Born in Canada, André Guimond came to Los Angeles in 1974 to study film at UCLA. He has been living in this city since. 

He received two degrees from UCLA: first an M.A. (Major: Theater Arts, Film. Emphasis: Film Criticism) and then, later on, an M.B.A. 

Since his early days at the UCLA film school, he has been an active journalist and a regular Hollywood correspondent. Already, while still at the UCLA film school, he started his career in journalism writing a weekly column titled “From Hollywood” for the major Quebec newspaper La Presse (in Montreal). 

André Guimond has been a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association since 1976. In addition to voting for the Golden Globe Awards, he has acted as the Chairman of the Foreign Language Film Committee for many years. In that capacity, he coordinated submissions of Foreign Language Films for Golden Globe Award consideration and established strong relationships with foreign film producers and directors. He is still a very active member of that committee now named the Non-English-Language Film Committee. 

He has also hands-on filmmaking experience as he worked as a 2nd assistant director in Quebec. 

Still active after all those years, André Guimond writes for CTVM INFO, a highly specialized trade publication that reaches members of the Quebec/Canadian film industry and provides articles/ reviews/interviews/industry assessments to this publication, acting as its correspondent and covering the film industry from Los Angeles.