Mutiny on the Bounty Articles
From William A. Wellman to Joe Wright – Non-Nominated Directors: Biggest Oscar Snubs #9a
Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Mutiny on the Bounty Biggest Oscar Snubs #10b: THE PIANO's Michael Nyman, INCEPTION's Lee Smith Below is a partial list of directors whose films were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar — but the directors themselves weren't. William A. Wellman, Wings (1927-28) Edmund Goulding, Grand Hotel (1931-32) Sam Wood, The Pride of the Yankees (1942) George Cukor, Gaslight (1944) Michael Curtiz, [...]
Frank Lloyd II: CAVALCADE, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
Pauline Frederick in Madame X Frank Lloyd: Q&A with Anthony Slide – Part I Frank Lloyd's greatest strengths as a filmmaker? His greatest weaknesses? I have partly answered this question above. And I suppose, in a way, one might argue that his greatest strength — as a studio director — is also his greatest weakness. He put the studio first. He seldom went over-budget. He [...]
Frank Lloyd: Two-Time Oscar Winner
Like many other Hollywood filmmakers of the studio era, Frank Lloyd (1886-1960) is hardly remembered today despite his numerous box-office successes — e.g., The Sea Hawk (1924), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Wells Fargo (1937) — and no less than two Best Director Academy Awards, for The Divine Lady (1929) and Cavalcade (1933). With Frank Lloyd: Master of Screen Melodrama (BearManor Media, 2009), author and [...]