William Wyler "Mrs. Miniver". He is tied with Frank Capra and behind John Ford, who won four Oscars in this category. He is also only director in Academy history to direct three Best Picture-winning films (the three for which he won Best Director), and directed more Best Picture nominees than anyone else (thirteen). He has the distinction of having directed more actors to Oscar-nominated performances than any other director in history: thirty-six. Out of these nominees, fourteen went on to win Oscars, also a record. He received the fourth AFI Life Achievement Award in 1976. Among those who thanked him for directing
Polly Holliday "The Golden Girls", where she played Rose Nylund's blind sister Lily, in a recurring role as Jill Taylor's mother on "Home Improvement", and a regular on "The Client". Holliday's notable roles in films include "All the President's Men", "Mrs. Doubtfire", the 1998 remake of "The Parent Trap" and her role as Mrs. Ruby Deagle in the 1984 box office smash "Gremlins". On the Broadway stage, she has appeared in revivals of "Arsenic and Old Lace" (1986) as Martha Brewster, one of the dotty, homicidal, sweet old aunties; "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1990), for which she was nominated for