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Fritz Umgelter was a German television director, television writer, and film director. Umgelter worked mainly in television as both a writer and director. He received directing credit for 68 TV films or series, and received writing credits for 22 TV films or series segments. He also directed 7... cinema films , but these were not critically acclaimed, and he remains best known for his television works. In 1967 his television film, "Bratkartoffeln inbegriffen", won the Teleplay Award at the Baden-Baden TV Film Festival. This award is presented by the "Deutsche Akademie der Darstellenden Künste" and is a German analog to a BAFTA or Emmy Award.
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Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors. He epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, that includes Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Robert... Altman, Woody Allen, William Friedkin, Peter Bogdanovich, and Brian De Palma who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary film-making. He co-wrote the script for Patton , which won an Academy Award for Original Screenplay. His directorial fame escalated with the release of The Godfather , a film which revolutionized movie-making in the gangster genre, earning praise from critics and public alike. It won three Academy Awards, including his second, for Best Adapted Screenplay, and was instrumental in cementing his position as a prominent American film director. Coppola followed it with a critically successful sequel, The Godfather Part II , which became the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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