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George Cooper Stevens (December 18, 1904 – March 8, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer. [1] He received two Academy Awards and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1953. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for A Place in the Sun (1951), and Giant (1956).
George Stevens. Director: Giant. George Stevens, a filmmaker known as a meticulous craftsman with a brilliant eye for composition and a sensitive touch with actors, is one of the great American filmmakers, ranking with John Ford, William Wyler and Howard Hawks as a creator of classic Hollywood cinema, bringing to the screen mytho-poetic worlds ...
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- Giant (1956) Mostly known for being James Dean's third and final leading film role before he died, Giant also deserves to be recognized as George Stevens's best movie.
- Shane (1953) George Stevens was again nominated for Best Director and Best Picture for Shane, which is one the greatest Westerns of all time. It follows a familiar story of a mysterious, gunslinging drifter who shows up just in time to aid a family of homesteaders in their conflict against a greedy cattle baron and his gang of thugs.
- A Place In The Sun (1951) Nearly a decade after his first Best Director nomination, George Stevens was recognized again, for A Place in the Sun, and this time he won the Oscar.
- The More The Merrier (1943) George Stevens received his first Oscar nomination for Best Director with this entertaining romantic comedy centered around a real issue of its time: the housing shortage caused by World War II.
May 21, 2024 · George Stevens (born December 18, 1904, Oakland, California, U.S.—died March 8, 1975, Lancaster, California) was an American director known for films that exhibited intelligence, great humanism, and brilliant camera techniques.
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Jan 7, 2021 · George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin (1994) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #GeorgeStevensDDaytoBerlin Think of World War II Europe, and black-and-white newsreel images likely come to mind. But the war...
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George Cooper Stevens was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer. He received two Academy Awards and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1953.
May 3, 1985 · George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey: Directed by George Stevens Jr.. With Fred Astaire, Warren Beatty, Pandro S. Berman, Frank Capra. Biography of the Academy Award winning director including dramatic color footage of WWII.
