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Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
Born	Manohla June Dargis
Education	State University of New York, Purchase (BA); New York University (MA)
Occupation	Film critic
Spouse	Lou Amdur (m. 1994)

Manohla June Dargis (/məˈnoʊlə ˈdɑːrɡɪs/ mə-NOH-lə DAR-ghiss)^[1] is an American film critic. She is the chief film critic for The New York Times.^[2] She is a five-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.

Career

Before being a film critic for The New York Times, Dargis was a chief film critic for the Los Angeles Times, the film editor at the LA Weekly, and a film critic at The Village Voice, where she had two columns on avant-garde cinema ("CounterCurrents" and "Shock Corridor"). Her work has been included in a number of books, including Women and Film: A Sight and Sound Reader and American Movie Critics: An Anthology from the Silents Until Now, published by the Library of America. She wrote a monograph on Curtis Hanson's film L.A. Confidential for the British Film Institute and served as the president and vice-president of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.^{[citation needed]}

In 2012, Dargis received the Nelson A. Rockefeller Award from Purchase College; the award is, according to the college, "presented to individuals who have distinguished themselves through their contributions to the arts."^[3] She was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2013,^[4] 2015,^[5] 2016,^[6] 2018,^[7] and 2019.^[8]

Preferences

Favorites

Dargis participated in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll,^[9] where she listed her 10 favorite films:

Au hasard Balthazar (France, 1966)
Barry Lyndon (USA, 1975)
Flowers of Shanghai (Taiwan, 1998)
The Flowers of St. Francis (Italy, 1950)
The Godfather Part II (USA, 1974)
Little Stabs at Happiness (USA, 1959-1963)
Masculin Féminin (France, 1966)
There Will Be Blood (USA, 2007)
Touch of Evil (USA, 1958)
The Wizard of Oz (USA, 1939)

For the 2022 edition of the Sight & Sound poll^[10] Dargis' ballot included:

Au hasard Balthazar (France, 1966)
The Gleaners and I (France, 2000)
Flowers of Shanghai (Taiwan, 1998)
Tokyo Story (Japan, 1953)
The Godfather Part II (USA, 1974)
Little Stabs at Happiness (USA, 1959-1963)
Killer of Sheep (USA, 1977)
There Will Be Blood (USA, 2007)
All My Life (USA, 1966)
Black Girl (Senegal, 1965)

Best of the Year

2004 - Million Dollar Baby^[11]
2005 - A History of Violence^[12]
2006 - Army of Shadows^[13]
2007 - There Will Be Blood
2008 - Happy-Go-Lucky
2015 - (tie) The Assassin; Mad Max: Fury Road^[14]
2016 - No Home Movie ^[15]
2017 - Dunkirk^[16]
2018 - Roma^[17]
2019 - Pain and Glory^[18]
2020 - Martin Eden^[19]
2021 - Drive My Car^[20]
2022 - EO^[21]
2023 - Killers of the Flower Moon^[22]

Personal life

Dargis grew up in Manhattan's East Village, demonstrating an early love of film through regular attendance at St. Mark's Cinema and Theatre 80.^[2] She graduated from Hunter College High School and received her BA in literature from State University of New York at Purchase in January 1985.^[23]^[24] She received a master of arts in cinema studies in 1988 from the New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science. Dargis married wine expert Lou Amdur in 1994. They live in Los Angeles.^[25]

References

^ "Manohla Dargis on 2016". Linoleum Knife (Podcast). January 15, 2017. 1 hour and 22 minutes in. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Film Critic Biography: Manohla Dargis". The New York Times. December 7, 2004. Retrieved September 12, 2010.
^ "Nelson A. Rockefeller Awards". Purchase.edu. Archived from the original on April 21, 2016. Retrieved April 29, 2016.
^ "The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners Criticism". pulitzer.org. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
^ "The 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners Criticism". pulitzer.org. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
^ "The 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners Criticism". pulitzer.org. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
^ "2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists". pulitzer.org. Retrieved April 16, 2018.
^ "2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
^ "Manohla Dargis | BFI". Archived from the original on March 10, 2016.
^ Dargis, Manohla. "Sight and Sound poll,". Sight and Sound. Retrieved October 5, 2024.
^ Dargis, Manohla (December 26, 2004). "Clint Eastwood Does John Coltrane". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
^ Dargis, Manohla (December 25, 2005). "Big Changes, Mostly for the Good". The New York Times. Retrieved December 26, 2023.
^ Dargis, Manohla (December 24, 2006). "Not for the Faint of Heart or Lazy of Thought". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
^ Dargis, Manohla; Scott, A. O.; Holden, Stephen (December 9, 2015). "The Best Movies of 2015". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
^ Dargis, Manohla; Scott, A. O.; Holden, Stephen (December 7, 2016). "Best Movies of 2016". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
^ Dargis, Manohla; Scott, A. O. (December 6, 2017). "Best Movies of 2017". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
^ Dargis, Manohla; Scott, A. O. (December 5, 2018). "Best Movies of 2018". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
^ Scott, A. O.; Dargis, Manohla (December 4, 2019). "Best Movies of 2019". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
^ Dargis, Manohla (December 3, 2020). "Best Movies of 2020 (Published 2020)". The New York Times. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
^ Scott, A. O.; Dargis, Manohla (December 6, 2021). "Best Movies of 2021". The New York Times. Retrieved December 15, 2023.
^ Dargis, Manohla (December 6, 2022). "Best Movies of 2022". The New York Times. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
^ Dargis, Manohla; Wilkinson, Alissa (December 1, 2023). "Best Movies of 2023". The New York Times. Retrieved December 15, 2023.
^ "Rockefeller Award past recipients". Purchase.edu. Archived from the original on September 28, 2015. Retrieved August 27, 2015.
^ Purchase College, SUNY Institutional Advancement (914)-251-7909
^ "Manohla Dargis". University of Southern California. Archived from the original on July 8, 2013. Retrieved November 26, 2013.