Fred Zinnemann Net Worth
Fred Zinnemann Net Worth is
$4 Million
Fred Zinnemann Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Alfred "Fred" Zinnemann (April 29, 1907 – March 14, 1997) was an Austro-American film director. He won Academy Awards for directing films in many genres, including thrillers, westerns, film noir, and play adaptations. Nineteen actors appearing in Zinnemann's films received Academy Award nominations for their performances: among that number are Frank Sinatra, Audrey Hepburn, Glynis Johns, Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller, Jason Robards, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Fonda, Gary Cooper and Maximilian Schell. | Date Of Birth | April 29, 1907, Rzeszów, Poland |
| Died | March 14, 1997, London, United Kingdom |
| Place Of Birth | Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria] |
| Height | 5' 6½" (1.69 m) |
| Profession | Director, Assistant Director, Producer |
| Spouse | Renee Bartlett (m. 1936–1997) |
| Children | Tim Zinnemann |
| Star Sign | Taurus |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | I think I'd be very wary about doing another musical. But I'd love to do another western if I found a good story and if I could find good actors - they are getting very rare because it's becoming a sort of second-hand thing now with young actors, where the older ones, people like Gary Cooper, knew about the old west more from personal experience. |
| 2 | (On Grace Kelly)(Kelly) at the time wasn't equipped to do very much...She was very wooden...which fitted perfectly, and her lack of experience and sort of gauche behaviour was to me very touching - to see this prim Easterner in the wilds of the Burbank Columbia backlot - it worked very well." |
| 3 | I only learned about acting from actors. |
| 4 | I just like to do films that are positive in the sense that they deal with the dignity of human beings and have something to say about oppression, not necessarily in a political way but in a human way. I have to feel that what I'm trying to do is worthwhile. |
| 5 | I was born and raised in Austria. When I was growing up, I wanted to be a musician, but fortunately I discovered in time that I had no musical talent. Then I tried law, and I am not sorry I did because it taught me a method of thinking. Also, since in Austria in those days canon law was required for law students, I later found that very helpful in making films like The Nun's Story (1959) and A Man for All Seasons (1966). |
| 6 | The three most important things about a film are the script, the script, the script. |
| 7 | I will always think of myself as a Hollywood director, not only because I grew up in the American film industry, but also because I believe in making films that will please a mass audience, and not just in making films that express my own personality or ideas. I have always tried to offer an audience something positive in a film and to entertain them as well. |
| 8 | [on directing Ethel Waters in The Member of the Wedding (1952)] Every time I'd try to help her, she'd roll her eyes to the heavens and say, "God is my director!" How can you argue with that? |
| 9 | I'm not in pictures to promote my private personality. I'm in it for the joy of it. |
| # | Fact |
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| 1 | He directed two Best Picture Academy Award winners: From Here to Eternity (1953) and A Man for All Seasons (1966). |
| 2 | According to Zinneman he was inspired to be a director by four films: Greed (1924), Battleship Potemkin (1925), The Big Parade (1925) and The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928). |
| 3 | Among the projects that Zinneman was attached to but didn't do were The Clock (1945), _Hawaii_, The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Old Man and the Sea (1958), and Custer of the West (1967). He also worked on "Abelard and Heloise" and "Man's Fate," neither of each was made. |
| 4 | Zinneman's greatest disappointment as a director was the cancellation of "Man's Fate," adapted from the Andre Malraux novel, about a week before cameras were set to roll. All the sets were built, $4 million had been already spent, and the cast (Peter Finch, Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, David Niven) had rehearsed a week to ten days in costume. James Aubrey had just taken over MGM in November 1969 when he pulled the plug. It was the studio's third corporate change in as many months. Zinneman bitterly remarked that it was "a shattering experience that took 4 1/2 years out of my life." The director had invested three years in preparation and over a year involved with the acrimonious lawsuit that followed. |
| 5 | The Member of the Wedding (1952) is the director's personal favorite of his own films. His favourite individual scene is Sir Thomas More's goodbye to his wife and daughter in A Man for All Seasons (1966). |
| 6 | Zinneman's first Hollywood job was as an extra in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). |
| 7 | Zinneman was promoted from directing shorts at MGM to features when his boss Jack Chertok graduated into a producer for the studio. Their first film was Kid Glove Killer (1942). |
| 8 | In 1963, it was announced that he would make a large-scale film for Twentieth Century Fox entitled "The Day Custer Fell", about the battle of Little Big Horn. The film, scripted by Wendell Mayes, was due to be made in Todd-AO on a budget of 18 million dollars, a huge sum then. Fox had recently had enormous problems with Cleopatra (1963) and was reluctant to spend so much money quite so soon after that film, and Zinnemann also worried them by saying that he had planned not to use any big stars - although Fox had suggested an all-star cast along the lines of its recent hit, The Longest Day (1962). When Zinnemann's current movie, Behold a Pale Horse (1964) proved to be a critical and financial flop, the Custer project was quietly postponed, and Zinnemann instead made A Man for All Seasons (1966). This proved to be a huge success and an Oscar-winner, so the Custer movie plan was briefly revived in 1967, but it was still thought to be too expensive, and Fox executives were opposed to Zinnemann's desire to hire Japanese star Toshiro Mifune for the role of Sitting Bull. The announcement that a cheap version of the story was being made in Spain - this was Custer of the West (1967), starring Robert Shaw - led to the cancellation of the film. |
| 9 | His first big-budget film was The Seventh Cross (1944), starring Spencer Tracy. The two men admired each other, but did not get on very well. A dozen or so years later, Zinnemann was set to direct Tracy in The Old Man and the Sea (1958), but they disagreed bitterly over Zinnemann's plan to make as much of the film as possible at sea and in a real fishing-boat. Zinnemann began filming second-unit footage of the ocean and fish with cameraman Floyd Crosby, but then left the project, and John Sturges replaced him as director. Some of his footage was in the final film, however. |
| 10 | His main influence as a director was famed documentarian Robert J. Flaherty who made a huge impression on the young Zinnemann when he acted as assistant director to Flaherty on an early 1930s project that was ultimately abandoned. |
| 11 | He was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of his outstanding contribution to film culture. |
| 12 | After abandoning his law studies at the University of Vienna, he was trained to be a cinematographer at the École Technique de Photographie in Paris (1927). |
| 13 | Became a naturalized US citizen in 1936. |
| 14 | His father was an Austrian Jewish doctor. |
| 15 | Is portrayed by Peter James Haworth in Hollywoodland (2006). |
| 16 | Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1961 |
| 17 | Is portrayed by Bruce Gray in Sinatra (1992) and by Walker Edmiston in Grace Kelly (1983) |
| 18 | Directed 18 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Hume Cronyn, Montgomery Clift, Gary Cooper, Julie Harris, Frank Sinatra, Donna Reed, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Anthony Franciosa, Audrey Hepburn, Glynis Johns, Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller, Jason Robards, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Fonda and Maximilian Schell. Cooper, Redgrave, Robards, Sinatra, Reed and Scofield won Oscars for their performances in one of Zinneman's movies. Additionally, Ivan Jandl received a Juvenile Awards for is performance in Zinneman's The Search (1948). |
| 19 | He directed the film debuts of Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando and Meryl Streep. |
| 20 | Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890- 1945". Pages 1238-1247. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987. |
| 21 | He is widely credited with an incident known as "you first". The story goes that when Oscar winner Zinnemann sat down in a office for a meeting with a clueless young executive, the executive asked him to list what he had done in his career. Zinnemann humiliated the executive by reportedly answering, "Sure. You first.". Of this, Zinnemann said: "I've been trying to disown that story for years. It seems to me Billy Wilder told it to me about himself.". |
| 22 | Former father-in-law of Meg Tilly and Christine M. Walton. |
| 23 | Father of film director-producer Tim Zinnemann. |
| 24 | Awarded first annual John Huston Award for Artists Rights. [1994] |
Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Five Days One Summer | 1982 | ||
| Julia | 1977 | ||
| The Day of the Jackal | 1973 | ||
| A Man for All Seasons | 1966 | ||
| Behold a Pale Horse | 1964 | ||
| The Sundowners | 1960 | ||
| The Nun's Story | 1959 | ||
| The Old Man and the Sea | 1958 | uncredited | |
| Decision | 1958 | TV Series 1 episode | |
| A Hatful of Rain | 1957 | ||
| Screen Directors Playhouse | 1956 | TV Series 1 episode | |
| Oklahoma! | 1955 | ||
| From Here to Eternity | 1953 | ||
| The Member of the Wedding | 1952 | ||
| High Noon | 1952 | ||
| Benjy | 1951 | Short | |
| Teresa | 1951 | ||
| The Men | 1950 | ||
| Act of Violence | 1948 | ||
| The Search | 1948 | ||
| Little Mister Jim | 1947 | ||
| My Brother Talks to Horses | 1947 | ||
| The Clock | 1945 | uncredited | |
| The Seventh Cross | 1944 | ||
| Eyes in the Night | 1942 | ||
| Kid Glove Killer | 1942 | ||
| The Lady or the Tiger? | 1942 | Short | |
| The Greenie | 1942 | Short | |
| Your Last Act | 1941 | Short | |
| Forbidden Passage | 1941 | Short | |
| The Great Meddler | 1940 | Short | |
| A Way in the Wilderness | 1940 | Short | |
| Stuffie | 1940 | Short | |
| The Old South | 1940 | Documentary short | |
| Forgotten Victory | 1939 | Short | |
| The Ash Can Fleet | 1939 | Short | |
| One Against the World | 1939 | Short | |
| Help Wanted | 1939 | Short | |
| While America Sleeps | 1939 | Short | |
| Weather Wizards | 1939 | Short | |
| They Live Again | 1938 | Documentary short | |
| Tracking the Sleeping Death | 1938 | Short | |
| The Story of Doctor Carver | 1938 | Short | |
| That Mothers Might Live | 1938 | Short | |
| Friend Indeed | 1937 | Short | |
| Redes | 1936 | ||
| Menschen am Sonntag | 1930 |
Assistant Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camille | 1936 | assistant director - uncredited | |
| The Man from Yesterday | 1932 | assistant director - uncredited | |
| The Wiser Sex | 1932 | assistant director | |
| The Spy | 1931 | assistant director | |
| Man Trouble | 1930 | assistant director |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Five Days One Summer | 1982 | producer | |
| A Man for All Seasons | 1966 | producer | |
| Behold a Pale Horse | 1964 | producer - uncredited | |
| The Nun's Story | 1959 | producer - uncredited | |
| Benjy | 1951 | Short producer |
Camera Department
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Menschen am Sonntag | 1930 | cinematography assistance | |
| Sprengbagger 1010 | 1929 | assistant camera | |
| I Kiss Your Hand Madame | 1929 | assistant camera | |
| La marche des machines | 1927 | Short assistant camera - uncredited |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rece do góry | 1981 | ||
| The Search | 1948 | Interpreter (uncredited) | |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | 1930 | German soldier / French ambulance driver (uncredited) |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Redes | 1936 | ||
| Peter Ibbetson | 1935 | contributor to special sequences - uncredited |
Miscellaneous
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Dark Angel | 1935 | assistant: Sidney Franklin - uncredited | |
| The Kid from Spain | 1932 | assistant: Busby Berkeley - uncredited |
Costume Department
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nana | 1934 | assistant costume designer |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biography | 1998 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Making of 'High Noon' | 1992 | Video short documentary | Himself |
| Elstree Britain's Hollywood | 1989 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey | 1984 | Documentary | Himself |
| Fred Zinnemann - Ein Hollywoodregisseur | 1983 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The 50th Annual Academy Awards | 1978 | TV Special | Himself - Nominee: Best Director |
| The 39th Annual Academy Awards | 1967 | TV Special | Himself - Winner: Best Picture & Best Director |
| The David Susskind Show | 1960 | TV Series | Himself |
| This Is Your Life | 1956 | TV Series | Himself |
| Screen Directors Playhouse | 1956 | TV Series | Himself |
| The 26th Annual Academy Awards | 1954 | TV Special | Himself - Winner: Best Director |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sinatra: All or Nothing at All | 2015 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| Filmmakers in Action | 2005 | Documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Cineastas contra magnates | 2005 | Documentary | Himself |
| Darkness at High Noon: The Carl Foreman Documents | 2002 | Documentary | Himself |
| He Walks in Beauty: The George Stevens Production 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' | 2001 | Video documentary short | Himself - Director |
| George Stevens: The Filmmakers Who Knew Him | 2001 | Video documentary | Himself |
| The 69th Annual Academy Awards | 1997 | TV Special | Himself - Memorial Tribute |
| The Colgate Comedy Hour | 1955 | TV Series | Himself |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | OFTA Film Hall of Fame | Online Film & Television Association | Creative | |
| 1996 | Lifetime Achievement Award | German Film Awards | ||
| 1990 | BFI Fellowship | British Film Institute Awards | ||
| 1986 | Berlinale Camera | Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| 1978 | Academy Fellowship | BAFTA Awards | ||
| 1978 | Honorary Bambi | Bambi Awards | Lifetime achievement | |
| 1978 | European David | David di Donatello Awards | Julia (1977) | |
| 1978 | Silver Ribbon | Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists | Best Foreign Director (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero) | Julia (1977) |
| 1970 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Directors Guild of America, USA | ||
| 1968 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best British Film | A Man for All Seasons (1966) |
| 1968 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Film from any Source | A Man for All Seasons (1966) |
| 1967 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Picture | A Man for All Seasons (1966) |
| 1967 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Director | A Man for All Seasons (1966) |
| 1967 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Director | A Man for All Seasons (1966) |
| 1967 | DGA Award | Directors Guild of America, USA | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | A Man for All Seasons (1966) |
| 1967 | Special Mention | Moscow International Film Festival | A Man for All Seasons (1966) | |
| 1967 | NBR Award | National Board of Review, USA | Best Director | A Man for All Seasons (1966) |
| 1966 | NYFCC Award | New York Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Director | A Man for All Seasons (1966) |
| 1964 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Top Director | |
| 1963 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Top Director | |
| 1962 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Top Director | |
| 1961 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Top Director | |
| 1960 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Motion Picture | On 8 February 1960. At 6629 Hollywood Blvd. |
| 1959 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Top Director | |
| 1959 | NBR Award | National Board of Review, USA | Best Director | The Nun's Story (1959) |
| 1959 | NYFCC Award | New York Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Director | The Nun's Story (1959) |
| 1959 | Golden Seashell | San Sebastián International Film Festival | The Nun's Story (1959) | |
| 1958 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Top Director | |
| 1957 | OCIC Award | Venice Film Festival | A Hatful of Rain (1957) | |
| 1957 | Pasinetti Award | Venice Film Festival | A Hatful of Rain (1957) | |
| 1954 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Director | From Here to Eternity (1953) |
| 1954 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Director | From Here to Eternity (1953) |
| 1954 | Special Award | Cannes Film Festival | From Here to Eternity (1953) | |
| 1954 | DGA Award | Directors Guild of America, USA | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | From Here to Eternity (1953) |
| 1953 | Bodil | Bodil Awards | Best American Film (Bedste amerikanske film) | High Noon (1952) |
| 1953 | NYFCC Award | New York Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Director | From Here to Eternity (1953) |
| 1952 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Documentary, Short Subjects | Benjy (1951) |
| 1952 | NYFCC Award | New York Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Director | High Noon (1952) |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Direction | Julia (1977) |
| 1979 | César | César Awards, France | Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger) | Julia (1977) |
| 1978 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Director | Julia (1977) |
| 1978 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Director - Motion Picture | Julia (1977) |
| 1978 | DGA Award | Directors Guild of America, USA | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Julia (1977) |
| 1974 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Director - Motion Picture | The Day of the Jackal (1973) |
| 1974 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Direction | The Day of the Jackal (1973) |
| 1971 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Best Producer-Director | 7th place. |
| 1970 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Producer-Director | 5th place. |
| 1968 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Producer-Director | 10th place. |
| 1967 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Producer-Director | 5th place. |
| 1967 | Grand Prix | Moscow International Film Festival | A Man for All Seasons (1966) | |
| 1966 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Director | 6th place. |
| 1965 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Director | 5th place. |
| 1961 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Picture | The Sundowners (1960) |
| 1961 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Director | The Sundowners (1960) |
| 1961 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Director | The Sundowners (1960) |
| 1961 | DGA Award | Directors Guild of America, USA | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | The Sundowners (1960) |
| 1960 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Director | The Nun's Story (1959) |
| 1960 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Director | The Nun's Story (1959) |
| 1960 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Film from any Source | The Nun's Story (1959) |
| 1960 | UN Award | BAFTA Awards | The Nun's Story (1959) | |
| 1960 | DGA Award | Directors Guild of America, USA | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | The Nun's Story (1959) |
| 1958 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Director | A Hatful of Rain (1957) |
| 1958 | DGA Award | Directors Guild of America, USA | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | A Hatful of Rain (1957) |
| 1958 | Silver Ribbon | Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists | Best Foreign Film (Miglior Film Straniero) | A Hatful of Rain (1957) |
| 1957 | Golden Lion | Venice Film Festival | A Hatful of Rain (1957) | |
| 1954 | Grand Prize of the Festival | Cannes Film Festival | From Here to Eternity (1953) | |
| 1953 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Director | High Noon (1952) |
| 1953 | DGA Award | Directors Guild of America, USA | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | High Noon (1952) |
| 1951 | Golden Lion | Venice Film Festival | Teresa (1951) | |
| 1949 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Director | The Search (1948) |
| 1949 | Grand Prize of the Festival | Cannes Film Festival | Act of Violence (1948) | |
| 1949 | DGA Award | Directors Guild of America, USA | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | The Search (1948) |
2nd Place Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Top Director |
3rd Place Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | NYFCC Award | New York Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Director | The Sundowners (1960) |
Known for movies
High Noon (1952)
as Director
From Here to Eternity (1953)
as Director
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
as Director
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
as Director