Its a Wonderful Life Director

It's a Wonderful Life
Director: Frank Capra

Frank Russell Capra (May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was an Academy Award winning Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

It's a Wonderful Life (1946) was considered a box office disappointment but it was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Sound Recording and Best Editing. The American Film Institute named it one of the best films ever made, putting it at the top of the list of AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers, a list of what AFI considers to be the most inspirational American movies of all time. The film also appeared in another AFI Top 100 list: it placed at 11th on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies list of the top American films.

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On the surface, the movie appears to be a sappy, sentimental film which puts a smile on our face and brings tears to our eyes, every time. In reality, this film serves as a universal story of the enduring human spirit -- filled with many powerful lessons about life, business and money.

American Monetary Institute
Frank Capra’s film IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, starring Jimmy Stewart, stands out as the single most effective movie describing American banking and the destructive effect it can have on the average citizen. Standing almost alone against the financiers propaganda of the past five decades, Capra’s message rings true.

It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
It's A Wonderful Life (1946), originally made for Liberty Films, is one of the most popular and heartwarming films ever made by director Frank Capra. Frank Capra regarded this film as his own personal favorite - it was also James Stewart's favorite of all his feature films.

It's a Wonderful Life (1946) at Reel Classics
One of the most popular American films of all-time and a perennial holiday favorite, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE was not a huge hit with either critics or audiences when it debuted in December 1946 but was nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor (Jimmy Stewart), and Best Director (Frank Capra). After slipping quickly into obscurity, it began appearing on television occasionally in the late 1950s. But when the film's copyright lapsed in 1973, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE quickly became a staple of American TV programming between Thanksgiving and Christmas and belatedly earned its rightful place in the lexicon of American popular culture. Ranked #11 on the American Film Institute's list of Greatest Films, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE is an indisputable movie classic.

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