William Wyler Articles
AFI Life Achievement Award Winners: From John Ford to Shirley MacLaine
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 [...]
William Wyler's Oscar-Nominated Actors: Bette Davis, Laurence Olivier, Barbra Streisand
William Wyler 36 Acting Nominations (s), supporting category (*) Academy Award winner William Wyler: Record-Setting Oscar Director for Actors 1936 Walter Huston (above, with Ruth Chatterton), Dodsworth * Walter Brennan (s), Come and Get It (Wyler replaced Howard Hawks, who received co-directing credit) Bonita Granville (s), These Three Maria Ouspenskaya (s), Dodsworth 1937 Claire Trevor (s), Dead End 1938 * Bette Davis, [...]
William Wyler: Record-Setting Oscar Director for Actors – 36 Nominations
Oscar nominee Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, The Letter William Wyler was one of the greatest film directors Hollywood — or any other film industry — has ever produced. Today, Wyler lacks the following of Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Frank Capra, or even Howard Hawks most likely because, unlike Hitchcock, Ford, of Capra, Wyler never focused on a particular genre, while his films were hardly as [...]
THE LITTLE FOXES Review – Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright d: William Wyler
THE LITTLE FOXES (1941) Direction: William Wyler Screenplay: Lillian Hellman; from her play Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright, Richard Carlson, Dan Duryea, Patricia Collinge, Charles Dingle, Carl Benton Reid, John Marriott, Jessie Grayson, Russell Hicks Oscar Movies Highly Recommended Herbert Marshall, Bette Davis, The Little Foxes THE HANDS THAT BILKED AMERICA To not choose the revolutionary Citizen Kane as the Best Motion Picture [...]