William Friedkin Net Worth

William Friedkin Net Worth is
$12 Million

William Friedkin Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

William Friedkin (born August 29, 1935) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter best known for directing The French Connection in 1971 and The Exorcist in 1973; for the former, he won the Academy Award for Best Director. Some of his other films include Sorcerer, Cruising, To Live and Die in L.A., Jade, Rules of Engagement, The Hunted, Bug, and Killer Joe.

Date Of Birth	August 29, 1935
Place Of Birth	Chicago, Illinois, United States
Height	6' (1.83 m)
Profession	Director, Producer, Writer
Education	Senn High School
Spouse	Sherry Lansing (m. 1991)
Children	Jackson Friedkin, Cedric Friedkin
Awards	Academy Award for Best Director
Star Sign	Virgo

#	Trademark
1	Infamous for his volatile, provocative behavior on film sets
2	Frequently works with William Petersen
3	[Car Chase] His films often feature a pivotal car chase (The French Connection (1971), To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), Jade (1995)).
4	Frequently uses a hand-held camera in action sequences

#	Quote
1	[About the favorite movies he made] I'm very happy with Jade (1995), Rules of Engagement (2000), Killer Joe (2011), Bug (2006), The Exorcist (1973)... I would have to say Sorcerer (1977) and The French Connection (1971). Those come immediately to mind. And To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). And it's not that I achieved them, or realized them perfectly, but I did come very close to my vision of them in the execution.
2	I was at Technicolor and a guy said 'We just finished a print of Exorcist II, do you wanna have a look at it?' And I looked at half an hour of it and I thought it was as bad as seeing a traffic accident in the street. It was horrible. It's just a stupid mess made by a dumb guy - John Boorman by name, somebody who should be nameless but in this case should be named. Scurrilous. A horrible picture.
3	[on cinematographer Robby Müller] I'd seen and admired his work, especially in Paris, Texas (1984) and that was the look I wanted. He had this great foreigner's eye for the [United] States, particularly the West Coast, and it was so fresh. He wasn't shooting cliches. He captured all those details usually overlooked in American films, and I wanted to do something that was very different from The French Connection (1971), which was mainly shot on gray days and with a hand-held look. (...) He loved backlighting with the sun, and using very little coverage, and it suited the film perfectly. (...) His work's timeless. He taught me all about composition, and in the end I adopted his style - that's how big an influence he was.[2013, Variety]
4	I've never seen a more terrifying film than The Babadook (2014). It will scare the hell out of you as it did me. Psycho (1960), Alien (1979), Diabolique (1955), and now The Babadook (2014).
5	It's only in recent years that people have elevated a film like Psycho (1960) to the status of a classic. When it came out in 1960 it was pretty much roundly denounced as a scary film but not of much value. Because in those days the horror genre was really sort of a rock bottom, you know, fringe thing. And Hitchcock himself had never made a film as violent or terrifying as that. He's the master of suspense but not violence, certainly not horror. Most of his films you'd have to say are not horror films, they're suspense films and thrillers.
6	There are not a lot of films that frighten me. There are a lot of films that I've seen that I know intend to frighten me, but not a lot that do. And the horror genre has certainly not really been elevated over the years. They're mostly repetitive, sort of copies of something else. All the exorcism films, all the vampire films, you know, there's very little original stuff out there. There are a few. There was a great one a few years ago called Let the Right One In (2008) (Let the Right One In), which I thought was marvelous. I also really liked The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Paranormal Activity (2007). I thought these were very unique films that delivered. But I think that for the most part they're not of that caliber. They're mostly repetitive; imitators.
7	Sorcerer (1977) is the only film I've made that I wouldn't change a frame of.
8	There are just things over which we have no control, and that's one of the themes of Sorcerer (1977). It's the main theme - that no matter how difficult your struggle is, there's no guarantee of a successful outcome.
9	[on adapting The Wages of Fear (1953) into Sorcerer (1977)] I believed that the story was timeless because it involved four guys who are basically enemies but who had to work together or blow up. It seemed to me that that was a metaphor for the world, and still is. You have all these countries that either have to find a way to come together and cooperate or the world will be destroyed.
10	[on doing Sorcerer (1977) after The Exorcist (1973)] I was looking for a grittier subject that was more in line with the films that I felt the closest kinship to: action-adventure films that were really offbeat but very profound.
11	Most of my films, when I see them again, I would do everything over and in some cases, would just shitcan the entire thing. Not so with Sorcerer (1977). I can still watch it with some enjoyment. I still get pleasure out of it.
12	I don't know, for example, if some other actor than Matthew McConaughey had done Dallas Buyers Club (2013), he would've won an Academy Award for that. If it was an actor who didn't have to lose forty pounds, who knows? But McConaughey was a on a trajectory. It's a matter of timing and choices and the grace of God. Success in this business has a lot more to do with luck than anything else, being in the right place at the right time.
13	[on Matthew McConaughey] He could charm the mustard off a hot dog.
14	[I was] a punk teenager in Chicago and didn't know a damn thing about anything.
15	I'd rather work with tree stumps than actors.
16	The day after I won the Oscar was the only time I ever went to see a psychiatrist. I was profoundly unhappy, I told him I won an Oscar and I didn't think I deserved it.
17	I rehearsed The Exorcist (1973) for a month and the best performances I ever saw of it were left in the rehearsal room. When we finally got to the shooting, it wasn't as fresh.
18	The most beautiful location in the world doesn't mean sh*t next to Steve McQueen's face.
19	Today, movies are as visual as they've ever been, but they don't make any sense! They've got no heart, very little story. The dialogue is very often a little bit above a grunt...now, for the most part, people just stare at the screen for two hours and it's like opium for the eyes and you're not moved at all...it's an escape from reality. So there it is.
20	[on his first movie, Good Times (1967), a vehicle for Sonny Bono and Cher] If I had made that film in Romania under the [Nicolae Ceausescu] regime, I would've been assassinated!
21	[on Citizen Kane (1941)] It's kind of a quarry for filmmakers, like James Joyce's "Ulysses" is a quarry for writers. It seemed to me, on reflection, to synthesize all of the art forms: photography, lighting, acting, music, editing, and writing. And I realized, soon after, that film could really transcend the other arts and synthesize them.
22	The Charnier character in The French Connection (1971) is a much more admirable human being than Popeye Doyle. That's the thin line between the policeman and the criminal, and between good and evil.
23	[on the restoration of Cruising (1980)] When we got the negative from Warners, it was almost totally out of synch. There were sound tracks missing, the picture was out of synch with the sound. The negative looked like they'd held the six-day bike races on it, and it was awful. But because of the digital process, we were able to go in and time every single frame again from the start and sonically clean the picture, so it had no scratches, no splices, no anything. Then we remixed the soundtrack into a 5.1 mix. The sound is now perfect. If there's anything about the film that now achieves perfection, it's the soundtrack. It took months to do it.
24	[on Cruising (1980)] It's just a murder mystery, with the gay leather scene as a backdrop. On another level it's about identity: do any of us really know who it is sitting next to us, or looking back at us in the mirror? But the vitriol that the film was greeted with still confounds me.
25	[on Easy Rider (1969)] It was made for very little money by people who were complete unknowns and it was a great success. It was about the American drug culture. The studios in Hollywood were looking for other young filmmakers to make other such films.
26	[on the 1960s and 1970s] America was going through a national nervous breakdown. It started with the assassination of John F. Kennedy and then the assassination of Martin Luther King, then Robert F. Kennedy, then the onset of the Vietnam War in which America stumbled very badly and has never really recovered. The 1960s ended with the Charles Manson murders - the murder of Sharon Tate and a bunch of people for no apparent reason at all by a bunch of drug-infested people who were aimless and sort of adrift from the American culture. We [film directors] were reflecting what we could perceive, which was paranoia everywhere and irrational fear. Certainly, my films of the 1970s reflected just that.
27	There's a kind of desperation to the characters I'm interested in. They're all in extremely heightened states in a heightened situation. And in the course of my films, we're exploring all of their fears -- the rational and the irrational.
28	The first thing I look for in an actor is intelligence. I don't really care what they have or haven't done before, so long as they're physically right for the part, or can be, and they have the intelligence to dig in and find out who the character is.
29	I frankly am not on the same page with most of the films that are being made by the studios now. I certainly can't think of any that I wish I had directed. This is not to degrade these pictures they're making today, like Spider-Man 3 (2007). I'm just not seeking them out, nor are they seeking me out.
30	Directing is the provenance of younger guys. When I broke into film, I had no specific genius. I was just young. That's how I did it. The studios feel that movies are all about a youth movement, and they always have. That's why Orson Welles got to make Citizen Kane (1941) at 25. It's also why Billy Wilder at the end of his career, when he was smarter, wittier and more energetic than most directors half his age, couldn't even get a meeting.
31	I consider myself just another member of the crew, the highest paid member of the crew.
32	[after directing The French Connection (1971)] Each picture I've done so far has been for different reasons. The Birthday Party (1968), for instance, was purely a labor of love. I wanted to do [Harold Pinter]. Others were to advance my career, to get better assignments. I have no regard for and no knowledge of the value of money, I'm not saying that's a virtue, just a fact. For me, the greatest thrill in the world, the only thrill, is getting 20 seconds on the screen that really gases you.
33	The French Connection (1971) was really made in the editing room. One of the easiest sequences to do was the chase scene. It was relatively easy to do because everything was worked out minutely, carefully planned and checked in advance. Of course, there were some human errors and we did wreck a couple of cars before we were through.
34	By the time a film of mine makes it into the theaters, I have a love-hate relationship with it. There is always something I could have done to make it better.

#	Fact
1	In 1997 it was announced that 'The Ripper Diaries' that he was scheduled to direct with 'Anthony Hopkins' starring had been put on hold.
2	Often goes to extreme lengths to get the desired realism in his scenes. Infamous examples include the illegal car chase from The French Connection (1971) (which employed a stunt driver racing amidst unsuspecting drivers and pedestrians), and his effective tactics to get certain reactions from his actors in The Exorcist (1973) (discharging firearms close to the actors' ears, slapping them in the face, violently yanking them with ropes, etc.).
3	In an interview in Linda Ruth Williams' book "The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema", Friedkin said that Jade (1995) his favorite of all his films.
4	According to writer/director Larry Cohen, composer Bernard Herrmann was approached by Friedkin to score The Exorcist (1973). After screening the movie to Herrmann, Friedkin said, "I want you to write me a better score than you wrote for Citizen Kane (1941)", to which Herrmann replied, "Then why don't you make a better movie than 'Citizen Kane'?".
5	Ex-stepfather of Jérôme Richard.
6	He had once been considered by fellow filmmaker Michael Mann for the original role of Hannibal Lecter in Manhunter (1986).
7	Profiled in "Conversations with Directors: An Anthology of Interviews from Literature/Film Quarterly", E.M. Walker, D.T. Johnson, eds. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008.
8	Directed his first opera, "Salome" by Richard Strauss, at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich (2006).
9	Has two sons: Jackson Friedkin with Lesley-Anne Down and Cedric Friedkin with Australian dancer Jennifer Nairn-Smith.
10	His two most famous films, The French Connection (1971) and The Exorcist (1973), both begin in a foreign country, in which something in that country is brought over to America and then dealt with by American "authorities" in that field. "The French Connection" has drugs coming from France and then dealt with by American narcotics officers; "The Exorcist" has a demonic presence (from an idol) coming from Iraq to America, and dealt with by American priests.
11	Was offered the chance to direct The Exorcist (1973) by producer William Peter Blatty after Blatty screened The French Connection (1971). Warner Bros. had been pressuring him to use another director but after seeing Friedkin's film, Blatty decided he wanted the film of his novel to be infused with as much energy as Friedkin had brought to "The French Connection".
12	Does not like to work with storyboards.
13	He directed 5 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Jason Miller, Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair. Hackman won an Oscar for The French Connection (1971).
14	In 1985 he was sued for plagiarism by Michael Mann, who claimed that To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) stole the entire concept of Mann's TV series Miami Vice (1984). Mann lost the lawsuit.
15	Began his career in the mailroom of WGN-TV in Chicago. Within two years he was directing live television.
16	Joe Eszterhas, in "Hollywood Animal: A Memoir," Joe Eszterhas claims that Friedkin's wife Sherry Lansing, the boss of Paramount Pictures' Motion Picture Group, made Eszterhas issue a statement that he supported Paramount's hiring of Friedkin as director for his Jade (1995) script. In truth, Eszterhas did not want the former Oscar-winner, whom he considered a washed-up has-been, to direct the picture, but he deferred to Lansing's wishes.
17	While on his first directing assignment for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962), he was reprimanded by Alfred Hitchcock for not wearing a tie.
18	After The Exorcist (1973) he was planning on making a film about aliens and Atlantis. However, after Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) went into production, he abandoned the film and made Sorcerer (1977) instead.
19	Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 372-375. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
20	He was believed to be the youngest person to win the Best Director Oscar, at age 32. Later, he was discovered to have actually been born in 1935, and was 36 at the time. The record returned to Norman Taurog.
21	He was going to work with Peter Gabriel on a film project, but Gabriel was caught up with work with his former band Genesis on the album "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway". The project was called off.
22	His video for Laura Branigan's song "self control" has never been shown in its entirety on MTV. Friedkin's uncut version features a brief shot of a female breast.
23	The night he won his Academy Award for directing The French Connection (1971), he was riding with his manager when their Rolls-Royce broke down several miles from the ceremony. They had to hitch a ride from a driver at a gas station in order to arrive in time.

All pictures

Director

Title	Year	Status
Killer Joe	2011
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	2007-2009	TV Series 2 episodes
The Painter's Voice	2007	Video documentary short
Bug	2006
The Hunted	2003
Rules of Engagement	2000
12 Angry Men	1997	TV Movie
Jade	1995
Rebel Highway	1994	TV Series 1 episode
Blue Chips	1994
Tales from the Crypt	1992	TV Series 1 episode
The Guardian	1990
C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf	1988	TV Movie
Rampage	1987
C.A.T. Squad	1986	TV Movie
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album	1985	Video short
To Live and Die in L.A.	1985
The Twilight Zone	1985	TV Series 1 episode
Laura Branigan: Self Control	1984	Video short
Deal of the Century	1983
Cruising	1980
The Brink's Job	1978
Sorcerer	1977
Fritz Lang Interviewed by William Friedkin	1975	Documentary
The Exorcist	1973
The French Connection	1971
The Boys in the Band	1970
The Night They Raided Minsky's	1968
The Birthday Party	1968
Good Times	1967
The Thin Blue Line	1966	TV Movie documentary
Time-Life Specials: The March of Time	1965	TV Series documentary
Pro Football: Mayhem on a Sunday Afternoon	1965	TV Movie documentary
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	1965	TV Series 1 episode
The Bold Men	1965	TV Movie documentary
The People vs. Paul Crump	1962	TV Movie documentary

Producer

Title	Year	Status
C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf	1988	TV Movie executive producer
Rampage	1987	producer
C.A.T. Squad	1986	TV Movie executive producer
Sorcerer	1977	producer
The 49th Annual Academy Awards	1977	TV Special producer
Paper Moon	1973	executive producer - uncredited
The Thin Blue Line	1966	TV Movie documentary producer
Pro Football: Mayhem on a Sunday Afternoon	1965	TV Movie documentary producer

Writer

Title	Year	Status
The Guardian	1990	screenplay
C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf	1988	TV Movie story
Rampage	1987	screenplay
To Live and Die in L.A.	1985	screenplay
Cruising	1980	written by
The Thin Blue Line	1966	TV Movie documentary story

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
Arbitrage	2012		Jeffrey (uncredited)
Without Limits	1998		TV Director

Thanks

Title	Year	Status
Lazarus: Apocalypse	2014	original inspiration
Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk	2014	special thanks
American Federale	2013	Documentary special thanks
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck	2013	Documentary special thanks
Arbitrage	2012	the director wishes to thank
Acid Head: The Buzzard Nuts County Slaughter	2011	special thanks
Tournée	2010	thanks
Narc: Shooting Up	2003	Video documentary short special thanks
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of 'The French Connection'	2001	TV Movie documentary special thanks - as Billy Friedkin
Behind the Rules of Engagement	2000	Video documentary short special thanks
Reputations	1999	TV Series documentary with thanks to - 1 episode
The Fear of God: 25 Years of 'The Exorcist'	1998	TV Movie documentary thanks
The Chili Con Carne Club	1995	Short special thanks

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles	2014	Documentary	Himself
Algren	2014	Documentary	Himself
Tavis Smiley	2013	TV Series	Himself - Guest
Good Day L.A.	2013	TV Series	Himself
A Fuller Life	2013	Documentary	Himself - Reader (segment "My Ballsy Yarns")
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck	2013	Documentary	Himself - Interviewee
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot	2013	Documentary	Himself
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz	2013	Video documentary
Stanley Kubrick in Focus	2012	Short	Himself
The Culture Show	2012	TV Series documentary	Himself
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic	2012	Video documentary
Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of	2012	Documentary short
The Hour	2011	TV Series	Himself
Post Mortem with Mick Garris	2011	TV Series	Himself
Making the Boys	2011	Documentary	Himself - Academy Award Winning Director
Miller's Tale	2011	Documentary	Himself
Godard Made in USA	2010	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Durch die Nacht mit...	2010	TV Series documentary
Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock	2009	Video documentary short	Himself
North by Northwest: One for the Ages	2009	Video documentary short	Himself
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style	2009	Video documentary	Himself
Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman	2009	Video documentary short	Himself
Nouvelle vague vue d'ailleurs	2009	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Anatomy of a Chase	2009	Video documentary short	Himself
Frankenheimer in Focus	2009	Video documentary	Himself
Friedkin and Grosso Remember: The French Connection	2009	Video documentary short	Himself
Scene of the Crime	2009	Video documentary short	Himself
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy	2008	Video documentary	Himself
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of the Master	2008	Video documentary	Himself
The Sound of Hitchcock	2008	Video documentary	Himself
Godfather World	2008	Video short	Himself
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't	2008	Video documentary short	Himself
40 x 15	2008	Documentary	Himself
Great Bolshy Yarblockos! Making 'A Clockwork Orange'	2007	Video documentary short	Himself
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001	2007	Video documentary short	Himself
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick	2007	Video documentary short	Himself
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'	2007	Video documentary short	Himself
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001	2007	Video documentary short	Himself
Tatort Oper - Wie Filmemacher Oper machen	2007	TV Movie documentary	Himself
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo	2007	Documentary	Himself
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: 10th Anniversary Edition	2007	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Shadows of Suspense	2006	Video documentary short	Himself
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy	2005	Video documentary	Himself
Precinct Hollywood	2005	TV Movie documentary	Himself
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes: America's Greatest Quips, Comebacks and Catchphrases	2005	TV Special documentary	Himself
Just the Facts	2004	TV Movie documentary	Director
A Little Solitaire	2004	Video documentary short	Himself
Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'	2003	Video documentary short	Himself
The 100 Greatest Scary Moments	2003	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Filming 'The Hunted'	2003	Video documentary short	Himself
Pursuing 'The Hunted'	2003	Video documentary short	Himself
The Cutting Edge	2003	Video documentary short	Himself
Narc: Shooting Up	2003	Video documentary short	Himself - Filmmaker
Narc: The Friedkin Connection	2003	Video documentary short	Himself - Filmmaker
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains	2003	TV Special documentary	Himself
A Decade Under the Influence	2003	Documentary	Himself
This Is Your Life	2002	TV Series documentary	Himself
Face Time	2002	TV Series	Himself - Interviewee
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of 'The French Connection'	2001	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Director (as Billy Friedkin)
The 100 Greatest Films	2001	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Intimate Portrait	2001	TV Series documentary	Himself
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies	2001	TV Special documentary	Himself
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'	2000	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Director
Behind the Rules of Engagement	2000	Video documentary short	Himself
Bravo Profiles	2000	TV Series documentary	Himself
Comme au cinéma	2000	TV Series documentary	Himself
The Fear of God: 25 Years of 'The Exorcist'	1998	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Director
The Uttmost	1998	Documentary	Himself
American Masters	1998	TV Series documentary	Himself
Hollywood Halloween	1997	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Howard Hawks: American Artist	1997	TV Movie documentary	Himself
The Directors	1997	TV Series documentary	Himself
In the Grip of Evil	1997	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Director of 'The Exorcist'
Fear in the Dark	1991	TV Movie documentary	Himself
The Secrets of Dick Smith	1991	TV Short documentary	Himself - Discussing The Exorcist
The Horror Hall of Fame	1990	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album	1985	Video short	Himself
The Irv Kupcinet Show	1980	TV Series	Himself
Fantasy Film Festival	1979	TV Series	Himself
The 48th Annual Academy Awards	1976	TV Special	Himself - Presenter: Thalberg Award
Fritz Lang Interviewed by William Friedkin	1975	Documentary	Himself
The Merv Griffin Show	1974	TV Series	Himself
The David Frost Show	1972	TV Series	Himself
The 44th Annual Academy Awards	1972	TV Special	Himself - Winner: Best Director

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Story of Film: An Odyssey	2011	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself
Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate	2004	Documentary	Himself

Won Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
2014	Special Prize for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema	Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
2013	Lifetime Achievement Award	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
2013	Career Golden Lion	Venice Film Festival
2011	Lifetime Achievement Award	Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival
2011	Golden Mouse	Venice Film Festival		Killer Joe (2011)
2009	Leopard of Honor	Locarno International Film Festival
2007	CineMerit Award	Munich Film Festival
2007	Time-Machine Honorary Award	Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
2006	FIPRESCI Prize	Cannes Film Festival	Quinzaine des réalisateurs	Bug (2006)
2000	Lifetime Achievement Award	Palm Beach International Film Festival	Directing
1999	President's Award	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
1999	Movie Masterpiece Award	Empire Awards, UK		The Exorcist (1973)
1997	Star on the Walk of Fame	Walk of Fame	Motion Picture	On 14 August 1997. At 6925 Hollywood Blvd.
1991	George Pal Memorial Award	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
1986	Audience Award	Cognac Festival du Film Policier		To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
1974	Golden Globe	Golden Globes, USA	Best Director - Motion Picture	The Exorcist (1973)
1972	Oscar	Academy Awards, USA	Best Director	The French Connection (1971)
1972	Golden Globe	Golden Globes, USA	Best Director - Motion Picture	The French Connection (1971)
1972	DGA Award	Directors Guild of America, USA	Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures	The French Connection (1971)

Nominated Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
2014	People's Choice Award	Melbourne International Film Festival	Best Narrative Feature	Sorcerer (1977)
2013	Saturn Award	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA	Best Director	Killer Joe (2011)
2012	ARRI Award	Munich Film Festival	Best International Film	Killer Joe (2011)
2011	Golden Lion	Venice Film Festival		Killer Joe (2011)
1998	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or a Movie	12 Angry Men (1997)
1998	DGA Award	Directors Guild of America, USA	Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Specials	12 Angry Men (1997)
1998	OFTA Television Award	Online Film & Television Association	Best Direction of a Motion Picture or Miniseries	12 Angry Men (1997)
1993	Saturn Award	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA	Best Director	Rampage (1987)
1988	Critics Award	Deauville Film Festival		Rampage (1987)
1981	Razzie Award	Razzie Awards	Worst Director	Cruising (1980)
1981	Razzie Award	Razzie Awards	Worst Screenplay	Cruising (1980)
1974	Oscar	Academy Awards, USA	Best Director	The Exorcist (1973)
1974	DGA Award	Directors Guild of America, USA	Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures	The Exorcist (1973)
1973	BAFTA Film Award	BAFTA Awards	Best Direction	The French Connection (1971)

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William Friedkin Net Worth

William Friedkin Net Worth is
$12 Million