21st Academy Awards 21st Academy Awards The 21st Academy Awards features numerous firsts. It was the first time a non-Hollywood production won Best Picture, "Hamlet" and the first time an individual (Laurence Olivier) directed himself in an Oscar-winning performance. It was the first Academy Awards ceremony to be giving awards for Best Costume Design. John Huston directed two films in this awards year for which his actors won Oscars: his father, Walter Huston, in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"; and Claire Trevor for "Key Largo". The Huston family won three Oscars that evening. The ceremony was moved from the Shrine Auditorium to
Harpoon (1948 film) "childish", and the acting and direction as "painfully amateurish". The ship used during the production of "Harpoon", "The Flying Kate", is referenced in John S. Bohne's 2001 book "The Sea Change", which describes the film as "a rough sea adventure made from a rather bad script". The Danches wanted to make a follow up, "The Vanishing Isle" and "The Kind of Kapu". Neither appears to have been made. However Scott did make "Arctic Manhunt" (1948), shot mostly in Alaska. Harpoon (1948 film) Harpoon is a 1948 American adventure film directed and produced by Ewing Scott, and starring John Bromfield in