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
Harpoon (1948 film) "childish", and the acting and direction as "painfully amateurish". The ship used during the production of "Harpoon", "The Flying Kate", is referenced in John S. Bohne's 2001 book "The Sea Change", which describes the film as "a rough sea adventure made from a rather bad script". The Danches wanted to make a follow up, "The Vanishing Isle" and "The Kind of Kapu". Neither appears to have been made. However Scott did make "Arctic Manhunt" (1948), shot mostly in Alaska. Harpoon (1948 film) Harpoon is a 1948 American adventure film directed and produced by Ewing Scott, and starring John Bromfield in