Dudley Nichols

Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox person Dudley Nichols (April 6, 1895 – January 4, 1960) was an American screenwriter and film director. He was the first person to decline an Academy Award, as part of a boycott to gain recognition for the Screen Writers Guild; he would later accept his Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1938.

Biography

Dudley Nichols was born April 6, 1895, in Wapakoneta, Ohio.<ref name="Katz">Template:Cite book</ref> He studied at the University of Michigan where he was active member of the Sigma chapter of Theta Xi fraternity.

After working as a reporter for the New York World, Nichols moved to Hollywood in 1929 and became one of the most highly regarded screenwriters of the 1930s and 1940s. He collaborated on many films over many years with director John Ford, and was also noted for his work with George Cukor, Howard Hawks, Fritz Lang and Jean Renoir.<ref name="Katz"/>

Nichols wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for films including Bringing Up Baby (1938), Stagecoach (1939), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Scarlet Street (1945), And Then There Were None (1945), The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), Pinky (1949) and The Tin Star (1957).<ref name="AFI"/>

Nichols initially declined the Academy Award he received in 1936 for The Informer, due to a dispute between the Screen Writers Guild, of which he was a founder, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He collected the award at the 1938 Oscar ceremony.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He served as president of the Screen Writers Guild in 1937 and 1938.

He also co-wrote the documentary The Battle of Midway, which won the 1942 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Nichols produced and directed three films—Government Girl (1943), Sister Kenny (1946) and Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)—for which he also wrote the screenplay.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Awards

In 1954 he received the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement from the Writers Guild of America.<ref name="NYT Obit">Template:Cite news</ref>

Death

He died in Hollywood of cancer in 1960 and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Filmography

Year	Title	Notes
1930	Men Without Women	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1930	Born Reckless	<ref name="AFI"/>
1930	On the Level	<ref name="AFI"/>
1930	One Mad Kiss	<ref name="AFI"/>
1930	Template:Sortname	<ref name="AFI"/>
1931	Not Exactly Gentlemen	<ref name="AFI"/>
1931	Seas Beneath	<ref name="AFI"/>
1931	Template:Sortname	<ref name="AFI"/>
1931	Hush Money	<ref name="AFI"/>
1931	Skyline	<ref name="AFI"/>
1931	Reckless Living	<ref name="AFI"/>
1931	Template:Sortname	<ref name="AFI"/>
1932	She Wanted a Millionaire	<ref name="AFI"/>
1932	While Paris Sleeps	<ref name="AFI"/>
1932	This Sporting Age	<ref name="AFI"/>
1933	Robbers Roost	<ref name="AFI"/>
1933	Template:Sortname	<ref name="AFI"/>
1933	Pilgrimage	<ref name="AFI"/>
1933	Hot Pepper	<ref name="AFI"/>
1934	Frontier Marshal	<ref name="AFI"/>
1934	You Can't Buy Everything	<ref name="AFI"/>
1934	Ever Since Eve	<ref name="AFI"/>
1934	Template:Sortname	<ref name="AFI"/>
1934	Hold That Girl	<ref name="AFI"/>
1934	Call It Luck	<ref name="AFI"/>
1934	Wild Gold	<ref name="AFI"/>
1934	Grand Canary	<ref name="AFI"/>
1934	Judge Priest	<ref name="AFI"/>
1935	Mystery Woman	<ref name="AFI"/>
1935	Life Begins at 40	<ref name="AFI"/>
1935	Template:Sortname	Academy Award, Best Writing, Screenplay (not accepted until 1938)<ref name="AFI"/>
1935	Template:Sortname	<ref name="AFI"/>
1935	She	<ref name="AFI"/>
1935	Steamboat Round the Bend	<ref name="AFI"/>
1935	Template:Sortname	<ref name="AFI"/>
1935	Template:Sortname	<ref name="AFI"/>
1936	Mary of Scotland	<ref name="AFI"/>
1937	Template:Sortname	<ref name="AFI"/>
1937	Template:Sortname	<ref name="AFI"/>
1937	Template:Sortname	<ref name="AFI"/>
1938	Bringing Up Baby	<ref name="AFI"/>
1938	Carefree	<ref name="AFI"/>
1939	Gunga Din	<ref name="AFI"/>
1939	Stagecoach	<ref name="AFI"/>
1939	Template:Sortname	<ref name="AFI"/>
1940	Template:Sortname	Academy Award nominee<ref name="Katz"/><ref name="AFI"/>
1941	Man Hunt	<ref name="AFI"/>
1941	Swamp Water	<ref name="AFI"/>
1942	Template:Sortname
1943	Air Force	Academy Award nominee<ref name="Katz"/><ref name="AFI"/>
1943	This Land Is Mine	<ref name="AFI"/>
1943	Mr. Lucky	<ref name="AFI"/>
1943	For Whom the Bell Tolls	<ref name="AFI"/>
1944	Government Girl	Also producer and director<ref name="AFI"/>
1944	It Happened Tomorrow	<ref name="AFI"/>
1945	And Then There Were None	<ref name="AFI"/>
1945	Template:Sortname	<ref name="AFI"/>
1945	Scarlet Street	<ref name="AFI"/>
1946	Sister Kenny	Also producer and director<ref name="AFI"/>
1947	Template:Sortname	<ref name="AFI"/>
1947	Mourning Becomes Electra	Also producer and director<ref name="AFI"/>
1949	Pinky	<ref name="AFI"/>
1951	Rawhide	<ref name="AFI"/>
1952	Return of the Texan	<ref name="AFI"/>
1952	Template:Sortname	<ref name="AFI"/>
1954	Prince Valiant	<ref name="AFI"/>
1956	Run for the Sun	<ref name="AFI"/>
1957	Template:Sortname	Academy Award nominee<ref name="Katz"/><ref name="AFI"/>
1959	Template:Sortname	<ref name="AFI"/>
1960	Heller in Pink Tights	<ref name="AFI"/>

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• Dudley Nichols Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.