Category: Academy Awards History

From the 1930s through the mid 1960s no Hollywood director, with the exception of John Ford, was more revered than William Wyler. His reputation has suffered in subsequent years as the measure of greatness has shifted from totality of accomplishment to a unique signature style, which Wyler didn’t have. All his films were different, which…

Born May 16, 1905, Henry Fonda was a shy child who nevertheless excelled as a Boy Scout. When he was 14, his father took him to observe the lynching of a young black man accused of rape. The occurrence so enraged him that the keen social awareness of prejudice he developed from the incident never…