1. Sheila Benson was an American journalist and film critic.
14 Facts About Sheila Benson
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Sheila Benson served as film critic for the Los Angeles Times from 1981 to 1991.
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Sheila Benson then studied drama at the University of California, Los Angeles alongside Carol Burnett and James Dean.
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Sheila Benson first worked as a film critic and interviewer for the Pacific Sun in Mill Valley for eight years.
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Sheila Benson was a film reviewer for a radio station in Marin County and wrote a column titled "Good Movies" in the Co-Evolution Quarterly beginning in the winter of 1978.
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Sheila Benson became principal film critic for the Los Angeles Times in 1981, and served in that capacity until April 1991.
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Sheila Benson sat on the juries at the Sundance Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Aspen Shortsfest and in Seattle.
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Sheila Benson was conferred the Vesta Award by the Los Angeles Woman's Building in 1987.
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Sheila Benson joined the newly established Microsoft Cinemania in August 1995 and was its film critic until its dissolution in June 1998.
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Sheila Benson was affiliated with the National Society of Film Critics, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and Parallax View.
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Sheila Benson was the writer for, and host of, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' birthday centennial tribute of Mary Pickford in 1993.
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Sheila Benson wrote the narration for HBO's The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Film and the liner notes for the DVD release of Horton Foote's Tomorrow.
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Sheila Benson later married Walter Benson, with whom she had a daughter, Caitlin.
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Sheila Benson died on February 23,2022, in Seattle at the age of 91.