Judith  Crist

Judith  Crist

Judy went directly from journalism school to a 22-year career at The New York Herald Tribune as a reporter, arts editor and film critic, concurrently beginning a 10-year stint as film and theater critic for NBC's Today Show, and a 22-year stand as TV Guide's movie reviewer. After the Tribune's demise she became the founding film critic for New York magazine. Subsequently, she served as film critic for the New York Post, for a number of weekly and monthly publications, and for WOR-TV. She has published articles in such magazines as Ladies Home Journal and Gourmet.

Judy is the author of three books on film: The Private Eye, The Cowboy and the Very Naked Girl; Judith Crist's TV Guide to the Movies; and Take 22: Moviemakers on Moviemaking. She has won a number of professional awards, including the George Polk Award. Other honors include election to Hunter College's Hall of Fame, awards from Columbia's Journalism School and the University's alumni associations, and a DHL degree from SUNY New Paltz. Judy received her B.A. from Hunter College and her M.S. from Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. She has been an adjunct at the school since 1958.