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Frank Lloyd

Born 1886-02-02

Frank Lloyd was a film director, scriptwriter and producer. Lloyd was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and its president from 1934 to 1935. Frank Lloyd was Scotland's first Academy Award winner and is unique in film history having received three Oscar nominations in 1929 for his work on a silent film (The Divine Lady), a part-talkie (Weary River) and a full talkie (Drag). He won for The Divine Lady. He was nominated and won again in 1933 for his adaptation of Noel Coward's Cavalcade and received a further Best Director nomination in 1935 for perhaps his most successful film, Mutiny on the Bounty.

Known for

Saboteur 1942 · 7.1 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 · 7.6 Cavalcade 1933 · 5.8 The Spoilers 1942 · 6.7 Invisible Agent 1942 · 5.9 Blood on the Sun 1945 · 6.0 The Howards of Virginia 1940 · 6.0 If I Were King 1938 · 7.1 Son of the Gods 1930 · 5.7 The Call of the Cumberlands 1916 · 6.1