John Wayne won just one Oscar, for which film?
"into other genres as well, including several films dealing with the Second World War (notably ""The Longest Day"" and ""In Harm's Way)"". Wayne made some of his most prominent films during this period, including John Ford's ""The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"" (1962) with James Stewart. Wayne's political views came under harsh attack from film critics with the release of ""The Green Berets"" (1968), which Wayne produced and co-directed as well as starred in. The following year, however, he would be praised by critics for his performance in ""True Grit"", which would earn him an Academy Award for Best Actor."
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"(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"
"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 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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Wayne, producer). Its successful bid for several Oscar nominations over such films as ""Psycho"" and ""Spartacus"" was largely due to intense lobbying by producer John Wayne. Dimitri Tiomkin won the best original score Golden Globe award. The movie was selected by the National Board of Review as one of the year's ten best films. The picture won the Bronze Wrangler award as the best theatrical motion picture of the year from the Western Heritage Awards. ""The Alamo"" premiered at its 70 mm roadshow length of 202 minutes, including overture, intermission, and exit music, but was severely cut for wide release."
"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"
"neckerchief with his uniform and a yellow banner (with proportions and shape evocative of a stylish ribbon) him behind him, that also looped some 270 degrees around the female lead's shoulders. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is a 1949 Technicolor Western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne. The Academy Award-winning film was the second of Ford's Cavalry trilogy films (the other two being ""Fort Apache"" (1948) and ""Rio Grande"" (1950)). With a budget of $1.6 million, the film was one of the most expensive Westerns made up to that time. It was"
"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"
"produced, but did not star in several feature films. Results from Quigley's ""Motion Picture Herald"" annual poll of film exhibitors would determine the year's ""Top Ten Stars"". John Wayne appeared on the list every time between 1949 and 1973 with one exception – 1958 – indicating that he was one of cinema's most durable stars. John Wayne filmography A complete filmography of John Wayne from 1926 to 1977, which also includes those films that Wayne only produced, and results pertaining to his long-running box office popularity between 1949 and 1973, during the height of his career after a decade of"
"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"
"30, 2014, age 94, in Friday Harbor. ] Andrew V. McLaglen Andrew Victor McLaglen (July 28, 1920 – August 30, 2014) was a British-born American film and television director, known for Westerns and adventure films, often starring John Wayne or James Stewart. McLaglen was born in London, the son of British-American actor Victor McLaglen and his wife, Enid Lamont, who moved to Hollywood in the early 1920s, shortly after his birth. He was from a film family that included eight uncles and an aunt, and he grew up on movie sets with his parents as well as John Wayne and"
"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"
"42nd Annual Academy Awards"" (1970), and John Wayne's last film, ""The Shootist"" (1976). M. J. Frankovich Mitchell John ""M. J."" Frankovich (September 29, 1909 – January 1, 1992), best known as Mike Frankovich, was an American football player turned film actor and producer. Frankovich was the adopted son of actor Joe E. Brown and his wife, Kathryn. Frankovich played football for UCLA and was inducted into UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame in 1986. He also attended Belmont High School in Downtown Los Angeles. He served as president of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission and helped to bring the Los"
"and foreign, and to focus wide public attention upon the best in motion pictures and television. In 1953, Wayne was awarded the Henrietta Award (a now retired award) for being World Film Favorite: Male. The Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures is an annual award given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at the Golden Globe Award ceremonies in Hollywood. It was named in honor of Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959), one of the industry's most successful filmmakers; John Wayne won the award in 1966. In 1970, Wayne won a Golden Globe Award for his performance in"
"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"
"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"
"movies out of ten – ""The Godfather"" (10), ""Freebie and the Bean"" (4), ""Cinderella Liberty"" (8), ""The Gambler"" (8), ""Funny Lady"" (9), ""Rollerball"" (8), ""The Killer Elite"" (5), ""Harry and Walter Go to New York"" (0), ""Slither"" (4), ""A Bridge Too Far"" (7), and ""Another Man Another Chance"" (10). He also liked his performances in ""The Rain People"" and ""Thief"". Caan had a role in Lelouch's ""Les Uns et les Autres"" (1981), which was popular in France. In Hollywood, he was in a flop comedy called ""Kiss Me Goodbye"" (1982). From 1982 to 1987, Caan suffered from depression over his"
"""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"""
"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"
"of American involvement in the Vietnam War, the same year as the Tet Offensive against the largest cities in South Vietnam. John Wayne, concerned by the anti-war atmosphere in the United States, wanted to make this film to present the pro-military position. He requested and obtained full military cooperation and materiel from 36th President Lyndon B. Johnson and the United States Department of Defense. To please The Pentagon, who were attempting to prosecute author Robin Moore for revealing classified information, Wayne bought Moore out for $35,000 and 5% of undefined profits of the film. The film was a critical failure,"
"several other ""Poverty Row"" era John Wayne films. Paradise Canyon Paradise Canyon is a 1935 Western film starring John Wayne, directed by Carl L. Pierson. The film was Wayne's final Monogram Pictures/Lone Star Production Western. John Wyatt (John Wayne) is a government agent sent to smash a counterfeiting operation near the Mexican border. Joining Doc Carter's (Earle Hodgins) medicine show, they arrive in the town where Curly Joe (Yakima Canutt), who once framed Carter, resides. Learning that Curly Joe is the counterfeiter, Wyatt goes after the man himself. In 2008, Legend Films colorized and renamed the film as ""Guns Along"
"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"
"John Williams discography John Williams, also formerly credited as Johnny Williams, worked as a jazz pianist and studio musician before starting to compose for television and film. Throughout his career he has directed his own works whenever possible. In a career spanning 60 years, he has won four Academy Awards for Best Original Score (""Jaws"", ""Star Wars"", ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"", ""Schindler's List"") and one for Best Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score ""(Fiddler on the Roof)"". He has won four Golden Globe Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, and 23 Grammy Awards, and has received several gold and platinum records."
"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"