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Article: `Nuremberg' Screenwriter Delivers Stern Judgment
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- February 13, 1994
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HOLLYWOOD While Steven Spielberg and "Schindler's List" walked
off with an armload of Oscar nods last week, it wasn't the first time
a black-and-white film about the Holocaust has pulled off such a
feat.
Back in 1962, screenwriter Abby Mann's powerful "Judgment at
Nuremberg" (1961), the first film to deal seriously with Nazi war
atrocities, was nominated for 11 Oscars. It went on to win two,
including one for Mann.
"I was the first one to write about it," recalled Mann, who's in
his mid-60s. "A lot of people didn't want it done. A lot of
people wanted to forget it, including Jewish actors. People wanted
to sweep the issue under the rug."
Mann's milestone film, which began as a ...