Which American film director won an Oscar for Best Picture, Stuart Rosenberg or Irwin Winkler?
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Irwin Winkler Irwin Winkler (born May 25, 1931) is an American film producer and director. He is the producer or director of 50 motion pictures, dating back to 1967's "Double Trouble", starring Elvis Presley. The fourth film he produced, "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" (1969), starring Jane Fonda, was nominated for nine Academy Awards. He won an Oscar for Best Picture for 1976's "Rocky". As a producer, he has been nominated for Best Picture for three other films: "Raging Bull", "The Right Stuff", and "Goodfellas".
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Stuart Rosenberg Stuart Rosenberg (August 11, 1927 – March 15, 2007) was an American film and television director whose motion pictures include "Cool Hand Luke" (1967), "Voyage of the Damned" (1976), "The Amityville Horror" (1979), and "The Pope of Greenwich Village" (1984). He was noted for his work with actor Paul Newman.
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Margo Winkler Margo Winkler (born c. 1935) is an American actress, who often played minor roles as receptionists, clerks or judges. She is known for her minor roles in several of Martin Scorsese's films which her husband Irwin Winkler produced. She is best known for her roles in "Goodfellas" (1990) as Belle Kessler and as the receptionist in "The King of Comedy" (1983) whom Robert De Niro's character approaches on numerous occasions. She is also known for her role as Barbara in "Life as a House" (2001). She made her screen debut in 1970 in Stuart Hagmann's "The Strawberry Statement". In 1999 she appeared in her son Charles Winkler's picture "Rocky Marciano", and her last appearance was in 2006 in her husband Irwin Winkler's "Home of the Brave" as a waiting room mother.
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Absolute Strangers Absolute Strangers is a 1991 made-for-television CBS docudrama featuring "Happy Days" star Henry Winkler returning to his first major TV role in eight years.
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Otto Siegel Otto Siegel (May 7, 1897 – August 21, 1962) was an American set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film "Cimarron".
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National Board of Review Award for Best Director The National Board of Review Award for Best Director is one of the annual film awards given (since 1945) by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.
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Lesley Selander Lesley Selander (May 26, 1900 – December 5, 1979) was an American film director of Westerns and adventure movies. His career as director, spanning 127 feature films and dozens of TV episodes, lasted from 1936-68. Before that, Selander was assistant director on films such as "The Cat and the Fiddle" (1934), "A Night at the Opera" (1935), and Fritz Lang's "Fury" (1936).
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Otto Preminger Otto Ludwig Preminger ( , ] ; 5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an American theatre and film director, originally from Austria-Hungary.
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Harold Hecht filmography Harold Hecht (1907 – 1985) was an Academy Award-winning Hollywood film producer, dance director and film director. He was also a talent agent, a literary agent, a theatrical producer, a theatre director and a Broadway actor. He was a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and the Screen Producers Guild.
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So Quiet on the Canine Front So Quiet on the Canine Front is a 1930 American comedy short film, from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, that parodies Universal Pictures' celebrated anti-war drama "All Quiet on the Western Front", the winner, on November 5, 1930, at the 3rd Academy Awards, of the Award for Best Picture (referenced at the time as the Award for Outstanding Production).
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The White Parade The White Parade is a 1934 film that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Rian James, Jesse Lasky Jr., Sonya Levien and Ernest Pascal, from the novel by Rian James. The film was directed by Irving Cummings.
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Robert Altman Robert Bernard Altman ( ; February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. A five-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director and an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era, Altman was considered a "maverick" in making films with a highly naturalistic but stylized and satirical aesthetic, unlike most Hollywood films. He is consistently ranked as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in American cinema.
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Academy Award for Best Production Design The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement for art direction in film. The category's original name was Best Art Direction, but was changed to its current name in 2012 for the 85th Academy Awards. This change resulted from the Art Director's branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) being renamed the Designer's branch. Since 1947, the award is shared with the set decorator(s). It is awarded to the best interior design in a film.
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Sidney Lumet Sidney Arthur Lumet ( ; June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011) was an American director, producer and screenwriter with over 50 films to his credit. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for "12 Angry Men" (1957), "Dog Day Afternoon" (1975), "Network" (1976), and "The Verdict" (1982). He did not win an individual Academy Award, but he did receive an Academy Honorary Award and 14 of his films were nominated for various Oscars, such as "Network", which was nominated for ten, winning four.
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Charlie Kaufman Charles Stuart Kaufman (born November 19, 1958) is an American screenwriter, producer, director, and lyricist. He wrote the films "Being John Malkovich" (1999), "Adaptation" (2002), and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (2004). He made his directorial debut with "Synecdoche, New York" (2008), which was also well-received; film critic Roger Ebert named it "the best movie of the decade" in 2009. It was followed by "Anomalisa" (2015).
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King Vidor King Wallis Vidor ( ; February 8, 1894 – November 1, 1982) was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter whose career spanned nearly seven decades. In 1979, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award for his "incomparable achievements as a cinematic creator and innovator." He was nominated five times for a Best Director Oscar, and won eight international film awards during his career. Vidor's best known films include "The Big Parade" (1925), "The Crowd" (1928), "Stella Dallas" (1937), and "Duel in the Sun" (1946). (He is not related to fellow director Charles Vidor).
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Marshall Brickman Marshall Brickman (born August 25, 1939) is an American screenwriter and director, best known for his collaborations with Woody Allen. He is the co-recipient of the 1977 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for "Annie Hall". He is also known for playing the banjo with Eric Weissberg in the 1960s, and for a series of comical parodies published in "The New Yorker".
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The One and Only (1978 film) The One and Only is a 1978 comedy film starring Henry Winkler, directed by Carl Reiner and written by Steve Gordon.
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Star in the Night Star in the Night is a 1945 American short drama film directed by Don Siegel. The film was Siegel's directorial debut, and won an Academy Award in 1946 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). The film is a modern-day retelling of the Nativity story, set on Christmas Eve at a desert motel in the Southwestern United States.
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Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created for 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay. In 2002, the name of the award was changed from Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) to Writing (Original Screenplay).
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Life as a House Life as a House is a 2001 American drama film produced and directed by Irwin Winkler. The screenplay by Mark Andrus focuses on a man who is anxious to repair his relationship with his ex-wife and teenaged son after he is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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Oscar Hammerstein II Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II ( ; July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and two Academy Awards for Best Original Song. Many of his songs are standard repertoire for vocalist's and jazz musicians. He co-wrote 850 songs. Hammerstein was the lyricist and playwright in his partnerships; his collaborators wrote the music. Hammerstein collaborated with numerous composers, such as Jerome Kern, with whom he wrote "Show Boat", Vincent Youmans, Rudolf Friml, Richard A. Whiting and Sigmund Romberg; but he is best known for his collaborations with Richard Rodgers, as the duo Rodgers and Hammerstein which include "Oklahoma!", "Carousel", "South Pacific", "The King and I", and "The Sound of Music".