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John Martin Feeney (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973), known professionally as John Ford, was an American film director and producer.He is regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers during the Golden Age of Hollywood, [2] and was one of the first American directors to be recognized as an auteur.
Francis Ford Coppola is the only director to be nominated for each film of a trilogy, The Godfather trilogy, winning for the second film. John Ford (1940–1941), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949–1950), and Alejandro González Iñárritu (2014–2015) are the only directors to have won the award in two consecutive years.
John Ford with portrait and Academy Award, circa 1946. John Ford (1894–1973) was an American film director whose career spanned from 1913 to 1971. [1] During this time he directed more than 130 films; however, nearly all of his silent films are lost.
Later regarded as the greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane was nominated for nine awards but won only one, for Best Original Screenplay. John Ford won his third Best Director award for How Green Was My Valley, becoming the second to do so (after Frank Capra), and the first to win the award in consecutive years (following The Grapes of Wrath in ...
Henry King was the first recipient of this award for The Song of Bernadette (1943) Billy Wilder won twice for The Lost Weekend (1945) and Sunset Boulevard (1950) Elia Kazan won four times for Gentleman's Agreement (1947), On the Waterfront (1954), Baby Doll (1956), and America America (1963) John Huston won twice for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and Prizzi's Honor (1985) Cecil B ...
The Academy voters, who felt guilty about not awarding Bette Davis a Best Actress award the previous year, assigned her one for Dangerous, which was viewed as a lesser picture. [1] Davis, who showed up to the posh formal ceremony in an informal checkered dress, felt it was a consolation prize that should have been awarded to Katharine Hepburn .
This is not the worst film from Francis Ford Coppola’s '80s—it was a creatively difficult decade for the director, but he didn't stop being talented. Still, every Reagan-era film of his still ...
The National Board of Review Award for Best Director is one of the annual film awards given ... John Ford: The Last Hurrah: 1959: Fred Zinnemann: The Nun's Story ...