Charles Brackett

Charles Brackett
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.