John Huston he didn't miss a trick." Huston received 15 Oscar nominations in the course of his career, and is the oldest person ever to be nominated for the Best Director Oscar when, at 79 years old, he was nominated for "Prizzi's Honor" (1985). He won two Oscars, for directing and writing the screenplay for "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre". Huston also won a Golden Globe for that film. He received the Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute in 1983, and the Career Achievement Award from the U.S. National Board of Review of Motion Pictures in 1984. He also
Walter Huston Award for Best Actor and was nominated for the Academy Award. Huston remained busy throughout the 1930s and 1940s, both on stage and screen (becoming one of America's most distinguished actors). He performed "September Song" in the original Broadway production of "Knickerbocker Holiday" in 1938. Among his films are "Abraham Lincoln" (1930), "Rain" (1932), "Gabriel Over the White House" (1933), "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1941), "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942), and "Mission to Moscow" (1943), a pro-Soviet World War II propaganda film as Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. In 1941, Walter Huston portrayed the part of the ship's captain, who is