Awards & Winners

Richard Schickel

Date of Birth 10-February-1933
Place of Birth Milwaukee
(Wisconsin, United States of America, Area code 414)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Richard Warren Schickel
Profession Film Director, Journalist, Author, Film critic, Historian, Screenwriter, Film Producer, Television Director, Television Producer
Richard Warren Schickel is an American author, journalist, and documentary filmmaker. He is a former film critic for Time magazine, and has also written for Life magazine and the Los Angeles Times Book Review. He currently reviews films for Truthdig. Schickel was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Helen and Edward John Schickel. He is featured in For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism. In this 2009 documentary film he discusses early film critics Frank E. Woods, Robert E. Sherwood, and Otis Ferguson, and tells of how, in the 1960s, he, Pauline Kael, and Andrew Sarris, all young critics, rejected the moralizing opposition of Bosley Crowther of The New York Times who had railed against violent movies such as Bonnie and Clyde. In addition to film, Schickel has also critiqued and documented cartoons, particularly Peanuts. Schickel was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1964. He has also lectured at Yale University and University of Southern California's School of Film and Television.

Awards by Richard Schickel

Check all the awards nominated and won by Richard Schickel.

1987


Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Informational Programming - Directing Minnelli on Minnelli: Liza Remembers Vincente
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Special Minnelli on Minnelli: Liza Remembers Vincente

1977


Nominations 1977 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Special Classification Of Outstanding Program Achievement The Big Event
Life Goes to the Movies