Name	Jerome Robbins (Jerome Rabinowitz)
Other Name(s)	Jerry
Build	Slim
Hair Color	Brown - Dark
Date of Birth	October 11, 1918
Birthplace	New York City, New York
Star Sign	Libra
Died	July 29, 1998 (Aged 80)
Location of Death	New York, New York, USA
Cause of Death	stroke
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	White
Religion	Jewish
Occupation	Director
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Claim to Fame	West Side Story
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Trivia

Only three times in Academy Award history have director-collaborators been nominated for Best Directing Oscars: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for West Side Story (1961), Warren Beatty and Buck Henry for Heaven Can Wait (1978) and Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men (2007). (Wise/Robbins and the Coens actually won the award).

When he and Robert Wise won the Best Director Oscar in 1962 for West Side Story (1961), it was the first time that a directing Oscar was shared among collaborators.

He was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1988 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.

Won five Tony Awards: as Best Choreographer, in 1948 for "High Button Shoes" and in 1958 for "West Side Story;" as both Best Director (Musical) and Best Choreographer, in 1965 for "Fiddler on the Roof;" and as Best Director (Musical) in 1989 for "Jerome Robbins` Broadway." He was nominated four other times: as Best Choreographer, in 1957 with Bob Fosse for "Bells Are Ringing;" as Best Director (Musical), in 1960 for "Gypsy;" and, two in 1963, as Producer (Dramatic) and as co-producer of Best Play nominee "Mother Courage and Her Children"

Co-Ballet Master at the New York City Ballet.

Ballet choreographer.

In May, 1953, Robbins was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. He admitted to having belonged to the American Communist Party`s Theatrical Transient Group between 1943 and 1947, and also named eight colleagues as members.

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