Winner of the Academy Award for best director and best supporting actress. The movie classic The Grapes of Wrath features Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell and John Carradine as migrant sharecroppers of the Dust Bowl. This saga of the Joad family and its struggle to reestablish roots in California during the Depression remains a movie masterpiece. With a screenplay by Nunnally Johnson, it was directed by the legendary John Ford.