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Roger Joseph Ebert [5] [7] was born on June 18, 1942, in Urbana, Illinois, the only child of Annabel (née Stumm), [8] a bookkeeper, [3] [9] and Walter Harry Ebert, an electrician. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] He was raised Roman Catholic , attending St. Mary's elementary school and serving as an altar boy in Urbana.
Roger Ebert compiled "best of the year" movie lists beginning in 1967 until 2012. Since Ebert died, the practice has continued since 2014 with his website. The primary contributors do a Borda count where each critic ranks films, with ten points for the first-placed film to one point for the tenth-placed film. The scores are compiled and best ...
Roger Ebert; Gene Siskel (January 26, 1946 – February 20, 1999) ... As critics, Siskel's first top ten list was in 1969; Ebert's had debuted in 1967. Over the life ...
Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times for nearly half a century, and a game-changing television presenter, died Thursday at the age of 70. Ebert had been in ill health for some time.
Roger Ebert named My Winnipeg the tenth best film of the decade. [16] The film appeared on several other critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2008. [17] 3rd – Richard Corliss, Time [17] 4th – Marc Savlov, The Austin Chronicle [17] 5th – Rick Groen, The Globe and Mail [17] 6th – Marjorie Baumgarten, The Austin Chronicle [17]
Film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times ranked The Shootist number 10 on his list of the 10 best films of 1976. [17] The film was nominated for an Oscar (for Best Art Direction, today called Best Production Design), a Golden Globe , a BAFTA film award , and a Writers Guild of America award.
Roger Ebert gave the film four stars in his review for the Chicago Sun-Times, calling it "one of the best films Blake Edwards has ever made"; [9] he also ranked it 10th on his annual top-ten list. [10] Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune called the film "a very funny comedy that couldn't be more serious about the plight of its lead character ...
It is filled with the uncertainties, risks, cares, and rewards of real life, and it considers its characters' hearts and minds, and sees their sexuality as an expression of their true feelings for each other". [10] Both Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert placed Personal Best on their lists of the ten best films of 1982. [11]