John Wayne earned a 1949 Best Actor Academy Award nomination for one of his most iconic roles, as the battle-hardened leader of a squad of recruits, in Allan Dwan's SANDS OF IWO JIMA. Haunted by ...

John Wayne was one of the biggest movie stars of all time, but there was one role he refused that could have altered the course of his career - and he missed out on an Oscar because of it ...

Now, IMDb has ranked the very best John Wayne World War II movies, and Sands of Iwo Jima isn't even in the Top 3. " data-has-syndication-rights="1" data-portal-copyright="GETTY" data-licensor-name ...