Michael Kanin
Michael Kanin | |
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| Born | (1910-02-01)February 1, 1910 Rochester, New York, U.S. |
| Died | March 12, 1993(1993-03-12) (aged 83) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Burial place | Hollywood Forever Cemetery |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, screenwriter, film director |
| Years active | 1939–1969 |
| Spouse(s) | Fay Mitchell (1940-1993; his death; 2 children) |
Michael Kanin (February 1, 1910 – March 12, 1993) was an American director, producer, playwright and screenwriter who shared an Academy Award with Ring Lardner Jr. for writing the Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy film comedy Woman of the Year (1942).[1]
Born in Rochester, New York, his first job was writing and acting in Catskills resort shows with his brother Garson Kanin. In 1939, he was signed to a screenwriting contract at RKO. He married RKO co-worker Fay Mitchell in 1940, and collaborated with her on many projects including the Broadway play Goodbye, My Fancy (1948), the western The Outrage (1964), based on the Japanese film Rashomon (1950). The couple received an Academy Award nomination for Teacher's Pet (1958).
References
- ^ Collins, Glenn (March 16, 1993). "Michael Kanin, 83, Film Writer For Hepburn and Tracy, Is Dead." The New York Times.
External links
Biography portal
- Michael Kanin at IMDb
- Michael Kanin at the Internet Broadway Database
- Fay and Michael Kanin Collection via Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- Michael Kanin at Find a Grave
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- Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles (1941)
- Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner Jr. (1942)
- Norman Krasna (1943)
- Lamar Trotti (1944)
- Richard Schweizer (1945)
- Muriel Box and Sydney Box (1946)
- Sidney Sheldon (1947)
- No award (1948)
- Robert Pirosh (1949)
- Charles Brackett, D. M. Marshman Jr., and Billy Wilder (1950)
- Alan Jay Lerner (1951)
- T. E. B. Clarke (1952)
- Charles Brackett, Richard L. Breen, and Walter Reisch (1953)
- Budd Schulberg (1954)
- Sonya Levien and William Ludwig (1955)
- Albert Lamorisse (1956)
- George Wells (1957)
- Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith (1958)
- Clarence Greene, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse, and Stanley Shapiro (1959)
- I. A. L. Diamond and Billy Wilder (1960)
- William Inge (1961)
- Ennio de Concini, Pietro Germi, and Alfredo Giannetti (1962)
- James Webb (1963)
- S. H. Barnett, Peter Stone and Frank Tarloff (1964)
- Frederic Raphael (1965)
- Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven (1966)
- William Rose (1967)
- Mel Brooks (1968)
- William Goldman (1969)
- Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North (1970)
- Paddy Chayefsky (1971)
- Jeremy Larner (1972)
- David S. Ward (1973)
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- Frank Pierson (1975)
- Paddy Chayefsky (1976)
- Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman (1977)
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- Kenneth Branagh (2021)
- Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022)
- Justine Triet and Arthur Harari (2023)
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