Frank Capra
Frank CAPRA (1897, Italy - 1991, USA) was a Sicilian-born American film director and the creative force behind numerous films of the 1930s en 1940s. Capra won a total of six Academy Awards. He was nominated six times for Best Director and six times for Outstanding Production/Best Picture. Out of six nominations for Best Director, Capra received the award three times. In 1971, Capra published his autobiography, The Name Above the Title and he was also the subject of a 1991 biography by Joseph McBride, Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success.
Filmography
(selection) The Strong Man (1926), Platinum Blonde (1931), Lady for a Day (1933), Broadway Bill (1934), It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Lost Horizon (1937), You Can't Take It with You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John Doe (1941), The Battle of Britain (1943, doc, co-dir), The Battle of China (1944, doc, co-dir), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), It's a Wonderful Life (1946), State of the Union (1948), Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
Frank Capra op IFFR
The Battle of China
65'
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IFFR 2010