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Mel Brooks: Academy Award
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Mel Brooks later moved into film, working as an actor, director, writer, and producer. Brooks' first film was The Critic (1963), an animated satire of arty, esoteric cinema, conceived by Brooks and directed by Ernest Pintoff. Brooks supplied running commentary as the baffled moviegoer trying to make sense of the obscure visuals. The short film won an Academy Award.
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While Mel Brooks was discovering how to stand up, The Academy gave a standing ovation to these movies and actors: 'Wings'- Produced By Paramount Pictures won the Best Movie Academy Award in 1928. Also this year, the Academy Award for Best Actor went to Emil Jennings for his role in 'The Way of All Flesh' and the Best Actress Award went to Janet Gaynor for her role in 'Seventh Heaven'.
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Brooks was hired by Dan Melnick to create a spy spoof for television in 1964. Brooks helped create many of the concepts behind Get Smart, and is responsible for naming the lead character Max, which is ... the name of his son. Brooks, who also co-wrote a few episodes in the first season, only stayed for the very beginning of Get Smart. He used the money from the show to allow him time to work on his first feature film, The Producers. He won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay for that movie and his career took off after that.
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Mel Brooks, a person of multiple talents belongs to the class of Academy Award winning American actors. He was ... a writer, a director and a producer. He was known for the creation of comedy parodies. Starting as a stand up comic he later moved into movies where he worked as an actor, a director and a producer. His first film, The Producers won an Oscar for the Best Original Screenplay.
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