Education
University of California, Los Los Angeles
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Denis Sanders
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Career
In 1958 he teamed up again with Sanders to adapt Norman Mailer"s World World War II novel The Naked and the Dead. He was born in New York City and died from a heart attack in San Diego, California, where he was professor and film maker in residence at San Diego State University.
Achievements
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He won two Academy Awards, the first for Best Short Subject in 1955 for A Time Out of War that had served as his master"s degree thesis at University of California, Los Angeles and which he co-scripted with his brother Terry Sanders. And the second for Best Documentary in 1970 for Czechoslovakia 1968.
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Born
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Died
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Nationality
American