Jackson Murphy

Jackson Murphy, known as Lights Camera Jackson (born July 1998) is a movie critic and entertainment columnist. He is the creator of the website Lights-Camera-Jackson.com, and has made appearances on television and radio. In 2010, he became the youngest winner to date of a New York Emmy Award for "On Camera Talent: Commentator/Editorialist".

In 2010, Murphy enjoyed several major milestones. He appeared on Fox & Friends to review the upcoming Oscars nominees, correctly predicting all of the winners in the major categories (except for last year). He grabbed the attention of several celebrities, notably Roger Ebert. He was also nominated for two New York Emmy awards, and won "On Camera Talent: Commentator/Editorialist", the youngest winner of a NY Emmy to date.

Murphy made numerous national TV appearances during the summer, including Weekend Today in late June and The Early Show four different times. He was blasted by Howard Stern on his satellite radio show following one of his appearances on The Early Show for his review of Inception. He has also appeared on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (twice), "The Nate Berkus Show", "Fox and Friends" (three times) and was featured on "Live with Regis and Kelly".

Murphy was signed by CBS as a contributing critic to The Early Show and, in the fall, also became a regular contributor on The Morning Show on the Seven Network in Australia. He has appeared on #1 Aussie "chat Show" more than 20-times. For five years his movie reviews also appeared every weekend in The (Troy) Record newspaper, and he has been the subject of articles and stories in both the U.S. and internationally, including an article in Variety.

In July 2011, Jackson became a regular contributor for the popular movie review show Ebert Presents: At the Movies, in which he appeared on three episodes of the program. In those appearances, he provided commentary on 3-D film technology and listing his best and worst movies of the year at the time.

As the youngest member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association Jackson appeared on the "Critics Choice Movie Awards" in January 2013. Since November 2013, Jackson also has regularly appeared on "The Buttery Popcorn Report" on The FLY 92.3 in Albany, New York, as a part of the station's "Morning Rush". On The Buttery Popcorn Report, Jackson gives his opinions on all the new movies new in theaters that week, as well as New At Home on DVD/Blu-ray.

In 2016 he became the film critic on the Connecticut-based "CT Style" TV show, telling audiences which new movies to See and which ones to Skip. He also makes annual Awards Season appearances on Fox Sports Radio, analyzing the Academy Awards Nominations and making his Oscar Predictions. Jackson is also a regular contributor to the popular 'Animation Scoop' website, providing Q&A interviews with the most important and successful members of the animation world.

Best Films of the Year

Murphy compiled "best of the year" movie lists beginning in 2009, thereby helping provide an overview of his critical preferences. His top choices were:

In 2010, Howard Stern lambasted Murphy on his radio show, opining that he was too young and inexperienced to provide meaningful or valid criticism. Since then, Murphy has been frequently criticized by the public and media. Matt Cherette of gawker.com described Murphy's Inception (2010) review as "insufferable."

Amy Schumer tweet

In January 2016 Murphy tweeted a picture of himself with comedian Amy Schumer at the 2016 Critics' Choice Movie Awards during which he wrote "Spent the night with @amyschumer. Certainly not the first guy to write that." Though he denied that he intended anything sexual from his tweet and was just making a Schumer-esque joke to the comedienne, the post drew ire from Schumer. Murphy immediately apologized to Schumer, who accepted his apology in a tweet of her own.