In 1992, White was one of nine newspaper and magazine writers to win the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for music criticism. In January 2014, White was expelled from the New York Film Critics Circle for allegedly heckling director Steve McQueen at an event for the film 12 Years a Slave. White maintained his innocence, and characterized his expulsion as a "smear campaign." The previous year, White had shouted protests at Michael Moore, while Moore was delivering a speech, as White felt Moore had been unfairly maligning the Catholic Church. Following his 2014 explusion, film critics Harlan Jacobson and Thelma Adams defended White, with the latter describing the move as "Stalinist". White received an Anti-Censorship Award at the 35th annual American Book Awards for being "unfairly removed" from the critics' organization. Views on film In 2013, Time Magazine wrote that White's reviews on Rotten Tomatoes agreed with the Tomatometer consensus just under 50% of the time. White has cited Intolerance as the greatest film ever made, and has referred to A.I. Artificial Intelligence as the best film of the 21st century. White has listed directors Steven Spielberg, Alain Resnais, Zack Snyder, Clint Eastwood, and S. Craig Zahler among his favorites. A conservative, White often criticizes films with perceived left-wing messages, such as There Will Be Blood, Parasite, Don't Look Up, and Three Thousand Years of Longing. However, he has given high praise to the leftist director Jean-Luc Godard, writing that Godard's films "saw past political fashion". White is also critical of films which promote consumerism, arguing the Toy Story 3 does so, while citing Small Soldiers as the superior film featuring toys. Likewise, White has offered praise to conservative films, describing Mom and Dad, Richard Jewell, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, France, and Cry Macho as examples. White has stated that when reviewing, he analyzes a film's political viewpoint, because "Ideology is everywhere...[films are] made by people with feelings and ideas and agendas...To me there’s no such thing as just entertainment." White has provided extensive commentary on gay cinema, offering positive reviews to I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, God's Own Country, and Summer of 85, while giving negative reviews to Brokeback Mountain and Bros. White also frequently analyzes and discusses the role of race in cinema, having given negative reviews to Black films such as Precious, 12 Years a Slave, Get Out, Nope, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and