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
Father and Son (book) childhood is repeatedly proved to have contained great affection, friends, fun and even light reading." "Source: Library of Congress" "Father and Son" partially inspired the 1988 novel "Oscar and Lucinda" by Peter Carey, that won the Booker Prize the same year, and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award. The book was the inspiration for Dennis Potter's 1976 television drama "Where Adam Stood", starring Alan Badel as Philip Gosse. Father and Son (book) Father and Son (1907) is a memoir by poet and critic Edmund Gosse, which he subtitled "a study of two temperaments." Edmund had previously published a biography of his