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Facts

Born December 18, 1904 • Oakland • California
Died March 8, 1975 (aged 70) • Lancaster • California
Awards And Honors Academy Award (1957) • Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (1954) • Academy Award (1952)
Notable Works “A Place in the Sun” • “Giant” • “Gunga Din” • “Penny Serenade” • “Shane” • “Swing Time” • “The Diary of Anne Frank”

Photos

George Stevens
Scene from the film Swing Time
Charles Coburn in The More the Merrier
Montgomery Clift as George Eastman and Elizabeth Taylor as Angela Vickers stand close together by a tree, gazing at each other in a scene from A Place in the Sun.
Giant
Black-and-white photo of cast and crew gathered on the Texas set of the film Giant, with the movie's iconic Victorian mansion visible in the distant background.
Penny Serenade
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William Wyler
William Wyler
German-born American director
Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
American filmmaker
Steven Spielberg wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, smiling at the camera on the red carpet at the Cannes International Film Festival.
Steven Spielberg
American film director and producer
Billy Wilder poses in a suit and hat, leaning against a streetlamp with a sign reading Sunset Blvd. in a promotional photo for the film Sunset Boulevard.
Billy Wilder
Austrian-born American director and producer
Warren Beatty wearing a dark jacket, white shirt, and light tie, posing at an event with a dark background, 2006.
Warren Beatty
American actor, director, and producer
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Richard Attenborough
English actor, director, and producer
Master of suspense
Alfred Hitchcock
English-born American director
Martin Scorsese smiling in a tuxedo and bow tie, holding an Oscar statuette at the Academy Awards, with a gold Oscar statue in the background.
Martin Scorsese
American filmmaker
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Huston
American director, writer, and actor
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Frank Capra
American film director
Francis Ford Coppola, with a beard, sits on a camera dolly surrounded by crew and actors on the set of The Godfather: Part II, with storefronts in the background.
Francis Ford Coppola
American director and screenwriter
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Mervyn LeRoy
American director and producer
Elia Kazan stands on a docked ship set with arms outstretched, directing a scene for Panic in the Streets in New Orleans, with crew members and rigging visible behind him.
Elia Kazan
American director and author
Cecil B. DeMille, wearing a dark suit and patterned tie, smiles while looking to the side in this black-and-white portrait.
Cecil B. DeMille
American film director
Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack
American director, producer, and actor
Leo McCarey, seated sideways in a director's chair, looks toward the camera in a black-and-white portrait from around 1930.
Leo McCarey
American director
George Lucas wearing a black suit and tie with a white shirt, standing in front of a dark backdrop at the 2017 LACMA Art Film Gala in Los Angeles.
George Lucas
American director, producer, and screenwriter
Mutiny on the Bounty
Lewis Milestone
American film director
American director Stanley Kramer
Stanley Kramer
American film producer and director
Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone
American director, producer, and screenwriter

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