Roger Joseph Ebert is an American film critic

Film criticism

Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films, individually and collectively. In general, this can be divided into journalistic criticism that appears regularly in newspapers, and other popular, mass-media outlets and academic criticism by film scholars that is informed by film theory and...

 and screenwriter

Screenwriter

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. He is the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

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Ebert is known for his film review column (appearing in the Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago Sun-Times

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since 1967, and later online) and for the television program

Television program

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s Sneak Previews

Sneak Previews

Sneak Previews was an American film review show, running for over two decades on Public Broadcasting Service . It was created by WTTW, a PBS affiliate in Chicago, Illinois. It premiered on September 4, 1975 as a monthly local-only show called Opening Soon at a Theater Near You, and was renamed in...

, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The Movies, all of which he co-hosted for a combined 23 years with Gene Siskel

Gene Siskel

Eugene Kal "Gene" Siskel was an American film critic and journalist for the Chicago Tribune. Along with colleague Roger Ebert, he hosted the popular review show Siskel & Ebert At the Movies from 1975 until his death....

. After Siskel's death in 1999, Ebert teamed with Richard Roeper

Richard Roeper

Richard E. Roeper is an American columnist and film critic for The Chicago Sun-Times and now a co-host on The Roe Conn Show on WLS-AM...

 for the television series Ebert & Roeper & the Movies, which began airing in 2000.