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Which Academy Award did Anjelica Huston win for John Huston’s Prizzi’s Honor?

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John Huston John Huston (left) on the set of *The Treasure of the Sierra Madre* (1948).

For her role as Maerose Prizzi in the 1985 film Prizzi’s Honor, which was directed by her father, John Huston, Anjelica Huston won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.12