Who was Howard Winchester Hawks?
Q: Who was Howard Winchester Hawks?
A: Howard Winchester Hawks was an American movie director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era.
Q: What is the classic Hollywood era?
A: The classic Hollywood era is the time between 1917 and 1960 when American films first started to be created.
Q: What types of films did Hawks make?
A: Hawks made many different kinds of films including funny films, dramas, gangster films, science fiction, film noir, and westerns.
Q: What are some popular movies that he made?
A: Some of his popular movies include Scarface (1932), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948), The Thing from Another World (1951) and Rio Bravo (1959).
Q: How did Hawks influence other movie directors?
A: His work has influenced some of the most popular movie directors such as Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, John Carpenter and Quentin Tarantino.
Q: What kind of women were often included in his films?
A: He often included strong women who talked a lot in his films. This kind of woman was in so many of Hawks's films that people now call that type of woman a "Hawksian woman."
Q: Was he ever nominated for an Academy Award?
A: In 1942, other movie people in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated him for the Academy Award for Best Director for his work making Sergeant York. In 1975 he received an Honorary Academy Award.
