Ann Hornaday has been writing about film for The Washington Post for 22 years. She grew up in Des Moines, Iowa and graduated cum laude with a degree in Government from Smith College. Before coming to the Post, Hornaday was a film critic at The Baltimore Sun and the Austin American-Statesman. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism in 2008. She is the author of Talking Pictures: How to Watch Movies and is currently writing a book about the production and legacy of the film All the President’s Men, which Flatiron Books will publish in 2026.