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Nominations 1949 ». Check all the awards won and nominated for by John Wayne - Presidential Medal of Freedom (1980) , People's Choice Award for Favorite Movie Actor (1978) , People's Choice Award for Favorite Movie Actor (1977) and more awards. Marion Mitchell Morrison, better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor,...
Apr 3, 2014 · John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison on May 26, 1907, in Winterset, Iowa. ... Wayne won his first Academy Award for Best Actor for True Grit (1969). He played Rooster Cogburn, an eye ...
Top Action Drama. 1961 Nominee Golden Laurel. Top Male Supporting Performance. Chill Wills. 1961 Winner Golden Laurel. Top Action Performance. John Wayne. 1961 Winner Golden Laurel. Top Musical Score.
John Wayne holding Gary Cooper’s Oscar and John Ford’s Oscar at the 1953 Academy Award Ceremony. Photo courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Of his nearly 170 films, John Wayne received three Oscar nominations during his 50 years in the film industry. Many of his fans could name a dozen films they felt Duke should ...
Academy Awards, USA. 1970 Winner Oscar. Best Actor in a Leading Role. John Wayne. 1970 Nominee Oscar. Best Music, Original Song. Elmer Bernstein (music) Don Black (lyrics) For the song "True Grit".
During the 1940s and early 1950s, Wayne starred in Dark Command (1940), Reap the Wild Wind (1942), Wake of the Red Witch (1948), Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), Rio Grande (1950), and Red River (1948). Some of his more notable war movies include Flying Tigers (1942), The Fighting Seabees (1944), They Were Expendable (1945 ...
