Walter Mirisch

I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Legendary producer, visionary filmmaker, courageous seeker of truth, especially in troubling times."--Sidney Poitier, from the foreword

Produktdetails

• Wisconsin Film Studies
• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
• Second
• Seitenzahl: 470
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 160mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 826g
• ISBN-13: 9780299226404
• ISBN-10: 0299226409
• Artikelnr.: 23400131

Autorenporträt

Walter Mirisch is the producer, in whole or in part, of more than one hundred films. Among his company's honors are three Oscars for best picture--The Apartment (1960), West Side Story (1961), and In theHeat of the Night (1967). Mirisch has also received two honorary Academy Awards, the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (1977) and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (1983); and has been honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award (1977) presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the David O. Selznick Lifetime Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures (1995) presented by the Producers Guild of America. He has been decorated by the Republic of France with its Order of Arts and Letters, has received an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is a recipient of the UCLA Medal, that university's highest award. Mirisch served three terms as president of the Producers Guild of America and four terms as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.