“one of the most dangerous and foolhardy moves of my entire career.”
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Stanley Kramer
Stanley Earl Kramer was an American film director and producer, responsible for making many of Hollywood's most famous "message films" and a liberal movie icon. As an independent producer and director, he brought attention to topical social issues that most studios avoided. Among the subjects covered in his films were racism, nuclear war, greed, creationism vs. evolution, and the causes and effect…
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entertainment · American film director and producer (1913–2001) · film producer · film director · autobiographer · also Stanley Kramer, Stanley Earl Kramer, Kramer
Born 29 September 1913 · Died 19 February 2001 · Q73136
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2026· 4 entries
Central Nebraska Today: Doug Kramer receives Above and Beyond Award from Buffalo Co. Community Partners
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Tribute Archive: Robert Nicholas Kramer Obituary | Coyle Funeral and Cremation Services | Toledo, OH
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Film Comment: Books: Films That Explode Like Grenades: Robert Kramer and the Search for a Radical Cinema
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2002· 2 entries
The Stanley Kramer Award was created, to be awarded to recipients whose work "dramatically illustrates provocative social issues"
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To honor a production or individuals whose contribution illuminates and raises public awareness of important social issues
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2001· 2 entries
In Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, aged 87, after contracting pneumonia
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Died 2001-02-19.
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1998· 1 entry
Was awarded the first NAACP Vanguard Award in recognition of "the strong social themes that ran through his body of work"
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1997· 1 entry
Kramer published his autobiography A Mad Mad Mad Mad World: A Life in Hollywood
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1991· 1 entry
Signed a deal with Trimark to direct and produce Bubble Man, a project he had been working on since 1972, but it was not made
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1986· 1 entry
Signed an agreement with Columbia Pictures to produce or direct two films, Chernobyl and Beirut, but the deal fell through when David Puttnam left Columbia
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1970· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1970).
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1963· 1 entry
Was a member of the jury at the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival
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1962· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Director for Judgment at Nuremberg (1962).
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Awarded Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (1962).
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1960· 1 entry
Out of the original 1,550 stars created and installed as a unit in 1960
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1953· 1 entry
Cohn and Kramer agreed to terminate the five-year, 20-film contract Kramer had signed
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1951· 1 entry
Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn offered Kramer's company an opportunity to form a production unit working with his studio
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1950· 1 entry
Was Kramer's production of Cyrano de Bergerac, the first English language film version of Edmond Rostand's 1897 French play
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1947· 1 entry
So he created an independent production company, Screen Plays Inc
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1943· 1 entry
During World War II, where he helped make training films with the Signal Corps in New York, along with other Hollywood filmmakers including Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak
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1933· 1 entry
At the age of nineteen with a degree in business administration
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1913· 1 entry
Born 1913-09-29.
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