Question: Which film has the director died first, The Crimson Kimono or Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

As an independent producer and director, he brought attention to topical social issues that most studios avoided. Among the subjects covered in his films were racism( in" The Defiant Ones" and" Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"), nuclear war( in" On the Beach"), greed( in" It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"), creationism vs. evolution( in" Inherit the Wind") and the causes and effects of fascism( in" Judgment at Nuremberg"). His other notable films included" High Noon"( 1952, as producer)," The Caine Mutiny"( 1954, as producer), and" Ship of Fools"( 1965). Director Steven Spielberg described him as an" incredibly talented visionary", and" one of our great filmmakers, not just for the art and passion he put on screen, but for the impact he has made on the conscience of the world." Kramer was recognized for his fierce independence as a producer- director, with author Victor Navasky writing that" among the independents... none seemed more vocal, more liberal, more pugnacious than young Stanley Kramer." His friend, Kevin Spacey, during his acceptance speech at the 2015 Golden Globes, honored Kramer's work, calling him" one of the great filmmakers of all time." Despite uneven critical reception, both then and now, Kramer's body of work has received many awards, including 16 Academy Awards and 80 nominations, and he was nominated nine times as either producer or director. In 1961, he received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. In 1963, he was a member of the jury at the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival. In 1998, he was awarded the first NAACP Vanguard Award in recognition of" the strong social themes that ran through his body of work". In 2002, the Stanley Kramer Award was created, to be awarded to recipients whose work" dramatically illustrates provocative social issues". Stanley Earl Kramer( September 29, 1913 February 19, 2001) was an American film director and producer, responsible for making many of Hollywood's most famous" message films". <SEP> It stars Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, and Katharine Hepburn, and features Hepburn's niece Katharine Houghton. The film was one of the few films of the time to depict an interracial marriage in a positive light, as interracial marriage historically had been illegal in most states of the United States, and still was illegal in 17 states —mostly Southern states—until June 12, 1967, six months before the film was released, roughly two weeks after Tracy filmed his final scene( and two days after his death), when anti-miscegenation laws were struck down by the Supreme Court in" Loving v. Virginia". The film's Oscar- nominated score was composed by Frank De Vol. The film is notable for being the ninth and final on- screen pairing of Tracy and Hepburn, with filming ending just 17 days before Tracy's death. Hepburn never saw the completed film, saying the memories of Tracy were too painful. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a 1967 American comedy- drama film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, and written by William Rose. The film was released in December 1967, six months after his death. In 2017, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". <SEP> The film stars James Shigeta, Glenn Corbett and Victoria Shaw. It featured several ahead- of- its- time ideas about race and society's perception of race, a thematic and stylistic trademark of Fuller. The film is essentially about two cops, friends and Korean War veterans, Detective Joe Kojaku( James Shigeta) and Detective Sgt. Charlie Bancroft( Glenn Corbett), who attempt to solve the murder of a local entertainer. A love triangle soon develops between a key witness, Christine Downes( Victoria Shaw), and the two principal leads. The Crimson Kimono is a 1959 film noir directed by Samuel Fuller. <SEP> Katharine Houghton( born Katharine Houghton Grant; March 10, 1945) is an American actress and playwright. She portrayed Joanna" Joey" Drayton, a white American woman who brings home her black American fiancé to meet her parents, in the 1967 film" Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". Katharine Hepburn, who played the mother of Houghton's character in the film was, in real life, Houghton's aunt. <SEP> Indovina chi viene a merenda? ( i.e." Guess who's coming to tea?") is a 1969 Italian war- comedy film written and directed by Marcello Ciorciolini and starring the comedy duo formed by Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia. <SEP> Fuller wrote his first screenplay for" Hats Off" in 1936, and made his directorial debut with the Western" I Shot Jesse James"( 1949). He would continue to direct several other Westerns and war thrillers throughout the 1950s. Fuller shifted from Westerns and war thrillers in the 1960s with his low- budget thriller" Shock Corridor" in 1963, followed by the neo-noir" The Naked Kiss"( 1964). He was inactive in filmmaking for most of the 1970s, before writing and directing the war epic" The Big Red One"( 1980), and the experimental" White Dog"( 1982), whose screenplay he co-wrote with Curtis Hanson. Samuel Michael Fuller( August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997) was an American screenwriter, novelist, and film director known for low- budget, understated genre movies with controversial themes, often made outside the conventional studio system.