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.

Perhaps Zinnemann's best-known work to come out of the 1950s is High Noon ( 1952 ), one of the first 25 American films chosen in 1989 for the National Film Registry.

( 1955 ), Zinnemann's version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, is noted for the wide screen format Todd-AO making its debut, as did the film's young star, Shirley Jones.

Zinnemann's fortunes changed once again with A Man for All Seasons ( 1966 ), scripted by Robert Bolt from his own play and starring Paul Scofield as Sir Thomas More, portraying him as a man driven by conscience to his ultimate fate.

She may be most widely known for her role as Colette de Montpelier in Zinnemann's 1973 film Day of the Jackal.

The following year Box won his first BAFTA award for his reproduction of Tudor England in Fred Zinnemann's version of A Man for All Seasons.

One of Zinnemann's first assignments in Hollywood was when he found work as an extra in All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ), although he was later discharged from the production.

Zinnemann's next film, From Here to Eternity ( 1953 ), based on the novel by James Jones, would go on to win 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.

Zinnemann's final film was Five Days One Summer ( 1982 ), filmed in Switzerland and based on the short story Maiden, Maiden by Kay Boyle.

Four years later, she would appear in another story of war veterans, Fred Zinnemann's The Men ( 1950 ), which starred Marlon Brando in his film début.

During the 1930s the Mexican film industry realized considerable success movies like La Mujer del Puerto ( 1934 ), Fred Zinnemann's Redes ( 1934 ), Janitzio ( 1934 ), Dos Monjes ( 1934 ), Allá en el Rancho Grande ( 1936 ), Vámonos con Pancho Villa ( 1936 ) from from De Fuentes ' Revolution Trilogy and La Zandunga.

The film went on to win six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor ( Scofield ) and Best Director, Zinnemann's second such Oscar to date.

Despite director Fred Zinnemann's intention to typecast the actor as the comical brother Polo, Murray insisted on playing the lead.

Zinnemann fought hard with producer Harry Cohn to cast Montgomery Clift as the character of Prewitt, although Frank Sinatra, who was at the lowest point of his popularity, cast himself in the role of " Maggio " against Zinnemann's wishes.

In 1952 he composed the score to Fred Zinnemann's High Noon, with the theme song, “ Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin '” (“ The Ballad of High Noon ”).

: The films directed by Sergio Leone have a parodic dimension ( the strange opening scene of Once Upon a Time in the West being a reversal of Fred Zinnemann's High Noon opening scene ) which gave them a different tone to the Hollywood Westerns.

Examples include the social climber in George Stevens's A Place in the Sun, the anguished Catholic priest in Hitchcock's I Confess, the doomed regular soldier Robert E. Lee Prewitt in Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity, and the Jewish GI bullied by antisemites in Edward Dmytryk's The Young Lions.

Heflin and Ryan deliver punchy performances that give substance to the menacing terror ... It's grim business, unrelieved by lightness, and the players belt over their assignments under Zinnemann's knowing direction.

An equally tenable thesis is that the dearth of new thought was created by the Senate's own penchant for crucifying anyone whose ideas seem unorthodox to the next generation.

In these first works, drawn mostly from the traditions of mid-century opera buffa, Salieri showed a penchant for experimentation and for mixing the established characteristics of specific operatic genres.

* Twelve red-bearded dwarfs, with a penchant for farcical litigation.

Film critics have often noted De Palma's penchant for unusual camera angles and compositions throughout his career.

He is the only person that has that peculiar something called ' audience appeal ' in sufficient quality to defy the popular penchant for movies that talk.

Also representative of his penchant for the spectacular was the 1952 production of The Greatest Show on Earth which gave DeMille an Oscar for best picture and a nomination for best director.

Chardonnay socialist is a derogatory Australasian term used to describe those on the political left with comfortable middle or upper-class incomes, tertiary education, and a penchant for the finer things in life, Chardonnay being a form of white wine for example.

This allowed Barks to indulge his penchant for elaborate backgrounds that hinted at his thwarted ambitions of doing realistic stories in the vein of Hal Foster's Prince Valiant.

His penchant for the rugged life often took him to cold and damp situations, both in the long term as in Catalonia and Jura, and short term, for example, motorcycling in the rain and suffering a shipwreck.

This was more to preserve the logical precision of the argument than due to a penchant for polytheism.

The two shared a mutual penchant for cocaine and heroin, and as a result, the sessions were largely unproductive, with Parsons eventually losing interest in the project.

Most remarkable is Sushruta's penchant for scientific classification:

The festival's chief executive, Richard Moore, compared Loach's tactics to blackmail, stating that " we will not participate in a boycott against the State of Israel, just as we would not contemplate boycotting films from China or other nations involved in difficult long-standing historical disputes .” Australian lawmaker Michael Danby also criticised Loach ’ s tactics stating that “ Israelis and Australians have always had a lot in common, including contempt for the irritating British penchant for claiming cultural superiority.

With David Angel's atmospheric string and horn arrangements giving the work a conceptual underpinning, Lee explores mainstream America's penchant for paranoia (' The Red Telephone ') and violence (' A House Is Not a Motel ') with songs that are as sonically subtle and lilting as they are lyrically blunt and harrowing.

The first five games in the series concern the renegade guardian of the planet Terra (" Earth " in Latin ), named Sheltem, who becomes irrevocably corrupted, developing a penchant for throwing planets into their suns.

The 1880s saw the club develop a penchant for inter-colonial travel with trips to Tasmania ( 1881 / 1887 ) and South Australia ( 1889 ).

Britain's Deviants, in the late 1960s, played in a range of psychedelic styles with a satiric, anarchic edge and a penchant for situationist-style spectacle presaging the Sex Pistols by almost a decade.

He also demonstrated a penchant for learning, and, according to Cristoforo di Piacenza, he was without famiglia in an age of nepotism, although once in the papal chair he elevated four cardinal-nephews and sought to place one of them in control of Naples.

During the course of their journeys, the three encounter enemies and obstacles both sacred and profane, including: the Saint of Killers, an invincible, quick-drawing, perfect-aiming, come-lately Angel of Death answering only to " He who sits on the throne "; a disfigured suicide attempt survivor turned rock-star named Arseface ; a serial-killer called the ' Reaver-Cleaver '; The Grail, a secret organization controlling the governments of the world and protecting the bloodline of Jesus ; Herr Starr, ostensible Allfather of the Grail, a megalomaniac with a penchant for prostitutes, who wishes to use Custer for his own ends ; several fallen angels ; and Jesse's own redneck ' family ' — particularly his nasty Cajun grandmother, her mighty bodyguard Jody, and the ' animal-loving ' T. C.

But the borrowings are filtered through elements from traditional Chinese drama and art, particularly a penchant for stylisation and a disregard for Western standards of realism.

While teaching at the academy ( 1836 – 1848 ) he developed a portrait style which combined a neoclassical simplicity with a romantic tendency that fused well, and his penchant for realism was satisfied with an intriguing level of psychological penetration.

Whether he is writing full novels, novelettes, or short-stories, however, Inoue's penchant for detailed, exhaustive research and historical accuracy give his stories a flavor of authenticity.

In the Making The Amazing documentary on the Spider-Man 2 DVD, both Tobey Maguire and Bruce Campbell jokingly describe Raimi's penchant for " abusing " actors: In order to get realistic closeups of a character getting hit by debris, Raimi usually stands just off-camera throwing items, swinging tree branches, etc., at the actor who is at the center of the shot.

He is portrayed as Zippy's total opposite, often dressed in a conservative suit, thinking sequentially and avoiding his brother's penchant for non-sequiturs.

However, this story is said by some to be a work of fiction by Alfred Neubauer, the team manager of Mercedes-Benz at the time and a well-known raconteur with a penchant for spicing up a story.

Following the success of Jerry's opening night in London, Jerry follows Dale to Venice, where she is visiting Madge and modelling / promoting the gowns created by Alberto Beddini ( Erik Rhodes ), a dandified Italian fashion designer with a penchant for malapropisms.

While disappointing on the narrative level the film nevertheless is a showcase for the rare gem that is early Kiwi comedy, highlighting a penchant for comedic understatment, an emphasis on New Zealand speech patterns ( verbal reversals and wordplay ) and the ironic stabs at the obvious.

It is doubtful whether the full truth will ever be known however, as anyone with any evidence would not be likely to come forward with it in light of the poor human rights record of the National Intelligence Agency, and their well-known penchant for torturing and detaining indefinitely anyone who speaks up against the Government.

It is currently used to describe a wide variety of musical acts and styles, linked by a penchant for overtly electronic production ; a range which includes more popular acts such as Björk, Goldfrapp and IDM artists such as Autechre, and Aphex Twin to dub-oriented downtempo, downbeat, and trip-hop.

Boober is Fraggle Rock's most talented cook and does everyone's laundry, and has a penchant for singing the blues.

Another Letterman trademark is his penchant for odd, non-sequitur one-liners.

The college's undergraduate gossip sheet is entitled The Sheepshagger in allusion to an offensive joke about Welsh people's supposed penchant for sheep.

Another common trait is their show of affection: they have a particular penchant for being close to the head or neck of their human companions and can often be found mounted upon one's shoulder or nestled into the cranny created by the neck and shoulder when one is prone.

This generation is also sometimes referred to as the Boomerang Generation or Peter Pan Generation, because of the members ' perceived penchant for delaying some rites of passage into adulthood, longer periods than most generations before them.

Jack Gurney at first thinks he is God and shocks his family and friends with his talk of returning to the world to bring it love and charity, not to mention his penchant for breaking out into song and dance routines and sleeping upright on a cross.

* The Black Knight is a moniker given to golfer Gary Player in the 1960s by the media for his penchant for black attire on and off the golf course and for his courteous demeanour.

Stevo's grades are excellent, and when his father ( Christopher McDonald )-a lawyer with a Porsche and a penchant for younger women-sends an application to Harvard Law School and Stevo is accepted, he nevertheless rejects it because of his beliefs.

" Scotch mist " is a light steady drizzle, the name being typical of the Scottish penchant for understatement ( and of Scottish weather ).

Its penchant for waiting by hotel windows for food is popular with tourists, but less so with hotel owners.