Delbert Mann - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	30-January-1920
Place of Birth	Lawrence (Douglas County, Kansas, United States of America)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Delbert Martin Mann Jr., Del Mann
Profession	Film director, Television Director, Television Producer
Delbert Martin Mann, Jr. was an American television and film director. He won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Director for the film Marty. It was the first Best Picture winner to be based on a television program, being adapted from a 1953 teleplay of the same name which he had also directed. Mann is also the only director other than Billy Wilder and Roman Polanski to win an Oscar for his direction and a Cannes Palme d'Or for the same film. From 1967 to 1971, he was president of the Directors Guild of America. Mann's work is often seen to be part of the expressive sentimental style of film directing. Mann was born in Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, the son of Ora, a civic worker and teacher, and Delbert Martin Mann, Sr., a college professor. Mann graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. After school, he served with the U.S. Army Air Forces in WW II, as a combat pilot of a B-24 Liberator of the 467th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force in England. After his discharge he attended Yale Drama School, and graduated, followed by work in theater and eventually, TV and movies. He was married to Ann Caroline Mann from 1941 until his wife's death in 2001. Mann died from pneumonia on November 11, 2007 at a Los Angeles hospital.

Awards by Delbert Mann

Check all the awards nominated and won by Delbert Mann.

2002

DGA Honorary Life Member Award

1997

DGA Robert B. Aldrich Achievement Award

1982

Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television Film/Miniseries	The Member of the Wedding

1980

Nominations 1980 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing - Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special	Hallmark Hall of Fame All Quiet on the Western Front Hallmark Hall of Fame

1979

Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television Film/Miniseries	All Quiet on the Western Front

1978

Nominations 1978 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing In A Special Program - Drama or Comedy	Breaking Up

1971

Nominations 1971 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television Film/Miniseries	Jane Eyre

1970

Nominations 1970 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television	David Copperfield

1968

Nominations 1968 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television	Heidi

1960

Nominations 1960 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film	The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

1959

Nominations 1959 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture	Separate Tables

1958

Nominations 1958 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Film	The Bachelor Party

1956

Nominations 1956 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Film	Marty
Primetime Emmy Award for Best Director - Live Series	Producers' Showcase Our Town

1955

DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film

Honored for : Marty

Palme d'Or

Honored for : Marty

Academy Award for Best Director

Honored for : Marty

Nominations 1955 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film	Marty
Academy Award for Best Director	Marty

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