The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film) consensus reads, "Remade but never duplicated, this darkly humorous morality tale represents John Huston at his finest." John Huston won the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1948 for his work on "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre". Walter Huston, John Huston's father, also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in this film, the first father-son win. The film was nominated for the Best Picture award, but lost to Laurence Olivier's film adaptation of "Hamlet". In 1990, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National
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