Ann Hornaday, the longtime Washington Post film critic has died, according to the Post. She was 66.<\/p>\n
The Pulitzer Prize finalist succumbed to glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer, on Sunday, her husband Dennis Greenia told her longtime employer.<\/p>\n
Over her 20 year career, she wrote hundreds of reviews for the Washington Post and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2008.<\/p>\n
“For many years, Post readers were blessed by Ann’s informed, insightful, warm, accessible and totally unique voice,” Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray said in a statement<\/a>. “Reading her work was like talking with a close \u2014 if much more knowledgeable \u2014 friend.”<\/p>\n She was an early supporter of filmmakers, including Ryan Coogler, Greta Gerwig, Alexander Payne and Tom McCarthy. She was also a regular reviewer on “PBS NewsHour.”<\/p>\n Hornaday considered “The Hurt Locker” the best film she ever reviewed, and her review of “There Will Be Blood” was part of her Pulitzer finalist submission.<\/p>\n In 2017, she published “Talking Pictures,” a guide to watching movies. She recently finished a book about the making of “All the President’s Men,” which is tentatively slated for release in 2028.<\/p>\n Hornaday joined the Post in 2002 after serving as film critic at the Austin American-Statesman and the Baltimore Sun. Prior to that, she freelanced in New York for a number of outlets, including the New York Times and Premiere. She also spent two years at Ms. Magazine as Gloria Steinem’s personal assistant.<\/p>\n Hornaday took a buyout and left the Post in 2025.<\/p>\n She is survived by her aforementioned husband of 26 years, as well as her daughter Victoria, stepdaughter Leila and brother William Hornaday III.<\/p>\n The post Ann Hornaday, Chief Film Critic at the Washington Post, Dies at 66<\/a> appeared first on TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ann Hornaday, the longtime Washington Post film critic has died, according to the Post. She was 66. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-934603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}