South side of the 6100 block of Hollywood Boulevard
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Stanley Kramer
Born
Sept. 29, 1913
in New York, NY
Died
Feb. 19, 2001
of pneumonia
Among the first of the successful postwar independent producers, the serious, quietly articulate Stanley Kramer made his name with edgy black and white films featuring top-flight actors before they were "names." Those films include "Champion," an anti-boxing tale about a "thoroughgoing heel," that made stars of Kirk Douglas and Ruth Roman and "The Men," a story of paraplegic war vets that marked Marlon Brando's motion picture debut. Brando also starred in Kramer's 1954 motorcycle gang film, "The Wild One." Kramer's 35 films, 18 of which he directed, were nominated for 85 Oscars and won 15 statuettes. In 1961, he received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science's Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the highest production accolade the film industry bestows.
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Academy Awards
| Year | Category | Work | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Best Picture | High Noon | Nomination |
| 1954 | Best Picture | The Caine Mutiny | Nomination |
| 1958 | Best Director | The Defiant Ones | Nomination |
| 1958 | Best Picture | The Defiant Ones | Nomination |
| 1961 | Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award | Win | |
| 1961 | Best Director | Judgment at Nuremberg | Nomination |
| 1961 | Best Picture | Judgment at Nuremberg | Nomination |
| 1965 | Best Picture | Ship of Fools | Nomination |
| 1967 | Best Director | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? | Nomination |
| 1967 | Best Picture | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? | Nomination |
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