In 2002, Kermode was critical of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), the censor for film in the UK, for its cuts to the 1972 film The Last House on the Left. For BBC Two's The Culture Show, Kermode hosted an annual "Kermode Awards" episode which presented statuettes to actors and directors not nominated for Academy Awards that year. He writes and presents documentaries for Channel 4, and appears on The Film Review for BBC News at Five. Kermode is a film critic and presenter for Film4 and Channel 4, presenting the weekly Extreme Cinema strand. He sometimes writes for the British Film Institute's Sight and Sound magazine. Since 2009 Kermode has written "Mark Kermode's DVD round-up" for The Observer, a weekly review of the latest releases. Until September 2005, Kermode reviewed films each week for the New Statesman. He has worked on film-related documentaries including The Fear of God 25 Years of The Exorcist, Hell on Earth: The Desecration and Resurrection of Ken Russell's The Devils, Alien: Evolution, On the Edge of Blade Runner, and The Cult of The Wicker Man. On 11 March 2022, it was announced by Simon Mayo, at the start of the Kermode and Mayo Film Review, that the last Kermode and Mayo's Film Review will be broadcast on 1 April 2022. The programme won Gold in the Speech Award category at the 2009 Sony Radio Academy Awards on. Since 2001, Kermode has reviewed and debated new film releases with Mayo on the BBC Radio 5 Live show Kermode and Mayo's Film Review. Between February 1992 and October 1993, he was the resident film reviewer on BBC Radio 5's Morning Edition with Danny Baker. He hosted a movie review show with Mary Anne Hobbs on Radio 1 on Tuesday nights called Cling Film. He later moved to Simon Mayo's BBC Radio 1 morning show. Kermode began working as a film reviewer for BBC Radio 1 in 1993, on a regular Thursday night slot called Cult Film Corner on Mark Radcliffe's Graveyard Shift session. He has written for The Independent, Vox, Empire, Flicks, Fangoria and Neon. Kermode began his film career as a print journalist, writing for Manchester's City Life, and then Time Out and the NME in London. He earned his PhD in English at the University of Manchester in 1991, writing a thesis on horror fiction. His parents divorced when he was in his early 20s and he subsequently changed his surname to his mother's maiden name by deed poll. He was raised as a Methodist, and later became a member of the Church of England. He was educated at The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, a private boys' school in Elstree, Hertfordshire, a few years ahead of comedians Sacha Baron Cohen and David Baddiel and in the same year as actor Jason Isaacs and former Brexit Party Member of the European Parliament, Lance Forman. Kermode was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire.
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