AO Scott

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Anthony Oliver Scott (born July 10, 1966 in Northampton , Massachusetts ) is an American film critic and journalist . He is currently, together with Manohla Dargis , chief film critic for the New York Times .

Life

Anthony Oliver Scott was born to two historians. His mother, Joan Wallach Scott, is a history professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and his father, Donald Scott, is a history professor at the City University of New York . He is also a great-nephew of the actor Eli Wallach . Scott attended several private schools in Providence , including Classical High School , before graduating from Harvard University with Magna Cum Laude in literary studies .

Scott then began his career at the New York Review of Books as an assistant to literary critic Robert B. Silvers . In addition, he wrote for Slate magazine and for Newsday reviews. After Janet Maslin gave up the post of chief film critic at the New York Times in late 1999, he moved there in January 2000. When her successor Elvis Mitchell gave up his post in 2004, he took it over, together with Manohla Dargis.

Fonts (selection)

• Better living through criticism: how to think about art, pleasure, beauty, and truth . New York: Penguin Press, 2016
  • Practicing criticism: the art of fine judgment . Martin Pfeiffer in Romanian. Munich: Carl Hanser, 2017 ISBN 978-3-446-25467-1

Web links

• Literature by and about AO Scott in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about AO Scott in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• AO Scott at Rotten Tomatoes

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joan Wallach Scott. Institute for Advanced Study. (No longer available online.) In: www.sss.ias.edu. School of Social Science June 25, 2009, archived from the original July 6, 2009 ; accessed on July 10, 2013 . 
2. ^ Eli Wallach in The Alcalde
3. ↑ "The Amazing Human Launching Pads" . "Who Runs New York," New York magazine, September 26, 2010