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The Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture have been very closely linked throughout their history. Of the 90 films that won Best Picture and were also nominated for Best Director, 69 won the award. [7] [8] The award has been criticised in recent years for failing to recognise female directors. [9]
Ford was born John Martin "Jack" Feeney (though he later often gave his given names as Seán Aloysius, sometimes with surname O'Feeny or Ó Fearna; an Irish language equivalent of Feeney) in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, to John Augustine Feeney and Barbara "Abbey" Curran, on February 1, 1894, [8] (though he occasionally said 1895 and that date is erroneously inscribed on his tombstone). [9]
Best Director: John Ford. Archive Photos/getty ... to be regarded as an auteur and holds the record for most Best Director Oscars. Despite his association with Westerns, none of his Oscars came ...
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.
The 2025 Oscars honored the best in cinema from the past year Sunday night. "Anora" was the top film of the night, taking home five Oscars including best director for Sean Baker. The top acting ...
Oscars statuettes Richard Harbaugh - Handout/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images The 2024 awards season is coming to a close with the 96th annual Academy Awards on Sunday, March 10. Nominations were ...
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 ...
Director John Ford's classic western The Searchers, widely seen as one of the best American films of all time, failed to receive a single nomination. This was the second time since the introduction of the Supporting Actor and Actress awards that Best Picture, Best Director, and all four acting Oscars were given to different films.