Stuart Klawans has been the film critic for The Nation since 1988. He also writes a column on the visual arts for The New York Daily News.
He obtained his degree from Yale University.
He won the 2007 National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism[1] and he received a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship to work on a critical study of Preston Sturges.[2] His 1998 book Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order was a finalist in the Criticism category for the National Book Critics Circle Award.[3]
Klawans appears in the 2009 documentary describing the importance and impact of two deceased film critics, Manny Farber and Vincent Canby. His work has appeared in The New York Times.[4]
Klawans is the son of the late Yoletta Klawans, a first grade teacher, and the late Jack Klawans, a manager of a chain of women's clothing stores. Klawans is married to Bali Miller, a private advisor in modern and contemporary art in New York.[6] He lives in New York City.