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Academy Awards: 3 8 Golden Globe Awards: 1 6 Primetime Emmy Awards: 22 62 James L. Brooks is an American filmmaker. He is known for his work as a writer-director ...
James Lawrence Brooks (born May 9, 1940) is an American director, producer, screenwriter and co-founder of Gracie Films.He co-created the sitcoms The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, and The Simpsons and directed the films Terms of Endearment (1983), Broadcast News (1987), and As Good as It Gets (1997).
The winners were announced at the awards ceremony on April 9. James L. Brooks was the third writer-director-producer to win three Oscars for the same film. [8] With four wins, Fanny and Alexander became the most awarded foreign language film in Academy Award history at the time.
Jack Nicholson, Shirley MacLaine and James L. Brooks holding their Oscars at the 1984 Academy Awards The instant success was not something that Brooks was expecting.
James L. Brooks looks back on his debut feature as a director, which won him 3 Oscars, reflecting on collaborators Jack Nicholson, Debra Winger and Polly Platt.
James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Al Jean, John Frink (executive producers), Matt Selman (executive producer, written by), Carolyn Omine (co-executive producer, written by), Tim Long, Rob Lazebnik ...
As Good as It Gets is a 1997 American romantic comedy film directed by James L. Brooks from a screenplay he co-wrote with Mark Andrus.It stars Jack Nicholson as a misanthropic, bigoted and obsessive–compulsive novelist, Helen Hunt as a single mother with a chronically ill son, and Greg Kinnear as a gay artist.
Six directors won the award for their feature film debut: Delbert Mann for Marty (1955), Jerome Robbins for West Side Story (1961), Robert Redford for Ordinary People (1980), James L. Brooks for Terms of Endearment (1983), Kevin Costner for Dances With Wolves (1990), and Sam Mendes for American Beauty (1999).