John Ford winning the Oscar® for Directing "The Quiet Man"
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2013
- Olivia de Havilland presenting John Ford with the Oscar® for Directing for "The Quiet Man" at the 25th Academy Awards® in 1953. Accepted by John Wayne and hosted by Bob Hope.
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I loved it! Back in the day everything was short & sweet it wasn’t necessary to thank everyone from your 7th grade Acting Couch in to your Aunt Millie. Olivia de Havilland looked absolutely stunning and John Wayne what can I say, what a man!
I love The Quiet Man! Ford & Wayne remain the best!!
Jack Ford and Duke were two Patriotic Americans who like to tell stories of ordinary people and the human condition. They wanted to make folks feel good about themselves by promoting ideals such as honor, hard work, self sacrifice, courage, loyalty, love and compassion. They kept a lot of their Pals working which paid the bills and put food on the table. Compared to the Motion Picture Industry of today, well... you know all about that.
Jack enlisted in war...Duke didn't
@@aljomc6444 The Duke, John Wayne, did try to enlist and was turned down. He kept the spirits up by working in films for those fighting in the war and was a great supporter of those men and women in the serve.
He was exempt because of his age 34 at the start of WW2 (at the bombing of Pearl Harbor) and 3-A (family deferment) but efforts were made to have that changed to 1-A but the contract studio tried to bar that because he was their only A-list star. They threatened to sue him and interfered to block the change with the service board. He also wrote to be included in John Ford's unit but that did not happen. He was sent an acceptance letter by the OSS (forerunner of the CIA) during the war but the letter was received at his estranged wife's home which was never passed on to him. He did do many USO tours of US bases and hospitals for the troops. Other patriotic endeavors were done by him, such as promoting the sell of war bonds.
@@jgsmile1331 John Ford saw it differently. Ford, a liberal, saw America in a way that Trump supporters aren’t able to…
@@dabearcub You are so very wrong. At that time, many who would be Democrats would be considered Conservatives today. My Irish, Catholic grandparents would have voted for John F. Kennedy, but today would be voting for Trump. You need to look at the context of everything! So, you presently support the fake Biden Regime that is destroying our great country and ushering in the communist NWO?
@@randyvalentine6638 Dude, you’re a loser if you think Trump was good for this country. And yes, Ford would have been considered more of a liberal than a conservative.
Also, before you get your panties in a bunch, I’m no democrat either. Politicians want your vote/campaign help-serving you is a distant 3rd. Fuck Biden, Trump, Clinton…it’s organized crime dude.
The Quiet Man was so Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne and Ireland! It was a great movie, well written and acted because of a great Director!
Mr. Ford liked to have the 'Duke' close by. Mr. Wayne was a loyal friend, hard to come by.
Olivia de Havilland had a class that simply does not exist in Hollywood anymore, and probably never will.
The Duke was class!
Wow...John Wayne...wow!
the best director of all time, no More questions.
Well deserved greatest film of all time for me. Great cast as well .
They have the best lines and the best emotion in this film. Of course being 4th generation Irish, Catholic helps too, ha ha. When John Wayne describes how he first saw Maureen O'Hara and compares her face to that of a saint! Ahh, sigh!
John Ford: The only director who has 4 Oscars in Directing category. :D
I guess the Academy loves John Ford. However, he definitely doesn't deserve all of them especially since he beat out Orson Welles for Citizen Kane.
It's strange to think he has more directing Oscars than even more legendary directors like Stanley Kubrick (0), Alfred Hitchcock (0), Orson Welles (0), Martin Scorsese (1), Francis Ford Coppola (1) and Steven Spielberg (2).
@@laurajones1773 Legendary? Popular Success is different then Critical success. Kubrik, Tarantino and Scorsesse are popular amongst the internet/online crowd who CONSTANTLY throw their names around online. But the internet crowd rarely ever mentions names like Ang Lee, Clint Eastwood, Oliver Stone, and Alejandro G. Inarritu all of which have won TWO Academy Awards for Directing within the last 40 years. The internet crowd(also known as the online keyboard warriors) are generally pretty clueless when it comes to knowledgable opinions about Directors and Screenwriters. Woody Allen has been nominated for Screenwriting more then ANYONE and yet you Never Ever hear his name mentioned from the "online keyboard warrior crowd. Thankfully Hitchcock did receive an Honorary Oscar which he very much Deserved.
@@patr70 Well said. Alejandro Innaritu is a terrific filmmaker but isn't as popular as he should be. Same goes for directors like Milos Forman and Jonathan Demme who aren't as well-known anymore (though that is quite understandable). People sometimes don't see much difference between critical and commercial popularity.
@@laurajones1773 more Legendary than Ford ? John Ford is the most influencal director of all Time (probably with Hitchcock) : Kurosawa, Spielberg and Wells have learned how to make movies in watching Ford's films.
I know the video wasn't about Bob Hope, but after watching him sell that eye roll to the attendees in the cheap seats, I appreciate his acting ability a little more.
The Quiet Man and High Noon still stand up today - the other movies not so much. Great to here the orchestra play some of the great Victor Young score to accompany Wayne to the podium. Sadly this score was not nominated
Michael Muldowney Singin’ in the Rain still holds up too
Although that particular piece is a folk song, "Aisle of Innishfree."
MOULIN ROUGE is a great film too. Very underrated today.
All the more reason to admire him...
I know it’s old Hollywood but I love how John Wayne doxes John ford for everyone in the world.
Brilliant, Yes Brilliant !!!
Homeric
Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford: the two greatest directors in American cinema history. One has 4 directing Oscars, the other has none.
TheTerryE Bruh, Hitchcock was English...
mrcp dont think it had much to do with it howard hawkes never won and hes as american as uncle sam
Stanley Kubrick is an American also and didn't win a single Best Director Oscar either.
@@mcrp_ yes but he directed loads of movies that were made in America with American casts/crews, I think that's what they mean
Stanley kubrick also
Olivia is still alive. Maybe the only person in that room who is still alive…let that sink in…
Back when there were decent human beings in Hollywood!
😍😍😍
Hope was the biggest ham in Hollywood.
Come visit Maureen and Duke "Forever In Our Hearts" Facebook Page. It's nice.
ford looks very much like John Wayne here, he has also the same voice
Of course CK was a masterpiece but then of course he(Welles) would have been able to win that year, so they chose Ford.
weird how they give HIGH NOON best song, best score for Comedy or dramatic picture, editing film and Cooper best actor but not giving it the best directing effort by the great Mr. Zinneman. but he still won hes Oscar the next year prior in 1953 (prsented in 1954) for FROM HERE TO ETERNITY. and THE QUIET MAN won only won Award Before this for best cinematography for a colorfull Picture. And Demilles THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (undeservingly) won best Picture and best story for a motion Picture. Hustons MOULIN ROUGE won best set devoration for color, and best costume design color. Also I maybe will NEVER understand why Minneli was not even nominated here for THE BAD AND THE BEATUTIFUL. not beacuse I loved it so much (actually I dont even liked it at all) but beacuse they give it the most Awards in te year for best costume design design for black and White, best art direction (black and White), best cinematogarhy (b and w), best adapted screenplay Writing and best supporting actress! so it has so many good things! 5 FINGERS was also nominated here but it was only also nominated for one single Oscar: best adapted screenplay! thats soo weird they nominated 5 FINGERS here but not THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL while THE BAD AND THE BEATIFUL has waay more Oscar wins and nominations! But of course, the Academy LOVES Mr. Mankiewicz! My personal vote here would be fore HIGH NOON by Zinneman. And also, demille and Huston dont deserved to be in there, Kelly and Donen for SINGIN IN THE RAIN and maybe even Crichton for THE LAVANDET HILL MOB should been nominated insteadn imo. I would have defently nominated the genius Chaplin for LIMELIGHT wich came out this year in 1952, buut it came out in 1972 in us so he will be nominated that year instead.;)
Ford thought Zinneman's Man for All Seasons (1966) was the best film he ever saw.
It's ridiculous that they pick a critically panned movie for Best Picture instead of Singin' in the Rain and Limelight which are considered some of the best movies ever. I haven't seen Limelight, but I probably love it if I seen it. I love Charlie Chaplin. Actually, come to think of it, Charlie Chaplin was blacklisted at this time. That's probably why he didn't get any recognition. High Noon didn't win Best Picture because one of the producers was blacklisted as well. It's during the McCarthyism era. It's all politics.
Before Hollywood became...well you know.
Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen should have been nominated instead of Cecil B. De Mille.
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This was a confusing year. They didn't want to vote for "High Noon" but still gave Cooper Best Actor. And they didn't want to show their support for "The Greatest Show On Earth" by only giving it Best Picture and Story and giving Ford his 4th Oscar. As awesome as "The Quiet Man" is, the decision to give Ford his 4th Directing Oscar baffles me. Why not just give it to DeMille if they didn't want to award Zinnemann? At least they remedied it the following year.
similar bluefox to how he beat sgt york and citizen kane see my comments above good point.
Yeah, Zinneman got it the next yr for "From here to Eternity"
Also, I think Gene Kelly and the other director who directed Singin' in the Rain should at least be nominated.
Image it,s your first year at the Oscars and your sitting there and john Wayne gets up and walks past you,my god what a feeling
this belonged to Mr. Zinneman
There's no contest regarding who's the greater artist. Ford's direction was brilliant.
Ford by a distance
+TheTerryE Hitchcock Dont won Any Oscar just Beacuse He dont deserved any, None of hes Movies deserved even a noination for bestpicture and best directing;)
I guess you're more of a Kubrick fan. I respect your opinion if you don't like Hitchcock. I personally think he's an amazing director. He's definitely one of my favorite directors.
i'm sure duke has no idea what the grapes of wrath is about or that it came from book whatsoever
Giorgos, you don't know what you're talking about. Anyone who lived in those times was aware of the dustbowl and the farmers who lost their farms and were displaced. The same year 1940 that "The Grapes Of Wrath" was made into a movie by Wayne's friend and mentor John Ford, Wayne starred in one of the few movies of that time that depicted the dust bowl; "Three Faces West". Wayne plays a US Department Of Agriculture Soil Conservation officer trying to help farmers save their land from the severe drought conditions. When that fails, he leads them in a caravan across the west to make a new start in Oregon. It's a 'B' movie, but a realistic portrayal of the dust bowl era.
joe p well said wayne was a well read man not a fact he ever concealed but it always surprises people.mitchum bogart cagney eg robinson were all intellectual they are not the parts they play giorgios its called acting.good post joe
not forgetting waynes participation in left wing writer eugene o neills the long voyage home which neatly dispells two lies about the duke he couldnt act a he played a very swedish seaman beautifully and that he knew nothing of literature made by ford about the same time as grapes
Sure you may be, but you are nevertheless dead wrong. John Wayne the person was not much like John Wayne the actor. He was instead well read, erudite and sophisticated.
John Steinbeck's book about Dustbowl okies trekking out route 66 to California.
It's strange that John Ford has more directing Oscars than Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese. The directors I've mentioned are even more well known and legendary than John Ford.
Im pretty sure all of them would have to disagree with your statement. All of them learned from Ford (Welles specially, in order to make Citizen Kane he watched Stagecoach like 10 times in a row). Kurosawa studied Ford's films too. All the best directors knew that Ford is the greatest. Anyway, Oscars awards sometimes dont make sense, that is true. But there is no doubt, in my mind, that John Ford's work deserves all the praise and recognition.
More well known and legendary? Maybe in your mind, but millions would disagree.
This video shows that todays Hollywood is garbage. Thank you democrats!
That may be so but he didn't deserve all 4 of them. May I remind you that he won that award in 1942 for ''How Green Was My Valley'', beating out Orson Welles?
Well said. Today, "How Green Was My Valley" seems so stale and dated. It would have been better in color as well. Orson Welles certainly would have been worthy of winning an Oscar for his timeless masterpiece, "Citizen Kane". John Ford's third Oscar win seems wasted on "How Green Was My Valley" and I don't really feel he was worthy for this one.
ford told howard hawkes that sgt york should have won dated now with america entering the war it had tremendous resonance in hollywood.cooper won for the title part.it was hot favourite so big was it that many academy consevatives appalled that welles controversial film might win and figuring most vote would be for york put fords film on the ballot thinking to nullify votes for kane and increasing yorks chances trouble was they all voted for ford to thwart welles but left wingers voted for ford to increas kanes chances as they wanted to beat york result was bit like some elections tatical voting made the third place the winner everyone got what nobody wanted. hawks told the story when wayne presented him with his honoury oscar in 1972 and finished by saying the oscar was really for sgt york.
I saw Citizen Kane for the first time last night, and it was phenomenal. It is definitely one of the best movies I've ever seen. John Ford beating Orson Welles is definitely ridiculous. Boo!
Strangely enough, How Green Was My Valley is the only John Ford movie to win Best Picture.
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