Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

American film director, screenwriter, and producer

Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1909

Place of Birth: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 05-Feb-1993

Profession: screenwriter, actor, translator, film director, film producer, trade unionist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  • Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (; February 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
  • Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career, and won the Oscar back-to-back for both Best Director and Best Writing, Screenplay for A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve (1950). Comfortable in a variety of genres and able to elicit career performances from actors and actresses alike, Mankiewicz combined ironic, sophisticated scripts with a precise, sometimes stylized mise en scène.
  • Mankiewicz worked for seventeen years as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures and as a producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer before getting a chance to direct at Twentieth Century-Fox.
  • Over six years he made 11 films for Fox, reaching a peak in 1950 and 1951 when he won consecutive Academy Awards for Screenplay and Direction for both A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve, which was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won six. During his long career in Hollywood, Mankiewicz wrote forty-eight screenplays.
  • He also produced more than twenty films including The Philadelphia Story which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1941.
  • However, he is best known for the films he directed, twice winning the Academy Award for Best Director.

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