in it I'd say, 'Good, I've got my next picture!' That is not the way to make good films, so some of them were good and some not so good.... What an idiot! 'You should have stayed at what you really wanted to make.' If I have anything to say to young directors today it's don't make a film for the sake of making it. Make it only if you really believe in it. Then success will eventually come to you." Awards Nominated, Best Director Academy Award, The Guns of Navarone (1961) Nominated, Best Director Directors Guild of America, The Guns of Navarone (1961) Nominated, Best Director Golden Globe, The Guns of Navarone (1961) Winner, Best Film Golden Globe, The Guns of Navarone (1961) Nominated, Best Film BAFTA, Tiger Bay (1959) Nominated, Best Film BAFTA, North West Frontier (1959) Nominated, Golden Bear Berlin International Film Festival, Tiger Bay (1959) Winner, FIPRESCI Prize Berlin International Film Festival, Ice Cold in Alex (1958) Nominated, Golden Bear Berlin International Film Festival, Ice Cold in Alex (1958) Winner, Special Mention Berlin International Film Festival, Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957) Winner, FIPRESCI Prize Berlin International Film Festival, Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957) Nominated, Golden Bear Berlin International Film Festival, Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957) Nominated, Palme d'Or Cannes Film Festival, Yield to the Night (1956) Selected filmography Screenwriter The Price of Folly (1937) The Middle Watch (1940) Last Holiday 1950 film: additional dialogue contributions to J B Priestley's Script. Director 1950s Murder Without Crime (1950) The Yellow Balloon (1953) For Better, for Worse (1954) The Weak and the Wicked (1954) As Long as They're Happy (1955) An Alligator Named Daisy (1955) Yield to the Night (1956) The Good Companions (1957) Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957) Ice Cold in Alex (1958) North West Frontier (1959) No Trees in the Street (1959) Tiger Bay (1959) 1960s I Aim at the Stars (1960) The Guns of Navarone (1961) Cape Fear (1962) Taras Bulba (1962) Kings of the Sun (1963) What a Way to Go! (1964) John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965) Return from the Ashes (1965) Eye of the Devil (1967) Mackenna's Gold (1969) Before Winter Comes (1969) The Chairman (1969) 1970s Country Dance (1970) Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) A Great American Tragedy (1972) (TV) Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) Huckleberry Finn (1974) The Reincarnation of Peter