{{short description|British film critic|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2015}} {{Use British English|date=February 2015}} {{Infobox person | name = Nigel Andrews | honorific_suffix = FRSA | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|4|3|df=yes}} | alma_mater = Cambridge University | occupation = Film critic | employer = ''Financial Times'' (1973–2019) | awards = British Press Awards Critic of the Year (1985; 2002) }} '''Nigel Andrews''' FRSA<ref>{{Cite web|last=Andrews|first=Nigel|date=Summer 2010|title=Less and More - Nigel Andrews|url=https://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/1002-Summer-2010/Critics-Corner-Nigel-Andrews.aspx|access-date=2020-10-26|website=DGA Quarterly Magazine|publisher=Directors Guild of America|language=en}}</ref> (born 3 April 1947)<ref name="whoswho">[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U5532 ANDREWS, Nigel John], ''Who's Who 2015'', A & C Black, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014</ref> is a British film critic best known for being the long-time chief film critic of the ''Financial Times''.
Andrews was educated at Lancing College in West Sussex, England.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Andrews|first=Nigel|date=December 20, 2019|title=My 50 years as a film critic|url=https://www.ft.com/content/ddca69c2-1822-11ea-8d73-6303645ac406|access-date=2020-10-26|website=www.ft.com}}</ref> After studying English at Jesus College, Cambridge, Andrews began his career as an editor on the British Film Institute's ''Cinema One'' book series and as a critic for its publications ''Sight & Sound'' and the ''Monthly Film Bulletin''.<ref name="whoswho"/> He first contributed to the ''Financial Times'' on 12 May 1972<ref>'Sickness can be fun', ''Financial Times'', 12 May 1972, p. 3</ref> and became the regular weekly reviewer from 23 March 1973.<ref>'1776 and All That', ''Financial Times'', 2 March 1973.</ref> He has written books on John Travolta, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the film ''Jaws'' (1975).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Andrews |first=Nigel |author-link=Nigel Andrews |orig-year=11 August 1983 |chapter=Michael Cimino |title=Talking Films: The Best of the Guardian Film Lectures |year=1991 |editor=Andrew Britton |location= London, England |publisher=Fourth Estate Ltd |page= 246 |isbn= 1-872180-17-5}}</ref><ref name="bloomsbury1">{{cite web|title=Nigel Andrews - biography|url=http://www.bloomsbury.com/Nigel-Andrews/authors/1439|website=Bloomsbury Publishing|access-date=21 July 2011|archive-date=10 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510125457/http://www.bloomsbury.com/Nigel-Andrews/authors/1439|url-status=dead}}</ref> On 20 December 2019, it was announced by the ''Financial Times'' that Andrews would step down as their weekly film critic after 46 years in the position.<ref>{{cite news|title = FT film critic Nigel Andrews to step down after 46 years and 10,000 reviews|url = https://www.ft.com/content/d70957b2-20e5-11ea-b8a1-584213ee7b2b|date = 20 December 2019|access-date = 20 December 2019|work = Financial Times}}</ref>
In 1985 and 2002, Andrews was named Critic of the Year at the British Press Awards.<ref name="bloomsbury1" /><ref name="gazette1">{{cite web|title=British Press Awards: Past winners|url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=3&storycode=39598|work=Press Gazette|access-date=21 July 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222033127/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=3&storycode=39598|archive-date=22 February 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> He is a member of the Film Section of The Critics' Circle.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Cline|first=Rich|date=2019-11-10|title=Film Section welcomes new members|url=https://criticscircle.org.uk/film-section-welcomes-new-members/|access-date=2020-10-26|website=The Critics' Circle|language=en-US}}</ref>
Andrews participated in the 2012 ''Sight & Sound'' critics' poll, where he listed his ten favorite films as follows: ''Aguirre, The Wrath of God'', ''Annie Hall'', ''Citizen Kane'', ''The Godfather: Part II'', ''Hour of the Wolf'', ''Melancholia'', ''Spirited Away'', ''Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives'', ''Vertigo'', and ''The Wild Bunch''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nigel Andrews {{!}} BFI|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/voter/246|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818150123/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/voter/246|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 August 2016|access-date=2020-10-26|website=www2.bfi.org.uk}}</ref>
==Publications== *''True Myths of Arnold Schwarzenegger: The Life and Times of Arnold Schwarzenegger, from Pumping Iron to Governor of California'' (1996, rev. 2003) *''Travolta: The Life'' (1998) *''"Jaws": The Ultimate A–Z'' (1999)
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== External links == * [http://www.ft.com/life-arts/nigel-andrews Nigel Andrews] - ''Financial Times'' * {{IMDb name|28800}} *{{Rotten Tomatoes|critic/nigel-andrews|Nigel Andrews}}
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