In February 2011 she received an Athena Film Festival Award for her distinguished reporting and commentary about women and film.[.
As a journalist her writing has appeared in to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Observer and Wired. Thompson covered behind-the-scenes Hollywood as a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly and as West Coast Editor for Film Comment.
In 2014 HarperCollins published her book The $11 Billion Year: From Sundance To The Oscars.
She teaches the fall semester of "Sneak Previews" for UCLA Extension.
Graduated from the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University.