Joseph L. Mankiewicz was an American screenwriter, producer and a film director who became famous for making classic films during the 1940s and 1950s that helped him win several ‘Academy Awards’. He experimented with various genres during his film career such as gothic, musical comedies, film noirs, espionage, westerns, dramas, epics, and many more. Sometimes he tried to combine different genres in his films to give them a greater impact. Though he made only 20 films during his entire career, some of the films were so impressive that they left their mark on the audience for years to come. He even invented a genre of his own which dealt with the analysis of each character in depth that gave him his independent style of directing a film. Most of his films contained shots of the interior of a building and stressed on the inner beings of each character which was quite different from the other film makers who preferred outdoor shots and landscapes for their films. His films were devoted to bringing out the conflicts and tensions that occur regularly in familiar backgrounds of daily life.