I Suppose the greatest mistake a director can make is to allow himself to be nominated for an Academy Award. Moreover, it appears to be a tragedy for a director to ever win one. He is branded for life. He must board Oscar's art-crafty band-wagon, armed not with a single camera and perhaps a good script neatly bound in plain cloth, but armed with many cameras arranged to-capture many angles of many moods and scenes. In short: the mediocre director awarded becomes Oscar-ridden—and shortsighted. His thick horn-rimmed spectacles become heavier with each film—and of course the lenses thicker and more highly polished.