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- Notable Awards Academy Awards (Oscars): 3 Nominations Golden Globes Awards: 6 Nominations BAFTA - British Academy Film Awards: 1 Win 5 Nominations
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His 1963 film Hud earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Director, and his 1965 John le Carré adaptation The Spy Who Came in from the Cold won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film. Two of his subsequent films, Sounder (1972) and Norma Rae (1979), were both nominated for Best Picture Oscars .
1967 Winner BAFTA Film Award. Best British Film; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- March 2, 1914
- December 8, 1990
Martin Ritt, one of the best and most sensitive American filmmakers of all time, was a director, actor and playwright who worked in both film and theater. He was born in New York City. His films reflect, like almost none other, a profound and intimate humane vision of his characters.
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Martin Ritt, one of the best and most sensitive American filmmakers of all time, was a director, actor and playwright who worked in both film and theater. He was born in New York City. His films reflect, like almost none other, a profound and intimate humane vision of his characters.
- March 2, 1914
- December 8, 1990
Apr 17, 2014 · Born March 2, 1914 in New York, N.Y., Martin Ritt attended Elon College in North Carolina and St. John’s University in New York. He became an actor in the mid-1930s, making his Broadway debut in Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy in 1937. The play, which starred Frances Farmer, Luther Adler, Morris Carnovsky and Roman Bohnen in […]
His most acclaimed films include Hud, a Western drama about a ruthless cattle rancher that won three Academy Awards, and Norma Rae, a drama about a textile worker who becomes a union organiser that won an Academy Award for Best Actress for Sally Field. These films are notable for their complex characters, their powerful social commentary, and ...
Her performance has received one of the best sets of reviews this year, and she may be a possibility for a 1980 Academy Award nomination. Yet when Ritt originally suggested Field for "Norma Rae," he says, the studio had its doubts.
