2006.