September 30, 2020 Sam Mendes Career Summation Occupational Inheritance: Nationality: Social Class: Race/Ethnicity: Family: Formal Education: Training: First Film: Breakthrough: First Oscar Nomination: Gap between First Film and First Nom: Other Oscars: Other Oscar Nominations: Oscar Awards: Nominations Span: Genre (specialties): Collaborators: Last Film: Contract: Career Length: Career Output: Marriage: Politics: Death: Sir Samuel Alexander […]

September 12, 2020 Michael Mann Career Summation Occupational Inheritance: Nationality: Social Class: Race/Ethnicity: Jewish Family: Formal Education: M.A. at London Film School Training: First Film: Breakthrough: First Oscar Nomination: Gap between First Film and First Nom: Other Oscars: Other Oscar Nominations: Oscar Awards: Nominations Span: Genre (specialties): Collaborators: Dante Spinotti, frequent cinematographer of Mann Last […]

September 29, 2020 Delbert Mann Career Summation Occupational Inheritance: Nationality: Social Class: middle; mother teacher Race/Ethnicity: Family: Formal Education: Training: First Film: Marty (1955) Breakthrough: (Marty (1955) First Oscar Nomination: Marty (1955) Gap between First Film and First Nom: No Other Oscars: Other Oscar Nominations: Oscar Awards: Nominations Span: Genre (specialties): Collaborators: Last Film: Contract: […]

Oct 24, 2022 Joseph L. Mankiewicz Career Summation Occupational Inheritance: No; brother writer, Herman Nationality: US; Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; when he was 4, family moved to NYC Social Class: Race/Ethnicity: Family: Formal Education: Stuyvesant High School, NY Training: First Film: Dragonwyck (1946), which he also wrote; age 37; but was already accomplished writer and producer (Philadelphia […]

Malick has received three Oscar nominations; two for Best Director, for The Thin Red Line and The Tree of Life, and a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for the former film.