Sepulchre by Pope Pius XI in 1937. Oscar nomination and New York Film Critics Circle Award for directing Wake Island (1942). Order of St John of Jerusalem 1951 Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1953. Oscar and Writers Guild of America Award for his adapted screenplay for Around the World in Eighty Days (1956). His star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is located at 6304 Hollywood Blvd. Australian connection As one of the few high-profile Australians in Hollywood during the 1930s, Farrow's activities were well covered by the Australian media. He accepted the Oscar won by the Australian documentary Kokoda Front Line! (1943), met Australian Senator Richard Keane, the Minister for Trade and Customs, when he visited Hollywood during the war and offered to assist in the establishment of the Australian Information Service in the US. He also often expressed a desire to make a film back in Australia and later made two films with Australian connections, Botany Bay (1953) and The Sea Chase (1955), despite having ceased to be a British subject in 1947 and thus never acquiring Australian citizenship when it was created in 1949. In 1927 he was described as an Australian member of Hollywood, along with May Robson, the New Zealander Rupert Julian, Josephine Norman and director E. O. Gurney. Filmography Writer only White Gold (1927) – titles The Wreck of the Hesperus (1927) – story A Sailor's Sweetheart (1927) Three Weekends (1928) The Woman From Moscow (1928) The First Kiss (1928) Ladies of the Mob (1928) The Blue Danube (1928) – story The Showdown (1928) – titles Three Weekends (1928) The Bride of the Colorado (1928) – story The Four Feathers (1929) – titles The Wheel of Life (1929) – adaptation A Dangerous Woman (1929) Wolf Song (1929) Inside the Lines (1930) – dialogue Shadow of the Law (1930) The Bad One (1930) – story Seven Days' Leave (1930) – continuity and dialogue The Common Law (1931) A Woman of Experience (1931) – dialogue & screenplay, based on his play A Registered Woman The Impassive Footman (1932) Adventures of Don Quixote (1933) – w (English version) Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) (uncredited) Last of the Pagans (1935) – original story Around the World in 80 Days (1956) Director The Spectacle Maker (1934) – also writer Tarzan Escapes (1936) (uncredited) – also writer Men in Exile (1937) She Loved a