Anne Thompson (film journalist)
{{Short description|American journalist}}
Anne Thompson is an American journalist covering film and television. She is Editor-at-Large at IndieWire and founder of the Thompson on Hollywood blog.{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiewire.com/v/thompsononhollywood/|title=Thompson on Hollywood {{!}} Verticals {{!}} IndieWire|website=IndieWire|language=en-US|access-date=2018-08-18}}
Career
Thompson was born and raised in New York City. She is a graduate of the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. Her writing has appeared in various publications, such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Observer and Wired. Thompson covered behind-the-scenes Hollywood as a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly and as West Coast Editor for Film Comment.{{Cite journal|date=1982|title=Front Matter|journal=Film Comment|volume=18|issue=3|jstor=43452865}}
From 1981 to 1984, she was a unit publicist on films such as The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. From 1985 to 1993, she wrote the film industry column "Risky Business" for LA Weekly, a column that was distributed by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. She was the West Coast Editor of Premiere from 1996 to 2002, and served as the Deputy Film Editor at The Hollywood Reporter from January 2005 to March 2007.{{Cite web|url=https://www.afi.com/afiawards/jury.aspx|title=AFI Awards Jury|website=American Film Institute|access-date=2018-08-18}}{{Cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2007/03/littleton-thompson-leave-hr-for-variety-1528/|title=H'Wood Reporter Editor Cynthia Littleton Jumps To Variety; Anne Thompson Also; HR Now Looking for 'Big Name' Editor|last=Finke|first=Nikki|date=2007-03-05|work=Deadline|access-date=2018-08-18|language=en-US}} She then served as a film columnist at Variety and deputy editor of Variety.com, where she started Thompson on Hollywood in March 2007.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thewrap.com/thompson-indiewire-blog-starts-monday-4729/|title=Thompson IndieWire Blog Starts Monday|date=2009-07-31|work=TheWrap|access-date=2018-08-18|language=en-US}} After leaving Variety in 2009, Thompson relaunched Thompson on Hollywood as part of IndieWire.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thewrap.com/thompson-strikes-out-her-own-indiewire-support-4366/|title=Thompson Strikes Out on Her Own, With IndieWire Support|last=Waxman|first=Sharon|date=2009-07-16|work=TheWrap|access-date=2018-08-18|language=en-US}}
In December 2006, Thompson co-hosted Ebert & Roeper, as Roger Ebert was still recovering from illness.{{Cite news|url=http://www.herald-dispatch.com/sports/marshall_plane_crash/we_are_marshall/ebert-and-roeper-show-gives-mixed-marshall-review/article_4532ccc4-eb47-5958-bba3-e0c7bcc61634.html|title='Ebert and Roeper' show gives mixed Marshall review|last=McElroy|first=Justin|date=2006-12-30|work=The Herald-Dispatch|access-date=2018-08-18|language=en}} In February 2011, she received an Athena Film Festival Award for her distinguished reporting and commentary about women and film.{{cite web|url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/womenandhollywood/guest_post_the_athena_film_festival_kicks_off_by_kathleen_sweeney|title=Guest Post: The Athena Film Festival Kicks Off by Kathleen Sweeney|last=Silverstein|first=Melissa|date=February 11, 2011|work=Indiewire|access-date=December 24, 2015}}{{Cite news|url=https://athenafilmfestival.com/awards/award-winners/2011-athena-award-winners/|title=2011 Athena Award Winners|work=Athena Film Festival|access-date=2018-08-18|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190716004642/https://athenafilmfestival.com/awards/award-winners/2011-athena-award-winners/|archive-date=2019-07-16|url-status=dead}}
She teaches the fall semester of "Sneak Previews" for UCLA Extension.{{Cite web|url=http://entertainment.uclaextension.edu/sneak-preview/|title=Sneak Preview {{!}} Entertainment Studies|website=UCLA|language=en-US|access-date=2018-08-18}} Her book The $11 Billion Year was published by HarperCollins in 2014.{{Cite book|title=The $11 Billion Year: From Sundance to the Oscars, an Inside Look at the Changing Hollywood System|last=Thompson|first=Anne|publisher=HarperCollins|year=2014|isbn=9780062218018|edition=first|location=New York|oclc=861554641}}Reviews of The $11 Billion Year:
- {{Cite news|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/wes-andersons-elegy-stefan-zweig-grand-budapest-hotel-2/#!|title=The Hollywood Reporter: On Anne Thompson's "The $11 Billion Year"|last=Scheinman|first=Ted|date=2014-03-17|work=Los Angeles Review of Books|access-date=2018-08-18|language=en-US}}
- {{Cite news|url=https://theconversation.com/the-11-billion-year-and-how-the-film-industry-is-imploding-26940|title=The $11 Billion Year and how the film industry is imploding|last=Arroyo|first=José|date=2014-05-20|work=The Conversation|access-date=2018-08-18|language=en}}
- {{Cite news|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2014/05/21/anne-thompson-asks-if-hollywood-has-forgotten-how-to-make-money/|title=Anne Thompson Asks if Hollywood Has Forgotten How to Make Money|last=Nicholson|first=Amy|date=2014-05-21|work=The Village Voice|access-date=2018-08-18}}
- {{Cite journal|journal=Film Quarterly|first=Lisa|last=Dombrowski|title=The $11 Billion Year: From Sundance to the Oscars, an Inside Look at the Changing Hollywood System by Anne Thompson|date=2014|volume=67|number=4|pages=88–90|doi=10.1525/fq.2014.67.4.88}}
- {{Cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2014/03/06/book-review-the-billion-year-from-sundance-oscars-inside-look-changing-hollywood-system-anne-thompson/rjpWyYUNThIc35Dgxrwt9I/story.html|title='The $11 Billion Year' by Anne Thompson|work=The Boston Globe|first=Jesse|last=Singal|date=2014-03-06|access-date=2018-08-20}}
Thompson participated in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll, where she listed her ten favorite films as follows:
The Apartment (1960),
Bringing Up Baby (1938),
A Clockwork Orange (1971),
High and Low (1963),
I Know Where I'm Going! (1945),
The Lady Eve (1941),
Lawrence of Arabia (1962),
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944),
Rio Grande (1950),
The Wild Bunch (1969).{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/voter/796|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818140442/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/voter/796|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 18, 2016|title=Anne Thompson | BFI}}
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0859864|Anne Thompson}}
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