Biography
John Martin Feeney, better known as John Ford, was an American film director and producer. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers during the Golden Age of Hollywood, and was one of the first American directors to be recognized as an auteur. In a career of more than 50 years, he directed over 130 films between 1917 and 1970, and received a record four Academy Awards for Best Director for The Informer (1935), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), and The Quiet Man (1952).
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Awards & recognition
- AFI Life Achievement Award · 1973
- Presidential Medal of Freedom · 1973
- Owen Wister Award · 1972
- Golden Lion — Lifetime Achievement · 1971
- Academy Award — Best Director · 1953
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- Academy Award — Best Director · 1942
- Academy Award — Best Director · 1941
- Academy Award — Best Director · 1936
- Air Medal
- American Campaign Medal
- American Defense Service Medal
- Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
- China Service Medal
- Combat Action Ribbon
- Directors Guild of America Award
- European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
- Korean Service Medal
- Legionnaire of Legion of Merit
- National Board of Review Award — Best Film
- National Defense Service Medal
- Naval Reserve Medal
- Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal
- Navy Occupation Service Medal
- Order of Leopold
- Purple Heart
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- United Nations Korea Medal
- World War II Victory Medal
- Academy Award — Best Director · 1953 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Picture · 1953 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Director · 1942 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Director · 1941 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Director · 1940 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Director · 1936 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
Battleground
Five Came Back
Unforgiven
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Grapes of Wrath
The Searchers
Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps
Stagecoach
My Darling Clementine
The Quiet Man
How Green Was My Valley
Four Sons
The Last Hurrah
Young Mr. Lincoln
The Alamo
Mister Roberts
How the West Was Won
Sergeant Rutledge
The Horse Soldiers
The Long Gray Line
Fort Apache
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Prisoner of Shark Island
The Whole Town's Talking
3 Bad Men
The Rising of the Moon
This Is Korea!
Rio Grande
3 Godfathers
Tobacco Road
The Informer
Cheyenne Autumn
Wagon Master
The Hurricane
Doctor Bull
The Iron Horse
Wagon Train
The Long Voyage Home
Wee Willie Winkie
The Lost Patrol
Arrowsmith
Hangman's House
Filmmakers for the Prosecution
They Were Expendable
Drums Along the Mohawk
The American West of John Ford
7 Women
Two Rode Together
Gideon's Day
Mogambo