The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film) consensus reads, "Remade but never duplicated, this darkly humorous morality tale represents John Huston at his finest." John Huston won the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1948 for his work on "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre". Walter Huston, John Huston's father, also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in this film, the first father-son win. The film was nominated for the Best Picture award, but lost to Laurence Olivier's film adaptation of "Hamlet". In 1990, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National
John Huston "virtually stole the picture." He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role. He had a little participation (as did many others) in 1967's "Casino Royale" as actor and director. He acted in Roman Polanski's "Chinatown" (1974) as the film's master villain, and as Teddy Roosevelt's secretary of state John Hay in "The Wind and the Lion". Huston enjoyed acting and denied that he took it all that seriously. "It's a cinch," he once said, "and they pay you damn near as much as you make directing." Huston said he did not regard himself very