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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 30, 2007

  "Iron Butterfly"

• 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

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2012 Stories by Scott Foundas

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  The 2012 Voice Film Critics' Poll

  published December 19, 2012

  Squeaking by with an Obama 2012–size victory margin, Paul Thomas Anderson's thrillingly strange More >>

• Les Misérables Doesn't Dream Daringly

  published December 19, 2012

  You can hear the people sing—really hear them—in the long-gestating screen version of that Broadway juggernaut Les... More >>

• Django Unchained Upends the Western

  published December 19, 2012

  Watching Django Unchained, it's easy to imagine that Quentin Tarantino had such a blast making his last picture, the ebullient Holocaust... More >>

• The Thrilling Manhunt of Zero Dark Thirty

  published December 19, 2012

  Just so you know, it's going to take a while," says the CIA officer to his newly arrived colleague at the start of Kathryn Bigelow's Zero... More >>

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  Oscar Watch: A Great Year for Foreign Films (and a German Scandal!)

  published December 19, 2012

  How do you say “Oscar justice” in Romanian? It’s been a long time coming, but more than a decade into the extraordinary... More >>

• At Long Last, David Chase Achieves His Rock 'n' Roll Dreams

  published December 12, 2012

  David Chase looks like he wants to whack somebody. Not just anybody, mind you, but the middle-aged guy with the bad dye job a few tables away... More >>

• The Hobbit: Slouching Toward Erebor

  published December 5, 2012

  Welcome back to Middle-earth. It has been nearly a decade since writer-director Peter Jackson last set foot on J.R.R. Tolkien's hallowed... More >>

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  Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master's Master

  published September 5, 2012

  "I've made six movies, and I feel like I'm only just finally figuring out how this business fucking works," Paul Thomas Anderson says on... More >>

• On Its Centennial, Paramount Pictures Celebrates Its Peak: The 1970s

  published May 30, 2012

  It's a warm spring evening on the Paramount Pictures lot in Hollywood, and the crowd jostling for hors d'oeuvres in the lobby of the Paramount... More >>