Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: Oscars

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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-born
British and American Writer (1927-2013)

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Name: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Birth: May 7, 1927, Cologne, Germany
Death: April 3, 2013, New York City, New York, USA
Language: English
Who she was: German-born British and American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter known for her novel Heat and Dust, and adapting the screenplays from E. M. Forster's Room with a View and Howards End (winning Oscars for both)
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Spike Lee, American Filmmaker
(1957 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Shelton Jackson Lee
Known as: Spike Lee
Birth: March 20, 1957, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Language: English
Who he is: American filmmaker; She's Gotta Have It; Do the Right Thing; Mo' Better Blues; Jungle Fever; Malcolm X; Girl 6; Academy Honorary Award (2015)

Quentin Tarantino, American Filmmaker
(1963 - )

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Name: Quentin Tarantino
Birth: March 27, 1963, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Language: English
Who he is: American filmmaker; Reservoir Dogs; Pulp Fiction; Kill Bill: Volume 1 & 2; Inglourious Basterds; Django Unchained; two Academy Awards

Francis Ford Coppola, American Filmmaker
(1939 - )

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Name: Francis Ford Coppola
Birth: April 7, 1939, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Language: English
Who he is: American filmmaker; The Godfather (three parts); The Conversation; Apocalypse Now; Bram Stoker's Dracula; Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; multiple Academy Awards

Clint Eastwood, American Filmmaker
(1930 - )

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Name: Clint Eastwood
Birth: May 31, 1930, San Francisco, California, USA
Language: English
Who he is: American filmmaker; The Outlaw Josey Wales; Pale Rider; Unforgiven; Mystic River; Million Dollar Baby; Letters from Iwo Jima; Academy Awards

Stanley Kubrick, American Filmmaker
(1928-1999)

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Name: Stanley Kubrick
Birth: July 26, 1928, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Death: March 7, 1999, St Albans, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: American filmmaker; Spartacus; Lolita; Dr. Strangelove; 2001: A Space Odyssey; A Clockwork Orange; Barry Lyndon; The Shining; Full Metal Jacket; Eyes Wide Shut

Mel Brooks, American Filmmaker
(1926 - )

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Name: Melvin James Kaminsky
Known as: Mel Brooks
Birth: June 28, 1926, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Language: English
Who he is: American filmmaker; The Producers; Blazing Saddles; Young Frankenstein; Silent Movie; High Anxiety; History of the World, Part I; Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Ingmar Bergman, Swedish Filmmaker
(1918-2007)

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Name: Ernst Ingmar Bergman
Known as: Ingmar Bergman
Birth: July 14, 1918, Uppsala, Sweden
Death: July 30, 2007, Faro, Sweden
Language: Swedish
Who he was: Swedish filmmaker; The Seventh Seal; Wild Strawberries; Winter Light; Persona; Cries and Whispers; Fanny and Alexander; three Academy Awards

David Lean, English Filmmaker
(1908-1991)

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Name: David Lean
Birth: March 25, 1908, Croydon, England, UK
Death: April 16, 1991, Limehouse, London, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: English filmmaker; The Bridge on the River Kwai; Lawrence of Arabia; Doctor Zhivago; A Passage to India; two Academy Awards

William Wyler, French-Born American Filmmaker
(1902-1981)

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Name: Wilhelm (Willy) Weiller
Known as: William Wyler
Birth: July 1, 1902, Mulhouse, France
Death: July 27, 1981, Los Angeles, California, USA
Language: French, English
Who he was: French-born American filmmaker; Ben-Hur; Roman Holiday; The Best Years of Our Lives; Mrs. Miniver

Alfred Hitchcock, English-American Filmmaker
(1899-1980)

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Name: Alfred Hitchcock
Birth: August 13, 1899, Leytonstone, London, England, UK
Death: April 29, 1980, Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: English-American filmmaker; Notorious; Rear Window; Vertigo; North by Northwest; Psycho; numerous Academy Awards

George Cukor, American Filmmaker
(1899-1983)

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Name: George Cukor
Birth: July 7, 1899, Lower East Side, New York City, New York, USA
Death: January 24, 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American filmmaker; The Philadelphia Story; Gaslight; Adam's Rib; A Star Is Born; My Fair Lady (for which he won an Oscar)

Steven Spielberg, American Filmmaker
(1946 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Steven Spielberg
Birth: December 18, 1946, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Language: English
Who he is: American filmmaker; Jaws; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Raiders of the Lost Ark; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; The Color Purple; Empire of the Sun; Schindler's List; Amistad; Saving Private Ryan; Munich; Lincoln; Jurassic Park; Academy Award

Woody Allen, American Filmmaker
(1935 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Allan Stewart Konigsberg
Known as: Woody Allen
Birth: December 1, 1935, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Language: English
Who he is: American filmmaker; Annie Hall; Interiors; Manhattan; The Purple Rose of Cairo; Hannah and Her Sisters; Bullets over Broadway; Mighty Aphrodite; Stardust Memories; Match Point; numerous Academy Awards

Noel Coward, English Playwright
(1899-1973)

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Name: Noel Coward
Birth: December 16, 1899, Teddington, England, UK
Death: March 26, 1973, Port Maria, Jamaica
Language: English
Who he was: English playwright; Hay Fever; Private Lives; Design for Living; Present Laughter; Blithe Spirit; Academy Honorary Award (1943)

Sidney Howard, American Playwright
(1891-1939)

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Name: Sidney Howard
Birth: June 26, 1891, Oakland, California, USA
Death: August 23, 1939, Tyringham, Massachusetts, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American playwright; They Knew What They Wanted which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925; Academy Award (Gone with the Wind, 1940)

Charlie Chaplin, English Filmmaker
(1889-1977)

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Name: Charlie Chaplin
Birth: April 16, 1889, Walworth, London, England, UK
Death: December 25, 1977, Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland
Language: English
Who he was: English filmmaker; The Gold Rush; City Lights; Modern Times; The Great Dictator; Honorary Academy Award (1972)

Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-American Filmmaker
(1886-1962)

Just the Facts:

Name: Mihaly Kertesz
Known as: Michael Curtiz
Birth: December 24, 1886, Budapest, Hungary
Death: April 10, 1962, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Language: Hungarian, English
Who he was: Hungarian-American filmmaker; Casablanca (Best Director Oscar); Angels with Dirty Faces; Yankee Doodle Dandy; Mildred Pierce; White Christmas

Cecil B. DeMille, American Filmmaker
(1881-1959)

Just the Facts:

Name: Cecil B. DeMille
Birth: August 12, 1881, Ashfield, Massachusetts, USA
Death: January 21, 1959, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American filmmaker; silent movies The Squaw Man; The Trail of the Lonesome Pine; "talkies" Cleopatra; The Plainsman; "epics" Samson and Delilah; The Greatest Show on Earth (Academy Award, 1953); The Ten Commandments

Walt Disney, American Filmmaker and Entrepreneur
(1901-1966)

Just the Facts:

Name: Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
Birth: December 5, 1901, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Death: December 15, 1966, Burbank, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American filmmaker and entrepreneur responsible for dozens of animated and live-action films (which earned a record 22 Academy Awards, plus four honoraries) as well as theme parks and other enterprises. His films include Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; Fantasia; Pinocchio; Dumbo; Bambi; Cinderella; and Mary Poppins.

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