Member Profile
John De Simio
- Primary Outlet:
- Senior Adviser, Critics Choice Association
- Biography:
- John has worked nearly four decades in the entertainment industry, starting with various entertainment Public Relations agencies representing personalities, television shows such as Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Mork and Mindy, and Taxi as well as television and motion picture production companies. He later held the posts of National Publicity Director with Twentieth Century Fox and Senior Vice President with Castle Rock Entertainment. At the latter, he supervised all the company's motion picture and television publicity campaigns, which included When Harry Met Sally..., City Slickers, Misery, A Few Good Men, Honeymoon in Vegas and Shawshank Redemption among others, as well as the hit NBC series Seinfeld. He then shifted his career focus and served as Executive Vice President for the Broadcast Film Critics Association (now Critics Choice Association). He is now a Senior Adviser to CCA's Board of Directors.