Word: wyler
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When prize-day came, however, neither nation brought home a very hefty load of bacon. Carol Reed's Odd Man Out (Rank) was awarded honors as the best production job of 1946; but a U.S. picture was the only one to receive more than one award. William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (Goldwyn) was honored as the best story (by Robert E. Sherwood from a MacKinlay Kantor novel), and Myrna Loy was named the year's best actress for her work in the picture. Brussels' equivalent to Hollywood's Oscar, a bronze...
...independent movie companies in the Hollywood pool, Liberty Films Inc. seemed most likely to become a big fish. It had three of Hollywood's top directors: Frank Capra (Mr.Deeds Goes to Town), a three-time Oscar winner; William Wyler, whose Best Years of Our Lives won nine Oscars last year; George Stevens (Penny Serenade) and Samuel Briskin, who was once Columbia Pictures production boss...
With the artistic freedom they had gained, Capra, Wyler and Stevens had also acquired the worries of businessmen. Wyler sighed: "I have no talent for business. I don't like it. What I want to do is direct pictures. But now I have to fuss with lawyers, make decisions about distribution, be a salesman and so on. I just don't know...
...Best Years of Our Lives. The Oscar-winning picture of 1946, which also won Oscars for Producer Sam Goldwyn, Director William Wyler, Scripter Robert E. Sherwood, Actors Fredric March and Harold Russell (TIME...
...Best Years of Our Lives. The Oscar-winning picture of 1946, which also won Oscars for Producer Sam Goldwyn, Director William Wyler, Scripter Robert E. Sherwood, Actors Fredric March and Harold Russell (TIME...