George Stevens, Jr. has achieved a unprecedented inventive legacy over a profession spanning greater than 60 years. He’s a author, director, producer, playwright and creator. He has enriched the movie and tv arts as a filmmaker and is broadly credited with bringing model and style to the nationwide tv occasions he has conceived.
As a author, director and producer, Stevens has earned many accolades, together with 15 Emmys, two Peabody Awards for Meritorious Service to Broadcasting, the Humanitas Prize and eight awards from the Writers Guild of America, together with the Paul Selvin Award for writing that embodies civil rights and liberties. In 2012 the Board of Governors of the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences voted to current Stevens with an Honorary Academy Award for “extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement.”
Stevens served for eight years as Co-chairman of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities following his appointment by President Obama in 2009.
Stevens is Founding Director of the American Movie Institute and through his tenure, greater than 10,000 irreplaceable American movies have been preserved and catalogued to be loved by future generations. As well as, he established the AFI’s Middle for Superior Movie Research, which gained a popularity because the best studying alternative for younger filmmakers.
Stevens was government producer of The Skinny Pink Line, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, together with Greatest Image. He co-wrote and produced The Homicide of Mary Phagan, starring Jack Lemmon, which obtained the Emmy for Excellent Mini-Sequence. He wrote and directed Separate However Equal starring Sidney Poitier and Burt Lancaster which additionally received the Emmy for Excellent Mini-Sequence. He produced an acclaimed characteristic size movie about his father, George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey and in 1994 produced George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin, which depicted the wartime experiences of his father – some of the extremely regarded administrators of all time. In collaboration together with his son and companion Michael Stevens, he produced the characteristic size documentary Herblock – The Black & The White on the famed political cartoonist Herbert Block for HBO.
Stevens made his debut as a playwright in 2008 with Thurgood, which opened on the historic Sales space Theater on Broadway. The play had an prolonged run starring Laurence Fishburne as Supreme Courtroom Justice Thurgood Marshall. Fishburne obtained a Tony nomination and returned to the function in the summertime of 2010 with runs on the Kennedy Middle and the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. Thurgood was filmed whereas on the Kennedy Middle and proven on HBO in 2011.
In 2006, Alfred A. Knopf printed Stevens’ Conversations with the Nice Moviemakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age – the primary e book to deliver collectively the interviews of grasp moviemakers from the American Movie Institute’s famend Harold Lloyd Grasp Seminar Sequence. Conversations with the Nice Moviemakers – The Subsequent Technology was launched by Knopf in April, 2012.
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