The African Queen (film) The African Queen (film) The African Queen is a 1951 British-American adventure film adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name by C. S. Forester. The film was directed by John Huston and produced by Sam Spiegel and John Woolf. The screenplay was adapted by James Agee, John Huston, John Collier and Peter Viertel. It was photographed in Technicolor by Jack Cardiff and had a music score by Allan Gray. The film stars Humphrey Bogart (who won the Academy Award for Best Actor – his only Oscar), and Katharine Hepburn with Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Walter Gotell, Richard Marner
Ariel Award for Best Actor Best Actor. In 1972, Alfonso Arau won for his self-directed leading role in "El Águila Descalza". Spanish actor Javier Bardem was nominated in 2011 for his performance in "Biutiful", for which he was also nominated for the Academy Award and a BAFTA Award, and won the Goya and the Prix d'interprétation masculine at the Cannes Film Festival. Six films have featured two nominated performances for Best Actor, "De Todos Modos Juan Te Llamas" (Jorge Russek and Juan Ferrara), "Cuartelazo" (Héctor Ortega and Bruno Rey), "Vidas Errantes" (José Carlos Ruiz and Ignacio Guadalupe), "Chido Guan, El Tacos de Oro" (Fernando Arau