"True Grit (1969 film) True Grit is a 1969 American western film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Kim Darby as Mattie Ross and John Wayne as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn. It is the first film adaptation of Charles Portis' 1968 novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Marguerite Roberts. Wayne won his only Academy Award for his performance in the film and reprised his role for the 1975 sequel ""Rooster Cogburn"". Historians believe Cogburn was based on Deputy U.S. Marshal Heck Thomas, who brought in some of the toughest outlaws. The cast also features Glen Campbell,"
"film earned an estimated $11.5 million in rentals at the North American box office during its first year of release. Rotten Tomatoes retrospectively collected 52 reviews to give the film an approval rating of 88%, with an average rating of 7.9/10. John Wayne won a Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Actor. Upon accepting his Oscar, Wayne said, ""Wow! If I'd known that, I'd have put that patch on 35 years earlier."" The title song, by composer Elmer Bernstein and lyricist Don Black, and sung by Glen Campbell, who co-starred in the movie, received nominations for both the"
"which he co-starred with his longtime friend Harry Carey. The following year, he appeared in his only film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, the Technicolor epic ""Reap the Wild Wind"" (1942), in which he co-starred with Ray Milland and Paulette Goddard; it was one of the rare times he played a character with questionable values. Wayne toured U.S. bases and hospitals in the South Pacific for three months in 1943 and 1944. with the USO. By many accounts, his failure to serve in the military was the most painful part of his life. His widow later suggested that his patriotism"
"relies on ""artificial, needlessly drawn-out speeches for its characters"". John Wayne provided a critically praised role ""against type"", while supporting actresses Claire Trevor and Jan Sterling earned 1954 Academy Awards nominations for Best Supporting Actress. The film earned additional Oscar nominations for director William Wellman and film editor Ralph Dawson, along with composer Dimitri Tiomkin and lyricist Ned Washington for the film's title song. Tiomkin received the film's only Academy Award, for the film's original score. The popular title song by Tiomkin and Washington was included on only one print of the film so as to qualify it for an"
"both the Golden Lion and the Worst Director Razzie for ""Mother!"". ""Wall Street"" (1987) is the only film to date to win both an Oscar and a Razzie. Michael Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor, however Daryl Hannah's performance was not as well received and earned her a Razzie for Worst Supporting Actress. Current Awards Retired Special categories have also been introduced for specific years. Such special awards include: Every decade-closing ceremony includes an award for the worst actors and movies of the decade—though the 2000 ceremony put the actors as worst of the 20th century instead. Special"
"for John Wayne films. Dark Command Dark Command is a 1940 Western film starring Claire Trevor, John Wayne and Walter Pidgeon loosely based on Quantrill's Raiders during the American Civil War. Directed by Raoul Walsh from the novel by W. R. Burnett, ""Dark Command"" is the only film in which western icons John Wayne and Roy Rogers appear together, and was the only film Wayne and Raoul Walsh made together since Walsh discovered Wayne working as a prop mover, renamed him, and gave him his first leading role in the epic widescreen western ""The Big Trail"" a decade before. The"
"final public appearance of Oscar-winning actor John Wayne, where he was given a standing ovation before presenting the award for Best Picture. On June 11, two months after the ceremony, he died from complications from stomach cancer at age 72. This was also the final public appearance for Jack Haley, presenter of the Best Costume Design with his ""Wizard of Oz"" co-star Ray Bolger as well as the father of the producer, as he died on June 6 of that year. The nominees for the 51st Academy Awards were announced on February 20, 1979. ""The Deer Hunter"" and ""Heaven Can"
"presented in honor of Wayne's ""outstanding machismo and penchant for punching people"". Although the convoy was met with protests by members of the American Indian Movement and others, some of whom threw snowballs, Wayne received a standing ovation from the audience when he walked onto the stage. An internal investigation was launched into the Army's involvement in the day. Footnotes Citations John Wayne Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed ""The Duke"", was an American actor and filmmaker. An Academy Award-winner for ""True Grit"" (1969), Wayne"
"(1949), ""The Quiet Man"" (1952), ""The Wings of Eagles"" (1957), and ""The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"" (1962) with James Stewart. The first movie in which he called someone ""Pilgrim,"" Ford's ""The Searchers"" (1956), is often considered to contain Wayne's finest and most complex performance. Wayne was nominated as the producer of Best Picture for ""The Alamo"" (1960), one of two films he directed. The other was ""The Green Berets"" (1968), the only major film made during the Vietnam War in support of the war. During the filming of ""The Green Berets"", the Degar or Montagnard people of Vietnam's Central"
"the offer of a CBE in 1980 and a knighthood in 2000. He has criticised the honours system for ""perpetuating snobbery"". He has five Oscar nominations but has never won. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor four times, for ""Tom Jones"" (1963), ""Murder on the Orient Express"" (1974), ""The Dresser"" (1983), and ""Under the Volcano"" (1984); and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ""Erin Brockovich"" (2000). Julia Roberts mentioned Albert Finney in her Oscar acceptance speech for Best Actress in ""Erin Brockovich"", thanking him and sharing the Oscar with"
"Keith Wayne Keith Wayne (January 16, 1945 — September 9, 1995), born Ronald Keith Hartman, was an American actor known for his (only) role as Tom in the George A. Romero film ""Night of the Living Dead"" (1968). Keith was born in Washington, Pennsylvania. His father was Vincent W. Hartman. His mother was Margaret Warga Hartman; she was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Houston and the Order of the Eastern Star, 97 Chartiers Chapter. In 1962, he graduated from Chartiers-Houston High School. He graduated from Mansfield State College in Mansfield, Pennsylvania, where he majored in music"
"Wayne starred in his final film, ""The Shootist"" (1976), ending his acting career for fifty years, 169 feature length films, and various other television appearances or voice-overs. In 1993, Wayne appeared posthumously as George Abitbol, the central character in the French TV film ""La Classe américaine"". The film, the story of which revolves around an investigation of Abitbol's death, consists entirely of cut-and-pasted extracts from other films, dubbed with new lines in French and transformed into a new story. Raymond Loyer, who had dubbed Wayne into French in his previous films, returned to do so one last time. John Wayne"
"Only the Valiant Only the Valiant, also known as Fort Invincible, is a 1951 Western film produced by William Cagney (younger brother of James Cagney), directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Gregory Peck, Barbara Payton, and Ward Bond. The screenplay was written by Edmund H. North and Harry Brown, based on the 1943 novel of the same name by Charles Marquis Warren. Gregory Peck, in a role he considered a low point of his career, plays Captain Richard Lance, a by-the-book West Point graduate who is not very popular with the men under his command. Following the American Civil War,"
"John Wayne in ""McQ"" (1974). In the 1980s, Gulager appeared in several horror films, such as ""The Initiation"" (1984) and the zombie comedy ""The Return of the Living Dead"". In 2005, he appeared in the horror film ""Feast"", as well as its sequels. He also appeared in the critically acclaimed independent film ""Tangerine"" (2015). Gulager directed the short film ""A Day with the Boys"", which was nominated for the prestigious Palme d'Or for Best Short Film at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival. Gulager was born in Holdenville, Oklahoma, the son of John Delancy Gulager, who had been an actor before"
"the Best Actor Oscar for ""Save the Tiger"" (1973), becoming the first actor to achieve this rare double (the only other actors to have done so are Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Spacey, and Denzel Washington). He was also nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in the controversial film ""Missing"" in 1982, and for his roles in ""Some Like It Hot"" (1959), ""The Apartment"" (1960), ""Days of Wine and Roses"" (1962), ""The China Syndrome"" (1979), for which he was also awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, and ""Tribute"" (1980). He won another"
"Warren Beatty Henry Warren Beatty (""né"" Beaty; born March 30, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards – four for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay – winning Best Director for ""Reds"" (1981). Beatty is the only person to have been nominated for acting in, directing, writing, and producing the same film, and he did so twice: first for ""Heaven Can Wait"" (with Buck Henry as co-director), and again with ""Reds"". Eight of the films he has produced have"
"ability to play older mentors to younger leads, which would become a recurring role in many of his later films. The following year, his acclaimed performance as a hard-nosed Irish-American cop in ""The Untouchables"" (1987) earned him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, his sole nomination throughout his career. Fellow nominees included Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington, both of whom would go on to win the award. His subsequent box-office hits included ""Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"" (1989), in which he played Henry Jones, Sr., the title character's father, ""The Hunt for Red October"" (1990) (where he was"
"was also interrogated by HUAC and was designated as an unfriendly witness for his refusal to cooperate. The film recorded a loss of $72,000. 17th Academy Awards: None but the Lonely Heart (film) None but the Lonely Heart is a 1944 American drama romance film which tells the story of a young Cockney drifter who returns home with no ambitions but finds that his family needs him. Adapted by Clifford Odets from the novel by Richard Llewellyn and directed by Odets, the movie stars Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, and Barry Fitzgerald. The title of the film is taken from Tchaikovsky's"
"Pond"", specifically for her father and her. The father-daughter rift depicted on screen closely paralleled the real-life relationship between the two Fondas; they eventually became the first father-daughter duo to earn Oscar nominations (Jane earned her first Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination) for their roles in the same film. ""On Golden Pond"", which also starred four-time Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn, brought Henry Fonda his only Academy Award for Best Actor, which Jane accepted on his behalf, as he was ill and could not leave home. He died five months later. Fonda continued to appear in feature films throughout the 1980s,"
"the Academy Award for Best Director for John Ford, his fourth, and for Best Cinematography. In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". In the 1920s, Sean Thornton (John Wayne), an Irish-born American from Pittsburgh, travels to Ireland to reclaim his family's farm and his birthplace in Inisfree. He meets and falls in love with the fiery Mary Kate Danaher (Maureen O'Hara), the sister of the bullying, loud-mouthed landowner Squire ""Red"" Will Danaher (Victor McLaglen). Danaher, who had wanted the farm"
"Michael Wayne Michael Anthony Morrison (November 23, 1934 – April 2, 2003), best known as Michael Wayne, was an American film producer and actor, and the eldest son of Hollywood actor John Wayne and his first wife, Josephine Alicia Saenz. Born in Los Angeles, California, Michael graduated from Loyola University in California in 1956 with a Business degree and served in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. Michael began his film career as a production assistant on the set of the John Ford film ""The Quiet Man"" in 1951. He joined his father's film production company, Batjac Productions, for Alamo (1960)"
"John Wayne) to drop out of the University of Southern California, Mix helped him find work moving props in the back lot of Fox Studios. That was the beginning of Wayne's Hollywood career. Mix made 291 movies throughout his career. As of 2007, only about 10% of these were known to be available for viewing, though it was unclear how many are now considered lost films. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Mix has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1708 Vine Street. His cowboy boot prints, palm prints and the hoof prints of his"
"Best Picture: ""The Exorcist"" (1973), ""Jaws"" (1975), ""The Sixth Sense"" (1999), ""Black Swan"" (2010), and ""Get Out"" (2017). No documentary has yet been nominated for Best Picture, although ""Chang"" was nominated in the ""Unique and Artistic Production"" category at the 1927/28 awards. In 2017, at the 89th Academy Awards, presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty read ""La La Land"" as the winner of the award. However, they had mistakenly been given the envelope for the ""Best Actress in a Leading Role"" award, which Emma Stone had won for her role in ""La La Land"" moments prior. When the mistake was"
"Jon Voight Jonathan Vincent Voight (; born December 29, 1938) is an American actor. He is the winner of one Academy Award, having been nominated for four. He has also won four Golden Globe Awards and has so far been nominated for eleven. He is the father of actress Angelina Jolie and actor James Haven. Voight came to prominence in the late 1960s with his Oscar-nominated performance as Joe Buck, a would-be gigolo in ""Midnight Cowboy"" (1969). During the 1970s, he became a Hollywood star with his portrayals of a businessman mixed up with murder in ""Deliverance"" (1972); a paraplegic"
"of heart failure as the result of complications from lupus erythematosus, just two months before his mother's death. Michael Wayne Michael Anthony Morrison (November 23, 1934 – April 2, 2003), best known as Michael Wayne, was an American film producer and actor, and the eldest son of Hollywood actor John Wayne and his first wife, Josephine Alicia Saenz. Born in Los Angeles, California, Michael graduated from Loyola University in California in 1956 with a Business degree and served in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. Michael began his film career as a production assistant on the set of the John Ford"
"and in them he played cowboys, cavalrymen, and unconquerable loners extracted from the Republic's central creation myth."" Wayne's other roles in Westerns include a cattleman driving his herd north on the Chisholm Trail in ""Red River"" (1948), a Civil War veteran whose young niece is abducted by a tribe of Comanches in ""The Searchers"" (1956), a troubled rancher competing with a lawyer (James Stewart) for a woman's hand in marriage in ""The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"" (1962), and a cantankerous one-eyed marshal in ""True Grit"" (1969). He is also remembered for his roles in ""The Quiet Man"" (1952), ""Rio"
"causes, including rallying support for the Vietnam War by producing, codirecting, and starring in the financially successful, critically panned ""The Green Berets"" (1968). Due to his status as the highest profile Republican star in Hollywood, wealthy Texas Republican Party backers asked Wayne to run for national office in 1968, as had his friend and fellow actor Senator George Murphy. He declined, joking that he did not believe the public would seriously consider an actor in the White House. Instead, he supported his friend Ronald Reagan's runs for Governor of California in 1966 and 1970. He was asked to be the"
"the only non-white directed film to win an Academy award was Steve McQueen for 12 Years A Slave, winning best picture. There is also a disparity in the budgets and box office grosses between films with white and non-white directors, with white director’s budgets being higher on average. The Evolve Entertainment Fund was created January 2018 to provide a resource for people from under-served communities the opportunity to find work in the entertainment industry. A recent 2018 study from IndieWire found that for actors of color, pay issues have an even steeper climb. At a time when Hollywood’s bottom line"
"categories]], ""Sunset Boulevard"" is one of only three not to win in any category, the others being ""[[My Man Godfrey]]"" (1936) and ""[[American Hustle]]"" (2013). At the time its eleven Oscar nominations were exceeded only by the fourteen received by ""[[All About Eve]]"", which won six awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Many critics predicted that the Best Actress award would be given to Gloria Swanson or [[Bette Davis]] for ""All About Eve"" and were surprised that the recipient was newcomer [[Judy Holliday]] for ""[[Born Yesterday (1950 film)|Born Yesterday]]""""."" Bette Davis believed that her and Swanson's comparable characters effectively"
"Best Actor. He and River Phoenix hold the distinction of being the only brothers to be nominated for acting Academy Awards. His other films include the satire film ""Buffalo Soldiers"" (2001), the science fiction thriller ""Signs"" (2002), the animated film ""Brother Bear"" (2003), the historical drama film ""Hotel Rwanda"" (2004), the psychological thriller ""The Village"" (2004), the documentary ""Earthlings"" (2005), the romantic drama ""Two Lovers"" (2008), the drama ""The Immigrant"" (2013), the romantic science fiction drama ""Her"" (2013), the crime comedy-drama film ""Inherent Vice"" (2014), and the thriller ""You Were Never Really Here"" (2017), for which he won the Cannes"
"""The Shootist"" (1976), John Wayne's last film, and ""From Noon Till Three"" (1976) starring Charles Bronson. Self returned to CBS in 1977 as Vice-President/Head of the West Coast. A year later, he took on a new challenge when he accepted the position of Vice President in Charge of Television Movies and Mini-Series, also for CBS. Before leaving this job in 1982, he supervised production of about fifty films and three or four mini-series per year. These included ""The Corn is Green"" (1979) starring Katharine Hepburn; ""All Quiet on the Western Front"" (1979) starring Ernest Borgnine and Richard Thomas; ""Guyana Tragedy"""
"In 1972 she professed to strongly disapprove of the way Hollywood was going, ""making dirty pictures"", and she wanted no part of it. That year she was asked to give a speech at the Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony for John Ford, which was the last occasion she saw him before his death. After a 20-year retirement from the film industry, O'Hara returned to the screen in 1991 to star opposite John Candy in the romantic comedy-drama ""Only the Lonely"". She played Rose Muldoon, the domineering Irish mother of a Chicago cop (Candy), who has an indifference to Sicilians. The film"
"I'm doing my job, and that's what counts."" The Seattle band The Young Fresh Fellows recorded the song ""The New John Agar"" on the ""Topsy Turvy"" album in 1985. The television series ""Mystery Science Theater 3000"" has made fun of several of Agar's films, including ""The Mole People, Women of the Prehistoric Planet"" and ""Revenge of the Creature"". John Agar John George Agar Jr. (January 31, 1921 – April 7, 2002) was an American film and television actor. He is best known for starring alongside John Wayne in the films ""Sands of Iwo Jima"", ""Fort Apache"", and ""She Wore a"