[2] Monaco founded Baseline in 1982, an early online database about the entertainment industry, and a forerunner of the IMDb.

In 2011 the Times sold the company to Project Hollywood LLC, which is majority owned by entrepreneurs Laurie Silvers and Mitchell Rubenstein, who sold it to Gracenote in 2014 for a reported $50 million.

He was a media commentator for Morning Edition on NPR in the 1980s, and has written for The New York Times, The Village Voice, and The Christian Science Monitor.

Monaco was also a contributing editor and writer to the Canadian film magazine, Take One, for many years.

[1][2] Every year the student award is handed over to the winners in a large Oscar like show in front of up to 1,600 students in the [3], a large venue in the city of the University of Siegen, where the award was born.