Editor Thelma Schoonmaker's successful collaboration with which director fetched her three Oscars in 1980, 2004 and 2006? (hint: the director won only once till date in one of these years)
"and Federico Fellini), so that their length would conform to the running times of U.S. television broadcasts. She signed up for a brief six-week course in film-making at New York University, where she came into contact with young film-maker Martin Scorsese, who was struggling to complete his film ""What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?"" A negative cutter had butchered his film, not leaving enough negative frames to allow for hot splicing, so a film professor asked her to help Scorsese. Schoonmaker edited Scorsese's first feature film, ""Who's That Knocking at My Door"" (1967). At"
"Only one person had previously achieved the dubious feat (Alan Menken in 1993), and only one other (Sandra Bullock in 2010) has achieved it since. He accepted the Razzie and became only the fourth person in its history to be personally presented with the statuette. He keeps the statues of both the Oscar and the Razzie on his mantle as ""a reminder of Hollywood's idealistic nature and unrealistic expectations."" Helgeland wrote and directed the films ""A Knight's Tale"" (2001), ""The Order"" (2003) and ""42"" (2013). He has worked with director Clint Eastwood twice, in 2002 on"" Blood Work"", and in"
"the third director to have two nominations for Best Picture in the same year. Victor Fleming was the first in 1939 with ""Gone with the Wind"" and ""The Wizard of Oz""; Alfred Hitchcock repeated the feat the next year with ""Foreign Correspondent"" and ""Rebecca"". Since Coppola, two other directors have done the same: Herbert Ross in 1977 with ""The Goodbye Girl"" and ""The Turning Point"", and Steven Soderbergh in 2000 with ""Erin Brockovich"" and ""Traffic"". Coppola, however, is the only one to have produced the pictures. Following the success of ""The Godfather"", ""The Conversation"" and ""The Godfather Part II"", Coppola"
"""Mrs. Miniver"". He is tied with Frank Capra and behind John Ford, who won four Oscars in this category. He is also only director in Academy history to direct three Best Picture-winning films (the three for which he won Best Director), and directed more Best Picture nominees than anyone else (thirteen). He has the distinction of having directed more actors to Oscar-nominated performances than any other director in history: thirty-six. Out of these nominees, fourteen went on to win Oscars, also a record. He received the fourth AFI Life Achievement Award in 1976. Among those who thanked him for directing"
"directing ""Apollo 13""); 2000 (Steven Soderbergh won the Oscar for directing ""Traffic""); 2002 (Roman Polanski won the Oscar for directing ""The Pianist""); and 2012 (Ang Lee won the Oscar for directing ""Life of Pi"" as Ben Affleck was not nominated for directing ""Argo""). This does not count 1948–49, when the DGA used a non-calendar award year (unlike the Academy Awards); both 1948 and 1949 DGA winners competed for the 1949 Academy Award for Best Director, which went to the 1948 DGA winner (Joseph L. Mankiewicz for ""A Letter to Three Wives""). Conversely, sixteen times has the representing film directed by"
"seven Academy Awards, making Julia the first woman to win a Best Picture Oscar. Their third film, ""Taxi Driver"", brought them a second Oscar nomination and won the Palme d'Or in 1976. In 1977 they co-produced their most financially successful movie, Steven Spielberg's $300 million-grossing ""Close Encounters of the Third Kind"". However, Julia had long indulged in a self-destructive lifestyle of excessive drug consumption, and it had begun to affect her work. François Truffaut, one of French cinema's most iconic directors and a star of ""Close Encounters"", blamed her for that film's budget difficulties, and she was eventually fired during"
"seasons as a mentor to the contestants of the show. Westmore won an Academy Award for Makeup for the 1985 Cher film ""Mask"", and has been nominated three other times, for """" (1984), ""The Clan of the Cave Bear"" (1986) and """" (1996). He has won nine Emmy Awards, and was nominated for at least one Emmy every year from 1984 to 2005 (as well as from 1976 to 1978). He has also suggested that he may be indirectly responsible for the addition of a make-up award at the Oscars as he was put forward for a special Oscar in"
"most wins (three) in the category of the Academy Awards for Best Film Editing, tied with Thelma Schoonmaker, Daniel Mandell, and Ralph Dawson. All of the films for which he won Oscars were directed by Steven Spielberg: ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"" (1981), ""Schindler's List"" (1993), and ""Saving Private Ryan"" (1998). He has also received six BAFTA nominations for Best Editing, winning two for ""Schindler's List"" and ""Fatal Attraction"". Kahn has been selected for membership in the American Cinema Editors (ACE). In 2011, he received the Career Achievement Award of the American Cinema Editors. At the ceremony, Steven Spielberg said"
"winning four Emmy Awards in 1986 for ""ABC Afterschool Specials: Can A Guy Say No"", in 2006 for Martin Scorsese's """", in 2013 for ""History of the Eagles"", ""Boardwalk Empire: The Milkmaid's Lot"" and also garnered Emmy nominations for Scorsese's """", and the HBO television series ""Boardwalk Empire"". Tom Fleischman Tom Fleischman (born September 15, 1951) is an American sound engineer and Re-recording mixer. He is the son of film editor Dede Allen, and documentary producer, director, and writer Stephen Fleischman. He has worked on over 170 films since 1978. He won an Academy Award in 2011 in the category"
"and 1 as director. She won many awards, including the Academy Award for Animated Short Film for the 1978 film ""Special Delivery"", which she cowrote and directed with John Weldon. It also took first prize at Animafest Zagreb. Funded by the NFB, it is a dryly humorous account of what happened after a mailman's unexpected death. It was released in both English and in a French-language version. She served as the producer on the animated short ""George and Rosemary"" (1987), which was nominated for an Oscar, and on ""Just for Kids"" (1983), a series of adaptations of children's stories by"
"nominated for the ACE Eddie Award for the film. Fruchtman's first solo credit as editor for a major studio film was for ""Children of a Lesser God"" (1986), which was director Randa Haines' first major film as well. Fruchtman has cut two further films with Haines: ""The Doctor"" (1991), and ""Dance with Me"" (1998). In 1991, she was nominated for another Oscar for Coppola's ""The Godfather Part III"", together with her co-editors Barry Malkin and Walter Murch. All three editors had long experience working with Coppola, on the earlier ""Godfather"" films and others. In 1996, Fruchtman received an additional nomination"
"of directors created New Hollywood. The 1956 Hungarian émigré, who had the European cinema culture at his fingertips, was the right man on the right place - and became the cinematographer of the greatest directors: Robert Altman, Michael Cimino, John Boorman, Brian De Palma, and Steven Spielberg. The Close Encounters of the Third Kind brought him the Oscar in 1977. One year later, his next movie, The Deer Hunter, won five Oscars, including Best Picture. He was nominated for the Oscar in 1985 and in 2007 as well. In 1999 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society"
"third feature film from Greek-born Costa-Gavras, but it is the movie that captured him to the world's attention, winning a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. It introduced the director's signature approach of combining overt political messages with edge-of-the-seat tension."" After ""Z"", their most widely recognized film together is probably ""Missing"" (1982). Their last film together was ""Mad City"" (1997). Throughout her life, Bonnot edited the films directed by Julie Taymor, who had been known primarily as a stage director. Their films include ""Frida"" (2002) and ""The Tempest"" (2010). Bonnot won the Academy Award for Film Editing for ""Z"" (1969), and"
"Leonardo DiCaprio). It earned Christopher Walken an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. The film is known for John Williams's score and its unique title sequence. It was a hit both commercially and critically. Spielberg collaborated again with Tom Hanks along with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Stanley Tucci in 2004's ""The Terminal"", a warm-hearted comedy about a man of Eastern European descent who is stranded in an airport. It received mixed reviews but performed relatively well at the box office. In 2005, ""Empire"" magazine ranked Spielberg number one on a list of the greatest film directors of all time. Also"
"""Terms of Endearment"", which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture (1984); and ""Lonesome Dove"", which became a popular television miniseries starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall. In 2006, he was cowinner (with Diana Ossana) of both the Best Screenplay Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for ""Brokeback Mountain."" He accepted his Oscar wearing jeans and cowboy boots along with his dinner jacket, and used his speech to promote books by reminding his audience that ""Brokeback Mountain"" was a short story by E. Annie Proulx before it was a movie. In his Golden Globe acceptance"
"of America Award for Best Original Screenplay. In addition, the film spawned a same-titled short-lived but Golden Globe-winning television series that aired from 1981 until 1983. Meyers and Shyer's next project, ""Irreconcilable Differences"" (1984), marked Shyer's directorial debut. Shelley Long and Ryan O'Neal played a Hollywood couple whose obsession with success destroys their relationship with their daughter, played by eight-year-old Drew Barrymore. Released to a mixed reception by critics, the collaboration became a moderate box office with a gross of $12.4 million, but received multiple Golden Globe nominations, including Best Actress nods for Long and Barrymore. Also in 1984, Meyers,"
"About Cats & Dogs"", which starred Oscar-nominated actress Uma Thurman. James Schamus (BA 1982, MA 1987, PhD 2003) has collaborated on screenplays with Oscar-winning director Ang Lee on the Academy Award-winning movies ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" and ""Brokeback Mountain"". Collectively, alumni have won at least 20 Academy Awards. Gregory Peck (BA 1939), nominated for four Oscars during his career, won an Oscar for acting in ""To Kill a Mockingbird"". Chris Innis (BA 1991) won the 2010 Oscar for film editing for her work on best picture winner, ""The Hurt Locker"". Walter Plunkett (BA 1923 ) won an Oscar for costume"
"Edward Lachman Edward Lachman, A.S.C. (born March 31, 1948) is an American cinematographer and director. Lachman is mostly associated with the American independent film movement, and has served as director of photography on films by Todd Haynes (including ""Far from Heaven"" in 2002 and ""Carol"" in 2015, both of which earned Lachman Academy Award nominations), Ulrich Seidl, Wim Wenders, Steven Soderbergh and Paul Schrader. His other work includes Werner Herzog's ""La Soufrière"" (1977), ""Desperately Seeking Susan"" (1985), Sofia Coppola's directorial debut, ""The Virgin Suicides"" (1999), Robert Altman's last picture ""A Prairie Home Companion"" (2006), and Todd Solondz's ""Life During Wartime"""
"with film director Steven Spielberg on five films to date: ""Saving Private Ryan"" (1998), ""Catch Me If You Can"" (2002), ""The Terminal"" (2004), ""Bridge of Spies"" (2015), and ""The Post"" (2017), as well as the 2001 miniseries ""Band of Brothers"", which launched Hanks as a successful director, producer, and screenwriter. In 2010, Spielberg and Hanks were executive producers on the HBO miniseries ""The Pacific"". Hanks' films have grossed more than $4.5 billion at U.S. and Canadian box offices and more than $9.0 billion worldwide, making him the fourth highest-grossing actor in North America. Hanks has been nominated for numerous awards"
"Revenant"", respectively. The Directors Guild of America Award for Feature Film has traditionally been a near perfect barometer for both Best Director and Best Picture Academy Awards. Only seven times since the DGA Award's inception has the DGA Award winner not won the Academy Award; in 1968 (Carol Reed won the Oscar for directing ""Oliver!""); 1972 (Bob Fosse won the Oscar for directing ""Cabaret""); 1985 (Sydney Pollack won the Oscar for directing ""Out of Africa"", as Steven Spielberg was not nominated for directing ""The Color Purple""); 1995 (Mel Gibson won for directing ""Braveheart"", as Ron Howard was not nominated for"
"Remembers"" (2003), covering Diamond Joe Esposito's 20 years with Elvis, for Universal Studios, and ""A Brief History of Winnie The Pooh"" (1999), an award-winning short documentary film chronicling the cinematic origin of the Pooh Bear for the Walt Disney Studios. He directed the 2004 feature film, ""Alabama Love Story"" (2003), and was a staff director on the PAX-TV series ""Chicken Soup for the Soul"" (1999). Terry Moloney (filmmaker) Terry Moloney (born April 7, 1969) is an American writer, producer, director and film editor. He has won numerous awards for his work in film and television. Moloney graduated from the University"
"with Golan-Globus for years. In 1982, Greenberg shot ""The Last American Virgin"", an English-language remake of ""Lemon Popsicle"" with much of the same creative team. The film failed to match the same level of success as its predecessor however, and the planned sequels failed to materialize. Two years later, he shot the James Cameron-directed science fiction action film ""The Terminator"", which became an unexpected success with both critics and audiences, spawning a highly-profitable franchise and propelling its star Arnold Schwarzenegger to stardom. Greenberg went on to become a highly prolific director of photography, working primarily in the comedy and thriller"
"with producer Steven Bochco. She served as a supervising producer and writer for many of the series early episodes. Her writing for the series won her a shared Primetime Emmy Award in 1987, and two additional shared nominations in 1988. In 1988, a legal battle with Steven Bochco led to her departure from the series, when a negotiation for her to take over Bochco's role as the series' executive producer failed, and she was banned from the set. Prior to this, she had also co-created the comedy-drama series ""Hooperman"" with Bochco in 1987. The series starred John Ritter and ran"
"the offer of a CBE in 1980 and a knighthood in 2000. He has criticised the honours system for ""perpetuating snobbery"". He has five Oscar nominations but has never won. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor four times, for ""Tom Jones"" (1963), ""Murder on the Orient Express"" (1974), ""The Dresser"" (1983), and ""Under the Volcano"" (1984); and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ""Erin Brockovich"" (2000). Julia Roberts mentioned Albert Finney in her Oscar acceptance speech for Best Actress in ""Erin Brockovich"", thanking him and sharing the Oscar with"
"the movie. He had been friends with Robin Williams for many years and had always wanted to work with him as an actor. When Williams was offered the screenplay for ""Jack"", he said he would only agree to do it if Coppola agreed to sign on as director. The last film Coppola directed in the 90s, ""The Rainmaker"", was based on the 1995 novel of the same name by John Grisham. An ensemble courtroom drama, the film was well received by critics, earning an 88% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Roger Ebert gave ""The Rainmaker"" three stars out of four, remarking:"
"His directorial debut, ""Sex, Lies, and Videotape"" (1989), was influenced by Mike Nichols' 1971 American comedy-drama ""Carnal Knowledge."" Soderbergh has worked with a variety of actors, composers, screenwriters throughout his career as a filmmaker. His most prolific collaborators are considered to be George Clooney, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Don Cheadle, and Channing Tatum. Clooney started Section Eight Productions with Soderbergh and as of 2018 remains his most frequent collaborator, followed by Damon. Among those who have won awards for their work with Soderbergh, Roberts won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her lead in ""Erin Brockovich""; Benicio"
"in the movie as a recording engineer. Martin Scorsese is credited as ""Grace of My Heart""'s executive producer, and the film was co-edited by Thelma Schoonmaker, who won Academy Awards for her work on Scorsese's ""Raging Bull"", ""The Aviator"", and ""The Departed"". Francois Sequin is the production designer, and the costumes are by Susan Bertram. The cast is rounded out by Lynne Adams, Peter Fonda, Chris Isaak, Lucinda Jenney, Patsy Kensit, Christina Pickles and Richard Schiff. The film was released in the fall of 1996, just ahead of Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks' directorial debut ""That Thing You Do!"", which likewise"
"to win the Academy Award for Best Director. Spielberg was also the first to win Best Director from both the Saturn Awards and the Academy Awards at the same year, but for different movies (Saturn Award for ""Jurassic Park"", and Academy Award for ""Schindler's List"", both in 1993); Peter Jackson was the first to win both for the same film ("""", in 2003) while Alfonso Cuarón was the second (for ""Gravity"" in 2013). Notes: ""†"" indicates an Academy Award-winning movie on the same category. ""‡"" indicates an Academy Award-nominated movie on the same category. Saturn Award for Best Director The"
"also directed, were both commercial disappointments and both largely regarded by critics as artistic failures. However, results for ""The Postman"" were worse than ""Waterworld"" and it ended up ""winning"" five Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture, Worst Actor and Worst Director for Costner. Costner starred in the golf comedy ""Tin Cup"" (1996) for Ron Shelton, who had previously directed him in ""Bull Durham"". He developed the film ""Air Force One"" and was set to play the lead role of the President, but ultimately decided to concentrate on finishing ""The Postman"" instead. He personally offered the project to Harrison Ford. In"
"co-editor for ""The Untouchables""; Pankow subsequently became De Palma's principal editor. The period of De Palma's collaboration with Greenberg has been described as follows: De Palma's ""early lower-budget thrillers, although superbly manufactured, were too bloody and garish for the average taste and infuriated many critics. But De Palma began gaining respectability with ""Dressed to Kill"" (1980) and following several critical setbacks, reached the apex in the late 80s with such high-powered productions as ""The Untouchables"" (1987) and ""Casualties of War"" (1989). A superb technician, he was finally crafting material worthy of his bold, often dazzling, visual flair."" Greenberg won the"
"John Kent Harrison as Best Television Director of the year. Other projects include """" (2010) which received a SAG nomination for Winona Ryder, William Faulkner's ""Old Man"" (1997), one of the most critically acclaimed Hallmark presentations, which won two Emmy Awards, the Humanities Prize, the Christopher Medal and a Golden Reel. Other Hallmarks include The Water Is Wide, which received two Emmy nominations; ""What the Deaf Man Heard"", which was nominated for an Emmy as Best Television Movie of the year and has been the highest-rated stand-alone 2- hour TV movie since 1991 and one of the most watched Hallmark"
"an Oscar, with Elizabeth Taylor and Sandy Dennis winning. Burton later said, ""I didn't think I could learn anything about comedy - I'd done all of Shakespeare's. But from him I learned,"" adding, ""He conspires with you to get your best."" However, it was Taylor who chose Nichols to be their director, because, writes biographer David Bret, ""she particularly admired him because he had done a number of ad-hoc jobs to pay for his education after arriving in America as a seven-year-old Jewish refugee."" Producer Ernest Lehman agreed with her choice: ""He was the only one who could handle them,"""
"Howard Shore and Elmer Bernstein. Schoonmaker, Richardson, Powell, and Ferretti have all won Academy Awards in their respective categories on collaborations with Scorsese. Elaine and Saul Bass, the latter being Hitchcock's frequent title designer, designed the opening credits for ""Goodfellas"", ""The Age of Innocence"", ""Casino"" and ""Cape Fear"". He was the executive producer of the film ""Brides"", which was directed by Pantelis Voulgaris and starred Victoria Haralabidou, Damian Lewis, Steven Berkoff, and Kosta Sommer. Under Scorsese's direction, actors have continually received nominations from the major competitive acting awards (the Academy Award, the BAFTA Award and the Golden Globe Award). Martin"