Stephen Robert Prince (September 13, 1955 – December 30, 2020) was an American film critic, film historian and film theorist. He was a Professor of Communication Studies and was a Professor of Cinema at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ("Virginia Tech"). His books include The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa (1991) and Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies (1998). Prince was frequently cited as an expert in East Asian cinema by Criterion and can often be heard in commentary tracks in their collections.