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
Allegra Huston Salman Rushdie as "an extraordinary telling of an amazing life. I loved it." In "The Telegraph", Lynn Barber wrote that "Huston is an absolutely outstanding writer, incapable of writing a dull sentence." Huston is also the writer and producer of the award-winning short film "Good Luck, Mr. Gorski" and the author of a number of screenplays currently in development. Huston was born in London, England. Her mother was Italian-American ballerina Enrica Soma, and her biological father was John Julius Norwich (Viscount Norwich). When Huston was four, her mother died in a car accident and she subsequently moved to Ireland where