Sheila Benson began writing at the Pacific Sun in Mill Valley,
California, after which she became the principal Los Angeles Times Film
Critic from 1981-91, and following that, a critic for Microsoft's
Cinemania. Affiliated with the National Society of Film Critics, she
was awarded the Vesta Award for Journalism in 1987 for her contribution
to the arts in Southern California, and taught Critical Writing at
UCLA.
She has served on film festival juries of Berlin, Toronto, Chicago,
Montreal, Manila, Taos, Seattle, Aspen, Sundance, Palm Springs and
Banff. Her essays and articles have appeared in Interview, Elle,
Premiere, Film Comment, Variety, the San Francisco Examiner, London
Telegraph's Weekend magazine, Canada's Globe and Mail American Film
Magazine and the New York Times
She wrote the narration for "The First 100 Years, A Celebration of
American Film" by Chuck Workman, was a writer on the Academy Awards
show of 1993, and contributed the liner essay for Horton Foote's
Tomorrow in 2004. Since moving to Washington in 1996, she reviews at
the Seattle Weekly.
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies(1995)
The 65th Annual Academy Awards(1993)
Den of Thieves(2018)
The Disappointments Room(2016)
Masterminds(2016)
21 & Over(2013)
Movie 43(2013)
Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right(1996)as Self
James Dean and Me(1996)as Self