Roger Corman | |
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![]() Corman at the 82nd Academy Awards | |
1 Nomination / 1 Win | |
Role | Director, Producer |
Born | April 5, 1926 |
Detroit, Michigan, USA | |
Roger Corman is an American film producer, director and actor. He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies. Much of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Admired by members of the French New Wave and Cahiers Du Cinema, in 1964 Corman was the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque Française, as well as the British Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art. In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award. Corman mentored and gave a start to many young film directors such as Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese and Peter Bogdanovich. He helped launch the careers of actors Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson. A documentary about Corman's life and career entitled "Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel" premiered at Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals in 2011, directed by Alex Stapleton. The film's TV rights were picked up by A&E IndieFilms after a well-received screening at Sundance. He has over 400 titles to his credit but he is best known for A Bucket of Blood (1959), House of Usher (1960), Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Raven (1963), The Dunwich Horror (1970), and The Terror Within (1989).
Special and Honorary Awards[]
- 82nd Academy Awards, 2009
- Honorary Award for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers