Sasha Stone (blogger)

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Sasha Stone
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Education University of California, Los Angeles
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Years active1999–present
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Website awardsdaily.com

Sasha Stone is an American film blogger based in Los Angeles. She is the founder and editor of the film and awards discussion website Awards Daily (formerly known as Oscarwatch).

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Early life and education

Sasha Stone grew up in Topanga and Ojai, California, and went to Nordhoff High School. [1] She studied film at New York University and Columbia University, and eventually graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles. She won third place in the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards competition at UCLA in 1993. [2] She has one daughter. [2]

Career

Stone has written for various entertainment industry magazines, including Variety , The Hollywood Reporter , and The Wrap , [3] [4] [5] and was also the film critic for the Santa Monica Mirror . [6] She founded a website on 1999-12-02 [7] while at home, after her daughter's birth, [8] as a single parent, [9] covering the Academy Awards called Oscar®Watch. [10] The website was later renamed [11] Awards Daily after Stone was sued in 2006 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for using Oscarwatch [12] as the site's name for eight years prior. [2] Since its founding, the website has received a Shorty Award nomination. [13] Additionally, Stone has appeared on NPR's Weekend Edition . [14]

Following the Boston Marathon bombings of 2013, Stone was featured in a New York Times article about how quickly false information can spread in moments of crisis. [15] She wrote her own account of the night in question on her personal blog. [16] In 2014, Stone was profiled by Boris Kachka in New York Magazine [17] about the growing industry of Oscar punditry, which Stone helped launch with Awards Daily.

Stone is also a writer on the Netflix series Voir , alongside the critics Tony Zhou, Taylor Ramos, Walter Chaw, Drew McWeeny, and David Prior, and producers Prior and David Fincher. Her episode The Summer of the Shark, focusing on the experience of seeing Jaws at the age of 10, aired on December 6, 2021,. [18]

Stone became involved in politics in 2016, writing for the Democrats, but left the party in 2020. She now writes and podcasts from an independent and counterculture point of view on Substack, Thinking Through the Fourth Turning. [19]

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References

  1. ↑ "About". Sasha Stone. Retrieved July 30, 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 "About". AwardsDaily. Archived from the original on May 30, 2012. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Sasha Stone". Variety . Reed Business Information. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Sasha Stone Movie Reviews & Previews". Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved May 28, 2012.
  5. ↑ "Rust and Bone Makes Strong Debut at Cannes". Studio Briefing. May 17, 2012. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
  6. ↑ "The Early Days of Oscarwatch". Sasha Stone. Archived from the original on November 10, 2013. Retrieved July 30, 2012.
  7. ↑ Seelye, Katharine Q. (19 February 2007). "Old Media Partying With Oscar Online". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
  8. ↑ McLean, Thomas J. (13 January 2006). "Oscar watchers buzzed by blog blitz". Variety. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
  9. ↑ Write, Robin (25 July 2015). "Interview: Sasha Stone Of Awards Daily (2 of 2)". Filmotomy. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
  10. ↑ "staff". Oscar®Watch.com. Archived from the original on 23 May 2000. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
  11. ↑ "Sasha Stone". SheSource. Women's Media Center. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
  12. ↑ "Oscar®Watch". Oscar®Watch.com. Archived from the original on 17 August 2000. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
  13. ↑ "Sasha Stone was nominated for a Shorty Award!". Shorty Awards. Archived from the original on November 10, 2013. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
  14. ↑ "From Book to Film: Nominees for Adapted Screenplay". Weekend Edition . NPR . Retrieved September 10, 2012.
  15. ↑ "Should Reddit Be Blamed for the Spreading of a Smear?". The New York Times . July 25, 2013.
  16. ↑ Stone, Sasha. "Suicide Two Ways | Sasha Stone" . Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  17. ↑ Boris Kachka (2014-02-25). "In the Most Competitive Oscar Season Ever, Bloggers Are Keeping Score". Vulture.com . Retrieved 2024-04-01.
  18. ↑ "VOIR". Netflix. 2021-12-06. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  19. ↑ "Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning". Substack.com . Retrieved 2024-10-16.
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