Emanuel Levy

Emanuel Levy
Alma materColumbia University
Occupations
  • Film professor
  • film critic
Years active1976-present
Awardspresident, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, 1996-1999
membership in National Society of Film Critics
Membership in Critics Choice Awards (CCA)
Websiteemanuellevy.com

Emanuel Levy is an internationally known American film critic and professor emeritus of sociology and film of at Arizona State University. He has created film clubs in various campuses and is the only critic in the U.S. to have served on the juries of 69 film festivals, including Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Locarno, Roma, San Francisco, Sundance.

For the past 50 years, Levy has taught a wide variety of courses in sociology, film studies, and popular culture at Columbia University, New School for Social Research, Wellesley College, UCLA, and Arizona State University.