Awards & Winners

Valentine Davies

Date of Birth 25-August-1905
Place of Birth New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Val, Valentine L Davies, Валентайн Дейвис
Profession Film Director, Film Producer, Screenwriter, Writer
Valentine Davies was an American film and television writer, producer, and director. His film credits included Miracle on 34th Street, Chicken Every Sunday, It Happens Every Spring, The Bridges at Toko-Ri, and The Benny Goodman Story. He was nominated for the 1954 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Glenn Miller Story. Davies was born in New York City, served in the Coast Guard, and graduated from the University of Michigan. He wrote a number of Broadway plays and was president of the Screen Writers Guild and general chairman of the Academy Awards program. He wrote the story for the 1947 film Miracle on 34th Street, which was given screen treatment by the director, George Seaton. Davies also did a novelization of the story, which was published as a novella by Harcourt Brace & Company in conjunction with the film release. Miracle on 34th Street earned him an Academy Award for Best Story.

Awards by Valentine Davies

Check all the awards nominated and won by Valentine Davies.

1956


Nominations 1956 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject The House Without a Name

1955


Nominations 1955 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Musical The Glenn Miller Story

1954


Nominations 1954 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Story and Screenplay The Glenn Miller Story

1952


Nominations 1952 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Musical On the Riviera

1950


Nominations 1950 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy It Happens Every Spring

1949


Nominations 1949 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Musical You Were Meant for Me
Academy Award for Best Story It Happens Every Spring

1947


Academy Award for Best Story
Honored for : Miracle on 34th Street

Nominations 1947 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Story Miracle on 34th Street