Nicholas Ray

Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle; 7 August 1911 – 16 June 1979) was an American film director best known for the films Rebel Without a Cause and Johnny Guitar. Described by the Harvard Film Archive as "Hollywood's last romantic" and "one of postwar American cinema’s supremely gifted and ultimately tragic filmmakers," Ray was considered an iconoclastic auteur director who often clashed with the Hollywood studio system of the time, but would prove highly influential to future generations of filmmakers. His best-known work is the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause, starring James Dean. He is appreciated for many narrative features produced between 1947 and 1963, including They Live By Night (1948), In A Lonely Place (1950), Johnny Guitar (1954), Bigger Than Life (1956), and King of Kings (1961), as well as an experimental work produced throughout the 1970s titled We Can't Go Home Again, which was unfinished at the time of Ray's death. During his lifetime, Ray was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Rebel Without a Cause, twice for the Golden Lion, for Bigger Than Life (1956) and Bitter Victory (1957), and a Palme d'Or for The Savage Innocents (1960). Three of his films were ranked by Cahiers du Cinéma in their Annual Top 10 Lists. Ray's compositions within the CinemaScope frame and use of color are particularly well regarded and he was an important influence on the French New Wave, with Jean-Luc Godard famously writing in a review of Bitter Victory, "... there is cinema. And the cinema is Nicholas Ray."

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Party Girl 1958Movie Director

Επαναστάτης Χωρίς Αιτία 1955Movie Director, Story

Hair 1979Movie as The General

55 Μέρες στο Πεκίνο 1963Movie Director

Ο Βασιλεύς των Βασιλέων 1961Movie Director

Ο Στιγματισμένος 1955Movie Director

Σε έναν Έρημο Τόπο 1950Movie Director

Ένας Αμερικάνος Φίλος 1977Movie as Andrew Pogash Derwatt

They Live by Night 1949Movie Director

The True Story of Jesse James 1957Movie Director

Το Μεγαλύτερο Τσίρκο του Κόσμου 1964Movie Story

Johnny Guitar 1954Movie Director, Writer

Born to Be Bad 1950Movie Director

Κολασμένα νειάτα 1949Movie Director

Ένα δέντρο μεγαλώνει στο Μπρούκλιν 1945Movie as Bakery Clerk (uncredited)

Bigger Than Life 1956Movie Director

Επικίνδυνο Μονοπάτι 1951Movie Director

A Woman's Secret 1949Movie Director

Ο Πόθος των Δυο 1952Movie Director

Flying Leathernecks 1951Movie Director

The Savage Innocents 1960Movie Director, Screenplay

Αστραπή Πάνω στο Νερό 1980Movie as Self

Bitter Victory 1957Movie Director, Screenplay

Swing Parade of 1946 1946Movie Writer

I'm a Stranger Here Myself 1975Movie as Self

We Can't Go Home Again 1973Movie as Nick Ray