He penned feather - light romances like Roman Holiday,
sweeping war pictures such as Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, a swords - and - sandals epic in Sparta...
The most unpredictable Oscars season in years finally came into focus Tuesday as the 90th Academy Awards nominations were announced, with nine films representing a wide range of genres earning best
picture nods, from a
sweeping World
War II epic to a hot - button, racially charged horror film to an intimate portrait of a feisty teenage girl growing up in Sacramento.