Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He won consecutive Oscars for both Best Director and Best Writing, Screenplay for A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve. During his over 40-year career in Hollywood, he wrote forty-eight screenplays. He also produced more than twenty films including The Philadelphia Story.
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Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He won consecutive Oscars for both Best Director and Best Writing, Screenplay for A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve. During his over 40-year career in Hollywood, he wrote forty-eight screenplays. He also produced more than twenty films including The Philadelphia Story which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1941. He was also the co-creator of the television series The Mankewicz Double Wedding with William L. Powell and William Myrne Loy. He died in New York City on November 25, 1998. He is buried in Mount Sinai Cemetery, New York, with his wife and three children. He had a brother, Herman, who also became a screenwriter and won an Oscar for co-writing Citizen Kane. He has a son, Frank, who was a film director and producer, and a daughter, Mary, who is a television producer and director-producer, as well as a son-in-law, Peter Mankiewski, who worked as a director and screenwriter in the 1970s and 1980s.
His grandson, Paul, is the director of the film series The Adventures of Finn Huckleberry, starring Mickey Rooney and Margaret Sullavan and directed The Shining Hour with James Stewart and The Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. His great-great-grandson, Paul Mankewski, was the director and writer of The Godfather: A Christmas Carol, starring Jack Nicholson and Joan Crawford, and directed the first American film directed by Fritz Lang. His son, Peter, is also a director, producer and writer, having worked on The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and The Hobbit: The Holy Grail, among other films. His daughter, Barbara, is a film producer and has directed several films, including The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings: The Desolation of the Sun, The Great Gatsby and The Mummy, among many others. His granddaughters, Barbara and Mary, are also film producers.
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