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
Mrs. Ted Bliss Ford), " Galatea 2.2" (by Richard Powers, "Moo" (by Jane Smiley), and "The Tent of Orange Mist" (by Paul West). Elkin had earlier won in the same category for his 1982 novel "George Mills". Mrs. Ted Bliss Mrs. Ted Bliss is a 1995 novel by American author Stanley Elkin, published by Hyperion Books. It concerns the last eventful years in the life of an old widow. Elkin won the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award in the fiction category for this work. Mrs. Dorothy Bliss is an old woman in her early 80s living alone in a retirement community near