A. O. Scott

Anthony O. "Tony" Scott (born July 10, 1966) is an American journalist and critic. He is best known as a film critic for The New York Times. Scott grew up the son of two historians. His mother, Joan Wallach Scott, is the Harold F. Linder Professor at the School of Social Science in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. His father, Donald Scott, is a professor of American history at CUNY. He is also a great nephew of the actor... more

Anthony O. "Tony" Scott (born July 10, 1966) is an American journalist and critic. He is best known as a film critic for The New York Times. Scott grew up the son of two historians. His mother, Joan Wallach Scott, is the Harold F. Linder Professor at the School of Social Science in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. His father, Donald Scott, is a professor of American history at CUNY. He is also a great nephew of the actor Eli Wallach. Scott attended public schools in Providence, Rhode Island—including Classical High School—before graduating magna cum laude from Harvard in 1988 with a degree in literature. Scott began his tenure at The New York Times' Arts section in January 2000, following Janet Maslin's retirement from film criticism. (Maslin continues to review genre fiction for the paper.) Before joining The New York Times, Scott served as book critic for Newsday, and also as a contributor for the The New York Review of Books and Slate magazine. In 2006 and... less