Awards & Winners

Walter Wanger

Date of Birth 11-July-1894
Place of Birth San Francisco
(California, United States of America, San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco Peninsula, Area code 415)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Walter Feuchtwanger
Profession Film Producer
Walter Wanger was an American film producer active in filmmaking from the 1910s to the turbulent production of Cleopatra in 1963. Wanger developed a reputation as an intellectual and a socially conscious movie executive who produced provocative message movies and glittering romantic melodramas. Wanger was strongly influenced by European films, and made many productions geared towards international markets. His career began at Paramount Pictures in the 1920s and led him to work at virtually every major studio as either a contract producer or an independent. Wanger served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1939 to October 1941 and from December 1941 to 1945.

Awards by Walter Wanger

Check all the awards nominated and won by Walter Wanger.

1964


Nominations 1964 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama Cleopatra

1963


Nominations 1963 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Picture Cleopatra

1948


Academy Honorary Award
Honored for : Joan of Arc
(for distinguished service to the industry in adding to its moral stature in the world community by his production of the picture Joan of Arc)

1945


Academy Honorary Award
(for his six years service as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)

1943


Nominations 1943 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject To the People of the United States