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He received various awards including eleven Academy Awards nominations winning twice for Best Director for Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962).
It won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Alec Guinness, who had battled with Lean to give more depth to his role as an obsessively correct British commander who is determined to build the best possible bridge for his Japanese captors in Burma.
1985 Nominee Oscar. Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium; A Passage to India
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- April 16, 1991
Jul 19, 2024 · It won seven Academy Awards, including best picture and Lean’s first as best director, and has been named to the Library of Congress National Film Registry, a national honour given to films deemed culturally, historically, and artistically significant.
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Like its predecessor, it won seven Oscars, once again including best film and director. The same team of Lean, Bolt, Young and Jarre next worked on an adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel "Dr. Zhivago" for producer Carlo Ponti.
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Nominated seven times for the Academy Award for Best Director, for which he won twice for The Bridge on the River Kwai, and Lawrence of Arabia. Lean has three films in the top five of the British Film Institute's Top 100 British Films.
1967 Winner David. Best Foreign Director (Migliore Regista Straniero) David Lean
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