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Robert Siodmak. Jump to Academy Awards, USA (1) Berlin International Film Festival (1) Cannes Film Festival (1) Edgar Allan Poe Awards (1) German Film Awards (2) Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (2) Mar del Plata Film Festival (1) 5 wins & 4 nominations. Academy Awards, USA. 1947 Nominee Oscar. Best Director. The Killers.
Filmography. References. External links. Robert Siodmak ( / siˈɒd.mæk /; 8 August 1900 – 10 March 1973) was a German film director who also worked in the United States. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist [1] and for a series of films noir he made in the 1940s, such as The Killers (1946). Early life.
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A critical and financial success, it earned Siodmak his only Oscar nomination for direction in Hollywood (his German production "The Devil Strikes at Night" ("Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam"), based on the true story of serial killer Bruno Lüdke, was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 1957).
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- Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland
Check all the awards won and nominated for by Robert Siodmak - German Film Award - Special Award for Outstanding Contributions to German Cinema (1971) , German Film Award for Best Direction (1958) and more awards.
May 8, 2024 · Arguably better was The Killers (1946), which took the original Ernest Hemingway short story as its opening point and developed it in an elaborate series of flashbacks. The film noir earned Siodmak his only Academy Award nomination for best direction, and it helped launch the careers of Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner.
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Jul 6, 2015 · By Jonathan Lethem. Essays — Jul 6, 2015. T he Killers (1946) is exemplary film noir from Robert Siodmak, who, on the strength of three films—this, Phantom Lady (1944), and Criss Cross (1949)—stands beside his fellow European exiles Fritz Lang and Otto Preminger as one of noir’s crucial directors.
Dec 2, 2003 · Robert Siodmak: The Brightest Shade of Noir. Robert Siodmak’s career is one of the more underrated and misunderstood in the history of Hollywood. The merit of Siodmak’s cinematic art is also one of the most controversial.
