Joseph L. Mankiewicz Centennial
Four-time Academy Award winner screenwriter-director-producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz will be saluted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a special 50th anniversary screening of a recently restored print of Suddenly, Last Summer, starring Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor (above, and right, with Mankiewicz), and Montgomery Clift. The screening will take place on Thursday, May 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The evening will also celebrate the recent gift of the Joseph L. Mankiewicz Papers to the Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library. Turner Classic Movies host and The Young Turks co-creator Ben Mankiewicz, Joseph L.’s great nephew and grandson of Citizen Kane co-screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, will host [...]
by Andre Soares | May 1, 2009
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DGA vs. Academy Winners
DGA vs. Academy Winners
Catherine Zeta Jones in Chicago (top); Adrien Brody in The Pianist (bottom)
Since its inception in 1948, 51 out of 59 winners of the Directors Guild Award have gone on to win the best director Academy Award.
The eight exceptions are:
1948
DGA – Joseph L. Mankiewicz for A Letter to Three Wives*
AA – John Huston for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
* Mankiewicz won the 1948 DGA for A Letter to Three Wives, as the award period extended into early 1949. He went on to win a 1949 Oscar for that film.
1949
DGA – Robert Rossen for All the King’s Men
AA – Joseph L. Mankiewicz for A Letter to Three Wives (see above)
1968
DGA – Anthony Harvey [...]
by Andre Soares | December 30, 2006
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Tags: A Letter to Three Wives, Academy Awards, Classic Movies, DGA Awards, Film Awards, John Huston, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rob Marshall, Robert Rossen, Roman Polanski, The Pianist
The DGA vs. the Academy: 1950s
DGA vs. Academy nominees
Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, Jeanne Crain in A Letter to Three Wives (top); Jane Wyman in Johnny Belinda (bottom)
The DGA vs. the Academy: Introduction
Since pre-1970 DGA finalists often consisted of more than five directors, it’s obvious that the DGA’s and the Academy’s lists couldn’t fully match. In the list below, the years before 1970 include DGA finalists who didn’t receive an Academy Award nod and, if applicable, those Academy Award-nominated directors not found in the (usually lengthier) DGA list.
The number in parentheses next to "DGA" indicates that year’s number of DGA finalists if other than five. Source: IMDb.
1948
DGA (04): Joseph L. Mankiewicz for A Letter to Three Wives* and Howard Hawks for Red [...]
by Andre Soares | December 30, 2006
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Tags: A Letter to Three Wives, Academy Awards, Classic Movies, DGA Awards, Film Awards, Jean Negulesco, Johnny Belinda, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
