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
Walter Huston father of Wallace Reid and also appeared with Richard Mansfield in "Julius Caesar". He again toured in another play "The Sign of the Cross". In 1904, he married Rhea Gore (1882–1938) and gave up acting to work as a manager of electric power stations in Nevada, Missouri. He maintained these jobs until 1909. In 1909, his marriage foundering, he appeared with an older actress named Bayonne Whipple (1865–1937) (born Mina Rose). They were billed as Whipple and Huston and, in 1915, they married. Vaudeville was their livelihood into the 1920s. Huston began his Broadway career on January 22, 1924. He