Oscar Record
Bickford was nominated for an Oscar three times, always in the Supporting Actor category:

The Song of Bernadette (1943)
The Farmer’s Daughter (1947)
Johnny Belinda (1948)

He never won the Oscar award, though his the stars of the above movies won the Best Actress Oscar.

Easily one of the worst films to win the Best Picture Oscar, Mrs. Miniver competed against other, better pictures in 1942: The Invaders, Kings Row, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Pied Piper, The Pride of the Yankees, Random Harvest, The Talk of the Town, Wake Island, and Yankee Doodle Dandy.

Volume 1 of the Astaire-Rogers Collection consists of five terrific films. Four were produced at RKO (Top Hat, Follow the Fleet, Swing Time, and  Shall We Dance) and one, their last, The Barkleys of Broadway, at MGM, in 1949. Singly and jointly, they show that Astaire was to the screen musical what Chaplin was to silent comedy–a master with a signature.

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary

Are the Directors Guild Award winners good indicators of the Best Director Oscar winners?