Irwin Winkler was born on May 28,1931 and is an American film producer and director.
12 Facts About Irwin Winkler
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Irwin Winkler is the producer or director of over 58 motion pictures, dating back to 1967's Double Trouble, starring Elvis Presley.
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Irwin Winkler won an Oscar for Best Picture for 1976's Rocky.
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Chartoff and Irwin Winkler achieved their greatest success yet with Rocky, which earned the Academy Award as Best Picture.
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Subsequently, the producing duo picked up Best Picture Oscar nominations for Raging Bull and The Right Stuff, their last project together before Chartoff-Irwin Winkler Productions dissolved in 1985.
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Irwin Winkler produced such noteworthy features as The Right Stuff which received eight Academy Award nominations with four wins, Round Midnight which garnered two Academy Award nominations.
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Irwin Winkler then produced back-to-back Costa-Gavras films, Betrayed and Music Box, which was nominated and won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, before receiving another Best Picture Oscar nomination for Goodfellas.
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Irwin Winkler moved into the director's chair, debuting with Guilty by Suspicion, a drama about the Hollywood blacklist that starred Robert De Niro, which was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.
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Irwin Winkler fared excellently at the box office as the writer-director of the Sandra Bullock vehicle The Net, which spawned a series of the same name debuting on the USA Network in 1998.
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Irwin Winkler married his wife Margo Irwin Winkler in 1959 while still working at WMA in New York.
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Irwin Winkler's youngest son Adam is a professor of constitutional law at the UCLA School of Law and a published author.
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Irwin Winkler was the recipient of the 2017 Producers Guild of America's David O Selznick Achievement Award for his work in motion pictures and was awarded the Commandeur des Arts et Lettres by France.