"we watch them."" ""Kramer vs. Kramer"" reflected a cultural shift which occurred during the 1970s, when ideas about motherhood and fatherhood were changing. The film was widely praised for the way in which it gave equal weight and importance to both Joanna and Ted's points of view. In 1995, ""Kramer vs. Kramer"" was remade in India as ""Akele Hum Akele Tum"", starring Aamir Khan and Manisha Koirala. Kramer vs. Kramer Kramer vs. Kramer is a 1979 American family legal drama film written and directed by Robert Benton, based on Avery Corman's novel. The film stars Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane"
"the 2015 Golden Globes, honored Kramer's work, calling him ""one of the great filmmakers of all time."" Despite uneven critical reception, both then and now, Kramer's body of work has received many awards, including 16 Academy Awards and 80 nominations, and he was nominated nine times as either producer or director. In 1961, he received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. In 1963, he was a member of the jury at the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival. In 1998, he was awarded the first NAACP Vanguard Award in recognition of ""the strong social themes that ran through his body of"
"Stanley Kramer Stanley Earl Kramer (September 29, 1913February 19, 2001) was an American film director and producer, responsible for making many of Hollywood's most famous ""message films"". As an independent producer and director, he brought attention to topical social issues that most studios avoided. Among the subjects covered in his films were racism (in ""The Defiant Ones"" and ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner""), nuclear war (in ""On the Beach""), greed (in ""It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World""), creationism vs. evolution (in ""Inherit the Wind"") and the causes and effects of fascism (in ""Judgment at Nuremberg""). His other notable films"
"premiered at 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Larry Kramer Larry Kramer (born June 25, 1935) is an American playwright, author, film producer, public health advocate, and LGBT rights activist. He began his career rewriting scripts while working for Columbia Pictures, which led him to London where he worked with United Artists. There he wrote the screenplay for the 1969 film ""Women in Love"" (1969) and earned an Academy Award nomination for his work. Kramer introduced a controversial and confrontational style in his novel ""Faggots"" (1978), which earned mixed reviews and emphatic denunciations from elements within the gay community for Kramer's one-sided"
"Larry Kramer Larry Kramer (born June 25, 1935) is an American playwright, author, film producer, public health advocate, and LGBT rights activist. He began his career rewriting scripts while working for Columbia Pictures, which led him to London where he worked with United Artists. There he wrote the screenplay for the 1969 film ""Women in Love"" (1969) and earned an Academy Award nomination for his work. Kramer introduced a controversial and confrontational style in his novel ""Faggots"" (1978), which earned mixed reviews and emphatic denunciations from elements within the gay community for Kramer's one-sided portrayal of shallow, promiscuous gay relationships"
"production or individuals whose contribution illuminates and raises public awareness of important social issues. Recent winners include ""Loving"", ""The Hunting Ground"", and ""The Normal Heart"". Film trailers Stanley Kramer Stanley Earl Kramer (September 29, 1913February 19, 2001) was an American film director and producer, responsible for making many of Hollywood's most famous ""message films"". As an independent producer and director, he brought attention to topical social issues that most studios avoided. Among the subjects covered in his films were racism (in ""The Defiant Ones"" and ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner""), nuclear war (in ""On the Beach""), greed (in ""It's a"
"Liev Schreiber Isaac Liev Schreiber (; born October 4, 1967) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer. He became known during the late 1990s and early 2000s, having appeared in several independent films, and later mainstream Hollywood films, including the ""Scream"" trilogy of horror films, ""Ransom"" (1996), ""Phantoms"" (1998), ""The Sum of All Fears"" (2002), ""The Omen"" (2006), """" (2009), ""Taking Woodstock"" (2009), ""Salt"" (2010), ""Goon"" (2011), ""Pawn Sacrifice"" (2014), ""Spotlight"" (2015), """" (2017) and """" (2018). Schreiber is also a stage actor, having performed in several Broadway productions. In 2005, he won the Tony Award for Best Featured"
"Avery Corman Avery Corman (born November 28, 1935) is an American novelist. He is known for the books ""Oh, God!"" (1971) and ""Kramer vs. Kramer"" (1977) both adapted into successful films of the same names. Corman is the author of the novels ""Oh, God!"" (1971), the basis for the 1977 film; ""The Bust-Out King"" (1977); ""Kramer vs. Kramer"" (1977), which was adapted into the Academy Award-winning 1979 film of the same name; ""The Old Neighborhood"" (1980); ""50"" (1987); ""Prized Possessions"" (1991); ""The Big Hype"" (1992); ""A Perfect Divorce"" (2004); and ""The Boyfriend from Hell"" (2006). And he is the author"
"independent productions, this time in the role of the director. Over the next two decades, Kramer reestablished his reputation within the film industry by directing a continual series of often successful films dealing with social and controversial issues, such as racism, nuclear war, greed and the causes and effects of fascism. Critic Charles Champlin would later describe Kramer as ""a guy who fought some hard battles. He took on social issues when it was not popular to do so in Hollywood."" Among some of those controversial films were ""Not as a Stranger"" (1955), ""The Pride and the Passion"" (1957), ""The"
"absurdity of the fact ""The Cooler"" was given an NC-17 certificate by the MPAA simply due to a few seconds long shot of its lead actress' pubic hair. Kramer directed ""Pawn Shop Chronicles"", which was released on 12 July 2013. The film starred Vincent D'Onofrio, Chi McBride, Paul Walker, Kevin Rankin, Matt Dillon, Elijah Wood, and Brendan Fraser. Wayne Kramer (filmmaker) Wayne Kramer (born 26 May 1965) is a South African-American filmmaker and storyboard artist. Kramer has written and directed films such as the 2003 film ""The Cooler"", which garnered an Oscar nomination for its star Alec Baldwin, as well"
"four Academy Awards. For Tracy, who was nominated as Best Actor, the film would become the first of four films he did for Kramer. ""Everybody tells me how good I am,"" he said, ""but only Stanley gives me work."" The film received ""extravagant reviews,"" yet failed at the box office due to its poor distribution and advertising. In addition, fundamentalist groups labeled the film ""anti-God"" and called Kramer ""anti-Christ."" Kramer, however, explains that these groups failed to understand the real theme of the film and the actual court trial it portrayed: Kramer also notes that the film was the third"
"Wayne Kramer (filmmaker) Wayne Kramer (born 26 May 1965) is a South African-American filmmaker and storyboard artist. Kramer has written and directed films such as the 2003 film ""The Cooler"", which garnered an Oscar nomination for its star Alec Baldwin, as well as two Golden Globe nominations for Baldwin and Maria Bello. He also adapted his 1995 short film ""Crossing Over"" into a feature-length version which starred Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd and Jim Sturgess, and was released by the Weinstein Company in 2009. He also wrote the screenplay for the film ""Mindhunters"", but the final script was heavily"
"those films in a democracy which distinguishes them: Kramer produced and directed 23 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances, with José Ferrer, Gary Cooper, Maximilian Schell and Katharine Hepburn winning for their performances. Kramer's was among the first stars to be completed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on March 28, 1960, out of the original 1,550 stars created and installed as a unit in 1960. One of his daughters, Kat Kramer, is co-producer of socially-relevant documentaries, part of her series, ""Films That Change The World"". The Producers Guild of America established the Stanley Kramer Award in 2002 to honor a"
"ends: Hoffman's next roles were less successful. He opted out of directing ""Straight Time"" (1978), but starred as a thief. His next film, Michael Apted's ""Agatha"" (1979), was with Vanessa Redgrave as Agatha Christie. Hoffman next starred in ""Kramer vs. Kramer"" (1979) co-starring Meryl Streep and directed by Robert Benton. The film tells the story of a married couple's divorce and its impact on everyone involved, including the couple's young son. Hoffman won his first Academy Award, and the film also received the Best Picture honor, plus the awards for Best Supporting Actress (Streep) and Best Director. The film required"
"from high school, she attended New York University and received a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She moved to Los Angeles in December 1999. Kramer married producer Brian Keathley in October 29, 2005. They have four children: daughters Gavin (born 2008) and River Marie (born 2010) and sons Hart (born 2012) and Sky Lynlee (born 2013). As a child, she was a spokesman and mascot for Wendy's, donning the trademark pigtails accentuated in the company logo. Kramer's film roles include: ""The Thirst"" (as a vampire, this time a former drug-addict); ""The Skulls III"" (as a competitive swimmer"
"and four children: Casey and Larry (with Anne Pearce), and Katharine and Jennifer (with Karen Sharpe). Kramer has been called ""a genuine original"" as a filmmaker. He made movies that he believed in, and ""straddled the fence between art and commerce for more than 30 years."" Most of his films were noted for engaging the audience with political and social issues of the time. When asked why he gravitated to those kinds of themes, he stated, ""emotionally I am drawn to these subjects,"" and thought that independent productions like his might help ""return vitality to the motion picture industry. ."
"like ""Bonnie and Clyde"" directed by Arthur Penn. The film was Kramer's last major success, and his subsequent films were not profitable, although many had mixed reviews. Among those films were ""The Secret of Santa Vittoria"" (1968), ""R. P. M."" (1970), ""Bless the Beasts and Children"" (1971), ""Oklahoma Crude"" (1973), ""The Domino Principle"" (1977), and ""The Runner Stumbles"" (1979). ""Oklahoma Crude"" was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where Kramer won the Golden Prize for Direction. At the time of his retirement, he was attempting to bring a script entitled ""Three Solitary Drinkers"" to the screen, a film"
"and ""Columbo"". In 1978, after a 19-year career in television, Price left Universal to become president of Columbia Pictures Productions. ""When I left Universal, I didn't know if I could ever become president of Columbia,"" he once said, ""but I didn't want to wake up at the age of 65 and not have taken that chance to run a movie studio."" Over the next 5 years, Price greenlit a string of risky but highly successful films including ""Kramer vs. Kramer"" (1979), ""Tootsie"" (1982), ""Gandhi"" (1982), and ""The Karate Kid"" (1984). For ""Ghostbusters"" (1983), ""The wisdom in town was that I"
"However, she rejected the award on the basis that she is the heroine of the film, not the supporting actress. This is the precursor to the type of role Meryl Streep played two years later in the English-language movie ""Kramer vs. Kramer"" (1979). Kamini (Reena Roy) abandons Anil Mehra (Jeetendra) and their baby son Prakash for her own selfish reasons. A few years later, Anil falls in love with Radhika (Sulakshana Pandit) and marries her. Radhika treats Prakash as her own son, who is now a six-year-old. Radhika meets Kamini in a store and they become friends, not knowing about"
"first. Jaffee and Hoffman later spoke of Streep's tirelessness, with Hoffman commenting: The film was controversial among feminists, but it was a role which film critic Stephen Farber believed displayed Streep's ""own emotional intensity"", writing that she was one of the ""rare performers who can imbue the most routine moments with a hint of mystery"". For ""Kramer vs. Kramer"", Streep won both the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, which she famously left in the ladies room after giving her speech. She was also awarded the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting"
"in ""Kramer vs. Kramer""—a role that Pacino had declined. During the 1970s, Pacino had four Oscar nominations for Best Actor, for his performances in ""Serpico"", ""The Godfather Part II"", ""Dog Day Afternoon"", and ""...And Justice for All"". Pacino's career slumped in the early 1980s; his appearances in the controversial ""Cruising"", a film that provoked protests from New York's gay community, and the comedy-drama ""Author! Author!"", were critically panned. However, his performance in ""Scarface"" (1983), directed by Brian De Palma, proved to be a career highlight and a defining role. Upon its initial release, the film was critically panned due to"
"became the world's best-selling perfume. The introspection of the baby boomers and their focus on self-fulfillment has been examined in a serious light in pop culture. Films such as ""An Unmarried Woman"" (1978), ""Kramer vs. Kramer"" (1979), ""Ordinary People"" (1980) and ""The Big Chill"" (1983) brought the inner struggles of baby boomers to a wide audience. The self-absorbed side of 1970s life was given a sharp and sometimes poignant satirization in ""Manhattan"" (1979). More acerbic lampooning came in ""Shampoo"" (1975) and ""Private Benjamin"" (1980). The Me generation has also been satirized in retrospect, as the generation called ""Generation X"" reached"
"the political thriller ""All the President's Men"" (1976) as journalist Carl Bernstein investigating the Watergate scandal alongside Bob Woodward (played by Robert Redford). After starring in the suspense-thriller ""Marathon Man"" (1976) and the crime drama ""Straight Time"" (1978), Hoffman starred in the 1979 drama ""Kramer vs. Kramer"", which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the first time for his performance as Ted Kramer. After a three-year acting hiatus, he starred in the comedy ""Tootsie"" in 1982 as a struggling actor who pretends to be a woman in order to get an acting role. He returned to stage"
"Flatfoot"" as ""Lefty"". In 1985 he starred in """" as ""Towzer""; and finally made his last appearance in ""Ally McBeal"" in 1997 as a pedestrian. His most recent film is ""The 'burbs"". Kramer has also produced many independent projects with young filmmakers. Kramer's Nephew in-law, John Birchall, is an American-British film engineer who has worked on many of Jeffery Kramer's independent projects. Jeffrey Kramer Jeffrey Kramer (born July 15, 1945) is an American film and television actor and producer. Kramer was born in New York City and grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, graduating from Teaneck High School with the"
"""ABA Journal"", American Bar Association Division for Public Education representative Howard Kaplan noted, ""From the very beginning, the Association has recognized that legal drama has an unmatched capacity to humanize legal actors and, well, dramatize legal issues for public audiences."" The Bar Association gave the first award in 1958. The film directed by Sidney Lumet, ""12 Angry Men"", received the award in 1958. Stanley Kramer's movie ""Judgment at Nuremberg"" received the award in 1962, and ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" directed by Robert Mulligan was recognized with the award in 1963. In 1985, 391 candidates were entered in consideration to receive"
"in them by their parents and society. But it is conspicuous that they will require the love and compassion of others. A bidding war broke out over the film rights, which Stanley Kramer eventually won. Kramer negotiated with Columbia Pictures for the right to produce and direct the film, which made its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in Augustof 1971, as the United States's entry in the international competition. Kramer later commented on Russian reception of the film, stating that they ""viewed [the film] as a preachment against Kent State and My Lai,"" when he had envisioned more"
"all sponsors, Mr Jaffe in the meeting reportedly curtly rejected the proposal on the basis that if unsuccessful, the building would, unlike a movie, be a permanent reminder of failure in the franchise. Stanley R. Jaffe Stanley Richard Jaffe (born July 31, 1940) is an American film producer, responsible for movies such as ""Fatal Attraction"", ""The Accused"", and ""Kramer vs. Kramer"". Jaffe was born to a Jewish family in New Rochelle, New York. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, in 1962. He is the son of Leo Jaffe, film executive"
"had a business dispute with Aronow after buying the latter's USA Racing Team but was forced to sell it back to Aronow after the Customs Service refused to do business with him. Kramer was already in prison on a life sentence with no possibility of parole following 1988 and 1989 convictions for drug smuggling and gun charges, as well as receiving a 1990 conviction for a failed escape attempt by helicopter from a federal prison near Miami. The story was also the basis for the 2009 documentary film ""Thunder Man: The Don Aronow Story"". Aronow married twice. Donald Aronow Donald"
"with the founding of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in 1987, an influential direct action protest organization with the aim of gaining more public action to fight the AIDS crisis. ACT UP has been widely credited with changing public health policy and the perception of people living with AIDS (PWAs), and with raising awareness of HIV and AIDS-related diseases. Kramer has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his play ""The Destiny of Me"" (1992), and he is a two-time recipient of the Obie Award. The younger of two children, Kramer was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut,"
"Kramer tried to tackle the sensitive subject of nuclear war. The film takes place after World War III has annihilated most of the Northern hemisphere, with radioactive dust on a trajectory towards Australia. Kramer gave the film an ""effective and eerie"" documentary look at depopulated cities. It starred Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins. Reviews were mostly positive, not just from critics but from scientists. Linus Pauling, winner of two Nobel Prizes (Chemistry and Peace), commented: ""Inherit the Wind"" (1960) became Kramer's next challenging film, this one taking on the highly charged subjects of creationism and evolution,"
"the form of those movies that he might have seen as a child in Coney Island—freeing the visions that he sensed to be locked up in the silver screen."" In October 2013, readers of ""The Guardian"" newspaper voted it the best film directed by Woody Allen. New York Film Critics Circle named Allen best director for ""Manhattan"". The National Society of Film Critics also named Allen best director along with Robert Benton, who directed ""Kramer vs. Kramer"". The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress (Mariel Hemingway) and Best Original Screenplay (Allen and Marshall Brickman). It also"
"Academy Awards, winning five : Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (for Hoffman), Best Supporting Actress (for Streep), and Best Adapted Screenplay. Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman) is a workaholic advertising executive who has just been assigned a new and very important account. Ted arrives home and shares the good news with his wife Joanna (Meryl Streep) only to find that she is leaving him. Saying that she needs to find herself, she leaves Ted to raise their son Billy (Justin Henry) by himself. Ted and Billy initially resent one another as Ted no longer has time to carry his increased"
"American director Robert Kramer documented the process in his own film ""Notre Nazi"". ""Wundkanal"" and ""Notre Nazi"" premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in 1984 and the Berlin International Film Festival in 1985, leading to renewed scandals. In 1987 he traveled to the Russian Far East to prepare for his next film project, ""Katharina XXII"", which was never realized. He began translating the book ""Hiob"" by Guido Ceronetti into German, studied Creole in Haiti, and worked on the film ""Souverance"", which premiered in 1990 at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. He made more trips to Russia and wrote the"