Walter Huston shot while delivering the black bird to Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon". This was an uncredited performance. Walter's son, John Huston, directed the picture. John, as a practical joke, had his father enter the scene and die in more than 10 different takes. In 1948, he played Howard in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", which was also directed by his son, John Huston. The film was based on B. Traven's novel, which told the story of three gold diggers in 1920s post-revolution Mexico. Walter Huston won the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Academy Award for Best Film Editing respectively. Directors David Lean, Steve James, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (under the alias "Roderick Jaynes"), Michel Hazanavicius and Jean-Marc Vallée (under the alias "John Mac McMurphy") have been nominated for editing their own films, with Cameron, Cuarón, and the Coens each being nominated for the award twice. Additionally, Best Film Editing winner, Walter Murch, although known for film editing and sound, directed the Oscar nominated "Return to Oz" and is, to date, the only person with Oscars for both sound engineering and film editing, winning them in the same year for his work on "The English Patient". Also, nominated