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Scott Foundas is the chief film critic for the Village Voice. Before Foundas, a native of Tampa, Florida, moved to New York in 2009, he was the film editor at the Voice's sister paper in Los Angeles, LA Weekly, from 2005 to 2009. Foundas was also associate program director at the Film Society of Lincoln Center from January 2010 to December 2012. Foundas' film reviews and features appear in all Voice Media Group publications, as well as on its websites and mobile platforms. Follow Scott on Twitter at @FoundasOnFilm.

Awards

• 2010 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published April 9, 2009

  "Boxing, Sex, and Madness"

• 2010 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 10, 2009

  "Eastwood on the Pitch"

• 2010 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  2009 Film Issue

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 10, 2008

  "The Visitor"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 14, 2008

  "Diary of the Dead"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 25, 2008

  "Benjamin Button"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 23, 2007

  "Born Identities"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 9, 2007

  "Badlands"

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  Film reviews

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 30, 2007

  "Iron Butterfly"

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2009 Stories by Scott Foundas

• Alec Baldwin and Meryl Streep in It's Complicated

  published December 22, 2009

  Does Nancy Meyers hate women? The thought ran through my head not very long into It's Complicated, Meyers's biennial stocking-stuffer... More >>

• Fellini Fantasy Meets a Harsh Reality in Rob Marshall's Nine

  published December 15, 2009

  There's no city-clogging traffic jam in Nine, the musicalized version of Federico Fellini's movie-about-moviemaking urtext 8 1/2,... More >>

• Better to Look Good than Be Good for Tom Ford's A Single Man

  published December 8, 2009

  Too much is never enough for fashion designer turned filmmaker Tom Ford, whose debut feature flaunts its capital-A Artiness the way some... More >>

• Disney's Princess and the Frog Can't Escape the Ghetto

  published November 24, 2009

  Six decades after unleashing persistent NAACP bugaboo Song of the South (1946), and two after firmly suppressing it, that peculiar... More >>

• John Woo's Killer Instincts Return for Red Cliff

  published November 17, 2009

  John Woo spent a decade navigating the big-studio minefield—longer than most foreign auteurs last in Hollywood before throwing in the... More >>

• Defamation Eyes the Modern Face of Anti-Semitism

  published November 17, 2009

  Jewish Israeli director Yoav Shamir's cheerfully incendiary documentary about the modern face of anti-Semitism begins with Shamir (Checkpoint)... More >>

• Wes Anderson Brings Wes Anderson–ness to Fantastic Mr. Fox

  published November 10, 2009

  Given his preference for static, symmetrical, scrupulously color-coordinated and art-directed compositions, it's less surprising that Wes... More >>

• Precious Is the Diary of a Sad Black Woman

  published November 3, 2009

  In her broad outlines, Claireece Precious Jones risks sounding like the epitome of ghetto cliché: an obese, illiterate 16-year-old;... More >>

• On the Heels of Paranormal Activity, The Fourth Kind Comes Off the Weak Imitator

  published November 3, 2009

  Seventy-one years after Orson Welles's War of the Worlds radio broadcast snookered a gullible American public with its real-time... More >>

• 'Roger Corman: Poe and Beyond' at Anthology

  published October 27, 2009

  When Roger Corman receives his Honorary Oscar next month at the Academy's inaugural Governors Awards ceremony, will it be for his career as a... More >>

• Jared Hess Channels Adolescence, Poo Jokes, for Gentlemen Broncos

  published October 27, 2009

  Nothing if not consistent, Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre director Jared Hess once again presents adolescence as a depressive,... More >>

• Hong Sang-soo Gets in Touch with Inner Frenchman in Night and Day

  published October 20, 2009

  'We can't easily tell night from day during the summers here," observes one character early on in Hong Sang-soo's Paris-set Night and... More >>

• Good Housekeeping in Sebastián Silva's The Maid

  published October 13, 2009

  Cleanliness may be next to godliness, but for the title character of the pitch-black Chilean comedy The Maid, it's closer to infernal... More >>

• An Education and Star Carey Mulligan Get Good Marks

  published October 6, 2009

  The title is a double entendre in An Education, the film version of British journalist Lynn Barber's memoir about the crash course she... More >>

• Woody Harrelson as Leathery Roughneck in Zombieland

  published September 29, 2009

  The zombie movie—that evergreen vessel for all manner of social and political allegory—gets stripped down to its "Holy shit!... More >>

• Mumblecore Father Henry Jaglom Trudges on with Irene in Time

  published September 22, 2009

  Casually dismissed by those who place a premium on things like narrative, visual lucidity, and editorial smoothness, writer/director/emotional... More >>

• New York Film Festival 2009: Director Alain Resnais, 87 Years Young

  published September 22, 2009

  "After the cinema, nothing surprises you. Everything is possible." So says the lovesick obsessive Georges Palet in a scene from Wild... More >>

• New York Film Festival 2009: The Year of Over-80 Filmmakers

  published September 22, 2009

  Alain Resnais is merely one of four filmmakers over the age of 80 bringing new work to this year's fest—and, at 87, he isn't even the... More >>

• 9, Shane Acker's Animated Post-Apocalyptic Hellscape

  published September 8, 2009

  Early in Shane Acker's computer-animated debut feature 9, a diminutive anthropomorphic whatsit with wooden hands, copper fingers, and... More >>

• Joe Berlinger's Remarkable Crude

  published September 8, 2009

  Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Why? Because it's thick with sludge. Moving briskly through a stranger-than-fiction,... More >>

• The Final Destination: All Manner of Bodily Impalement and Dismemberment as Close as the Butter on Your Popcorn

  published August 25, 2009

  Fatality lurks around every ceiling fan, shampoo bottle, and espresso machine in the fourth entry in New Line Cinema’s improbably... More >>

• Spike Lee's Passing Strange on Film

  published August 18, 2009

  For those (like this critic) who missed singer-songwriter Stew's Tony-winning, autobiographical rock musical during its runs at the Public... More >>

• Aliens as Apartheid Metaphor in District 9

  published August 11, 2009

  The aliens have been with us for 20 years already at the start of South African director Neill Blomkamp's fast and furiously inventive... More >>

• Ponyo Appeal Not Limited to Romper Room Set

  published August 11, 2009

  In the same week that the South African import District 9 gives us a Johannesburg beset by alien invaders, the latest film by... More >>

• Apatow and Sandler Confront Mortality in Funny People—Sort Of

  published July 28, 2009

  After devoting his first two films as director, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, to getting laid and having kids,... More >>