A.O. Scott

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Anthony O. "Tony" Scott (born July 10, 1966) is an American journalist and critic. He is best known as a film critic for The New York Times.

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Background and education

Scott grew up the son of two historians. His mother, Joan Wallach Scott, is the Harold F. Linder Professor at the School of Social Science in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.[1] His father, Donald Scott, is a professor of American history at CUNY. He is also a great nephew of the actor Eli Wallach.

Scott attended public schools in Providence, Rhode Island—including Classical High School—before graduating magna cum laude from Harvard in 1988 with a degree in literature.

Career

Scott began his tenure at The Times Arts section in January, 2000, following Janet Maslin's retirement from film criticism. (Maslin continues to review genre fiction for the paper.) Before joining The Times, Scott served as book critic for Newsday, and also as a contributor for the The New York Review of Books and Slate.

Television

In 2006 and 2007, Scott served repeatedly as guest critic on Ebert & Roeper with Richard Roeper in Roger Ebert's absence due to illness. He and Roeper counted down their selections for the top ten films of 2006 and again for 2007. The following are A.O. Scott's lists:

2006 2007
1 Letters from Iwo Jima 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
2 Pan's Labyrinth Ratatouille
3 L'Enfant Sweeney Todd
4 Days of Glory I'm Not There
5 Little Miss Sunshine Terror's Advocate
6 Three Times 12:08 East of Bucharest
7 51 Birch Street There Will Be Blood
8 Volver Into the Wild
9 Little Children The Savages
10 A Prairie Home Companion Knocked Up

He hosts a video podcast on the subject of film for The New York Times.

Scott is currently working on a book of literary criticism about the 20th Century American novel. He is particularly fond of the work of Mary McCarthy, calling her novel The Group one of the greatest of the 20th Century. He contributed a foreword to her collection of essays A Bolt from the Blue.

Personal life

Scott lives in the New York City borough of Brooklyn with his wife and two children.

References

  1. ^ The School of Social Science

External links

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