Roger Ebert, 66, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic for the "Chicago Sun-Times," was hit with a binder by a fellow colleague who writes reviews for the "New York Post” during the screening of the movie "Slumlord Millionaire” at the Toronto Film Festival.

The altercation was first revealed by the "Daily News” on Thursday.

Ebert, who for the last couple of years, has been battling thyroid and salivary gland cancer, stated in a story posted on suntimes.com that the aforementioned magazine had blown the incident way out of proportions, making him look like a helpless victim of Lou Lumenick, the Post’s film critic.

The conflict between the two arose because Lumenick, who was seated during the screening just in front of Roger Ebert, was blocking the latter’s view of the movie’s subtitles.

Due to the cancer treatment he has undergone, Ebert has lost the ability to speak, so, in order to get Lumenick to shift his position, he tapped him on his shoulder several times. Annoyed by the gesture, the film critic turned around and hit his colleague with a binder or a rolled-up festival program.

Although the altercation has been taken lightly by the veteran film critic, his wife Chaz Hammelsmith was absolutely appalled at hearing what had happened.

In 1975, Roger Ebert became the first film critic to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize and in June 2005, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He has written over 15 books since he began his career in 1967, at age 25.