Awards
•Chicago Emmy Award - 1979
•Received six National Emmy Award nominations for "Siskel & Ebert"
•Received an Iris Award from the National Association of Television Programming Executives (NATPE)
•Initiated into the National Association of Television Programming Executives (NATPE) Hall of Fame - 1984
•Named Man of the Year (alongside Roger Ebert) by the Hollywood Radio and Television Society - 1993
•Inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame - 1997
•A section of Erie Street in Chicago was dedicated Siskel & Ebert Way
•Posthumously inducted into the Illinois Broadcasters Hall of Fame – 2001
Career Highlights
•Graduated from Yale University - 1967
•Hired by the Chicago Tribune - Jan., 1969
•Named Film Critic of the Chicago Tribune - Sept., 1969
•Recipient of a 1979 Chicago Emmy Award
•1985 Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Informational Special
•Leaves Tribune Entertainment and signs with Buena Vista Television - 1986
•Appointed Film Critic of "CBS This Morning" - 1990
•1991 Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Special Class Program
•"Gene Siskel Day" was officially proclaimed on April 19, 1994 by Illinois Governor Jim Edgar
•One of the first broadcasters initiated into the National Association of Television
•Programming Executives Hall of Fame - 1984
•1997 Chicago Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement for Informational Programs
•1997 Chicago Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement Within a Regularly Scheduled News Program
•Inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame - 1997