FILM DIRECTOR

Otto Preminger

1905 - 1986

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Otto Ludwig Preminger ( PREM-in-jər; German: [ˈɔtoː ˈpreːmɪŋɐ] ; 5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an Austrian-American film and theatre director, film producer and actor. He directed more than 35 feature films in a five-decade career after leaving the theatre, and was one of the most influential directors in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s. He was nominated for three Academy Awards, twice for Best Director and once for Best Picture, among many other accolades. After achieving theatrical prominence in Vienna, Preminger emigrated to the United States in the mid-1930s, working as a director for 20th Century Fox. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Preminger is the 238th most popular film director (down from 155th in 2019), the 179th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 120th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Film Director.

Otto Preminger is most famous for directing films such as Laura, Anatomy of a Murder, and The Man with the Golden Arm.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Otto Preminger ranks 238 out of 2,041. Before him are Richard Donner, Věra Chytilová, Yılmaz Güney, Michael Cacoyannis, Robert Wiene, and John Schlesinger. After him are Alejandro González Iñárritu, Ruggero Deodato, Franklin J. Schaffner, Nicholas Ray, Thea von Harbou, and Joe D'Amato.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Otto Preminger ranks 66. Before him are Clara Bow, Prince John of the United Kingdom, Franz König, Dolores del Río, Erika Mann, and Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark. After him are Hans Urs von Balthasar, Sebastian Shaw, Barnett Newman, André Jolivet, Nikolai Tikhonov, and Gareth Jones. Among people deceased in 1986, Otto Preminger ranks 57. Before him are Aleksandr Akimov, Michel de Certeau, Theodor Busse, Minoru Yamasaki, Erik Bruhn, and Adolfo Celi. After him are Gusztáv Sebes, Ferdinand Daučík, Marcel Dassault, Raymond Loewy, Lilli Palmer, and Elio de Angelis.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Otto Preminger ranks 179 out of 1,365. Before him are Pavel Popovich (1930), Jacob Frank (1726), Yuri Kondratyuk (1897), Ivan Kozhedub (1920), Anatoly Fomenko (1945), and Richard von Mises (1883). After him are David Bronstein (1924), Efim Bogoljubov (1889), Heinrich Neuhaus (1888), Yevhen Konovalets (1891), Wojciech Kilar (1932), and Zinaida Serebriakova (1884).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Ukraine

Among film directors born in Ukraine, Otto Preminger ranks 4. Before him are Andrzej Żuławski (1940), Sergei Bondarchuk (1920), and Alexander Dovzhenko (1894). After him are Anatole Litvak (1902), Richard Boleslawski (1889), Jerzy Kawalerowicz (1922), Maya Deren (1917), Larisa Shepitko (1938), Grigori Kozintsev (1905), Aleksandr Ptushko (1900), and Les Kurbas (1887).

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