What film critic for The Wall Street Journal received the 2005 Pulitzer Prize?

Joe Morgenstern, a former movie critic for The Wall Street Journal, received the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in the Criticism category for his insightful and penetrating reviews of controversial movies including “The Passion of the Christ” and “Fahrenheit 9/11”.

Joe Morgenstern is an American writer and retired film critic. He was born on October 3, 1932, in New York City, USA. He graduated from Lehigh University in 1953. Morgenstern wrote for Newsweek from 1965 to 1983, and then for The Wall Street Journal from 1995 to 2022.

Joe Morgenstern has also written for television. He co-wrote the 1976 television film “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble,” and worked on several episodes of Law & Order. He was a co-founder of the National Society of Film Critics.

Morgenstern’s writings have appeared in CNBC, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Esquire, the Columbia Journalism Review, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine.

Joe Morgenstern began writing reviews for The Wall Street Journal in May 1995. His movie reviews appeared each Friday in the “Weekend & Leisure” section of the newspaper. In 2022, Morgenstern retired from The Wall Street Journal, with his final column running in print on April 29, two days short of his 27th anniversary with the newspaper.

Morgenstern was married to actress Piper Laurie from 1962 until their divorce in 1982; they adopted one daughter. As of 2015, Joe Morgenstern lived in Santa Monica, California.