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Otto Preminger: Directors
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented a centennial tribute to three-time Academy Award-nominated director and producer Otto Preminger on November 2, 2006, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Pictured here are program host Peter Bogdanovich (left), director, author and Preminger friend, and actress Carol Lynley, who appeared in Preminger's film "The Cardinal" (1963).
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Chafing under the restrictions of his first job in Hollywood, as a studio employee at Twentieth Century-Fox, Preminger broke away when he could in order to set up in business for himself. Relocating his base from Los Angeles to New York, he became an industry pioneer, the first fully independent producer-director in American films, and in the process created a model for the way motion pictures are produced that endures to the present.
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Though he was known for his fiery temperament, as a director, Preminger was cool and austere. “It’s a fascinating contradiction,” Hirsch notes. “You’d expect a man with that temper to make very heated, excitable films. They’re not. They’re very reflective and meditative.” Preminger loved long takes, and resisted fancy camera angles and editing. When it works, his detached style works tremendously.
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Preminger loved hot buttons, but as a director he was drawn to fragile temperaments; several of his lead actresses committed suicide or overdosed under suspicious circumstances (Dorothy Dandridge, Marilyn Monroe, Maggie McNamara and Jean Seberg). That's not Preminger's fault, but it suggests the kind of nervous performers he drew upon.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented a centennial tribute to three-time Academy Award-nominated director and producer Otto Preminger on November 2, 2006, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Oscar-winner Eva Marie Saint, pictured here, discussed her experience working with Preminger on his film "Exodus" (1960) with program host Peter Bogdanovich, director, author and Preminger friend.
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[L]ike a lot of old-school directors groping their way into the Brave New World of the 1960s -- Preminger began to slide. Actually, he plummeted -- none of his movies would find favor again.
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