The Informer (1935 film) film was nominated for six Academy Awards, winning four. McLaglen won Best Actor for his portrayal of Gypo Nolan, beating out Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, and Franchot Tone for the better-remembered "Mutiny on the Bounty", and Ford won Best Director. Dudley Nichols won Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, but turned it down because of union disagreements. It was the first time an Oscar was declined, though he later claimed it three years later. The film also won the Oscar for Best Score; Max Steiner won for the first time. The film was nominated for Outstanding Production, as well as for Best
Charles Laughton and Golden Globe nominations for his role in "Witness for the Prosecution" (1957). He played a British admiral in "Under Ten Flags" (1960) and worked with Laurence Olivier in "Spartacus" (1960). His final film was "Advise & Consent" (1962), for which he received favourable comments for his performance as a Southern US Senator (for which accent he studied recordings of Mississippi Senator John C. Stennis). In 1955, Laughton directed "The Night of the Hunter", starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish, and produced by his friend Paul Gregory. The film has been cited among critics as one of the