Curtis Bernhardt(1899-1981)

Directed 4 actors to Oscar nominations: Joan Crawford (Best Actress, La possédée (1947)), Jane Wyman (Best Actress, La Femme au voile bleu (1951)), Joan Blondell (Best Supporting Actress, La Femme au voile bleu (1951)), and Eleanor Parker (Best Actress, Mélodie interrompue (1955)).

[on his arrival in Hollywood]: The first thing that hit me here, and hit me hard, was that I no longer had the authority that I had had before. In Germany, France and Italy before World War II, the director was in charge of the whole artistic side of the film, including the script and the choice of the story. The producer had very little influence on actual film-making; he was only the business head of the organization. In America, I found that the producer was the number one man and that the director was supposed to take a script, make a few changes if he felt like it, and then shoot it.