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 | | DeMille was the best known director in the world, decorated by man governments and blessed by the Pope, and finally he was singled out by the Industry that he had fathered from its early days to receive its highest recognition, The Academy Award, for his next film. |
 | | First in 1950 as a general recognition of thirty seven years of brilliant showmanship, given as a sop to Hollywoods conscience; and secondly, for Greatest Show, his 69th and the weakest of his last great films, again as an apology that perhaps he had been neglected. |
 | | Then, as if to verify what had merely been suggested by his second Oscar, the AMPAS voted him the Irving Thalberg Award, which is bestowed on rare occasions to a filmmaker for outstanding years of producing and directing. |
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