John Huston

Directing

Born 1906-08-05 Died 1987-08-28 Nevada, Missouri, USA 164 credits Academy Awards 2 Golden Lion 1 World War II Victory Medal 1 Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal 1 American Campaign Medal 1

Awards

Won 2 Academy Awards

Academy Awards 2 won · 13 nominated

1986 Best Director Nominated Prizzi's Honor
1976 Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Nominated The Man Who Would Be King
1964 Best Supporting Actor Nominated The Cardinal
1958 Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Nominated Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
1953 Best Director Nominated Moulin Rouge
1953 Best Picture Nominated Moulin Rouge
1952 Best Director Nominated The African Queen
1952 Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Nominated The African Queen
1951 Best Director Nominated The Asphalt Jungle
1951 Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Nominated The Asphalt Jungle
1949 Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Won The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949 Best Director Won The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1942 Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Nominated The Maltese Falcon
1942 Best Writing, Original Screenplay Nominated Sergeant York
1941 Best Writing, Original Screenplay Nominated Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

Golden Lion 1 won

— Golden Lion Won

World War II Victory Medal 1 won

— World War II Victory Medal Won

Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal 1 won

— Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal Won

American Campaign Medal 1 won

— American Campaign Medal Won

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John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and visual artist. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), The Misfits (1961), Fat City (1972), The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and Prizzi's Honor (1985). In his early years, Huston studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris. He explored the visual aspects of his films throughout his career, sketching each scene on paper beforehand, then carefully framing his characters during the shooting. While most directors rely on post-production editing to shape their final work, Huston instead created his films while they were being shot, with little editing needed. Some of Huston's films were adaptations of important novels, often depicting an "heroic quest," as in Moby Dick, or The Red Badge of Courage. In many films, different groups of people, while struggling toward a common goal, would become doomed, forming "destructive alliances," giving the films a dramatic and visual tension. Many of his films involved themes such as religion, meaning, truth, freedom, psychology, colonialism, and war. Huston has been referred to as "a titan", "a rebel", and a "renaissance man" in the Hollywood film industry. Author Ian Freer describes him as "cinema's Ernest Hemingway"—a filmmaker who was "never afraid to tackle tough issues head on." During his 46-year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, winning twice. He directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston, to Oscar wins. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Huston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.