金·维多

金·沃利斯·维多（；英语发音： ；1894年2月8日－1982年11月1日）是一位美国电影导演、制片人及编剧，其67年的電影生涯橫跨無聲電影和有聲電影時代。作品以對當代社會問題的生動、人性化和富有同情的描繪而聞名。維多被認為是作者型導演，並廣泛涉獵多種電影類型，使得主題決定風格，經常突破傳統電影製作的界限Berlinale Retrospective 2020: "...he was actively involved in making movies for 67 years." And "allowed the material to define the style." And on "auteur": "Vidor's status as an auteur is definitely underscored by his independence and by the passion he brought to films. ...Vidor was indeed at times something of an auteur filmmaker..." And on "humane": "There is also a whole series of motifs that repeatedly turn up in his films, and which reflect the things he cared about – issues of class, as well as the issue of race in the US, which he incorporated into his films with a humanist bent..." 

WSWS Reinhardt 2020: "What distinguished him as an artist was his instinct for substantial and relevant social topics and conflicts."

Gustaffson 2016: "At his best, Vidor "made films about the human condition, about human's moral and physical battles, and the battle between us and nature.

Baxter 1976, p. 41: "...Vidor adapted well to sound."。

维多生于加爾維斯敦。他的祖父是1848年匈牙利革命难民Thomson, 2007: "His father was a well-off lumberman..."

Baxter, 1976, pp. 4–5: His father "a dealer in South American lumber" at time of Vidor's birth.

Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 19: His father "owned a hardwood forest in the Dominican Republic ... quite prosperous at the time of Vidor's birth...but soon after, his [father's] fortunes declined ..."。维多的母亲具有苏格兰-英格兰血统，是戴维·克罗克特第二任妻子的亲戚Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p 19: Index lists Vidor's mother as "Kate", not Katherine. Elizabeth Crockett was Vidor's maternal great-grandmother. On Vidor's Crockett ancestry see this link: https://medium.com/save-texas-history/honoring-a-widow-of-the-alamo-elizabeth-crocketts-land-legacy-d364da8f8f0b Retrieved June 22, 2020.。维多六岁时曾親身經歷1900年加尔维斯顿飓风。维多曾五次获得奥斯卡最佳导演奖提名。1979年，他被授予奥斯卡荣誉奖。

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Category:奥斯卡荣誉奖获得者
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Category:1982年逝世
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