Joseph Mankiewicz

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Film Director, Writer, and Producer, and Academy Award Winner. He is best remembered for directing the films "A Letter to Three Wives" (1949) and "All About Eve" (1950), that won him an Academy Award as Best Director and Best Writer/Screenplay in each. Born to Jewish German immigrants, he moved with his family at the age of four to New York City, New York where he graduated from Stuyvesant High School. He then attended Columbia University in New York City, graduating with a Bachelor's Degree in 1928. He briefly worked as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune newspaper in Berlin, Germany before entering the motion picture business in 1929. He worked for seventeen years as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures and as a producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) before getting a chance to direct at 20th Century-Fox. Over 6 years he made 11 films for Fox, reaching a peak in 1950 and 1951 when he won consecutive Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Writer/Screenplay for both "A Letter to Three Wives" and "All About Eve," the latter of which was nominated for 14 Academy Awards, winning 6, and also won the Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directorial Achievement and the Writers Guild of America Best Written American Comedy. During his long film career which spanned over 40 years, he wrote 48 screenplays and produced more than twenty films including "The Philadelphia Story" (1940) which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1941. In 1944 he produced "The Keys of the Kingdom," which starred Gregory Peck, and featured his then-wife, Rose Stradner, in a supporting role as a nun. In 1951 he moved to New York City, intending to write for the Broadway stage. Although this dream never materialized, he continued to make films for his own production company Figaro and as a director-for-hire. In 1953 he directed "Julius Caesar" for MGM, an adaptation of Shakespeare's play and it received widely favorable reviews. The film serves as the only record of actor Marlon Brando in a Shakespearean role as 'Mark Antony', for which he received an Oscar nomination. In 1958 he directed "The Quiet American," an adaptation of Graham Greene's 1955 novel about the seed of American military involvement in what would become the Vietnam War. Under career pressure from the then-climate of anti-Communism and the Hollywood blacklist, he distorted the message of Greene's book, changing major parts of the story to appeal to a nationalistic audience, much to Greene's dislike. In 1961 he began filming "Cleopatra" for 20th Century Fox, taking over after the departure of Robert Mamoulian. It consumed two years of his life and ended up both derailing his career and causing extreme severe financial losses for the studio. In 1963 he won the Writers Guild of America's Laurel Award for Screen Writing Achievement. He directed a few more films, including "The Honey Pot" (1967), "There Was a Crooked Man..." (1970), and "Sleuth' (1972), his final directing effort for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Direction in 1973. In 1981 he was awarded an Honorary Life Member in the Directors Guild of America and in 1986 he received their Lifetime Achievement Award. He died of a heart attack at the age of 83, just 6 days shy of his 84th birthday. He was married 3 times, first to Elizabeth Young (1934 until 1937), then to Rose Stradner (1938 to 1958), and then to Rosemary Matthews (1962, married and divorced the same year). His older brother, Herman J. Mankiewicz, was a Hollywood screenwriter who co-wrote the screenplay "Citizen Kane" (1941) with Orson Welles, which won him an Academy Award. (bio by: [fg.cgi?page=mr&MRid=47016546" target="_blank William Bjornstad)]

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• Military service: Oct 16 1940 - Pacific, Palasades, California, United States
• Residence: 1910 - Wilkes Barre Ward 12, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States
• Residence: Palasades, California, Pacific
• Residence: 1915 - New York City, New York County, New York, United States
• Residence: Census - 1920 - Manhattan Assembly District 8, New York, New York, United States
• Residence: Apr 18 1950 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
• Residence: Feb 5 1993 - Bedford, Westchester, New York, United States
• Residence: Feb 5 1993 - New York
  • Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: May 21 2023, 21:14:20 UTC

ג'וזף לאו מנקייביץ'

' (אנגלית: Joseph L. Mankiewicz‏; 11 בפברואר 1909 - 5 בפברואר 1993) היה תסריטאי, במאי ומפיק יהודי-אמריקאי, זוכה ארבעה פרסי אוסקר.

ביוגרפיה נולד במזרח פנסילבניה לזוג מהגרים יהודים מגרמניה. כילד עבר עם משפחתו להתגורר בעיר ניו יורק. למד באוניברסיטת קולומביה. למשך תקופה עבד ככתב זר מטעם העיתון "Chicago Tribune", טרם כניסתו לתעשיית הקולנוע ההוליוודית. ב-1922 הוא החל לעבוד ככותב כותרות לסרטי ראינוע ואחר כך היה לתסריטאי מן המניין. במשך חמישה עשורים כתב תסריטים ל-47 סרטים, ובהם חמישה שהיו מועמדים לאוסקר. משנת 1936 החל גם להפיק סרטים הוליוודים נוסחתיים שהירבו להופיע בהם ג'ואן קרופורד וג'יימס סטיוארט. בין הסרטים הבולטים שהפיק נמנים: "זעם" של פריץ לאנג, "A Christmas Carol", "סיפור פילדלפיה", עליו היה מועמד לאוסקר כמפיק, ובנוסף כתב את התסריט, "אשת השנה" ו"המפתחות לגן עדן", על פי הרומן של א. ג'. קרונין.

משנת 1946 החל גם לביים סרטים. סרטו החשוב הראשון כבמאי היה "מכתב לשלוש נשים", עם קירק דאגלס, עליו זכה בשני פרסי אוסקר: בימוי ותסריט מעובד. בשנת 1950 ביים סרט אפל בשם "באין מוצא", בו כיכב סידני פואטייה בהופעה קולנועית ראשונה. באותה השנה ביים את סרטו הידוע מכל, "הכל אודות חוה", אשר כתב לו גם את התסריט. הסרט, בכיכובה של בטי דייוויס, זכה בשישה פרסי אוסקר לרבות פרס האוסקר לסרט הטוב ביותר (וגם שניים למנקייביץ' עצמו : תסריט ובימוי), והיה זה גם הסרט היחידי עד ל"טיטניק" שקיבל 14 מועמדויות לפרס האוסקר, ביניהן חמש מועמדויות לקטגוריית המשחק.

לאחר מכן ביים את סרט הריגול "חמש אצבעות", בכיכובו של ג'יימס מייסון, את הדרמה ההיסטורית "יוליוס קיסר" על פי המחזה של ויליאם שייקספיר, בו גילם מרלון ברנדו את מרקוס אנטוניוס וקיבל מועמדות שלישית רצופה לפרס האוסקר. כמו כן ביים את הגרסה הקולנועית למחזמר "ברנשים וחתיכות", שקיבל פרס גלובוס הזהב לסרט הקומי\מוזיקלי, ואת הדרמה המלחמתית "האמריקני השקט", על פי ספרו של גרהם גרין. הוא המשיך לעבד לקולנוע יצירות קלאסיות כ"פתאום, בקיץ האחרון", על פי המחזה של טנסי ויליאמס והאפוס ההיסטורי "קלאופטרה", שהיה לסרט היקר ביותר בזמנו (44 מיליון דולרים) שהצליח רק במעט לכסות את כל הוצאותיו. סרטו האחרון כבמאי היה "Sleuth", שהתבסס על המחזה זוכה פרס הטוני. בסרט כיכבו לורנס אוליבייה ומייקל קיין.

ב-1954 היה מועמד לפרס אוסקר לתסריט המקורי הטוב ביותר על הסרט הרוזנת היחפה.

אחיו הרמן מנקייביץ' היה תסריטאי נודע.

פרסי האוסקר 5 מועמדויות לתסריט\תסריט מעובד: "סקיפי", "מכתב לשלוש נשים", "אין מוצא", "הכל אודות חווה" ו"הרוזנת היחפה". 4 מועמדויות לבימוי: "מכתב לשלוש נשים", "הכל אודות חווה", "חמש אצבעות" ו"Sleuth". מועמדות אחת לסרט הטוב ביותר: "סיפור פילדלפיה". סך הכל: 12 שחקנים קיבלו מועמדות לפרס האוסקר בסרטים בבימויו של מנקייביץ', מתוך 48 מועמדויות. ארבעה מסרטיו היו מועמדים לסרט הטוב ביותר: "מכתב לשלוש נשים", "הכל אודות חווה", "יוליוס קיסר" ו"קלאופטרה".

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_L._Mankiewicz

Film Director, Writer, and Producer, and Academy Award Winner. He is best remembered for directing the films "A Letter to Three Wives" (1949) and "All About Eve" (1950), that won him an Academy Award as Best Director and Best Writer/Screenplay in each. Born to Jewish German immigrants, he moved with his family at the age of four to New York City, New York where he graduated from Stuyvesant High School. He then attended Columbia University in New York City, graduating with a Bachelor's Degree in 1928. He briefly worked as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune newspaper in Berlin, Germany before entering the motion picture business in 1929. He worked for seventeen years as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures and as a producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) before getting a chance to direct at 20th Century-Fox. Over 6 years he made 11 films for Fox, reaching a peak in 1950 and 1951 when he won consecutive Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Writer/Screenplay for both "A Letter to Three Wives" and "All About Eve," the latter of which was nominated for 14 Academy Awards, winning 6, and also won the Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directorial Achievement and the Writers Guild of America Best Written American Comedy. During his long film career which spanned over 40 years, he wrote 48 screenplays and produced more than twenty films including "The Philadelphia Story" (1940) which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1941. In 1944 he produced "The Keys of the Kingdom," which starred Gregory Peck, and featured his then-wife, Rose Stradner, in a supporting role as a nun. In 1951 he moved to New York City, intending to write for the Broadway stage. Although this dream never materialized, he continued to make films for his own production company Figaro and as a director-for-hire. In 1953 he directed "Julius Caesar" for MGM, an adaptation of Shakespeare's play and it received widely favorable reviews. The film serves as the only record of actor Marlon Brando in a Shakespearean role as 'Mark Antony', for which he received an Oscar nomination. In 1958 he directed "The Quiet American," an adaptation of Graham Greene's 1955 novel about the seed of American military involvement in what would become the Vietnam War. Under career pressure from the then-climate of anti-Communism and the Hollywood blacklist, he distorted the message of Greene's book, changing major parts of the story to appeal to a nationalistic audience, much to Greene's dislike. In 1961 he began filming "Cleopatra" for 20th Century Fox, taking over after the departure of Robert Mamoulian. It consumed two years of his life and ended up both derailing his career and causing extreme severe financial losses for the studio. In 1963 he won the Writers Guild of America's Laurel Award for Screen Writing Achievement. He directed a few more films, including "The Honey Pot" (1967), "There Was a Crooked Man..." (1970), and "Sleuth' (1972), his final directing effort for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Direction in 1973. In 1981 he was awarded an Honorary Life Member in the Directors Guild of America and in 1986 he received their Lifetime Achievement Award. He died of a heart attack at the age of 83, just 6 days shy of his 84th birthday. He was married 3 times, first to Elizabeth Young (1934 until 1937), then to Rose Stradner (1938 to 1958), and then to Rosemary Matthews (1962, married and divorced the same year). His older brother, Herman J. Mankiewicz, was a Hollywood screenwriter who co-wrote the screenplay "Citizen Kane" (1941) with Orson Welles, which won him an Academy Award. (bio by: [fg.cgi?page=mr&MRid=47016546" target="_blank William Bjornstad)]

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