Robert Rossen
Birth Name:
Robert Rosen
Birth Place:
New York City, New York, United States
Profession
Writer, Director, Producer
Fast Facts
- His Star was added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 for his contributions to Motion Pictures
- After refusing to testify for some time and being put on Hollywood's unofficial blacklist, in May, 1953, and gave the names of 57 members of the Communist Party at the HUAC hearings
- Started as a director and socialist playwright for plays for the Washington Square Players and the Maverick Woodstock Players
- Tried his hand at several prizefights as a young man
- Was able to use his real life experience as a pool hustler for his film "The Hustler․"
- Was one of the first directors to develop film gris, which explored the conditions of working people and offered social criticism about capitalistic society
- While filming "All the King's Men," he shot on location no matter what weather and lighting conditions were like and caught people on film who were not professional actors, which is comparable to the style of Italian post-war neo-realists
Awards
- 1950Oscar - Best Director:Nominated
- 1950Oscar - Best Writing, Screenplay:Nominated
- 1950DGA Award - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures:Winner
- 1950Golden Globe - Best Director:Winner
- 1950Golden LionNominated
- 1950WGA Award (Screen) - The Robert Meltzer Award (Screenplay Dealing Most Ably with Problems of the American Scene):Winner
- 1950WGA Award (Screen) - Best Written American Drama:Winner
- 1957DGA Award - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures:Nominated
- 1961NYFCC Award - Best Director:Winner
- 1962Oscar - Best Picture:Nominated
- 1962Oscar - Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium:Nominated
- 1962Oscar - Best Director:Nominated
- 1962DGA Award - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures:Nominated
- 1962Best Film - International Competition:Nominated
- 1962WGA Award (Screen) - Best Written American Drama:Winner
- 1963Kinema Junpo Award - Best Foreign Language Film:Nominated
- 1965Top 10 Film Award - Best Film:Nominated