Bob Fosse Now
After winning a Best Director Oscar for his work on Cabaret and leading to the film to great success, Fosse’s star began to rise even further. His achievement was made even more significant by the fact that he pipped Francis Ford Coppola to the Best Director Oscar in the same year that Coppola had directed The Godfather.
Bob Fosse and Roy Scheider behind the scenes in ‘All That Jazz,’ 1979. Photo by 20th Century Fox / Columbia / Kobal / Shutterstock
Just a couple of years later, Fosse directed Lenny, a biographical film about Lenny Bruce, with Dustin Hoffman in the lead role. Again, he received a Best Director nomination. It seemed that he could do no wrong, and in 1979, he co-wrote and directed All That Jazz, once again earning a Best Director Oscar nomination. After that, he began work on a Robert De Niro project, but it was never completed as he suffered a heart attack and passed away in 1987.