Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn, New York June 28, 1926) started as a comedy writer on TV’s Your Show of Shows (1950-1954) featuring Sid Caesar. He wrote and performed with Carl Reiner the comedy album The 2000 Year Old Man (1961). He wrote and directed movies like The Producers (1967), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974) with Gene Wilder, Silent Movie (1976), High Anxiety (1977), Spaceballs (1987), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993). Brooks adapted The Producers (2001) as a Broadway musical turned into a film (2005) with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick.

Golden Globe Awards

2006 Nominee

Best Original Song - Motion Picture
- The Producers
- "There's Nothing Like a Show on Broadway"
1978 Nominee

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
- High Anxiety
- Mel Brooks
1977 Nominee

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
- Silent Movie
- Mel Brooks
1969 Nominee

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
- Producers, The (1967)
- Mel Brooks