Great Movies

Roger Ebert was born in Urbana, Illinois, and attended local schools and the University of Illinois, where he was editor of The Daily Illini. After graduate study in English at the universities of Illinois, Cape Town, and Chicago, he became film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times in 1967, and won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1975. The same year, he began a long association with Gene Siskel on the TV program "Siskel & Ebert." After Siskel's death in 1999, the program continued with Richard Roeper on "Ebert & Roeper." Ebert has been a lecturer on film in the University of Chicago's Fine Arts Program since 1969, is an adjunct professor of cinema and media studies at the University of Illinois, and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Colorado, where he has conducted an annual shot-by-shot analysis of a film for thirty years at the Conference on World Affairs. In 1999 he started an Overlooked Film Festival at the University of Illinois, selecting films, genres, and formats he believes deserve more attention. His reviews are collected in an annual Movie Yearbook, and he has published a dozen other books. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Chaz Hammelsmith EbertEbert, Roger is the author of 'Great Movies', published 0008 under ISBN 9780767910323 and ISBN 076791032X.