Co-host of "Ebert & Roeper and the Movies." The show appears on more than 200 stations and continues to rank as the top-rated weekly syndicated half-hour on television. For the previous 23 years, he co-hosted "Siskel & Ebert" with the late Gene Siskel. 

Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967. Syndicated in more than 305 papers in the U.S., Canada, England, Japan and Greece. 

Author of 15 books, including the annual editions of "Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook," "I Hated, Hated, HATED this Movie," the Norton anthology "Roger Ebert's Book of Film," the best-selling "Ebert's Bigger Little Movie Glossary" and "Questions for the Movie Answer Man." 

Critic for WLS-TV, the ABC owned-and-operated station in Chicago, and host of the live pre- and post-Academy Awards broadcasts for KABC-TV in Los Angeles, which are carried in many markets. Co-host of the live coverage of the Cannes Film Festival awards on the Independent Film Channel. 

Lecturer on film, University of Chicago Fine Arts Program, since 1970. Adjunct professor of cinema and media studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

Known for his sessions conducting shot-by-shot analysis of films at the Universities of Colorado, Virginia and Chicago, the Smithsonian Institution and the Canadian Center for the Advanced Study of Film. Recorded a shot-by-shot commentary track for the DVD version of "Dark City." 

Jury member of the Sundance, Montreal, Chicago, Hawaii and Venice Film Festivals. Has attended Cannes for 25 years and has written a book about it ("Two Weeks in the Midday Sun") illustrated with his own sketches. Starting in 1999, runs his own "Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival" in April at the historic Virginia Theatre in his home town of Champaign-Urbana, Ill. 

One of the best-known film critics in cyberspace. Ebert's reviews appear on CompuServe and on the Chicago Sun-Times Web site (www.suntimes.com/ebert), as well as on the Cinemania CD-ROM disc. His broadcast reviews appear in streaming audio and video at www.ebert-movies.com. Ebert also writes a monthly column for Yahoo! Internet Life magazine. 

Awards and Honors: Pulitzer Prize, 1975; honorary doctorate, University of Colorado; Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame; Peter Lisagor Award for Best Feature Column, Chicago Headline Club (1998 and 1999). 

Education: Universities of Illinois, Cape Town (on a Rotary Fellowship) and Chicago. 

Early career: Sports writer for the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette from the age of 15. Editor of The Daily Illini at the University of Illinois. Hired by the Sun-Times in 1966, appointed film critic six months later. 

He lives with his wife, trial attorney Chaz Hammelsmith Ebert, in Chicago. 

Hobbies: Reading, cyberspace, walking, travel, sketching, cosmology, Darwinianism, and using the Japanese rice cooker to cook almost anything.