Awards & Winners

Charles Lederer

Date of Birth 31-December-1906
Place of Birth New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Charles Davies Lederer, Charlie
Profession Screenwriter, Film Director, Writer, Author, Film Producer
Charles Lederer was a prolific and well-connected American screenwriter and director. He was born into a prominent theatrical family in New York, and after his parents divorced, was raised in California by his aunt, Marion Davies, mistress to newspaper publisher William Randolf Hearst. A child prodigy, he entered college at age 13, but dropped out after a few years to work as a journalist with Hearst's newspapers. Lederer is recognized for his comic and acerbic adaptations and collaborative screenplays of the 1940s and early 1950s. His screenplays frequently delved into the corrosive influences of wealth and power. His comedy writing was considered among the best of the period, and he, along with writer friends Ben Hecht and Herman Mankiewicz, became major contributors to the film genre known as "screwball comedy". Among his notable screenplays which he wrote or co-wrote, were The Front Page, the critically acclaimed His Girl Friday, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Spirit of St. Louis, Ocean's 11, and Mutiny on the Bounty.

Awards by Charles Lederer

Check all the awards nominated and won by Charles Lederer.

1961


Nominations 1961 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Musical Can-Can
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy Ocean's 11

1960


Nominations 1960 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Musical Never Steal Anything Small

1954


Tony Award for Best Musical
Honored for : Kismet

Nominations 1954 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

1950


Nominations 1950 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy I Was a Male War Bride