Brent Simon

An award-winning entertainment journalist who has contributed to dozens of international and domestic publications both as a freelancer and through a variety of masthead tenures, Brent Simon is a longtime member and former three-term president of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

A 2024 National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Award finalist for Best Film Critic, Simon was in 2017 honored with the International Media Award at the 54th annual ICG Publicists Awards. Among the many publications to which he has contributed bylines are Variety, Screen International, A.V. Club, Vulture, Newsweek Japan, Paste Magazine, Rotten Tomatoes, Korean Film Magazine, and Los Angeles Daily News. His fascination with and appreciation for David Lynch’s work spans his lifetime, and includes numerous interviews with his subject over the course of more than two decades. He’s a fan of basic human decency, and cannot abide a world without U2 and avocados. For interviews/contact: brentrsimon@gmail dotcom.