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5 days ago · End of June. Director William A. Wellman 👆. Not quite a June movie memory
3 days ago · This 1928 yarn about WWI flyers was directed by William Wellman, who had been a flyer himself during the war. The aerial sequences were breathtaking for its time, and still hold up, even though the film is silent, save for a synchronized musical score. The film starred Charles “Buddy” Rogers as a young flyer, and Clara Bow as his love interest.
2 days ago · William A. Wellman's Wings (1927) showed aerial combat during the war and was made in cooperation with the Army Air Corps. It proved a powerful recruiting tool. It became the first film (in any genre) to be awarded an Oscar for best picture.
3 days ago · Directors John Huston and William Wellman having a fist fight on their front lawn. Sean Connery even turns up to save the author, then aged eight, from drowning in the family pool.
3 days ago · Barbara Stanwyck stars in William A. Wellman's Night Nurse (1931), a riveting pre-Code drama-thriller that follows her character Lora Hart as she uncovers a nefarious scheme involving child neglect at a wealthy family's estate during her tenure as a private nurse.
3 days ago · The Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures is one of the annual Directors Guild of America Awards presented by the Directors Guild of America. With 3 wins out of 13 nominations, Steven Spielberg is both the most awarded and most nominated director of this category in the history of DGA, and ...
1 day ago · Only six films have been awarded Best Picture without receiving a Best Director nomination: Wings directed by William A. Wellman (1927/28), Grand Hotel directed by Edmund Goulding (1931/32), Driving Miss Daisy directed by Bruce Beresford (1989), Argo directed by Ben Affleck (2012), Green Book directed by Peter Farrelly (2018), and CODA directed ...
