Awards & Winners

Denis Sanders

Date of Birth 21-January-1929
Place of Birth New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Sanders, Dennis Sanders
Profession Film director, Film Producer, Screenwriter, Professor
Denis Sanders was an American film director, screenwriter and producer who directed the debut performances of Robert Redford, George Hamilton, Sydney Pollack and Tom Skerritt in the 1962 film War Hunt. He won two Academy Awards, the first for Best Short Subject in 1955 for A Time Out of War that had served as his master's degree thesis at U.C.L.A. and which he co-scripted with his brother Terry Sanders; and the second for Best Documentary in 1970 for Czechoslovakia 1968. In 1958 he teamed up again with Sanders to adapt Norman Mailer's World War II novel The Naked and the Dead. He was born in New York City and died from a heart attack in San Diego, California, where he was professor and film maker in residence at San Diego State University.

Awards by Denis Sanders

Check all the awards nominated and won by Denis Sanders.

1969


Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject
Honored for : Czechoslovakia 1968

Nominations 1969 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject Czechoslovakia 1968

1954


Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel
Honored for : A Time Out of War

Nominations 1954 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel A Time Out of War