John Wayne earned a 1949 Best Actor Academy Award nomination for one of his most iconic roles, as the battle-hardened leader of a squad of recruits, in Allan Dwan's SANDS OF IWO JIMA. Haunted by ...

Before becoming a movie star, John Wayne played the same role eight times in a Western franchise that ran for 51 films in the ...

Bruce Dern says he still gets hate mail for what he did to John Wayne on The Cowboys, with Duke telling him: "Oh how they're ...

From "The Searchers" to "Rio Bravo," John Wayne is synonymous ... The ceremony in question saw Wayne and Broderick Crawford receive nominations for Allan Dwan's "Sands of Iwo Jima" and Robert ...