Michael Kidd - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	12-August-1915
Place of Birth	New York City (New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Milton Greenwald, Mike
Profession	Choreographer, Dancer, Actor, Performer, Theatre Director
Michael Kidd was an American film and stage choreographer, dancer and actor, whose career spanned five decades, and staged some of the leading Broadway and film musicals of the 1940s and 1950s. Kidd was an innovator in what came to be known as the "integrated musical," in which dance movements are integral to the plot. He was probably best known for his athletic dance numbers in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, a 1954 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical, and for choreographing Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in the "Girl Hunt Ballet" and "Dancing in the Dark" numbers in the 1953 musical film The Band Wagon. Film critic Stephanie Zacharek called the barn-raising sequence in Seven Brides "one of the most rousing dance numbers ever put on screen." Kidd, who was strongly influenced by Charlie Chaplin and LÃ©onide Massine, was unusually well-respected, and his judgment was granted deference by the leading dancers of his era. British critic and biographer Michael Freedland said that "when Gene Kelly danced through the street with a dustbin lid tied to his feet in the 1955 film It's Always Fair Weather, the man who usually planned his own routines did it to Kidd's order.

Awards by Michael Kidd

Check all the awards nominated and won by Michael Kidd.

1996

Academy Honorary Award	(in recognition of his services to the art of the dance in the art of the screen)

1993

Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical	The Goodbye Girl

1982

Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography	Baryshnikov in Hollywood

1971

Nominations 1971 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Choreography	The Rothschilds
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical	The Rothschilds

1966

Nominations 1966 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Choreography	Skyscraper

1962

Nominations 1962 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Choreography	Subways Are For Sleeping

1960

Tony Award for Best Choreography

Honored for : Destry Rides Again

Nominations 1960 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Choreography	Destry Rides Again
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical	Destry Rides Again

1957

Tony Award for Best Choreography

Honored for : Li'l Abner

Nominations 1957 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Choreography	Li'l Abner

1954

Tony Award for Best Choreography

Honored for : Can-Can

Nominations 1954 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Choreography	Can-Can

1951

Tony Award for Best Choreography

Honored for : Guys and Dolls

Nominations 1951 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Choreography	Guys and Dolls

1947

Tony Award for Best Choreography

Honored for : Finian's Rainbow

Nominations 1947 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Choreography	Finian's Rainbow

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