School and Blood and Guts and five American Film Institute Life Achievement Award specials on CBS-TV dealing with Fred Astaire, Frank Capra, Lillian Gish, John Huston, and James Stewart. He was also cowriter of the United States Information Agency worldwide live TV special Let Poland Be Poland (1982). He plays a film critic, Mr. Pister, in the Orson Welles feature The Other Side of the Wind (1970–76) and served as a consultant on its completion in 2018. He is also the coproducer of the documentaries Obsessed with "Vertigo": New Life for Hitchcock's Masterpiece (1997) and John Ford Goes to War (2002). Awards and honors McBride received the "Television: Comedy/Variety - Special" Writers Guild of America Award in 1984 for cowriting The American Film Institute Salute to John Huston with producer George Stevens, Jr. He has also received four other WGA nominations, two Emmy nominations, and a Canadian Film Awards nomination. The French edition of Searching for John Ford, titled A la recherche de John Ford, published in 2007, was chosen the Best Foreign Film Book of the Year by the French film critics' association, le Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma. A documentary feature on his life and work, Behind the Curtain: Joseph McBride on Writing Film History, written and directed by Hart Perez, had its world debut in 2011 at the Tiburon International Film Festival in Tiburon, Marin County, CA, and was released on DVD in 2012. Personal life McBride lives in Berkeley, California. His life partner is author and psychology educator Ann Weiser Cornell. Bibliography As Author Orson Welles (1972, revised and expanded 1996) John Ford (1975, with Michael Wilmington) Kirk Douglas (1976) Orson Welles: Actor and Director (1977) High and Inside: An A-to-Z Guide to the Language of Baseball (1980) Hawks on Hawks (1982) Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success (1992) Steven Spielberg: A Biography (1997, revised and expanded 2012) The Book of Movie Lists: An Offbeat, Provocative Collection of the Best and Worst of Everything in Movies (1998) Searching for John Ford (2001) What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career (2006, revised and expanded 2022) Writing in Pictures: Screenwriting Made (Mostly) Painless (2012) Into the Nightmare: My Search for the Killers of President John F. Kennedy and Officer J.D. Tippit (2013) The Broken Places: A Memoir (2015) Two Cheers for Hollywood: Joseph McBride on Movies (2017) How Did Lubitsch Do