George Stevens
George Cooper Stevens (December 18, 1904 – March 8, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer.
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| Date of birth | 18 December 1904
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| Place of birth | Oakland, California, United States
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| Date of death | 8 March 1975
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| Age | 70 (age at death)
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| Place of death | Lancaster, California, United States
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| Cause of death | Heart Attack
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| Occupation | Director, Cinematographer, Actor, Writer, Producer
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- As a cinematographer at Hal Roach Studios, he is credited with saving the film career of young British comic Stan Laurel. Laurel's pale blue eyes would register as an unnatural white on orthochromatic film, the standard film in use at that time. Stevens knew of panchromatic film and was able to get a supply of it from Chicago. This film was sensitive to blue so that Laurel's eyes would photograph more naturally. Laurel would use Stevens for his short films at Roach. When Stan Laurel was teamed up with Oliver Hardy, the team make Stevens their cameraman of choice.
- Won the Oscar for Best Director twice - for A Place in the Sun (1951) and for Giant (1956). Neither film won Best Picture, and both starred Elizabeth Taylor.
- Head of jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1970
- President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1958 to 1959
- Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1957
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