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 Award for Best Actor and was nominated for the Academy Award. Huston remained busy throughout the 1930s and 1940s, both on stage and screen (becoming one of America's most distinguished actors). He performed "September Song" in the original Broadway production of "Knickerbocker Holiday" in 1938. Among his films are "Abraham Lincoln" (1930), "Rain" (1932), "Gabriel Over the White House" (1933), "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1941), "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942), and "Mission to Moscow" (1943), a pro-Soviet World War II propaganda film as Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. In 1941, Walter Huston portrayed the part of the ship's captain, who is