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He was nominated for four Academy Awards: three Best Director Oscars for the original A Star Is Born (1937), Battleground (1949), and The High and the Mighty (1954) and one in Best Original Story for A Star is Born, which he won. In 1973, he received the Directors Guild of America 's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Best Director. Battleground. 1938 Nominee Oscar. Best Director. A Star Is Born. 1938 Winner Oscar. Best Writing, Original Story. A Star Is Born. Shared with: Robert Carson. Directors Guild of America, USA. 1973 Winner Lifetime Achievement Award. 1955 Nominee DGA Award. Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures. The High and the Mighty.
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- December 9, 1975
Paramount entrusted its epic WW I flying epic Wings (1927) to Wellman, and the film went on to become the first Academy Award-winning best picture. Paramount paid Wellman $250 a week to direct "Wings". He also gave himself a role as a German pilot, and flew one of the German planes that landed and rolled over.
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Check all the awards won and nominated for by William A. Wellman - DGA Lifetime Achievement Award (1973) , Academy Award for Best Story (1937) and more awards. William Augustus Wellman was an American film director.
Wellman directed the 1927 film Wings, which became the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture at the 1st Academy Awards ceremony. Read More. Known For. The Ox-Bow Incident. The Public Enemy. Wings. A Star Is Born. Yellow Sky. Nothing Sacred. Tarzan Escapes. Beau Geste. Directing. Acting. Production. Writing. All. Department.
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Feb 22, 2019 · The following year, the Academy stopped separating the “great art” award Sunrise won from the “great production” award Wings won. As a result, the Academy cites Wellman’s film as its real...
