John Sturges
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John Eliot Sturges (January 3, 1910 to August 18, 1992) was an American film producer.
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), A war in the United Kingdom, are two of his films. Corral (1957), The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Great Escape (1963), and Zebra (1968).
The Magnificent Seven was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2013 as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
He was not connected to filmmaker Preston Sturges.
Career
In 1932, Sturges began his career as an editor in Hollywood. Sturges produced documentaries and training films as a captain in the United States Army Air Force's First Motion Picture Unit during World War II. Sturges' mainstream directorial career began with The Man Who Dared (1946), the first of many B movies. Spencer Tracy alone against a vast desert panorama in his suspense film Bad Day at Black Rock (1955). He made an innovative use of the widescreen CinemaScope technique in the suspense film Bad Day at Black Rock (1955). He received a Best Director Oscar nomination for the film. Sturges earned a reputation for elevating character-based drama within the boundaries of genre filmmaking over the course of his career. In 1992, he was given the Golden Boot Award for his lifetime service to Westerns.
He once met Akira Kurosawa, who told him that he loved The Magnificent Seven (which was a reimagining of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai). Sturges said this was his best moment in his professional career. The Magnificent Seven was inducted into the 2013 National Film Registry list. Sturges said that the reason for its burgeoning success is due in part to several young actors, moving from Japan to Mexico, putting Yul Brynner's career in jeopardy and having part of its score used as the Marlboro cigarette commercial theme.
Awards
- Nominee Best Director — Academy Awards (Bad Day at Black Rock)
- Nominee Palme d'Or — Cannes Film Festival (Bad Day at Black Rock)
- Nominee Best Director — Directors Guild of America (Bad Day at Black Rock)
- Nominee Best Director — Directors Guild of America (Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (film))
- Winner Best Foreign Language Film — Blue Ribbon Awards (Japan) (The Old Man and the Sea)
- Nominee Best Picture — Hugo Awards (Marooned) (also, screenwriter Mayo Simon, author Martin Caidin)
- Nominee Grand Prix — Moscow International Film Festival (The Great Escape)
- Winner "Golden Eddie" Filmmaker of the Year — American Cinema Editors (1970)
- Winner Golden Boot Award (1992)