Sasha Stone is an American film

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. She is the founder and editor of the film/awards discussion website ''

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'' (formerly known as Oscarwatch).

Biography

Sasha Stone grew up in

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and

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, and went to

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. She studied film at

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, and eventually graduated from the

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. She won third place in the

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competition at UCLA in 1993. She has one daughter. Stone has written for various entertainment industry magazines, including ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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'', and was also the film critic for the ''

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''. She founded a website covering the

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called Oscarwatch in 1998. The website was later renamed ''

'' after Stone was sued in 2006 by the

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for using Oscarwatch as the site's name for eight years prior. Since its founding, the website has received a

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nomination. Additionally, Stone has appeared on

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's ''

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''. 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 on Twitter. She wrote her own account of the night in question on her personal blog. In 2014, Stone was profiled by Boris Kachka in ''

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'' about the growing industry of Oscar punditry, which Stone helped launch with ''Awards Daily''. Stone is a member of the

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. Stone is also a writer on the

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series ''Voir'', alongside the critics Tony Zhou, Taylor Ramos, Walter Chaw, Drew McWeeny, and David Prior, and producers Prior and

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. Her episode ''The Summer of the Shark'', focusing on the experience of seeing ''

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'' at the age of 10, aired on December 6, 2021,.

References

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