What Academy Award did Walter Thomas Huston won in a 1948 American dramatic adventurous neo-western?
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a 1948 American dramatic adventurous neo-western written and directed by John Huston. It is a feature film adaptation of B. Traven's 1927 novel of the same name, about two financially desperate Americans, Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) and Bob Curtin (Tim Holt), who in the 1920s join old-timer Howard (Walter Huston, the director's father) in Mexico to prospect for gold.
Walter Newman (screenwriter) Walter Newman (11 February 1916 – 14 October 1993) was an American radio writer and screenwriter active from the late 1940s to the early 1990s. He was nominated three times for Academy Awards ("Ace in the Hole," "Cat Ballou," and "Bloodbrothers"), but he is best-known for a work that never made it to the screen: his unproduced original script "Harrow Alley", which "has achieved legendary status in Hollywood."