Editing Sands of Iwo Jima (section)

==Legacy==
The film received four nominations at the [[22nd Academy Awards]], including John Wayne for Best Actor, his first nomination in the category.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sands of Iwo Jima {{!}} film by Dwan [1949] {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sands-of-Iwo-Jima |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref> It won no awards. A sequel to the film starring Wayne, called ''Devil Birds'', was planned but never materialized.<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 12, 1950 |title=John Wayne Eyes Heavy Schedule Through 1952 |pages=38 |work=St. Petersburg Times |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s1pIAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22devil+birds%22+%22john+wayne%22&pg=PA42&article_id=3061,3443360 |access-date=February 13, 2023}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

In the television show ''[[King of the Hill]]'' (1997–2010), this is the favorite film of [[Cotton Hill]], father of main character [[Hank Hill]]. Hank recalls that, during his childhood, his father would travel around [[Texas]] searching for showings of this film.

The episode "Call of Silence" (2004) in ''[[NCIS (TV series)|NCIS]]'''s season 2 references the film and a documentary as shared background to [[Marine (military)|Marine]] history and legacy. The episode shows the NCIS character [[Timothy McGee]] watching the documentary ''[[To the Shores of Iwo Jima]]''; the character [[Anthony DiNozzo]] approaches and, in furtherance of the character's [[Shtick|schtick]] as an avowed and knowledgeable movie [[Fan (person)|buff]], begins talking about the theatrical film ''Sands of Iwo Jima'', some scenes of which were taken from the documentary.

The [[Southern rock]] band [[Drive-By Truckers]] have a song title "The Sands of Iwo Jima" on their 2004 album ''[[The Dirty South (album)|The Dirty South]]''. It is sung from the perspective of a young boy who has been exposed to World War 2 through old John Wayne movies. He asks his great-uncle, a World War II veteran, if ''The Sands of Iwo Jima'' represents the war properly; the old man smiles, shakes his head and responds, "I never saw John Wayne on the sands of Iwo Jima."