| Charles Brackett | |
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| 8 Nominations / 4 Wins | |
| Role | Producer, Screenwriter |
| Born | November 26, 1892 |
| Saratoga Springs, New York, USA | |
| Died | March 9, 1969 |
Charles Brackett was an American producer and screenwriter. He was known for his frequent collaborations with Billy Wilder. He was president of the Screen Writers Guild (1938–1939) and was president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1949 through 1955. He won three Academy Awards and received an Honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 1959. Brackett either wrote or produced an additional 39 films during his career. From 1936 until 1950, Brackett worked with Billy Wilder as his collaborator on thirteen movies, including the classics The Lost Weekend (1945) and Sunset Blvd. (1950). Wilder was the more profane of the two partners, while Brackett held to his upper-crust upbringing and was known as the "gentleman" of the pair. Their social and cultural backgrounds often clashed, but Brackett acknowledged later in his life that Wilder's basic instincts about human nature were invaluable to their collaboration. By the late 1940s, a schism based on personal, creative, and contractual differences, festering for many years, began to threaten the partnership. Brackett and Wilder split in 1950, upon the completion of Sunset Boulevard.
Wins
- 18th Academy Awards, 1945
- Best Screenplay — The Lost Weekend (shared with Billy Wilder)
- 23rd Academy Awards, 1950
- Best Story and Screenplay — Sunset Blvd. (shared with Billy Wilder)
- 26th Academy Awards, 1950
- Best Story and Screenplay — Titanic (1953) (shared with Walter Reisch and Richard Breen)
Special and Honorary Awards
- 30th Academy Awards, 1957
- Honorary Award for outstanding service to the Academy
Nominations
- 12th Academy Awards, 1939
- Best Screenplay — Ninotchka (shared with Billy Wilder and Walter Reisch)
- 14th Academy Awards, 1941
- Best Screenplay — Hold Back the Dawn (shared with Billy Wilder)
- 18th Academy Awards, 1945
- Best Screenplay — The Lost Weekend (shared with Billy Wilder)
- 19th Academy Awards, 1946
- Best Screenplay — To Each His Own
- 21st Academy Awards, 1948
- Best Screenplay — A Foreign Affair (shared with Billy Wilder and Richard Breen)
- 23rd Academy Awards, 1950
- Best Story and Screenplay — Sunset Blvd. (shared with Billy Wilder and D.M. Marshman, Jr.)
- 26th Academy Awards, 1953
- Story and Screenplay — Titanic (1953) (shared with Walter Reisch and Richard Breen)
- 29th Academy Awards, 1956
- Picture — The King and I
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