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Which screenplay earned John Huston his first Academy Award nomination?

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

John Huston received his first Academy Award nomination for his work on the screenplay for the 1941 film Sergeant York, for which he was nominated in the best original screenplay category in 1942.1