Stuart Klawans

{{Short description|American film critic}} '''Stuart Klawans''' has been the film critic for ''The Nation'' since 1988. He also writes a column on the visual arts for ''The New York Daily News''.

==Education== He obtained his degree from Yale University.<ref name=nytimes/>

==Awards and honors== He won the 2007 National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism<ref>{{cite web|url=https://asme.magazine.org/asme/about-asme/pressroom/asme-press-releases/national-magazine-awards-2007-winners-announced|title=National Magazine Awards 2007 Winners Announced|publisher=ASME|date=May 1, 2007|accessdate=July 30, 2019}}</ref> and he received a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship to work on a critical study of Preston Sturges.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/stuart-klawans/|title=Stuart Klawans|publisher=Guggenheim Fellowship|accessdate=July 30, 2019}}</ref> His 1998 book ''Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order'' was a finalist in the Criticism category for the National Book Critics Circle Award.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bookcritics.org/awards/past_awards|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219185409/http://www.bookcritics.org/awards/past_awards/|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 19, 2008|title=All Past National Book Critics Circle Award Winners and Finalists|publisher=National Book Critics Circle|accessdate=July 30, 2019}}</ref>

==Appearances== Klawans appears in the 2009 documentary ''For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism'' describing the importance and impact of two deceased film critics, Manny Farber and Vincent Canby. His work has appeared in ''The New York Times''.<ref name="the nation">{{cite web|title=Stuart Klawans|url=https://www.thenation.com/authors/stuart-klawans/|work=The Nation|date=2 April 2010 |accessdate=July 30, 2019}}</ref>

==Books== *''Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order'' *''Left in the Dark: Film Reviews and Essays, 1988-2001'' <ref>{{cite web|url=http://heymancenter.org/people/stuart-klawans/|title=Stuart Klawans|publisher=Hey Man Center|accessdate=July 30, 2019}}</ref> *''Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cup.columbia.edu/book/crooked-but-never-common/9780231207294/ |website=Columbia University Press}}</ref>

==Family== Klawans is the son of the late Yoletta Klawans, a first grade teacher, and the late Jack Klawans, a manager of a chain of women's clothing stores. Klawans is married to Bali Miller, a private advisor in modern and contemporary art in New York.<ref name=nytimes>{{cite news|title=Bali Miller, Stuart Klawans|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/30/style/bali-miller-stuart-klawans.html|work=The New York Times|date=March 30, 1997|accessdate=July 30, 2019}}</ref> He lives in New York City.

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/stuart-klawans Stuart Klawans on The Daily Beast] *[http://www.nyfcc.com/membership/stuart-klawans/ Stuart Klawans on New York Film Critics Choice]

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