2025Nominee
Best Performance
Gene Kelly: An American in Hollywood
Louis B. Mayer
Actor · Producer
Dymer, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Vyshhorod Raion, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine]
July 12, 1884
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Louis Burt Mayer (born Lazar Meir in the Russian Empire; July 12, 1884 – October 29, 1957) was an American film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (MGM). Under Mayer's management, MGM became the film industry's most prestigious movie studio, accumulating the largest concentration of leading writers, directors and stars in Hollywood. Mayer was one of the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1924Nominee
Best Picture
Greed
1916Nominee
Best Picture
Lovely Mary
Career Highlights
1925Highlight
Best Picture
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
2022Highlight
Best Performance
Rat Pack
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Greed
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ