JOHN FORD- ACADEMY AWARDS
Ford with an Oscar c.1946
John Ford was nominated 5 times
and won 4 Academy awards
Wins:
The Informer (1935)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
The Quiet Man (1952)
Also Nominated For:
Stagecoach (1939)
Ford won his four Oscars for his pictures of social comment,
rather than for his quintessential westerns.
How Green Was My Valley (1941) also won Best Picture.
Ford was the first director to win Best Director Oscars
back-to-back in consecutive years.
Academy Awards
1932 Outstanding Production- Arrowsmith
1935 Outstanding Production- The Informer
1935 Best Director- The Informer (1935)
1939 Best Director (Nominated) Stagecoach
1940 Outstanding Production- The Long Voyage Home
1940 Best Director- The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
1941 Best Motion Picture- How Green Was My Valley
1941 Best Director-How Green Was My Valley (1941)
1942 Best Documentary- The Battle of Midway
1943 Best Documentary, Short Subjects- December 7th
1952 Best Motion Picture- The Quiet Man
1952 Best Director- The Quiet Man (1952)
