Dudley Nichols, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1960)

Dudley Nichols

American screenwriter and film director (1895–1960)

Dudley Nichols was an American screenwriter and film director. He was the first person to decline an Academy Award, as part of a boycott to gain recognition for the Screen Writers Guild; he would later accept his Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1938.