Paul Newman

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Paul Newman

Newman in The Prize (1963)
Born Paul Leonard Newman
January 26, 1925
Shaker Heights, Ohio, U.S.
Died September 26, 2008 (aged 83)
Westport, Connecticut, U.S.
Cause of death
 Lung cancer
Education Ohio University
Kenyon College
Yale University
Actors Studio
Occupation Actor, director, entrepreneur, professional racing driver, philanthropist
Years active 1948–2008
Spouse(s) Jackie Witte
(1949–1958; divorced)
Joanne Woodward
(1958–2008; his death)
Children Allan Scott Newman (1950–1978)
Stephanie Newman (b. 1951)
Susan Kendall Newman (b. 1953)
Elinor Teresa Newman (b. 1959)
Melissa Steward Newman (b. 1961)
Claire Olivia Newman (b. 1965)

Military career

Allegiance  United States of America
Service/branch  United States Navy
Years of service 1943–1946[1]
Rank Aviation Radioman Third Class
Unit Torpedo Squadron 98
Torpedo Squadron 99
Torpedo Squadron 100
Battles/wars World War II

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008)[2] was an actor, film director, entrepreneur, professional racing driver and team owner; he was also an environmentalist, social activist and philanthropist. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 film The Color of Money,[3] a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy Award, and many honorary awards. He also won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing, and his race teams won several championships in open wheel IndyCar racing.

Newman married actress Joanne Woodward in 1958, and they remained married until his death. He was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which Newman donated all post-tax profits and royalties to charity.[4] As of 2014, these donations exceeded US$400 million.[4] He was also a co-founder of Safe Water Network, a nonprofit that develops sustainable drinking water solutions for those in need.[5] In 1988, Paul founded the SeriousFun Children's Network, a global family of camps and programs for children with serious illness which has served 290,076 children since its inception.[6]

Early years

Newman was born January 26, 1925 in Shaker Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, the second son of Theresa (née Fetzer or Fetsko; Slovak: Terézia Fecková)[7][8] and Arthur Sigmund Newman, who ran a profitable sporting goods store.[9][10][11] His father was Jewish (Paul's paternal grandparents, Simon Newman and Hannah Cohn, were immigrants from Hungary and Poland).[10][12] His mother, who practiced Christian Science, was born to a Slovak Roman Catholic family at Homonna, Ptičie (formerly Peticse) in the former Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Humenné in Slovakia).[8][13][14][15] Newman had no religion as an adult, but described himself as a Jew, saying, "it's more of a challenge."[16] Newman's mother worked in his father's store, while raising Paul and his elder brother, Arthur,[17] who later became a producer and production manager.[18]

Newman showed an early interest in the theater; his first role was at the age of seven, playing the court jester in a school production of Robin Hood. Graduating from Shaker Heights High School in 1943, he briefly attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he was initiated into the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity.[18]

Military service

Newman served in the United States Navy in World War II in the Pacific theater.[18] Initially, he enrolled in the Navy V-12 pilot training program at Yale University, but was dropped when his colorblindness was discovered.[18][19] Boot camp followed, with training as a radioman and rear gunner. Qualifying in torpedo bombers in 1944, Aviation Radioman Third Class Newman was sent to Barber's Point, Hawaii. He was subsequently assigned to Pacific-based replacement torpedo squadrons VT-98, VT-99, and VT-100, responsible primarily for training replacement combat pilots and air crewmen, with special emphasis on carrier landings.[19]

Newman later flew as a turret gunner in an Avenger torpedo bomber. As a radioman-gunner, he was ordered aboard the USS Bunker Hill with a draft of replacements shortly before the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945. An ear infection grounded his pilot, leaving the pair the detail's sole survivors when the rest of their unit was wiped out in action during the campaign.[20]

University and training

After the war, he completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in drama and economics at Kenyon College in 1949.[21] Shortly after earning his degree, Newman joined several summer stock companies, most notably the Belfry Players in Wisconsin[22] and the Woodstock Players in Illinois. He toured with them for three months and developed his talents as a part of Woodstock Players.[18][23] Newman later attended the Yale School of Drama for one year before moving to New York City to study under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio.[18]

Oscar Levant wrote that Newman initially was hesitant to leave New York for Hollywood: "Too close to the cake," he reported him saying, "Also, no place to study."[24]

Career

Early work and mainstream success

In his first film, The Silver Chalice (1954)

Newman arrived in New York City in 1951 with his first wife Jackie Witte, taking up residence in the St. George section of Staten Island.[25][26] He made his Broadway theater debut in the original production of William Inge's Picnic with Kim Stanley in 1953 and appeared in the original Broadway production of The Desperate Hours in 1955. In 1959, he was in the original Broadway production of Sweet Bird of Youth with Geraldine Page and three years later starred with Page in the film version.

During this time Newman started acting in television. His first credited role was in a 1952 episode of Tales of Tomorrow entitled "Ice from Space".[27] In the mid-1950s, he appeared twice on CBS's Appointment with Adventure anthology series.

In February 1954, Newman appeared in a screen test with James Dean, directed by Gjon Mili, for East of Eden (1955). Newman was tested for the role of Aron Trask, Dean for the role of Aron's fraternal twin brother Cal. Dean won his part, but Newman lost out to Richard Davalos. That same year, Newman co-starred with Eva Marie Saint and Frank Sinatra in a live—and color—television broadcast of Our Town, a musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder's stage play. Newman was a last-minute replacement for James Dean.[28] The "James Dean" connection had resonance two other times, as Newman was cast in two leading roles originally earmarked for Dean, Billy the Kid in The Left Handed Gun and Rocky Graziano in Somebody Up There Likes Me, after Dean succumbed to his fateful automobile collision up the California coast.

Newman's first movie for Hollywood was The Silver Chalice (1954). The film was a box office failure and the actor would later acknowledge his disdain for it.[29] In 1956, Newman garnered much attention and acclaim for the boxer Graziano lead in Somebody Up There Likes Me. By 1958, he was one of the hottest new stars in Hollywood. Later that year, he starred in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), opposite Elizabeth Taylor. The film was a box office smash and Newman garnered his first Academy Award nomination. Also in 1958, Newman starred in The Long, Hot Summer with Joanne Woodward, with whom he reconnected on the set in 1957 (they had first met in 1953). He won best actor at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival for this film.

Major films

Newman starred in Exodus (1960), The Hustler (1961), Hud (1963), Harper (1966), Hombre (1967), Cool Hand Luke (1967), The Towering Inferno (1974), Slap Shot (1977), and The Verdict (1982). He teamed with fellow actor Robert Redford and director George Roy Hill for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and The Sting (1973).

He appeared with his wife, Joanne Woodward, in the feature films The Long, Hot Summer (1958), Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!, (1958), From the Terrace (1960), Paris Blues (1961), A New Kind of Love (1963), Winning (1969), WUSA (1970), The Drowning Pool (1975), Harry & Son (1984), and Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990). They both also starred in the HBO miniseries Empire Falls, but did not have any scenes together.

Paul Newman at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival

In addition to starring in and directing Harry & Son, Newman also directed four feature films starring Woodward. They were Rachel, Rachel (1968), based on Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God, the screen version of the Pulitzer Prize–winning play The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972), the television screen version of the Pulitzer Prize–winning play The Shadow Box (1980), and a screen version of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie (1987).

Twenty-five years after The Hustler, Newman reprised his role of "Fast" Eddie Felson in the Martin Scorsese–directed film The Color of Money (1986), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

21st century roles

In 2003, Newman appeared in a Broadway revival of Wilder's Our Town, receiving his first Tony Award nomination for his performance. PBS and the cable network Showtime aired a taping of the production, and Newman was nominated for an Emmy Award[30] for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie.

Newman's last screen appearance was as a conflicted mob boss in the 2002 film Road to Perdition opposite Tom Hanks, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, although he continued to provide voice work for films. In 2006, in keeping with his strong interest in car racing, he provided the voice of Doc Hudson, a retired anthropomorphic race car in Disney/Pixar's Cars—this was his final role for a major feature film.

Newman retired from acting in May 2007, saying "You start to lose your memory, you start to lose your confidence, you start to lose your invention. So I think that's pretty much a closed book for me."[31]

He came out of retirement to record narration for two more films, however: the 2007 documentary Dale, about the life of NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, and the 2008 documentary The Meerkats.

Philanthropy

Newman in 2007

With writer A. E. Hotchner, Newman founded Newman's Own, a line of food products, in 1982. The brand started with salad dressing, and has expanded to include pasta sauce, lemonade, popcorn, salsa, and wine, among other things. Newman established a policy that all proceeds, after taxes, would be donated to charity. As of 2014, the franchise has donated in excess of $400 million.[4] He co-wrote a memoir about the subject with Hotchner, Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good. Among other awards, Newman's Own co-sponsors the PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award, a $25,000 reward designed to recognize those who protect the First Amendment as it applies to the written word.[32]

One beneficiary of his philanthropy is the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, a residential summer camp for seriously ill children, which is located in Ashford, Connecticut. Newman co-founded the camp in 1988; it was named after the gang in his film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Newman's college fraternity, Phi Kappa Tau, adopted Hole in the Wall as their "national philanthropy" in 1995. One camp has expanded to become several Hole in the Wall Camps in the U.S., Ireland, France, and Israel. The camps serve 13,000 children every year, free of charge.[4]

In June 1999, Newman donated $250,000 to Catholic Relief Services to aid refugees in Kosovo.[33]

On June 1, 2007, Kenyon College announced that Newman had donated $10 million to the school to establish a scholarship fund as part of the college's current $230 million fund-raising campaign. Newman and Woodward were honorary co-chairs of a previous campaign.[34]

Newman was one of the founders of the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP), a membership organization of CEOs and corporate chairpersons committed to raising the level and quality of global corporate philanthropy. Founded in 1999 by Newman and a few leading CEOs, CECP has grown to include more than 175 members and, through annual executive convenings, extensive benchmarking research, and best practice publications, leads the business community in developing sustainable and strategic community partnerships through philanthropy.[35] Newman was named the Most Generous Celebrity of 2008 by Givingback.org. He contributed $20,857,000 for the year of 2008 to the Newman's Own Foundation, which distributes funds to a variety of charities.[36]

Upon Newman's death, the Italian newspaper (a "semi-official" paper of the Holy See) L'Osservatore Romano published a notice lauding Newman's philanthropy. It also commented that "Newman was a generous heart, an actor of a dignity and style rare in Hollywood quarters."[37]

Newman is recognized as responsible for preserving lands around Westport, Connecticut. He lobbied the state's governor for funds for the 2011 Aspetuck Land Trust in Easton.[38] In 2011 Paul Newman's estate gifted land to Westport to be managed by the Aspetuck Land Trust.[39]

Marriages and family

Newman was married to Jackie Witte[18] from 1949 to 1958. They had a son, Scott, born in 1950, and two daughters, Stephanie Kendall born in 1951 and Susan born in 1953.[18] Scott, who appeared in films including Breakheart Pass, The Towering Inferno and the 1977 film Fraternity Row, died in November 1978 from a drug overdose.[40] Paul Newman started the Scott Newman Center for drug abuse prevention in memory of his son.[41] Susan is a documentary filmmaker and philanthropist and has Broadway and screen credits, including a starring role as one of four Beatles fans in I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), and also a small role opposite her father in Slap Shot. She also received an Emmy nomination as co-producer of his telefilm, The Shadow Box.

Newman met actress Joanne Woodward in 1953. Shortly after filming The Long, Hot Summer in 1957, he divorced Witte. He married Woodward early in 1958. They remained married for fifty years until his death in 2008.[42] They had three daughters: Elinor "Nell" Teresa (b. 1959), Melissa "Lissy" Stewart (b. 1961), and Claire "Clea" Olivia (b. 1965). Newman directed Nell (using the stage name Nell Potts) alongside her mother in the films Rachel, Rachel and The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.

The Newmans lived away from the Hollywood environment, making their home in Westport, Connecticut. Newman was well known for his devotion to his wife and family. When asked once about infidelity, he famously quipped, "Why go out for a hamburger when you have steak at home?"[43]

Newman was also an ordained minister of the Universal Life Church Monastery, a one-day online certificate program to officiate weddings.[44]

Political activism

Newman at a political rally for Eugene McCarthy in 1968

Newman was a lifelong Democrat. For his support of Eugene McCarthy in 1968 (and effective use of television commercials in California) and his opposition to the War in Vietnam, Newman was placed nineteenth on Richard Nixon's enemies list,[45] which Newman claimed was his greatest accomplishment. During the 1968 general election, Newman supported Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey and appeared in a pre-election night telethon for him.

Consistent with his work for liberal causes, Newman publicly supported Ned Lamont's candidacy in the 2006 Connecticut Democratic Primary against Senator Joe Lieberman, and was even rumored as a candidate himself, until Lamont emerged as a credible alternative. He donated to Chris Dodd's presidential campaign.[46]

He attended the first Earth Day event in Manhattan on April 22, 1970.[47]

Newman was concerned about global warming and supported nuclear energy development as a solution.[48]

Auto racing

A Newman Freeman Racing NF Spyder Can-Am race car

Newman was an auto racing enthusiast, and first became interested in motorsports ("the first thing that I ever found I had any grace in") while training at the Watkins Glen Racing School for the filming of Winning, a 1969 film. Because of his love and passion for racing, Newman agreed in 1971 to star in and to host his first television special, Once Upon a Wheel, on the history of auto racing. It was produced and directed by David Winters, who co-owned a number of racing cars with Newman.[49][50] Newman's first professional event as a racer was in 1972, at Thompson International Speedway, and he was a frequent competitor in Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) events for the rest of the decade, eventually winning four national championships. He later drove in the 1979 24 Hours of Le Mans in Dick Barbour's Porsche 935 and finished in second place.[51] Newman reunited with Barbour in 2000 to compete in the Petit Le Mans.[52]

24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years 1979
Teams Dick Barbour Racing
Best finish 2nd (1979)
Class wins 1 (1979)

From the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, he drove for the Bob Sharp Racing team, racing mainly Datsuns (later rebranded as Nissans) in the Trans-Am Series. He became closely associated with the brand during the 1980s, even appearing in commercials for them. At the age of 70 years and eight days, he became the oldest driver to be part of a winning team in a major sanctioned race,[53] winning in his class at the 1995 24 Hours of Daytona.[54] Among his last races were the Baja 1000 in 2004 and the 24 Hours of Daytona once again in 2005.[55]

Sharp / Newman Nissan

During the 1976 auto racing season, Paul Newman became interested in forming a professional auto racing team and contacted Bill Freeman from Santa Barbara. Bill is credited as the man who introduced Paul Newman to professional auto racing management, and their company specialized in Can-Am, Indy Cars, and other high performance racing automobiles. The team was based in Santa Barbara, California and commuted to Willow Springs International Motorsports Park for much of its testing sessions.

Their "Newman Freeman Racing" team was very competitive in the North American Can-Am series in their Budweiser sponsored Chevrolet powered Spyder NFs. Paul and Bill began a long and successful partnership with the Newman Freeman Racing team in the Can-Am series which culminated in the Can-Am Team Championship trophy in 1979. Their drivers included Keke Rosberg (who later became World Champion on the Williams Saudia F1 Team), Elliott Forbes-Robinson, Randolph Townsend, Mike Brockman, Howdy Holmes, Teo Fabi, Patrick Depailler, Danny Sullivan, Bobby Rahal, Johnny Parson Jr., among others.

Paul was also associated with Bill Freeman's established Porsche racing team which allowed both Paul and Bill to compete in S.C.C.A. and I.M.S.A. racing events together, including the Sebring 12-hour endurance sports car race. This car was sponsored by Beverly Porsche/Audi. Bill Freeman was also Sports Car Club of America's Southern Pacific National Champion during the Newman Freeman Racing period.

Later Newman co-founded Newman/Haas Racing with Carl Haas, a Champ Car team, in 1983, going on to win 8 drivers' championships under his ownership. The 1996 racing season was chronicled in the IMAX film Super Speedway, which Newman narrated. He was also a partner in the Atlantic Championship team Newman Wachs Racing.

Newman was posthumously inducted into the SCCA Hall of Fame at the national convention in Las Vegas, Nevada on February 21, 2009.[56]

Motorsports career results

(key)

Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
1979 Germany Kremer Racing Germany Rolf Stommelen
United States Dick Barbour		 Porsche 935 IMSA+2.5 300 2nd 1st

Illness and death

Newman was scheduled to make his professional stage directing debut with the Westport Country Playhouse's 2008 production of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, but he stepped down on May 23, 2008, citing health issues.[57] In June 2008, it was widely reported that Newman had been diagnosed with lung cancer and was receiving treatment at Sloan-Kettering hospital in New York City.[58] Writer A. E. Hotchner, who partnered with Newman to start the Newman's Own company in the 1980s, told the Associated Press that Newman told him about the disease about eighteen months prior to the interview.[59] Newman's spokesman told the press that the star was "doing nicely", but neither confirmed nor denied that he had cancer.[60]

Newman died on September 26, 2008, aged 83, surrounded by family and friends.[61][62] He was survived by five of his six children and eight grandchildren.[63] His remains were cremated after a private funeral service near his home in Westport.[64]

Filmography, awards, and nominations

As actor

Year Film Role Notes
1954 The Silver Chalice Basil
1955 Producers' Showcase: Our Town George Gibbs
1956 United States Steel Hour: Bang the Drum Slowly Henry Wiggen
Somebody Up There Likes Me Rocky Graziano Cinema Writers Circle Award for Best Foreign Actor
The Rack Capt. Edward W. Hall Jr.
1957 The Helen Morgan Story Larry Maddux
Until They Sail Capt. Jack Harding
1958 Playhouse 90: The 80 Yard Run Christian Darling
The Long, Hot Summer Ben Quick Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor
The Left Handed Gun Billy the Kid
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Brick Pollitt Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated—Laurel Award for Top Male Dramatic Performance
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! Harry Bannerman
1959 The Young Philadelphians Anthony Judson Lawrence
1960 From the Terrace David Alfred Eaton
Exodus Ari Ben Canaan Nominated—Laurel Award for Top Male Dramatic Performance
1961 The Hustler Eddie Felson BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Laurel Award for Top Male Dramatic Performance
Mar del Plata Film Festival Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
Nominated—New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
Paris Blues Ram Bowen
1962 Sweet Bird of Youth Chance Wayne Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man Ad Francis, "The Battler" Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
1963 Hud Hud Bannon Laurel Award for Top Male Dramatic Performance
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
Nominated—New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
A New Kind of Love Steve Sherman
The Prize Andrew Craig
1964 What a Way to Go! Larry Flint Nominated—Laurel Award for Top Male Comedy Performance
The Outrage Juan Carrasco
1965 Lady L Armand Denis
1966 Harper Lew Harper Nominated—Laurel Award for Top Male Action Performance
Torn Curtain Prof. Michael Armstrong directed by Alfred Hitchcock
1967 Hombre John Russell Nominated—Laurel Award for Top Male Dramatic Performance
Cool Hand Luke Luke Jackson Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
Nominated—Laurel Award for Top Male Dramatic Performance
1968 The Secret War of Harry Frigg Pvt. Harry Frigg
1969 Winning Frank Capua
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Butch Cassidy Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated—Laurel Award for Top Male Dramatic Performance
1970 WUSA Rheinhardt
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis Himself documentary
1971 Sometimes a Great Notion Hank Stamper
Once Upon a Wheel Himself TV program
World Television Festival Award
Best International Sports Documentary
1972 Pocket Money Jim Kane
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean Judge Roy Bean
1973 The Mackintosh Man Joseph Rearden
The Sting Henry Gondorff
1974 The Towering Inferno Doug Roberts
1975 The Drowning Pool Lew Harper
1976 Silent Movie Himself
Buffalo Bill and the Indians William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
1977 Slap Shot Reggie "Reg" Dunlop
1979 Quintet Essex
1980 When Time Ran Out... Hank Anderson
1981 Fort Apache, The Bronx Murphy
Absence of Malice Michael Colin Gallagher Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor
1982 Come Along with Me TV
The Verdict Frank Galvin David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actor
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
Nominated—Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
1984 Harry & Son Harry Keach
1986 The Color of Money Fast Eddie Felson Academy Award for Best Actor
National Board of Review Award for Best Actor
Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
Nominated—National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor
Nominated—New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
1989 Fat Man and Little Boy Gen. Leslie R. Groves
Blaze Gov. Earl K. Long
1990 Mr. and Mrs. Bridge Walter Bridge
1993 La Classe américaine Dave in redubbed archive footage only
1994 The Hudsucker Proxy Sidney J. Mussburger
Nobody's Fool Donald J. "Sully" Sullivan National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
Silver Bear for Best Actor[65]
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated—Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
1998 Twilight Harry Ross
1999 Message in a Bottle Dodge Blake Nominated—Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actor – Drama/Romance
2000 Where the Money Is Henry Manning
2001 The Simpsons Himself voice
2002 Road to Perdition John Rooney Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nomianted—Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
Nominated—Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated—Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated—Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated—Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
2003 Our Town Stage Manager Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
2005 Empire Falls Max Roby Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D Dave Scott voice
2006 Cars Doc Hudson/Hudson Hornet voice
2007 Dale Narrator voice
2008 The Meerkats Narrator voice, final role

As director or producer

Year Film Notes
1968 Rachel, Rachel Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director[66]
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Picture
Nominated—Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film
1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Co-executive producer (uncredited)
Winning Co-executive producer (uncredited)
1970 WUSA Co-producer
1971 Sometimes a Great Notion Director and co-executive producer
They Might Be Giants producer
1972 The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds Director and producer
Nominated—Palme d'Or for Best Director
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean Co-executive producer (uncredited)
1980 The Shadow Box Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special
1984 Harry & Son Director and producer
1987 The Glass Menagerie Director
Nominated—Palme d'Or for Best Director
2005 Empire Falls Producer
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries
Nominated—Producers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television

Select theater credits

Additional awards and honors

Newman is one of four actors to have been nominated for an academy award in five different decades. The other nominees were Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, and Jack Nicholson.

In addition to the awards Newman won for specific roles, he received an honorary Academy Award in 1986 for his "many and memorable and compelling screen performances" and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his charity work in 1994.

He received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1992 along with his wife, Joanne Woodward.

In 1994, Newman and his wife received the Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards.[67]

Newman won Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival for The Long, Hot Summer and the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for Nobody's Fool.

In 1968, Newman was named "Man of the Year" by Harvard University's performance group, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

Newman Day has been celebrated at Kenyon College, Bates College, Princeton University, and other American colleges since the 1970s. In 2004, Newman requested that Princeton University disassociate the event from his name, due to the fact that he did not endorse the behaviors, citing his creation of the Scott Newman Centre in 1980, which is "dedicated to the prevention of substance abuse through education".[68][69]

Published work

Notes

  1. ↑ "Paul Newman - (U.S. Navy 1943-46)Actor served as an Aviator... Photo-5054818.73522 - San Antonio Express-News". San Antonio Express-News.
  2. ↑ "Film Star Paul Newman dead at 83." Reuters.com. September 27, 2008. "Paul Newman dies at 83". CNN.com. September 27, 2008. Retrieved September 27, 2008.
  3. ↑ "Persons With 5 or More Acting Nominations". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. March 2008. Retrieved December 30, 2008.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Newman’s Own Foundation - More than $350 Million Donated Around the World". newmansownfoundation.org.
  5. ↑ Kaye, Leon. "How Safe Water Network’s Partnership With Companies Benefits the World’s Poor". www.triplepundit.com. Triple Pundit. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
  6. ↑ "SeriousFun Network - A Global Community of Camps and Programs - SeriousFun Children's Network". seriousfunnetwork.org.
  7. ↑ Lax, Eric (1996). Paul Newman: A Biography. Atlanta, Georgia: Turner Publishing. ISBN 1-57036-286-6.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Morella, Joe; Epstein, Edward Z. (1988). Paul and Joanne: A Biography of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Delacorte Press. ISBN 0-440-50004-4.
  9. ↑ Paul Newman Biography (1925–). FilmReference.com.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Ancestry of Paul Newman at the Wayback Machine (archived September 27, 2010). Genealogy.com.
  11. ↑ Shawn Levy (November 5, 2009). "Paul Newman: A Life" (EXCERPT). Scribd.com. Retrieved February 1, 2012.
  12. ↑ "Paul Newman: A Biography". google.co.uk.
  13. ↑ Hamill, Denis. "Paul Newman, A Big Gun at 73". Buffalo News. March 7, 1998. Retrieved 2008-03-08
  14. ↑ Ptičie Resumé. Obecný úrad Ptičie<ref
  15. ↑ "Fallece el actor Paul Newman" Elmundo.es (September 27, 2008)
  16. ↑ Skow, John. "Verdict on a Superstar". Time. December 6, 1982.
  17. ↑ "Arthur S. Newman Jr.". IMDb.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 18.5 18.6 18.7 Paul Newman biography. Tiscali.co.uk.com.
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Paul Newman. Biographies in Naval History. Navy.mil.
  20. ↑ Hastings, Max (2008). Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45. Random House. ISBN 0-307-26351-7.
  21. ↑ "Newman gives $10M to Ohio alma mater". USA Today. June 2, 2007. Retrieved September 19, 2013.
  22. ↑ Franzene, Jessica, "Theologians & Thespians," in Welcome Home, a realtors' guide to property history in the Lake Geneva region, August 2012
  23. ↑ Borden, Marian Edelman (November 2, 2010). "Paul Newman: A Biography". ISBN 978-0-313-38310-6.
  24. ↑ Levant, Oscar (1969). The Unimportance of Being Oscar. Pocket Books. p.56. ISBN 0-671-77104-3.
  25. ↑ Actor Paul Newman's dramatic roots were sprouted on Staten Island
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References

Further reading

  • Hinton, Susan (1967). The Outsiders. USA: Viking Press, Dell Publishing. ISBN 0-670-53257-6. OCLC 64396432.
  • Godfrey, Lionel (1979, 1978). Paul Newman, Superstar: A Critical Biography. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-59819-8. OCLC 4739913. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  • Hamblett, Charles (1975). Paul Newman. Chicago, IL: H. Regnery. ISBN 978-0-8092-8236-4. OCLC 1646636.
  • Landry, J. C. (1983). Paul Newman. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-036189-8. OCLC 9556372.
  • Lax, Eric (1996). Newman: Paul Newman, A Celebration. London, UK: Pavilion. ISBN 978-1-85793-730-5. OCLC 37355715.
  • Lax, Eric (1996). Paul Newman: A Biography. Atlanta, GA: Turner Pub. ISBN 978-1-57036-286-6. OCLC 33667112.
  • Morella, Joe; Epstein, Edward Z. (1988). Paul and Joanne: A Biography of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. New York, NY: Delacorte Press. ISBN 978-0-440-50004-9. OCLC 18016049.
  • Netter, Susan (1989). Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. London, England: Piatkus. ISBN 978-0-86188-869-6. OCLC 19778734.
  • O'Brien, Daniel (2004). Paul Newman. London, UK: Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-21986-5. OCLC 56658601.
  • Oumano, Elena (1989). Paul Newman. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-02627-1. OCLC 18558929.
  • Quirk, Lawrence J. (1971). The Films of Paul Newman. New York, NY: Citadel Press. ISBN 0-8065-0233-9. OCLC 171115.
  • Quirk, Lawrence J. (1996). Paul Newman. Dallas, TX: Taylor Pub. Co. ISBN 978-0-87833-962-4. OCLC 35884602.
  • Stern, Stewart (1989). No Tricks in My Pocket: Paul Newman Directs. New York, NY: Grove Press. ISBN 978-0-8021-1120-3. OCLC 18780705.
  • Demers, Jenifer (2008). Paul Newman: The Dream has Ended!. California: Createspace. ISBN 978-1-4404-3323-8.
  • Hotchner, A.E. (2010). Paul and Me: Fifty-three Years of Adventures and Misadventures with My Pal, Paul Newman. New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-385-53233-4.

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