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Stanley Kramer
Stanley Earl Kramer (September 29, 1913 – February 19, 2001) was an American film director and producer responsible for some of Hollywood's most famous "message" movies. His notable films include The Defiant Ones (1958), On the Beach (1959), Inherit the Wind (1960), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Ship of Fools (1965) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). His work was recognized with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1961, and over the course of his career he received nine Academy Award nominations.
Director Steven Spielberg once described him as "one of our great filmmakers, not just for the art and passion he put on screen, but for the impact he has made on the conscience of the world." Film critic David Thomson described Kramer as a "hero of the 1950s" and an "enterprising producer," but also wrote of his later films that "commercialism, of the most crass and confusing kind, has devitalised all [of] his projects".
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As director
The Runner Stumbles
The Domino Principle
Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley
Judgment: The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Judgment: The Court Martial of the Tiger of Malaya — General Yamashita
Oklahoma Crude
Bless the Beasts & Children
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
R.P.M.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Ship of Fools
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Judgment at Nuremberg
Inherit the Wind
On the Beach
The Defiant Ones
The Pride and the Passion
Not as a Stranger
As actor
A Special Kind of Love
Stanley Kramer: A Man's Search for Truth
Brando: An Icon Is Born
A Tribute to Stanley Kramer
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid
The Making of High Noon
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
Anthony Quinn: An Original
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
I'll Teach You to Dream
Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley
Judgment: The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Judgment: The Court Martial of the Tiger of Malaya — General Yamashita