Emanuel Levy

Emanuel Levy

Emanuel Levy film critic (Ph.D. Columbia University) belongs to a small group of critics/scholars who have effectively juggled two careers: as film professor and film critic (formerly senior critic at Variety and chief film critic for Screen International). Levy is a voting member of five influential groups: Hollywood Foreign Press (HFPA), Los Angeles Film Critics (LAFCA), Broadcast Film Critics (BFCA), National Society of Film Critics (NSFC), and the International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci). He has served on the grand juries of 44 international film festivals, including Cannes, Venice, Montreal, Locarno, Taormina, San Francisco, Hawaii, and most recently Sundance Film Festival, with David O. Russell, Forest Whitaker, Tilda Swinton, and Steve Buscemi. Levy is the author of eight film books, the most recent of which is the first biography of Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood's Dark Dreamer, by St. Martin's Press. Other popular books include All About Oscar: The History and Politics of the Academy Awards and Cinema of Outsiders: The Rise of American Independent Film (the most widely read book in the 90-year-history of NYU Press)

About WWW.EmanuelLevy.com: The industry-oriented site, www.EmanuelLevy.Com, which now contains about 10200 film reviews, essays, comments, profiles, and interviews, is now read in over 150 countries. Strong critical support has helped the site grow exponentially. In their reviews, the Los Angeles Times described it as "one of the most cerebral and erudite sites in the country," and the New York Times as "one of the best predictors of the Oscars."

Bibliography

* "The Habima, Israel's National Theater: A Study of Cultural Nationalism" (1979)
* "And the Winner Is: The History and Politics of the Oscar Awards" (1987)
* "John Wayne: Prophet of the American Way of Life" (1988)
* "Small-Town America in Film: The Decline and Fall of Community" (1991)
* "George Cukor: Master of Elegance" (1994)
* "Cinema of Outsiders: The Rise of American Independent Film" (1999)
* "Citizen Sarris, American Film Critic: Essays in Honor of Andrew Sarris" (2001)
* "Oscar Fever: The History and Politics of the Academy Awards" (2001)
* "All About Oscar: The History and Politics of the Academy Awards" (2003)
* "Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood's Dark Dreamer" (2008) - originally planned for release in 2003, this book is not yet available

External links

* [http://emanuellevy.com/ Official site]
* [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/author-1101/ List of reviews by Levy]


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