Leo McCarey Net Worth
Leo McCarey Net Worth is
$8 Million
Leo McCarey Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Thomas Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 – July 5, 1969) was a three-time Academy Award winning American film director, screenwriter and producer. He was involved in nearly 200 movies, the most well known today being Duck Soup, Make Way For Tomorrow, The Awful Truth, Going My Way and An Affair To RememberWhile focusing mainly on screwball comedies during the 1930s, McCarey turned towards producing more socially conscious and overtly religious movies during the 1940s, ultimately finding success and acclaim in both genres. McCarey was one of the most popular and established comedy directors of the pre-World War II era. | Date Of Birth | October 3, 1896 |
| Died | 1969-07-05 |
| Place Of Birth | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Height | 5' 9¼" (1.76 m) |
| Profession | Director, Writer, Producer |
| Spouse | Stella Martin |
| Star Sign | Libra |
| Title | Salary |
|---|---|
| The Cowboy and the Lady (1938) | $25,000 |
| # | Quote |
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| 1 | [on Joan Collins]: I thought she was going to be a big star. At the start, she had no confidence in herself, but, little by little, she confided in me. I told her I'd only do this film with her if she'd send her psychoanalyst away and allow me to take over. I said, "If you want to stretch out on a couch, come over to mine." She laughed, but she did send the analyst away. |
| 2 | People stimulate me, and I work along with them. Ideas come that never would have developed from a struggle with my own or some other writer's imagination. Besides, I never belonged to the school which holds that a director should stop thinking the moment he starts shooting. |
| 3 | [on Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy] [Laurel] was one of those rare comics intelligent enough to invent his own gags. Laurel was remarkably talented, while Hardy wasn't. This is the key to the Laurel-Hardy association. Throughout their lives (I was one of their intimates), Laurel insisted on earning twice as much as Hardy. He said he was twice as good and twice as important, that he wrote the film and participated in its creation, while Hardy was really incapable if creating anything at all -- it was astounding that he could even find his way to the studio. |
| 4 | I was a problem child, and problem children do the seemingly insane because they are trying to find out how to fit into the scheme of things. |
| 5 | [on Cary Grant whom he directed in three films] I still don't know what makes him tick. Of the sixteen hours a day when he's awake I don't think there are twenty minutes when he is not complaining. I've never seen a man more constantly in turmoil. |
| 6 | I love when people laugh. I love when they cry, I like a story to say something, and I hope the audience feels happier leaving the theatre than when it came in. |
| 7 | I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little bit of the fairy tale. Let others photograph the ugliness of the world. I don't want to distress people. |
| 8 | [on accepting his Best Director Oscar for The Awful Truth (1937)] Thanks, but you gave it to me for the wrong picture. |
| 9 | You can really call Irene Dunne 'The First Lady of Hollywood', because she's the first real lady Hollywood has ever seen. |
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| 1 | Corresponding Secretary for the Catholic Motion Picture Guild of America. The two other corresponding secretaries for the organization were, at the time, Ina Mae Merrill and June Collyer (per the 1931 Motion Picture Almanac). |
| 2 | An automobile accident prevented McCarey from directing "My Favorite Wife," so producer McCarey handed off the director's reins to Garson Kanin. |
| 3 | During the period he was under contact at Hal Roach Studios between 1923 and 1929, McCarey supervised the production of about 300 comedy shorts including two-reelers of Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chase. |
| 4 | The opening sequences of Nickelodeon (1976) in which Ryan O'Neal's character, Leo Harrigan, a lawyer who intentionally loses a case and is chased out of the courtroom by his enraged client, are inspired by actual events that happened to McCarey, who was once a criminal defense lawyer and was defending a wife-beater who chased him out of the courtroom and down the street. |
| 5 | Was considered one of the most handsome directors in Hollywood, and some said as good looking as Cary Grant, whom he directed in four films. |
| 6 | Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1500 Vine Street. |
| 7 | He and his wife Stella lived at 1014 North Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills, two blocks away from McCarey's friend and fellow filmmaker Hal Roach. |
| 8 | He was a practicing criminal defense attorney for a short time in Los Angeles and San Francisco. |
| 9 | Named after his French-born mother, Leona (Mistrot) McCarey. |
| 10 | Attended St. Joseph's Catholic school and Los Angeles High School. |
| 11 | Pressured by his father to study law at USC. |
| 12 | It is widely believed that many aspects of McCarey's films were based on his personal history. |
| 13 | Had the highest reported income in the United States in 1944. |
| 14 | He believed that Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) was his finest film. |
| 15 | Began his career as an assistant to Tod Browning at Universal Studios. |
| 16 | In The Godfather (1972), his name appears outside of Radio City Music Hall, which is playing his popular film The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), as Michael is walking with Kay and reads about his father's attempted assassination from a newspaper headline. |
| 17 | Orson Welles said of the film Make Way for Tomorrow (1937), "It would make a stone cry", and rhapsodized about his enthusiasm for the film in his book-length series of interviews with Peter Bogdanovich, "This Is Orson Welles". |
| 18 | In Newsweek Magazine famed documentary filmmaker Errol Morris named Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) his number one most important film, stating "The most depressing movie ever made, providing reassurance that everything will definitely end badly". |
| 19 | According to director Edward Dmytryk, who worked for him as an editor, McCarey never forgot a slight. He once told Dmytryk that early in his career Paramount had humiliated him by unceremoniously throwing him off the lot the moment a picture he was making for them was completed. After he became successful Paramount hired him for several more pictures, but McCarey got his revenge, he told Dmytryk, because "every picture I make for Paramount costs them a half-million more than it should". |
| 20 | Graduated from law school, passed the California bar and was a practicing criminal defense attorney for a short time before entering the movie business. |
| 21 | He is the first director to win three major categories at the Academy Awards--Best Picture, Best Director and Best Writing, Original Story, for Going My Way (1944). |
| 22 | In August 2006, an Oscar statuette described as McCarey's Best Director award for Going My Way (1944) was going to be auctioned online, and was expected to sell for at least $100,000 (US). The auction was canceled after the award was found to be counterfeit. McCarey's daughter said she still had all three of her father's Oscars. The base was authentic, but the original nameplate had been removed and replaced with a fake one. The statuette also weighed about a pound more than a real one. |
| 23 | Interviewed in Peter Bogdanovich's "Who the Devil Made It: Conversations With Robert Aldrich, George Cukor, Allan Dwan, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Chuck Jones, Fritz Lang, Joseph H. Lewis, Sidney Lumet, Leo McCarey, Otto Preminger, Don Siegel, Josef von Sternberg, Frank Tashlin, Edgar G. Ulmer, Raoul Walsh." NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. |
| 24 | Biography in: "American National Biography." Supplement 1, pp. 392-393. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. |
| 25 | Directed 6 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Ralph Bellamy, Irene Dunne, Maria Ouspenskaya , Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald and Ingrid Bergman. Crosby and Fitzgerald won for their performances in Going My Way (1944). |
| 26 | He is among an elite group of eight directors who have won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay (Orig/Adapted). The others are Billy Wilder, Francis Ford Coppola, James L. Brooks, Peter Jackson, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, and Alejandro G. Iñárritu. |
| 27 | He accused Cary Grant of ripping off his persona while shooting The Awful Truth (1937), saying that the star's style and personality was just like his. McCarey and Grant worked together several times after that but never fully extinguished their long-standing antagonism resulting from McCarey's comments. |
| 28 | French director Jean Renoir once said that no other Hollywood director understood people better than McCarey. |
| 29 | Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945." Pages 739-747. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987. |
| 30 | Child: Virginia Mary McCarey (c. 1927). |
| 31 | Brother of director Ray McCarey. |
| 32 | Director/writer with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, W.C. Fields, and The Marx Brothers. |
| 33 | He is responsible for the original teaming of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, though Hal Roach claimed it later and is now sometimes erroneously given credit. |
Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stolen Goods | 1924 | Short | |
| Young Oldfield | 1924 | Short | |
| Publicity Pays | 1924 | Short | |
| Society Secrets | 1921 | ||
| Satan Never Sleeps | 1962 | ||
| Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! | 1958 | ||
| An Affair to Remember | 1957 | ||
| Screen Directors Playhouse | 1955 | TV Series 2 episodes | |
| My Son John | 1952 | ||
| You Can Change the World | 1950 | Documentary short | |
| Good Sam | 1948 | ||
| The Bells of St. Mary's | 1945 | ||
| Going My Way | 1944 | ||
| Once Upon a Honeymoon | 1942 | ||
| Love Affair | 1939 | ||
| The Awful Truth | 1937 | ||
| Make Way for Tomorrow | 1937 | ||
| The Milky Way | 1936 | ||
| Ruggles of Red Gap | 1935 | ||
| Belle of the Nineties | 1934 | ||
| Six of a Kind | 1934 | ||
| Duck Soup | 1933 | ||
| The Kid from Spain | 1932 | ||
| Indiscreet | 1931 | ||
| Part Time Wife | 1930 | ||
| Let's Go Native | 1930 | ||
| Wild Company | 1930 | ||
| Freed 'em and Weep | 1929 | ||
| Red Hot Rhythm | 1929 | ||
| The Sophomore | 1929 | ||
| The Unkissed Man | 1929 | Short | |
| Big Business | 1929 | Short supervising | |
| Why Is a Plumber? | 1929 | Short | |
| When Money Comes | 1929 | Short | |
| Wrong Again | 1929 | Short | |
| Liberty | 1929 | Short | |
| We Faw Down | 1928 | Short | |
| Habeas Corpus | 1928 | Short supervising director | |
| The Boy Friend | 1928/I | Short supervising director | |
| Do Gentlemen Snore? | 1928 | Short | |
| That Night | 1928 | Short | |
| Should Married Men Go Home? | 1928 | Short | |
| Imagine My Embarrassment | 1928 | Short supervising | |
| Should Women Drive? | 1928 | Short | |
| The Fight Pest | 1928 | Short supervising | |
| Tell It to the Judge | 1928 | Short | |
| Blow by Blow | 1928 | Short | |
| Came the Dawn | 1928 | Short supervising | |
| The Finishing Touch | 1928 | Short supervising | |
| The Family Group | 1928 | Short supervising | |
| Flaming Fathers | 1927 | Short | |
| Us | 1927 | Short supervising | |
| The Way of All Pants | 1927 | Short | |
| Should Second Husbands Come First? | 1927 | Short | |
| What Every Iceman Knows | 1927 | Short supervising | |
| Sugar Daddies | 1927 | Short | |
| Don't Tell Everything | 1927 | Short | |
| Eve's Love Letters | 1927 | Short | |
| Jewish Prudence | 1927 | Short | |
| Why Girls Say No | 1927 | Short | |
| Should Men Walk Home? | 1927 | Short | |
| Be Your Age | 1926 | Short uncredited | |
| Tell 'Em Nothing | 1926 | Short | |
| Bromo and Juliet | 1926 | Short | |
| Crazy Like a Fox | 1926 | Short | |
| Mighty Like a Moose | 1926 | Short | |
| Long Fliv the King | 1926 | Short | |
| Mum's the Word | 1926 | Short uncredited | |
| Dog Shy | 1926 | Short | |
| Mama Behave | 1926 | Short uncredited | |
| Charley My Boy! | 1926 | Short | |
| His Wooden Wedding | 1925 | Short | |
| Hold Everything | 1925 | Short | |
| The Uneasy Three | 1925 | Short uncredited | |
| The Caretaker's Daughter | 1925 | Short | |
| No Father to Guide Him | 1925 | Short | |
| Innocent Husbands | 1925 | Short | |
| Isn't Life Terrible? | 1925 | Short uncredited | |
| What Price Goofy? | 1925 | Short uncredited | |
| Looking for Sally | 1925 | Short | |
| Big Red Riding Hood | 1925 | Short | |
| Bad Boy | 1925 | Short | |
| Is Marriage the Bunk? | 1925 | Short | |
| Hard Boiled | 1925 | Short | |
| Should Husbands Be Watched? | 1925 | Short | |
| Plain and Fancy Girls | 1925 | Short | |
| The Family Entrance | 1925 | Short | |
| Fighting Fluid | 1925 | Short | |
| Hello Baby! | 1925 | Short | |
| The Rat's Knuckles | 1925 | Short | |
| The Royal Razz | 1924 | Short | |
| The Poor Fish | 1924 | Short | |
| All Wet | 1924 | Short | |
| Accidental Accidents | 1924 | Short | |
| Bungalow Boobs | 1924 | Short | |
| Too Many Mammas | 1924 | Short | |
| Sittin' Pretty | 1924 | Short | |
| Outdoor Pajamas | 1924 | Short | |
| Why Men Work | 1924 | Short | |
| Sweet Daddy | 1924 | Short | |
| Seeing Nellie Home | 1924 | Short | |
| A Ten-Minute Egg | 1924 | Short | |
| Why Husbands Go Mad | 1924 | Short | |
| Jeffries Jr. | 1924 | Short |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mann | 1999 | 1939 story for "Love Affair", uncredited | |
| Love Affair | 1994 | 1939 story | |
| Move Over, Darling | 1963 | story | |
| Satan Never Sleeps | 1962 | screenplay | |
| Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! | 1958 | screenplay | |
| An Affair to Remember | 1957 | screenplay / story | |
| Lux Video Theatre | 1956 | TV Series original screenplay - 1 episode | |
| Screen Directors Playhouse | 1955 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| My Son John | 1952 | screenplay / story | |
| Good Sam | 1948 | story | |
| The Bells of St. Mary's | 1945 | story | |
| Going My Way | 1944 | story - as Leo Mc Carey | |
| Once Upon a Honeymoon | 1942 | story | |
| My Favorite Wife | 1940 | original story | |
| Love Affair | 1939 | story | |
| The Cowboy and the Lady | 1938 | original story | |
| Prosperity | 1932 | uncredited | |
| Indiscreet | 1931 | uncredited | |
| Glückliche Kindheit | 1931 | Short screenplay | |
| Part Time Wife | 1930 | dialogue / screenplay | |
| Locuras de amor | 1930 | ||
| Radiomanía | 1930 | Short | |
| Fast Work | 1930 | Short story - uncredited | |
| Hog Wild | 1930 | Short story - uncredited | |
| Tiembla y Titubea | 1930 | Short | |
| Below Zero | 1930 | Short story - uncredited | |
| All Teed Up | 1930 | Short uncredited | |
| El jugador de golf | 1930 | Short | |
| La vida nocturna | 1930 | Short | |
| Le joueur de golf | 1930 | ||
| Brats | 1930 | Short story | |
| Blotto | 1930 | Short story | |
| Ladrones | 1930 | Short | |
| Night Owls | 1930 | Short story - uncredited | |
| Pêle-Mêle | 1930 | Short | |
| Angora Love | 1929 | Short story | |
| Red Hot Rhythm | 1929 | story | |
| The Hoose-Gow | 1929 | Short story - uncredited | |
| Stepping Out | 1929 | Short story | |
| Bacon Grabbers | 1929 | Short uncredited | |
| Sky Boy | 1929 | Short writer | |
| They Go Boom! | 1929 | Short story | |
| Crazy Feet | 1929 | Short story | |
| Perfect Day | 1929 | Short story | |
| Snappy Sneezer | 1929 | Short story - uncredited | |
| Dad's Day | 1929 | Short story - uncredited | |
| Men O'War | 1929 | Short uncredited | |
| Leaping Love | 1929 | Short story | |
| Madame Q | 1929 | Short story | |
| Berth Marks | 1929 | Short story - uncredited | |
| The Big Squawk | 1929 | Short story | |
| Thundering Toupees | 1929 | Short story | |
| Double Whoopee | 1929 | Short story - uncredited | |
| Hurdy Gurdy | 1929/I | Short story - uncredited | |
| Movie Night | 1929 | Short story | |
| Unaccustomed As We Are | 1929 | Short story - uncredited | |
| The Unkissed Man | 1929 | Short story | |
| Big Business | 1929 | Short uncredited | |
| Thin Twins | 1929 | Short story | |
| Why Is a Plumber? | 1929 | Short story | |
| That's My Wife | 1929 | Short story | |
| When Money Comes | 1929 | Short story | |
| Wrong Again | 1929 | Short story | |
| Off to Buffalo | 1929 | Short story | |
| A Pair of Tights | 1929 | Short story - uncredited | |
| Liberty | 1929 | Short writer | |
| Ruby Lips | 1929 | Short story | |
| Going Ga-Ga | 1929 | Short writer | |
| Chasing Husbands | 1928 | Short writer | |
| Feed 'em and Weep | 1928 | Short story | |
| Habeas Corpus | 1928 | Short writer | |
| The Booster | 1928 | Short writer | |
| The Boy Friend | 1928/I | Short uncredited | |
| Two Tars | 1928 | Short story | |
| All Parts | 1928 | Short writer | |
| Do Gentlemen Snore? | 1928 | Short story | |
| Is Everybody Happy? | 1928 | Short story | |
| That Night | 1928 | Short story | |
| Should Married Men Go Home? | 1928 | Short writer | |
| Imagine My Embarrassment | 1928 | Short story | |
| Should Women Drive? | 1928 | Short story | |
| The Fight Pest | 1928 | Short story | |
| Tell It to the Judge | 1928 | Short story | |
| From Soup to Nuts | 1928 | Short writer | |
| Aching Youth | 1928 | Short story | |
| Fighting Fathers | 1927 | Short | |
| Putting Pants on Philip | 1927 | Short story | |
| Us | 1927 | Short | |
| The Second 100 Years | 1927 | Short story | |
| What Every Iceman Knows | 1927 | Short | |
| Jewish Prudence | 1927 | Short | |
| Looking for Sally | 1925 | Short | |
| Society Secrets | 1921 | uncredited |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Satan Never Sleeps | 1962 | producer | |
| Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! | 1958 | producer | |
| My Son John | 1952 | producer | |
| Good Sam | 1948 | producer | |
| The Bells of St. Mary's | 1945 | producer | |
| Going My Way | 1944 | producer | |
| Once Upon a Honeymoon | 1942 | producer - uncredited | |
| My Favorite Wife | 1940 | producer - uncredited | |
| Love Affair | 1939 | producer | |
| The Awful Truth | 1937 | producer - uncredited | |
| Make Way for Tomorrow | 1937 | producer - uncredited | |
| Let's Go Native | 1930 | producer | |
| Stepping Out | 1929 | Short producer | |
| A Pair of Tights | 1929 | Short supervising producer | |
| Going Ga-Ga | 1929 | Short supervising producer | |
| Feed 'em and Weep | 1928 | Short supervising producer |
Miscellaneous
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| That's Entertainment, Part II | 1976 | Documentary supervisor - segment "The Finishing Touch", uncredited | |
| Laurel und Hardy auf der Jagd nach dem Mammon | 1973 | director: archive footage | |
| Angora Love | 1929 | Short supervising director | |
| Big Business | 1929 | Short supervising director - uncredited | |
| That's My Wife | 1929 | Short supervising director | |
| Habeas Corpus | 1928 | Short supervising director | |
| Two Tars | 1928 | Short supervising director | |
| Early to Bed | 1928 | Short director: re-takes / supervising director | |
| Their Purple Moment | 1928 | Short supervising director | |
| You're Darn Tootin' | 1928 | Short supervising director | |
| Aching Youth | 1928 | Short supervisor | |
| Assistant Wives | 1927 | Short supervisor | |
| Putting Pants on Philip | 1927 | Short supervising director |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| What Happens in Vegas | 2008 | writer: "An Affair to Remember" | |
| Garfield | 2004 | lyrics: "An Affair to Remember End Title" 1956 | |
| How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days | 2003 | "An Affair to Remember" | |
| Sleepless in Seattle | 1993 | writer: "An Affair to Remember" | |
| Walk Don't Run | 1966 | lyrics: "An Affair to Remember Our Love Affair" - uncredited | |
| Satan Never Sleeps | 1962 | lyrics: "Satan Never Sleeps" | |
| The 30th Annual Academy Awards | 1958 | TV Special writer: "An Affair to Remember" | |
| This Is Your Life | 1958 | TV Series lyrics - 1 episode | |
| Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall | 1957 | TV Series lyrics - 1 episode | |
| The Gisele MacKenzie Show | 1957 | TV Series lyrics - 1 episode | |
| An Affair to Remember | 1957 | lyrics: "An Affair to Remember Our Love Affair", "Continué", "The Tiny Scout He Knows You Inside Out", "Tomorrow Land", "You Make It Easy To Be True" | |
| Texaco Star Theatre | 1955 | TV Series lyrics - 1 episode | |
| Good Sam | 1948 | writer: "Eight to Five" - uncredited |
Production Manager
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dumb Daddies | 1928 | Short production supervisor | |
| Leave 'Em Laughing | 1928 | Short production supervisor | |
| Pass the Gravy | 1928 | Short production supervisor | |
| The Battle of the Century | 1927 | Short production supervisor | |
| Love 'em and Feed 'em | 1927 | Short production supervisor | |
| Hats Off | 1927 | Short production supervisor | |
| Call of the Cuckoo | 1927 | Short production supervisor |
Assistant Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short Kilts | 1924 | Short assistant director | |
| No Woman Knows | 1921 | assistant director | |
| Outside the Law | 1920 | assistant director | |
| The Virgin of Stamboul | 1920 | assistant director |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| My Son John | 1952 | John Jefferson (voice, uncredited) | |
| Make Way for Tomorrow | 1937 | Passerby / Man in Overcoat / Carpet Sweeper (uncredited) |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Ed Sullivan Show | 1958 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Eddie Fisher Show | 1958 | TV Series | Himself |
| This Is Your Life | 1954 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Screen Director | 1951 | Short | Himself (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited) |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Masters | 2004 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film | 2002 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | OFTA Film Hall of Fame | Online Film & Television Association | Creative | |
| 1960 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Motion Picture | On 8 February 1960. At 1500 Vine Street. |
| 1957 | Boxoffice Blue Ribbon Award | Boxoffice Magazine Awards | Best Picture of the Month for the Whole Family (August) | An Affair to Remember (1957) |
| 1945 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Director | Going My Way (1944) |
| 1945 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Writing, Original Story | Going My Way (1944) |
| 1945 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Director | Going My Way (1944) |
| 1945 | Silver Condor | Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards | Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera) | Going My Way (1944) |
| 1944 | NYFCC Award | New York Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Director | Going My Way (1944) |
| 1938 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Director | The Awful Truth (1937) |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | DGA Award | Directors Guild of America, USA | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958) |
| 1960 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Top Producer/Director | 9th place. |
| 1959 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Top Producer/Director | 10th place. |
| 1958 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Music, Original Song | An Affair to Remember (1957) |
| 1958 | DGA Award | Directors Guild of America, USA | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | An Affair to Remember (1957) |
| 1958 | Golden Laurel | Laurel Awards | Top Producer/Director | 8th place. |
| 1953 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Writing, Motion Picture Story | My Son John (1952) |
| 1946 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Director | The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) |
| 1941 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Writing, Original Story | My Favorite Wife (1940) |
| 1940 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Writing, Original Story | Love Affair (1939) |
Known for movies
An Affair to Remember (1957)
as Director
Going My Way (1944)
as Director
The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
as Director
Duck Soup (1933)
as Director