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
Film Booking Offices of America of the overlooked directorial talents of the silent era. Screenwriter Frances Marion, who would win two Oscars in the 1930s, penned ten of the FBO pictures starring her husband, Fred Thomson. Editor Pandro S. Berman, son of a major FBO stockholder, cut his first film for the studio at the age of twenty-two; he would go on to renown as an RKO producer and production chief. Famed RKO costume designer Walter Plunkett was also an FBO graduate. Film Booking Offices of America Film Booking Offices of America (FBO), also known as FBO Pictures Corporation, was an American film studio of