After Trumbo and the others were blacklisted, some Hollywood actors and directors, such as Elia Kazan and Clifford Odets, agreed to testify and to provide names of fellow communist party members to Congress.

Vertov's brother Boris Kaufman was a noted cinematographer who worked much later for directors such as Elia Kazan and Sidney Lumet in America.

* Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey ( 1995 ) ( narrator )

The Actor's Studio was founded in October 1947 by Elia Kazan, Robert Lewis, and Cheryl Crawford, and the same year Oskar Fischinger filmed Motion Painting No. 1.

One of the most famous was The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) from critically acclaimed Bengali film director Satyajit Ray, whose films had a profound influence on world cinema, with directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, James Ivory, Abbas Kiarostami, Elia Kazan, François Truffaut, Steven Spielberg ,< ref name = unmaderay >

Madero's leadership of the Revolution, presidency and assassination are depicted in at least two Hollywood movies, Viva Villa !, ( 1934 ) directed by Jack Conway, screenplay by Ben Hecht, and Viva Zapata !, ( 1952 ) directed by Elia Kazan, screenplay by John Steinbeck.

Brando achieved stardom, however, as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams's 1947 play A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Elia Kazan.

* 1909 – Elia Kazan, Greek-American actor, director, producer, and writer ( d. 2003 )

Her irreverent and often bawdy sense of humour allowed her to establish a rapport with her co-star Marlon Brando ; but she had difficulty with director Elia Kazan, who did not hold her in high regard as an actress.

It was nominated for eight Oscars and won three: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress ( Celeste Holm ), and Best Director ( Elia Kazan ).

The film was directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg.

Elia Kazan (; September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003 ) was an American director, producer, writer and actor, described by The New York Times as " one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history ".

" In 2010, Martin Scorsese co-directed the documentary film, A Letter to Elia, as a personal tribute to Kazan.

Elia Kazan was born in the Phanar district of Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, to Greek parents originally from Kayseri in Anatolia.

Among the other Broadway plays he directed were " Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ", " Sweet Bird of Youth ", " The Dark at the Top of the Stairs " and " Tea and Sympathy ", This led some, such as theater critic Eric Bentley, to write that " the work of Elia Kazan means more to the American theater than that of any current writer.

An award like this is about your body of work, and when it comes to a body of work, Elia Kazan deserves to be honored.

Elia Kazan was married three times.

Elia Kazan died from natural causes in his home in New York, 28 September 2003 aged 94.

At the ceremony, screenwriter Budd Schulberg, who wrote On the Waterfront, thanks his lifelong friend saying, “ Elia Kazan has touched us all with his capacity to honor not only the heroic man, but the hero in every man .” In an interview with the American Film Institute in 1976, Kazan spoke of his love of the cinema: " I think it's the most wonderful art in the world.

Martin Scorsese has directed a film documentary, A Letter to Elia ( 2010 ), considered to be an " intensely personal and deeply moving tribute " to Kazan.

With director Elia Kazan, 1967

Elia Kazan ( who directed many of Williams ' greatest successes ) said of Williams: " Everything in his life is in his plays, and everything in his plays is in his life.

At the time of his death, Williams had been working on a final play, In Masks Outrageous and Austere, which attempted to reconcile certain forces and facts of his own life, a theme which ran throughout his work, as Elia Kazan had said.

These two plays were later filmed, with great success, by noted directors Elia Kazan ( Streetcar ) with whom Williams developed a very close artistic relationship, and Richard Brooks ( Cat ).

In April, she won the Bausch & Lomb Championships in Amelia Island, Florida for the third time, defeating Silvia Farina Elia in the final.

It won the Tony Award for Best Play, Best Supporting or Featured Actor ( Arthur Kennedy ), Best Scenic Design ( Jo Mielziner ), Producer ( Dramatic ), Author ( Arthur Miller ), and Director ( Elia Kazan ), as well as the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics ' Circle Award for Best Play.

At the 1952 Cannes Film Festival, Brando won for Best Actor, while Elia Kazan was nominated for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film.

Having won all four of his nominations, Elia Kazan has been honored most often in this category.

Filmmakers who have won international acclaim are Greek-Americans John Cassavetes and Elia Kazan, and Greeks Michael Cacoyannis and Costa-Gavras.

Written by William Inge, who appears briefly as a Protestant clergyman and won an Oscar for his screenplay, the film was directed by Elia Kazan.

He won the Academy Award for Best Picture for Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront and a further two times for his two collaborations with British director David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ) and Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ).

In 2001 Farina Elia won a belated first WTA Tour title, at the Internationaux de Strasbourg.

* The book was adapted into a 1945 film directed by Elia Kazan, starring James Dunn, Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, and Peggy Ann Garner, who won a Special Academy Award for Outstanding Child Actress of 1945.

The film was directed by Elia Kazan, and Leigh won her second Academy Award for this performance.

Schett then reached her first consecutive final at the Internazionali Femminili di Palermo, but lost to the second seed Sandrine Testud ; also won the doubles title with Silvia Farina Elia.

Upon the notification by the censorship board that certain films on the program were to be banned, the then president of the Golden Tulip Jury, Elia Kazan, organised a protest march with the participation of Turkish filmmakers.

* Venice Film Festival: Golden Lion, Elia Kazan ; 1950.

Projects include the new Betile museum of Nuragic and modern art, designed by the Prizker Award winner Zaha Hadid: being built on the Sant ' Elia promenade.

He was a Tony Award nominee for two roles, and gained prominence in the starring role in director Elia Kazan's film A Face in the Crowd ( 1957 ) before he became better known for his television roles, playing the lead characters in the 1960 – 1968 situation comedy The Andy Griffith Show and in the 1986 – 1995 legal drama Matlock.

Elia Kazan was nominated for a DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures in 1953.

After appearing in another flop, Night of the Auk, Plummer was in another hit, Elia Kazan's production of Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer Prize-winning play J. B., for which he was nominated for his first Tony Award as Best Actor in Play.

* Venice Film Festival: International Award, Elia Kazan ; 1950.

* National Board of Review: NBR Award, Best Director, Elia Kazan ; 1947.

* New York Film Critics Circle Awards: NYFCC Award Best Director, Elia Kazan ; 1947.