Scott Foundas

Scott Foundas (born c. 1978) is an American film critic, journalist, writer and film studio executive.

Foundas has written film criticism for such publications as Variety, Film Comment, The Village Voice and LA Weekly.

Foundas became a film critic for Variety after writing a letter to the editor that Variety printed and editor Todd McCarthy called Foundas and offered to let him write a few film reviews on speculation. Foundas went on to work as a freelance writer for Variety for close to a decade.

In 2015, Foundas quit his position as chief critic at Variety and moved from New York to Los Angeles after being hired as an acquisition executive for Amazon Studios.