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Something the Lord Made
Something the Lord Made is a 2004 American made-for-television biographical drama film about the black cardiac pioneer Vivien Thomas (1910–1985) and his complex and volatile partnership with white surgeon Alfred Blalock (1899–1964), the "Blue Baby doctor" who pioneered modern heart surgery. Based on the National Magazine Award-winning "Washingtonian" magazine article "Like Something the Lord Made" by Katie McCabe, the film was directed by Joseph Sargent and written by Peter Silverman and Robert Caswell.
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"A Lesson Before Dying" (1999), "Something the Lord Made" (2004) and "Warm Springs" (2005), in which Kenneth Branagh played president Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Early in his career, he won a Directors Guild of America award for the "Kojak" pilot. Sargent was nominated for eight DGA awards for television movies, more than any other director in this category. In 2005 he won the DGA Outstanding Directorial Achievement award for "Something the LORD Made", and another the