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Old 10-29-2007, 05:26 AM
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Moving on to the nominees for The Best Horror Producer are...


Alfred Hitchcock
Andrew MacDonald
Dario Argento
Joe Wolf
John Carpenter
Robert Tappert
Roger Corman
Sam Raimi
Val Lewton
Wes Craven



The Honourable and Prestigious HDC Horror Oscar for Best Producer goes to...


ROGER CORMAN





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Originally Posted by tic View Post
His probably unbeatable record for a professional 35mm feature film was two days and a night to shoot the original version of The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), though several other films were made in less than a week.

In the early 1960s, his budgets got bigger (though never big), when he made a series of adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories starring Vincent Price. - among many world-class names who were employed by him at a very early stage in their careers are Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, James Cameron, Peter Bogdanovich, Joe Dante and many others - which means that his influence on modern American cinema is almost incalculable.(from IMDB)
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