Henry Fonda Articles

Orson Welles in Welles' own Citizen Kane (top); Gregory Peck, Brock Peters in Robert Mulligan's To Kill a Mockingbird (middle); Barbra Streisand in William Wyler's Funny Girl (bottom) This list of AFI Life Achievement Award winners was culled from Wikipedia. The number on the right represents the honorees' age at the time of the award. Shirley MacLaine will be 78 next June 7. 1973 John [...]

Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, On Golden Pond Vittorio De Sica's BICYCLE THIEVES: Father's Day Movies On Golden Pond is hardly one of my favorite family movies; I find the storyline much too sentimental and more than a little phony. Having said that, On Golden Pond — directed by Mark Rydell and adapted by Ernest Thompson from his own play — is a remarkable effort for [...]

Adrien Brody in Roman Polanski's The Pianist Major Oscar Comebacks Below is a list of 28 actors and directors who had to wait 20 years or more for the next Academy Award nomination in their respective categories, i.e., actors/acting categories; directors/Best Direction category. That's why Henry Fonda is listed first with a 41-year gap between nominations, even though he was shortlisted for the 1957 Academy [...]

Henry Fonda as Tom Joad in John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (top); Fonda and Katharine Hepburn in Mark Rydell's On Golden Pond (bottom) Generally speaking, most actors, actresses, and directors either get that once-in-a-lifetime Academy Award nomination, or, if they're lucky, a couple or a handful of nods within a period of two to fifteen years. There are a number of exceptions to that [...]