A.O. Scott
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A.O. Scott (born July 10, 1966) is a film critic for The New York Times newspaper. He began his tenure at the paper's Arts section in January 2000, following Janet Maslin's retirement. Before joining The Times, Scott was a book critic for Newsday as well as a contributor to the New York Review of Books and Slate.
Son of the well-known historian Joan Wallach Scott, he attended public schools in Providence, Rhode Island, including Classical High School, before graduating magna cum laude from Harvard in 1988 with a degree in literature. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and two children.
When Roger Ebert was recovering from his illness in late 2006, Scott served as guest critic on "Ebert & Roeper" with Richard Roeper. He filled in several times and on New Year's weekend he and Roeper counted down the top ten films of the year. "Letters from Iwo Jima" and "Little Miss Sunshine" appeared on both lists.