President Nixon attended the ceremony and bestowed the nation’s highest civilian honor on the ailing director, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It was John Ford's fourth time winning the Oscar … The Quiet Man wound up winning two Oscars: John Ford won for Best Director, and Winton Hoch and Artie Stout won for Best Cinematography. 5 Nominations. John Ford is the only director with 4 Best Director Oscars, followed by William Wyler and Frank Capra with 3 Best Director Academy Awards. IU Libraries' Lilly Library is now home to four of the historical awards thanks to Dan Ford, biographer and grandson of legendary motion picture director John Ford (1895-1973). The most nominated and most frequent winners in the Best Director category are the following: Image via Wikimedia Commons Western film director John Ford has four Oscars for The Informer (1935), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), and The Quiet Man (1952). As it turns out, the documentary Oscars, as we know them today, were being born amid the bravado, false and otherwise (Ford later insisted that internally he was a … O. n 24 January 1940, John Ford’s film adaption of John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, set during America’s great depression, was released to universal acclaim. The Great Dictator. John Ford, 78, Film Director Who Won 4 Oscars, ls Dead. ... * Directing - John Ford. Of the 92 films that have been awarded Best Picture, 66 have also been awarded Best Director. Most people remember John Ford as an iconic Hollywood film director and winner of multiple Oscars. Joan Fontaine and Alfred Hitchcock. Several months later, John Ford succumbed to stomach cancer at age 79. Writing (Original Screenplay) - Charles Chaplin. Also, and this is the strange bit, they also featured an article in their in house magazine What’s News at CIA about two of John Ford’s Oscars being on display in the CIA Exhibit Center in the US Naval Academy Museum in Annapolis. Since its inception, the award has been given to 72 directors or directing teams. The Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture have been very closely linked throughout their history. John Ford has won the most Best Director Oscars. Fittingly, John Ford was the first recipient of the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 1973. Sept. 1, 1973. Ginger Rogers and James Stewart. Best Actress winner for Kitty Foyle and Best Actor winner for The Philadelphia Story. The CIA are clearly quite proud of this bit of their pre-history because they memorialise Ford on their website. Academy Awards stage. Ford was known especially for his westerns for …