Awards & Winners

Delbert Mann

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.

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