로저 이버트

소개

로저 조지프 이버트(Roger Joseph Ebert, 1942년 6월 18일 ~ 2013년 4월 4일)는 미국의 영화 평론가, TV 진행자, 작가이다. 신문, TV 프로그램, 저작권, 강연 활동과 교수, 자신의 웹 사이트를 통해 많은 사람들에게 영화 관람 방법과 수용의 방법을 소개하고 알려지지 않은 명작을 소개하는 등 미국에서 가장 유명한 영화 평론가이다. 2005년 6월에는 영화 평론가로 처음으로 할리우드 명예의 거리에 이름을 새겼다. 또한 콜로라도 대학교, 미국 영화 협회 등에서 명예 학위를 받았다.

Roger Joseph Ebert was an American film critic, film historian, essayist, screenwriter and author. He wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. Ebert was known for his intimate, Midwestern writing style and critical views informed by values of populism and humanism. Writing in a prose style intended to be entertaining and direct, he made sophisticated cinematic and analytical ideas more accessible to non-specialist audiences. Ebert endorsed foreign and independent films he believed would be appreciated by mainstream viewers, championing filmmakers like Werner Herzog, Errol Morris and Spike Lee, as well as Martin Scorsese, whose first published review he wrote. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times said Ebert "was without question the nation's most prominent and influential film critic", and Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times called him "the best-known film critic in America". Per The New York Times, "The force and grace of his opinions propelled film criticism into the mainstream of American culture. Not only did he advise moviegoers about what to see, but also how to think about what they saw."