Awards and Honors
John Huston won the Academy Award for Directing and Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay in 1948 for his work on The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Walter Huston, John Huston's father, also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in this film, the first father-son win. The film was nominated for the Best Picture award, but lost to Laurence Olivier's film adaptation of Hamlet.
In 1990, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film was among the first 100 films to be selected.
Director Stanley Kubrick listed The Treasure of the Sierra Madre as his 4th favorite film of all time in his list of his top ten favorite films, director Sam Raimi ranked it as his favourite film of all time in an interview with Rotten Tomatoes and director Paul Thomas Anderson watched it at night before bed while writing his film There Will Be Blood.
- American Film Institute recognition
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies – No. 30
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills – No. 67
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains:
- Fred C. Dobbs – Nominated Villain
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes:
- "Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!" – No. 36
- AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores – Nominated
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) – No. 38
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