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The Defiant Ones is a 1958 American drama film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer. The film was adapted by Harold Jacob Smith from the story by Nedrick Young , originally credited as Nathan E. Douglas.
1958 Best Writing, Story and Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen for The Defiant Ones Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith co-wrote the screenplay, but Young was blacklisted and used a pseudonym for his screen credit. [ 2 ]
The Defiant Ones received an Oscar for the "best screenplay written directly for the screen" in 1958. [2] For the same film, Young and co-writer Harold Jacob Smith won a 1959 Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay, from the Mystery Writers of America. Inherit the Wind was also nominated for, but did not win, an Academy Award in 1960.
The following year, Kramer directed The Defiant Ones (1958), the story of two escaped convicts in the Deep South, one black, played by Sidney Poitier, and one white, Tony Curtis. To add to the intensity of the drama, both men are shackled together with chains, forcing them, despite their wishes, into a sense of brotherhood, suffering and fear.
In 1958 he starred alongside Tony Curtis in director Stanley Kramer's The Defiant Ones. [52] The film was a critical and commercial success with the performances of both Poitier and Curtis being praised.
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The 16th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1958 films, were held on March 5, 1959. Winners and nominees. Film ... Tony Curtis – The Defiant Ones;
1958: Silver Bear for Best Actor (Berlin Film Festival) for The Defiant Ones; 1963: Silver Bear for Best Actor (Berlin Film Festival) for Lilies of the Field [17] 1997: Appointed non-resident Bahamian Ambassador to Japan; 2011: Film Society of Lincoln Center Gala Tribute [18] honoring his life and careers