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Anne Thompson

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Editor at Large at IndieWire, founder of Thompson on Hollywood, awards maven, co-host of Screen Talk podcast, author of "The $11 Billion Year."
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Anne Thompson’s Biography

Born and raised in New York, Anne Thompson has contributed to the New York Times, Washington Post, London Observer, Vanity Fair and Wired. She was a film columnist at Variety and deputy editor of Variety.com, where she first launched her daily blog, “Thompson on Hollywood,” which is now on Indiewire. She was the Deputy Film Editor at The Hollywood Reporter, the West Coast Editor of Premiere, a Senior Writer at Entertainment Weekly, and West Coast Editor for Film Comment. She wrote the film industry column “Risky Business” for the L.A. Weekly and Los Angeles Times Syndicate. A graduate of the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University, she has taught film criticism at USC and hosts the fall semester of “Sneak Previews” for UCLA Extension.

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