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- 2 wins & 6 nominations Academy Awards, USA 1938 Nominee Oscar Best Director The Life of Emile Zola German Film Awards 1970 Winner Honorary Award For his continued outstanding individual contributions to the german film over the years.
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William Dieterle. Jump to. 2 wins & 6 nominations. Academy Awards, USA. 1938 Nominee Oscar. Best Director. The Life of Emile Zola. German Film Awards. 1970 Winner Honorary Award. For his continued outstanding individual contributions to the german film over the years. Venice Film Festival. 1950 Nominee Golden Lion. September Affair.
- July 15, 1893
- December 8, 1972
His film The Life of Emile Zola (1937) won the Academy Award for Best Picture, the second biographical feature to do so. Early life and career. He was born Wilhelm Dieterle in Ludwigshafen, the youngest child of nine, to factory worker Jacob and Berthe (Doerr) Dieterle.
Dieterle would direct Paul Muni for Warners in three first-rate bio movies: The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) , The Life of Emile Zola (1937) and Juarez (1939) and all received Oscar nominations. After that Dieterle moved on to do The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) at RKO with Charles Laughton as Quasimodo.
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- Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
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- Ottobrunn, Bavaria, Germany
The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair. Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Holden. Votes: 9,001.
William Dieterle was a German actor and film director, who worked in Hollywood for much of his career. His best known films include The Devil and Daniel Webster, The Story of Louis Pasteur and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. His 1937 film The Life of Emile Zola won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
May 7, 2013 · William Dieterle was a German-born filmmaker who directed a diverse range of movies but was perhaps best known for a series of acclaimed biopics, one of which won the Warner Brothers studio its first-ever Academy Award for best picture.
Mar 18, 2003 · He was a principal writer for the HBO series Treme, and he won a Grammy Award for his album notes to Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey.