Abby Mann
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Abby Mann was an American film writer best known for his work on controversial subjects and social change. He is a native Pennsylvanian and grew up in the Pittsburgh suburb of East Pittsburgh. His biggest claim to fame was the 1961 drama Judgment at Nuremberg which won him the Academy Award that year. In his acceptance speech he declared that "A writer worth his salt at all has an obligation not only to entertain but to comment on the world in which he lives."[1]