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
Allegra Huston Salman Rushdie as "an extraordinary telling of an amazing life. I loved it." In "The Telegraph", Lynn Barber wrote that "Huston is an absolutely outstanding writer, incapable of writing a dull sentence." Huston is also the writer and producer of the award-winning short film "Good Luck, Mr. Gorski" and the author of a number of screenplays currently in development. Huston was born in London, England. Her mother was Italian-American ballerina Enrica Soma, and her biological father was John Julius Norwich (Viscount Norwich). When Huston was four, her mother died in a car accident and she subsequently moved to Ireland where