Along with '' Mutiny on the Bounty '' , '' The Informer '' was a big contender at the 8th Academy Awards , competing directly in all six categories they were nominated for ( though '' Mutiny '' got eight nominations in total , given its three Best Actor nominations ) . '' The Informer '' won four Oscars : Best Director for Ford , Best Actor for McLaglen , Best Writing Screenplay for Nichols , and Best Score . In 2018 , the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally , historically , or aesthetically significant . " In Dublin in 1922 , Gypo Nolan ( Victor McLaglen ) has been kicked out of the outlaw Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) for not killing a Black and Tan who killed an IRA man . He becomes angry when he sees his streetwalker girlfriend Katie Madden ( Margot Grahame ) trying to pick up a customer . After he throws the man into the street , Katie laments that she does not have £ 10 for passage to America to start afresh
8th Academy Awards
8th Academy Awards
The Informer (1935 film)