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Delbert Mann
Delbert Martin Mann, Jr.
(January 30, 1920 – November 11, 2007) was an American television and film director. He won the
Palme d'Or
(Golden Palm) at the
Cannes Film Festival
and the
Academy Award for Best Director
for the film
Marty
. It was the first
Best Picture
winner to be based on a television program, being adapted from a 1953
teleplay of the same name
which he had also directed. Mann is also the only director other than
Billy Wilder
and
Roman Polanski
to win an
Oscar
for his direction and a
Cannes Palme d'Or
for the same film. From 1967 to 1971, he was president of the
Directors Guild of America
. Mann's work is often seen to be part of the expressive sentimental style of film directing.
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