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Academy Award for Best Art Direction



 
 
The Academy Awards
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
. The Academy Award for Best Art Direction recognizes achievement in art direction
Art director

The term art director is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film industry and television, the Internet, and video games....
 on a film. The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999. In the lists below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees.

award was originally for Interior Decoration


With the awards for 1940 the award was divided into separate awards for black-and-white and color movies.

inning with 1947 movies the name of the award was changed to Art Direction - Set Decoration.

1957 films this award became a single award. With the 1959 films this category was again divided in two

1967 the two awards in this category were recombined into a single award.








































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73rd Academy Awards

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: Tim Yip (AD) – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a Chinese-language film in the wuxia style, released in 2000. A China-Hong Kong-Taiwan-United States coproduction , the film was directed by Ang Lee and featured an international cast of Zhonghua minzu actors, including Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi and Chang Chen....
* Arthur Max
Arthur Max

Arthur Max is an American movie art director. He has been nominated for Academy Awards twice: once for his work in Gladiator and another for his art directing in American Gangster ....
 (AD); Crispian Sallis (SD) – Gladiator
Gladiator (2000 film)

Gladiator is a 2000 in film epic film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Djimon Hounsou, Derek Jacobi, and Richard Harris....
* Michael Corenblith (AD); Merideth Boswell (SD) – How the Grinch Stole Christmas * Martin Childs
Martin Childs

Martin Childs, M.B.E., , is a British production designer. He won the 1998 Academy Award for best Art Direction-Set Decoration for Shakespeare in Love, and was nominated for the 2001 Academy Award....
 (AD); Jill Quertier (SD) – Quills
Quills

Quills is a 2000 in film Period piece directed by Philip Kaufman and adapted from the Obie Award-winning play by Doug Wright, who also wrote the original screenplay....
* Jean Rabasse
Jean Rabasse

Jean Rabasse, born in 1961 in film in Tlemcen, Oran , is a French cinema decorator scenography....
 (AD); Françoise Benoît-Fresco (SD) – Vatel
Vatel (film)

Vatel is a 2000 in film film based on the life of 17th century French chef Fran?ois Vatel, directed by Roland Joff? and starring G?rard Depardieu, Uma Thurman, and Tim Roth....


2001
74th Academy Awards

The 74th Academy Awards honored the 2001 in film and were held on March 24 2002, for the first time at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California....
: Catherine Martin
Catherine Martin

Catherine Martin is a two-time Academy Award-winning Australian costume designer, production designer, set designer, and film producer....
 (AD); Brigitte Broch (SD) – Moulin Rouge!
Moulin Rouge!

Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 in film Cinema of Australia film by Baz Luhrmann, director of William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, based largely on the Giuseppe Verdi opera La Traviata....
* Aline Bonetto
Aline Bonetto

Aline Bonetto is a French people production designer and set decorator. She was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for her work in Am?lie and A Very Long Engagement ....
 (AD); Marie-Laure Valla
Marie-Laure Valla

Marie-Laure Valla is a French people set dresser and set decorator. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for her work in Am?lie ....
 (SD) – Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)
Amélie

Le Fabuleux Destin d'Am?lie Poulain is a 2010 in film France film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou. Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, the film is a whimsical and somewhat idealised depiction of contemporary Parisian life, set in Montmartre....
* Stephen Altman (AD); Anna Pinnock
Anna Pinnock

Anna Pinnock is an Academy Award-nominated set director. She has been nominated twice for an Academy Award:* Gosford Park - Nominated* The Golden Compass - Nominated...
 (SD) –
Gosford Park
Gosford Park

Gosford Park is a 2001 in film film directed by Robert Altman. The screenplay is by Julian Fellowes, based on an idea by Altman and producer Bob Balaban....
* Stuart Craig
Stuart Craig

Norman Stuart Craig Order of the British Empire is a noted United Kingdom production designer.He has also designed the sets, together with his frequent collaborator set decorator Stephanie McMillan , on all of the Harry Potter film series films to date....
 (AD); Stephenie McMillan (SD) –
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is a 2001 in film fantasy/adventure film based on the Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J....
* Grant Major (AD); Dan Hennah (SD) – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2002
75th Academy Awards

The 75th Academy Awards honored the 2002 in film, were held on March 23, 2003, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It was produced by Gilbert Cates and hosted by Steve Martin, who also hosted the 73rd Academy Awards....
: John Myhre
John Myhre

John Myhre is an United States production designer who has been working in Hollywood since the late 1980s.He received his first Academy Award nomination, for Academy Award for Best Art Direction, in 1998, for Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth , bringing him to the forefront of Hollywood production designers....
 (AD); Gordon Sim (SD) –
Chicago * Felipe Fernández del Paso (AD); Hannia Robledo (SD) – Frida
Frida

Frida is a 2002 biographical film which depicts the passionately professional and private life of the surrealism Mexico Painting Frida Kahlo....
* Dante Ferretti
Dante Ferretti

Dante Ferretti is an Italy Academy Awards-winning production designer, art director and costume designer for films.In his career, Ferretti has worked with many great directors, both American and European, such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Terry Gilliam, Franco Zeffirelli, Martin Scorsese, Anthony Minghella, Tim Burton....
 (AD); Francesca Lo Schiavo
Francesca Lo Schiavo

Francesca Lo Schiavo is an Academy-Award winning Italian set decorator.She has been nominated for an Academy Award seven times, and is married to Dante Ferretti, a fellow art director....
 (SD) – Gangs of New York
Gangs of New York

Gangs of New York is a 2002 in film USA historical film crime film set in the mid-19th century in the Five Points, Manhattan district of New York City....
* Grant Major (AD); Dan Hennah and Alan Lee
Alan Lee

Alan Lee is an England book illustrator and movie conceptual designer.He has illustrated several fantasy books, notably several works of J.R.R....
 (SD) – The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers * Dennis Gassner
Dennis Gassner

Dennis Gassner is an Academy Award-winning art director. He has been nominated four times and has won once. The movies which he received nominations for are:...
 (AD); Nancy Haigh
Nancy Haigh

Nancy Haigh is an United States set designer who has received five Academy Award nominations, and won for her work on the film Bugsy.Nancy Haigh graduated from Massachusetts College of Art in 1968....
 (SD) – Road to Perdition
Road to Perdition

Road to Perdition is an Academy Award Winning, 2002 period piece drama film directed by Sam Mendes. The screenplay was adapted by David Self, from the Road to Perdition by Max Allan Collins....


2003
76th Academy Awards

The 76th Academy Awards ceremony honored the 2003 in film and was broadcast from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on American Broadcasting Company beginning at 5:30 p.m....
: Grant Major (AD); Dan Hennah and Alan Lee
Alan Lee

Alan Lee is an England book illustrator and movie conceptual designer.He has illustrated several fantasy books, notably several works of J.R.R....
 (SD) – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (film)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a 2003 in film fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson that is based on the The Two Towers and The Return of the King of J....
*Ben Van Os (AD); Cecile Heideman (SD) – Girl with a Pearl Earring
Girl with a Pearl Earring (film)

Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 2003 United Kingdom/Luxembourg drama film Film director by Peter Webber. The screenplay was adapted by screenwriter Olivia Hetreed based on Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier....
*Lilly Kilvert (AD); Gretchen Rau
Gretchen Rau

Gretchen Rau was a professional property master, set decorator, and art director in the American film industry. Her more notable projects include the films Crocodile Dundee, A River Runs Through It, The Crucible , and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou....
 (SD) – The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai

The Last Samurai is a 2003 drama film/war film directed and co-produced by Edward Zwick, who also co-wrote the screenplay based on a story by John Logan ....
*William Sandell (AD); Robert Gould
Robert Gould

Robert Gould was a significant voice in Restoration poetry in England.He was born in the lower classes and orphaned when he was thirteen. It is possible that he had a sister, but her name and fates are unknown....
 (SD) – Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 film directed by Peter Weir and starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey, with Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin....
*Jeannine Oppewall
Jeannine Oppewall

'Jeannine Claudia Oppewall' is an United States film art director. She has worked on more than 30 movies in such roles as painter and decorator, set decorator and production designer, and has four Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Art Direction for L.A....
 (AD); Leslie Pope (SD) – Seabiscuit
Seabiscuit (film)

Seabiscuit is a 2003 in film United States drama film based on the best-selling book Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand....


2004
77th Academy Awards

The 77th Academy Awards honored the 2004 in film and were held on February 27, 2005, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. They were hosted by comedian Chris Rock....
: Dante Ferretti
Dante Ferretti

Dante Ferretti is an Italy Academy Awards-winning production designer, art director and costume designer for films.In his career, Ferretti has worked with many great directors, both American and European, such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Terry Gilliam, Franco Zeffirelli, Martin Scorsese, Anthony Minghella, Tim Burton....
 (AD); Francesca Lo Schiavo
Francesca Lo Schiavo

Francesca Lo Schiavo is an Academy-Award winning Italian set decorator.She has been nominated for an Academy Award seven times, and is married to Dante Ferretti, a fellow art director....
 (SD) – The Aviator
The Aviator

The Aviator is an Cinema of the United States biographical film drama film, film director by Martin Scorsese and based on the life of Howard Hughes....
*Gemma Jackson (AD); Trisha Edwards (SD) – Finding Neverland
Finding Neverland

Finding Neverland is a 2004 in film Great Britain/United States semi-biographical film directed by Marc Forster. The screenplay by David Magee is based on the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee....
*Rick Heinrichs
Rick Heinrichs

Rich Heinrichs is a production designer, visual effects worker and animator. Over the years he has worked with Tim Burton, The Coen Brothers and more famously on the Pirates of the Caribbean ....
 (AD); Cheryl Carasik (SD) – Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events *Anthony Pratt
Anthony D. G. Pratt

a.k.a. Anthony D.G. Pratt / Anthony D.G Pratt / Tony Pratt27 November 1937, London, England, UK.Great nephew of William Henry Pratt .Nephew of actress Gillian Pratt ....
 (AD); Celia Bobak (SD) – The Phantom of the Opera *Aline Bonetto
Aline Bonetto

Aline Bonetto is a French people production designer and set decorator. She was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for her work in Am?lie and A Very Long Engagement ....
 (AD) – A Very Long Engagement
A Very Long Engagement

A Very Long Engagement is a 2004 France romance film war film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou. It is a fictional tale about a young woman's desperate search for her fianc? who might have been killed on a World War I battlefield ....


2005
78th Academy Awards

The 78th Academy Awards honored the 2005 in film and were held on March 5 2006 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by The Daily Show host Jon Stewart....
: John Myhre
John Myhre

John Myhre is an United States production designer who has been working in Hollywood since the late 1980s.He received his first Academy Award nomination, for Academy Award for Best Art Direction, in 1998, for Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth , bringing him to the forefront of Hollywood production designers....
 (AD); Gretchen Rau
Gretchen Rau

Gretchen Rau was a professional property master, set decorator, and art director in the American film industry. Her more notable projects include the films Crocodile Dundee, A River Runs Through It, The Crucible , and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou....
 (SD; posthumous award
List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees

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Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha (film)

Memoirs of a Geisha is a 2005 film adaptation of Memoirs of a Geisha, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and directed by Rob Marshall....
*Jim Bissell (AD); Jan Pascale (SD) – Good Night, and Good Luck.
Good Night, and Good Luck.

Good Night, and Good Luck. is a 2005 in film directed by George Clooney and written by Clooney and Grant Heslov that portrays the conflict between veteran radio and television journalist Edward R....
*Stuart Craig
Stuart Craig

Norman Stuart Craig Order of the British Empire is a noted United Kingdom production designer.He has also designed the sets, together with his frequent collaborator set decorator Stephanie McMillan , on all of the Harry Potter film series films to date....
 (AD); Stephenie McMillan (SD) –
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a 2005 in film fantasy adventure film, based on J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and is the fourth film in the popular Harry Potter ....
*Grant Major (AD); Dan Hennah and Simon Bright (SD) – King Kong
King Kong (2005 film)

King Kong is a 2005 remake of the King Kong about a fictional giant ape called King Kong. The film was directed by Peter Jackson and stars Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow, Jack Black as Carl Denham, Adrien Brody as Jack Driscoll and, through performance capture, Andy Serkis as Kong....
*Sarah Greenwood
Sarah Greenwood

Sarah Greenwood is an Academy Award-nominated art director. She has been nominated twice for an Academy Award, in 78th Academy Awards for Pride and Prejudice and in 80th Academy Awards for Atonement ....
 (AD); Katie Spencer
Katie Spencer

Katie Spencer is an Academy Award-nominated set director. She has been nominated for an Academy Award twice: for her set directing in Pride and Prejudice as well as in Atonement....
 (SD) –
Pride & Prejudice

2006
79th Academy Awards

The 79th Academy Awards ceremony , honored the 2006 in film and took place on February 25, 2007 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California on American Broadcasting Company....
: Eugenio Caballero
Eugenio Caballero

Eugenio Caballero is a Mexican director who won an 79th Academy Awards for Best Achievement in Art Direction with Pilar Revuelta in 2007 for the film Pans Labyrinth ....
 (AD); Pilar Revuelta
Pilar Revuelta

Pilar Revuelta won an 79th Academy Awards for Best Achievement in Art Direction with Eugenio Caballero.External links...
 (SD) –
Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)
Pan's Labyrinth

Pan's Labyrinth is a 2006 in film Spanish films of 2006 Spanish language fantasy film written and directed by Mexico film-maker Guillermo del Toro....
*John Myhre
John Myhre

John Myhre is an United States production designer who has been working in Hollywood since the late 1980s.He received his first Academy Award nomination, for Academy Award for Best Art Direction, in 1998, for Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth , bringing him to the forefront of Hollywood production designers....
 (AD); Nancy Haigh
Nancy Haigh

Nancy Haigh is an United States set designer who has received five Academy Award nominations, and won for her work on the film Bugsy.Nancy Haigh graduated from Massachusetts College of Art in 1968....
 (SD) –
Dreamgirls
Dreamgirls (film)

Dreamgirls is a 2006 in film Cinema of the United States musical film, directed by Bill Condon and jointly produced and released by DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures....
*Jeannine Claudia Oppewall, Gretchen Rau
Gretchen Rau

Gretchen Rau was a professional property master, set decorator, and art director in the American film industry. Her more notable projects include the films Crocodile Dundee, A River Runs Through It, The Crucible , and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou....
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The Academy Awards
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
. The Academy Award for Best Art Direction recognizes achievement in art direction
Art director

The term art director is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film industry and television, the Internet, and video games....
 on a film. The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999. In the lists below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees.

1920s

This award was originally for Interior Decoration
  • 1928 William Cameron Menzies
    William Cameron Menzies

    William Cameron Menzies was an Academy Award-winning United States film production designer and art director who also worked as a Film director, Film producer, and screenwriter during a career spanning five decades....
     - The Dove and Tempest
    Tempest (film)

    Tempest is a film produced in 1928 in film and directed by Sam Taylor .V.I. Nemirovich-Dantchenko wrote the screenplay and William Cameron Menzies won an Academy Award for his work in the film in 1929 ....
    • Harry Oliver
      Harry Oliver

      Harold Oliver was a Canada professional ice hockey Defenceman who played for the Boston Bruins and New York Americans in the National Hockey League....
       -
      Seventh Heaven
      Seventh Heaven (film)

      Seventh Heaven is a silent film and one of the first films to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture . The film was written by H.H....
    • Rochus Gliese
      Rochus Gliese

      Rochus Gliese was a Germany actor, Film director, production designer, and Academy Awards-nominated art director of early films from the 1910s and 1920s....
       -
      Sunrise
      Sunrise (film)

      Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans , also known as Sunrise, is an United States film directed by Germany film director F. W. Murnau. The story was adapted by Carl Mayer from the short story Die Reise nach Tilsit by Hermann Sudermann....
  • 1929 Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons

    Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
     -
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929 film)

    The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a 1929 in film part-talkie film directed by Charles Brabin and starring Lili Damita and Don Alvarado. The film closely follows the bestselling 1927 in literature Thornton Wilder The Bridge of San Luis Rey and won the second Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
    • Mitchell Leisen
      Mitchell Leisen

      Mitchell Leisen was an United States film director, art director, and costume designer. He entered the film industry in the 1920s, beginning in the art and costume departments....
       - Dynamite
      Dynamite (film)

      Dynamite is a drama film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It stars Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford and Conrad Nagel. Johnson plays a socialite who marries a convicted murderer scheduled to be executed simply to satisfy a condition of her grandfather's will....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
       - The Hollywood Revue of 1929
      The Hollywood Revue of 1929

      The Hollywood Revue of 1929 is an United States musical film/comedy motion picture released in 1929 in film. It was the studio's second feature-length musical, and one of the earliest ventures into the talkie format....
    • William Cameron Menzies
      William Cameron Menzies

      William Cameron Menzies was an Academy Award-winning United States film production designer and art director who also worked as a Film director, Film producer, and screenwriter during a career spanning five decades....
       - The Iron Mask
      The Iron Mask

      The Iron Mask is a 1929 in film silent film adaptation of the last section of the novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, p?re, which is itself based on the French legend of The Man in the Iron Mask....
    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier

      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen , Dreier began his career in Cinema of Germany in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood, California....
       - The Patriot
      The Patriot (1928 film)

      The Patriot is a semi-biographical film that was directed by Ernst Lubitsch and released by Paramount Pictures. The film was written by Julian Johnson and Hanns Kr?ly....
    • Harry Oliver
      Harry Oliver

      Harold Oliver was a Canada professional ice hockey Defenceman who played for the Boston Bruins and New York Americans in the National Hockey League....
       - Street Angel


1930s

  • 1930 Herman Rosse
    Herman Rosse

    Herman Rosse was a Dutch-born American art director. He won an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film King of Jazz....
     - King of Jazz
    King of Jazz

    King of Jazz is a motion picture starring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra. The film's title was taken from Whiteman's controversial, self-conferred appellation....
    • William Cameron Menzies
      William Cameron Menzies

      William Cameron Menzies was an Academy Award-winning United States film production designer and art director who also worked as a Film director, Film producer, and screenwriter during a career spanning five decades....
       -
      Bulldog Drummond
      Bulldog Drummond (1929 film)

      Bulldog Drummond is a 1929 in film detective film which tells the story of Bulldog Drummond, a British officer bored with civilian life, who investigates an extortion case for a beautiful girl....
    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier

      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen , Dreier began his career in Cinema of Germany in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood, California....
       -
      The Love Parade
      The Love Parade

      The Love Parade is a 1927 in film musical comedy film. The plot concerns the romantic difficulties of Queen Louise of Sylvania and her new husband, Count Alfred ....
    • Jack Okey
      Jack Okey

      Jack Okey was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the films Sally and Experiment Perilous ....
       -
      Sally
      Sally (film)

      Sally is the third sound feature photographed in Technicolor released in 1929 in film .It was based on the Broadway theatre stage hit, produced by Florenz Ziegfeld ....
    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier

      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen , Dreier began his career in Cinema of Germany in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood, California....
       -
      The Vagabond King
      The Vagabond King (1930 film)

      The Vagabond King is a 1930 in film musical operetta film photographed entirely in two-color Technicolor. The plot of the film was based on the 1901 play, "If I Were King," by Justin McCarthy....
  • 1931 Max Ree
    Max Rée

    Max R?e was a Danish Costume Designer and art director. He won an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Cimarron ....
     -
    Cimarron
    Cimarron (1931 film)

    Cimarron is a film directed by Wesley Ruggles and based on the Edna Ferber novel Cimarron, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1931 in film....
    • Stephen Goosson
      Stephen Goosson

      Stephen Goosson was an Academy Award-winning United States film set designer.Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Goosson was an architecture in Detroit before starting his film career as art director for producer Lewis J....
      , Ralph Hammeras
      Ralph Hammeras

      Ralph Hammeras was an American Special effects designer, cinematographer and art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards.He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and died in Los Angeles, California....
       - Just Imagine
      Just Imagine

      Just Imagine is a humorous science-fiction musical film presented by 20th Century Fox in 1930 in film, directed by David Butler , to console audiences distressed by the Great Depression....
    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier

      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen , Dreier began his career in Cinema of Germany in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood, California....
       - Morocco
      Morocco (1930 film)

      Morocco is a 1930 in film film in which a French Foreign Legionnaire meets and falls in love with a sultry seductress. It was directed by Josef von Sternberg and stars Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich and Adolphe Menjou....
    • Anton Grot
      Anton Grot

      Anton Grot was a cinema of Poland art director.He was born in Kelbasin, Poland and died in Stanton, California....
       - Svengali
      Svengali (1931 film)

      Svengali is a drama/horror film starring John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, and Bramwell Fletcher, directed by Archie Mayo, written by J. Grubb Alexander, and released by Warner Brothers....
    • Richard Day
      Richard Day (art director)

      Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 in film and 1970 in film....
       - Whoopee!
      Whoopee! (film)

      Whoopee is an "All-Talking All-Color" musical comedy film from 1930 in film photographed in Technicolor#Two-color Technicolor. The film closely followed the Whoopee! produced by Florenz Ziegfeld in 1928....
  • 1932 Gordon Wiles
    Gordon Wiles

    Gordon Wiles was an American art director and film director. He won an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Transatlantic ....
     - Transatlantic
    Transatlantic (film)

    Transatlantic is a 1931 in film comedy film directed by William K. Howard. It won an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Gordon Wiles....
    • Lazare Meerson
      Lazare Meerson

      Lazare Meerson was a Russian-born France and England film art director....
       -
      À nous la liberté
      À nous la liberté

      ? nous la libert? is a 1931 in film Cinema of France, directed by Ren? Clair. With a memorable score by Georges Auric, this film has more music than any of Clair's early films....
    • Richard Day
      Richard Day (art director)

      Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 in film and 1970 in film....
       -
      Arrowsmith
      Arrowsmith (film)

      Arrowsmith is a 1931 in film film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Sidney Howard from the Sinclair Lewis novel Arrowsmith , and directed by John Ford....
  • 1933 William S. Darling
    William S. Darling

    William S. Darling was a Hungarian-born art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for a further four in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 61 films between 1921 in film and 1954 in film....
     -
    Cavalcade
    Cavalcade (film)

    Cavalcade is an Academy Award-winning 1933 in film United States drama film directed by Frank Lloyd. The screenplay by Reginald Berkeley and Sonya Levien is based on the 1931 Cavalcade by No?l Coward....
    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier

      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen , Dreier began his career in Cinema of Germany in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood, California....
      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson

      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Awards nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms "....
       - A Farewell to Arms
      A Farewell to Arms (1932 film)

      A Farewell to Arms is a 1932 United States drama film directed by Frank Borzage. The screenplay by Oliver H.P. Garrett and Benjamin Glazer is based on the A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
       - When Ladies Meet
      When Ladies Meet (1933 film)

      When Ladies Meet is a 1933 in film film starring Ann Harding, Myrna Loy, Robert Montgomery , and Alice Brady. The film is the first adaptation of the 1932 Rachel Crothers play....
  • 1934 Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons

    Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
    , Fredric Hope
    Fredric Hope

    Fredric Hope was an American art director. He won an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film The Merry Widow . ...
     - The Merry Widow
    The Merry Widow (1934 film)

    The Merry Widow is a 1934 in film film adaptation of the The Merry Widow by Franz Leh?r. It was directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starred Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald....
    • Van Nest Polglase
      Van Nest Polglase

      Van Nest Polglase was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 333 films between 1925 in film and 1957 in film....
      , Carroll Clark
      Carroll Clark

      Carroll Clark was an American art director. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 173 films between 1927 in film and 1968 in film....
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      The Gay Divorcee
      The Gay Divorcee

      The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 in film film that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was based on the musical play Gay Divorce written by Dwight Taylor , Kenneth S....
    • Richard Day
      Richard Day (art director)

      Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 in film and 1970 in film....
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      The Affairs of Cellini
      The Affairs of Cellini

      The Affairs of Cellini is a 1934 in film comedy film which tells the story of the amorous Benvenuto Cellini and his various love affairs. He purportedly hyponotizes young women, and cuckolds the Duke of Florence, played by Frank Morgan....
  • 1935 Richard Day
    Richard Day (art director)

    Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 in film and 1970 in film....
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    The Dark Angel
    The Dark Angel (1935 film)

    The Dark Angel is a film which tells the story of three childhood friends, two male, one female. When the woman chooses one of the men to marry, the other, jealous, sends his rival off into a dangerous situation during wartime....
    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier

      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen , Dreier began his career in Cinema of Germany in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood, California....
      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson

      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Awards nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms "....
       - The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
      The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

      The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 in film adventure film loosely adapted from the 1930 book of the same name by Francis Yeats-Brown. The plot of the movie, which bears little resemblance to Yeats-Brown's memoir, concerns United Kingdom soldiers defending the borders of India against rebellious natives....
    • Carroll Clark
      Carroll Clark

      Carroll Clark was an American art director. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 173 films between 1927 in film and 1968 in film....
      , Van Nest Polglase
      Van Nest Polglase

      Van Nest Polglase was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 333 films between 1925 in film and 1957 in film....
       - Top Hat
      Top Hat

      Top Hat is a 1935 in film Screwball comedy film musical film comedy in which Fred Astaire plays an American dancer named Jerry Travers, who comes to London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick ....
  • 1936 Richard Day
    Richard Day (art director)

    Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 in film and 1970 in film....
     - Dodsworth
    Dodsworth (film)

    Dodsworth is a 1936 in film United States drama film directed by William Wyler. Sidney Howard based the screenplay on his Dodsworth of Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis....
    • Anton Grot
      Anton Grot

      Anton Grot was a cinema of Poland art director.He was born in Kelbasin, Poland and died in Stanton, California....
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      Anthony Adverse
      Anthony Adverse

      Anthony Adverse is a 1936 United States drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Sheridan Gibney was based on the sprawling 1,224-page novel of the same title by Hervey Allen....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
      , Eddie Imazu
      Eddie Imazu

      Eddie Imazu was a Japanese art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film The Great Ziegfeld....
      , Edwin B. Willis
      Edwin B. Willis

      Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
       -
      The Great Ziegfeld
      The Great Ziegfeld

      The Great Ziegfeld is a musical film produced by MGM. Although the film is a fictionalized biography of Florenz Ziegfeld from his show business beginnings to his death, it showcases a series of spectacular musical productions....
    • William S. Darling
      William S. Darling

      William S. Darling was a Hungarian-born art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for a further four in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 61 films between 1921 in film and 1954 in film....
       -
      Lloyd's of London
      Lloyd's of London (film)

      Lloyd's of London is a 1936 in film drama film directed by Henry King . It stars Tyrone Power, Madeleine Carroll and Guy Standing. The supporting cast includes Freddie Bartholomew, C....
    • Albert S. D'Agostino
      Albert S. D'Agostino

      Albert S. D'Agostino was an American art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Jack Otterson
      Jack Otterson

      Jack Otterson was an American art director. He was nominated for eight Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 300 films between 1934 in film and 1953 in film....
       -
      The Magnificent Brute
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
      , Frederic Hope, Edwin B. Willis
      Edwin B. Willis

      Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
       -
      Romeo and Juliet
      Romeo and Juliet (1936 film)

      ----Romeo and Juliet is a film adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare, directed by George Cukor from a screenplay by Talbot Jennings....
    • Perry Ferguson
      Perry Ferguson

      Perry Ferguson was an American art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He was born in Texas and died in Los Angeles, California....
       -
      Winterset
      Winterset (film)

      Winterset is a 1936 in film crime film directed by Alfred Santell, based on Winterset by Maxwell Anderson. It was nominated for two Academy Awards, one for Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Perry Ferguson and the other for Academy Award for Original Music Score by Nathaniel Shilkret....
  • 1937 Stephen Goosson
    Stephen Goosson

    Stephen Goosson was an Academy Award-winning United States film set designer.Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Goosson was an architecture in Detroit before starting his film career as art director for producer Lewis J....
     -
    Lost Horizon
    Lost Horizon (film)

    Lost Horizon is a 1937 film directed by Frank Capra starring Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt and Sam Jaffe . It tells the story of a group of travelers who find a utopian society in the Himalaya Mountains....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
      , William Horning - Conquest
      Conquest (film)

      Conquest is a 1937 in film film which tells the story of a Poland countess who becomes the mistress of Napoleon I of France in order to influence his actions towards her homeland....
    • Carroll Clark
      Carroll Clark

      Carroll Clark was an American art director. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 173 films between 1927 in film and 1968 in film....
       - A Damsel in Distress
      A Damsel in Distress (film)

      A Damsel in Distress is a 1937 in film English-themed Hollywood musical film comedy film starring Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, George Burns, and Gracie Allen....
    • Richard Day
      Richard Day (art director)

      Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 in film and 1970 in film....
       - Dead End
      Dead End

      Dead End is a 1937 in film crime drama film. It is an adaptation of the Sidney Kingsley 1935 Broadway theatre play of the same name. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Joel McCrea, and Sylvia Sidney....
    • Ward Ihnen - Every Day's a Holiday
    • Anton Grot
      Anton Grot

      Anton Grot was a cinema of Poland art director.He was born in Kelbasin, Poland and died in Stanton, California....
       - The Life of Emile Zola
      The Life of Emile Zola

      The Life of ?mile Zola is a 1937 in film biographical film of famous French author ?mile Zola. It depicts his friendship with noted painter Paul C?zanne and his involvement in the Dreyfus affair....
    • John Victor MacKay
      John Victor Mackay

      John Victor Mackay was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
      Manhattan Merry-Go-Round

      Manhattan Merry-Go-Round is a 1937 in film comedy film directed by Charles Reisner. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Art Direction by John Victor Mackay....
    • Lyle Wheeler - The Prisoner of Zenda
      The Prisoner of Zenda (1937 film)

      The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1937 in film black-and-white adventure film based on the Anthony Hope The Prisoner of Zenda and the 1896 play. Of the many film adaptations, this is considered by many to be the definitive version....
    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier

      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen , Dreier began his career in Cinema of Germany in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood, California....
      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson

      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Awards nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms "....
       - Souls at Sea
      Souls at Sea

      Souls at Sea is a 1937 in film seafaring film starring Gary Cooper and George Raft. The movie features Frances Dee, Harry Carey, Robert Cummings, George Zucco, Joseph Schildkraut, Paul Fix, and Tully Marshall, and was directed by Henry Hathaway....
    • Alexander Toluboff
      Alexander Toluboff

      Alexander Toluboff was a Polish-born American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - Vogues of 1938
      Vogues of 1938

      Vogues of 1938 is a 1937 in film film distributed by United Artists, directed by Irving Cummings, written by Bella Spewack and Sam Spewack, and starring by Warner Baxter and Joan Bennett....
    • William S. Darling
      William S. Darling

      William S. Darling was a Hungarian-born art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for a further four in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 61 films between 1921 in film and 1954 in film....
      , David S. Hall
      David S. Hall

      David S. Hall was an British art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
       - Wee Willie Winkie
      Wee Willie Winkie (film)

      Wee Willie Winkie is a 1937 in film adventure film starring Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen, C. Aubrey Smith and Cesar Romero. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Art Direction by William S....
    • Jack Otterson
      Jack Otterson

      Jack Otterson was an American art director. He was nominated for eight Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 300 films between 1934 in film and 1953 in film....
       - You're a Sweetheart
      You're a Sweetheart

      You're a Sweetheart is a 1937 in film Universal Pictures musical film directed by David Butler . The movie stars Alice Faye, George Murphy and Ken Murray and was remade in 1943 under the title Cowboy in Manhattan....
  • 1938 Carl J. Weyl - The Adventures of Robin Hood
    The Adventures of Robin Hood (film)

    The Adventures of Robin Hood is an United States Swashbuckler films released in 1938 in film and directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley....
    • Lyle Wheeler - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
      The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938 film)

      The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a 1938 United States drama film directed by Norman Taurog. The screenplay by John V.A. Weaver was based on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain....
    • Bernard Herzbrun
      Bernard Herzbrun

      Bernard Herzbrun was an American art director. He was nominated an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Alexander's Ragtime Band ....
      , Boris Leven
      Boris Leven

      Boris Leven was a Russian-born Academy Award-winning art director and production designer whose Hollywood career spanned fifty-three years.Born in Moscow, Leven emigrated to the United States in 1927 and became a Naturalization in 1938....
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      Alexander's Ragtime Band
      Alexander's Ragtime Band (film)

      Alexander's Ragtime Band is a film, released by Twentieth Century Fox, that takes off from the 1911 Irving Berlin song "Alexander's Ragtime Band", to tell a story of a society boy who scandalizes his family by pursuing a career in ragtime instead of in "serious" music....
    • Alexander Toluboff
      Alexander Toluboff

      Alexander Toluboff was a Polish-born American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       -
      Algiers
      Algiers (film)

      Algiers is a 1938 in film film directed by John Cromwell and starring Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie, and Hedy Lamarr. The Walter Wanger production was a remake of the successful 1937 in film France film P?p? le Moko, which derived its plot from the Henri La Barthe novel of the same name....
    • Van Nest Polglase
      Van Nest Polglase

      Van Nest Polglase was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 333 films between 1925 in film and 1957 in film....
       -
      Carefree
      Carefree (film)

      Carefree is a musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. With a plot similar to screwball comedy of the period, Carefree is the shortest of the Astaire-Rogers films, featuring only four musical numbers....
    • Richard Day
      Richard Day (art director)

      Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 in film and 1970 in film....
       -
      The Goldwyn Follies
      The Goldwyn Follies

      The Goldwyn Follies is a 1938 in film movie, written by Ben Hecht, Sam Perrin and Arthur Phillips, with music by George Gershwin, Vernon Duke, and Ray Golden, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin....
    • Stephen Goosson
      Stephen Goosson

      Stephen Goosson was an Academy Award-winning United States film set designer.Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Goosson was an architecture in Detroit before starting his film career as art director for producer Lewis J....
      , Lionel Banks
      Lionel Banks

      With over 200 films to his credit, Lionel Banks was a hard-working art director from 1935 to 1949. In that time he worked on such films as Leo McCarey?s ?The Awful Truth? , Howard Hawks? South American set ?Only Angels Have Wings? and his rapid fire comedy classic the following year ?His Girl Friday?, most of the Blondie B-movies, Alexande...
       -
      Holiday
      Holiday (1938 film)

      Holiday is a 1938 in film remake of the 1930 in film film Holiday — a romantic comedy which tells the story of a man who has risen from humble beginnings only to be torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fianc?e's family....
    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier

      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen , Dreier began his career in Cinema of Germany in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood, California....
      , John B. Goodman
      John B. Goodman

      John B. Goodman was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       -
      If I Were King
      If I Were King

      If I Were King is a 1938 in film biopic historical drama film starring Ronald Colman as medieval poet Fran?ois Villon, and featuring Basil Rathbone and Frances Dee....
    • Jack Otterson
      Jack Otterson

      Jack Otterson was an American art director. He was nominated for eight Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 300 films between 1934 in film and 1953 in film....
       -
      Mad About Music
      Mad About Music

      Mad About Music is a 1938 in film musical film about a girl at an exclusive boarding school who invents an exciting father. When her schoolmates doubt his existence, she has to produce him....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
       -
      Marie Antoinette
      Marie Antoinette (1938 film)

      Marie Antoinette is a 1938 in film film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.It was film director by W. S. Van Dyke and starred Norma Shearer as Marie Antoinette, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise, Joseph Schildkraut and Gladys George....
    • Charles D. Hall
      Charles D. Hall

      Charles D. Hall was a United Kingdom-United States art director and production designer. He is perhaps best remembered for his tenure at Universal Pictures, where he began his career during the silent era....
       -
      Merrily We Live
      Merrily We Live

      Merrily We Live is a 1938 in film film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Constance Bennett, Bonita Granville, Brian Aherne, Alan Mowbray, Billie Burke, Clarence Kolb, Tom Brown, Patsy Kelly, Willie Best, Marjorie Kane, and Ann Dvorak....
  • 1939 Lyle Wheeler - Gone with the Wind
    Gone with the Wind (film)

    Gone with the Wind is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States drama film-romance film-film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 in literature Gone with the Wind and directed by Victor Fleming ....
    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier

      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen , Dreier began his career in Cinema of Germany in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood, California....
      , Robert Odell
      Robert Odell

      Robert Odell was an American art director. He was nominated an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Beau Geste ....
       - Beau Geste
      Beau Geste (1939 film)

      Beau Geste is a 1939 in film film made by Paramount Pictures based on the Beau Geste by P. C. Wren. It was directed and produced by William A....
    • Charles D. Hall
      Charles D. Hall

      Charles D. Hall was a United Kingdom-United States art director and production designer. He is perhaps best remembered for his tenure at Universal Pictures, where he began his career during the silent era....
       - Captain Fury
      Captain Fury

      Captain Fury is a 1939 in film adventure film directed by Hal Roach. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Charles D....
    • Jack Otterson
      Jack Otterson

      Jack Otterson was an American art director. He was nominated for eight Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 300 films between 1934 in film and 1953 in film....
      , Martin Obzina
      Martin Obzina

      Martin Obzina was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and died in New York, New York....
       - First Love
      First Love (1939 film)

      First Love is a 1939 in film Academy Awards Universal Pictures musical film directed by Henry Koster. The film is a rewriting of the fairy tale Cinderella....
    • Van Nest Polglase
      Van Nest Polglase

      Van Nest Polglase was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 333 films between 1925 in film and 1957 in film....
      , Alfred Herman
      Alfred Herman

      Alfred Herman was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Love Affair ....
       - Love Affair
    • John Victor Mackay
      John Victor Mackay

      John Victor Mackay was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - Man of Conquest
      Man of Conquest

      Man of Conquest is a 1939 in film Western directed by George Nichols Jr.. It was nominated for three Academy Awards for Academy Award for Original Music Score, Academy Award for Sound and Academy Award for Best Art Direction by John Victor Mackay....
    • Lionel Banks
      Lionel Banks

      With over 200 films to his credit, Lionel Banks was a hard-working art director from 1935 to 1949. In that time he worked on such films as Leo McCarey?s ?The Awful Truth? , Howard Hawks? South American set ?Only Angels Have Wings? and his rapid fire comedy classic the following year ?His Girl Friday?, most of the Blondie B-movies, Alexande...
       - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
      Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

      Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is an Cinema of the United States comedy film/drama film starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur, about one man's effect on Politics of the United States....
    • Anton Grot
      Anton Grot

      Anton Grot was a cinema of Poland art director.He was born in Kelbasin, Poland and died in Stanton, California....
       - The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
      The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

      The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex is a Romantic film drama film based on the relationship between Elizabeth I of England, portrayed by Bette Davis, and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, played by Errol Flynn....
    • William S. Darling
      William S. Darling

      William S. Darling was a Hungarian-born art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for a further four in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 61 films between 1921 in film and 1954 in film....
      , George Dudley
      George Dudley (art director)

      George Dudley was an American art director. He was nominated an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film The Rains Came....
       - The Rains Came
      The Rains Came

      The Rains Came is the title of novel by Louis Bromfield, published in 1937 in literature, as well as the 1939 in film 20th Century Fox film version which followed it....
    • Alexander Toluboff
      Alexander Toluboff

      Alexander Toluboff was a Polish-born American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - Stagecoach
      Stagecoach (film)

      Stagecoach is a western film directed by John Ford, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role. The screenplay, written by Dudley Nichols and Ben Hecht, is an adaptation of "The Stage to Lordsburg", a 1937 in literature short story by Ernest Haycox....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
      , William A. Horning
      William A. Horning

      William A. Horning is a multiple Academy Award winner. He was born on November 9, 1904, in Missouri, and died of cancer on March 2, 1959, in Los Angeles, California....
       - The Wizard of Oz
      The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)

      The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States musical film-fantasy film mainly directed by Victor Fleming and based on the 1900 Children's literature novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L....
    • James Basevi
      James Basevi

      James Basevi was a British born art director and special effects expert.He began his career in 1924 with MGM, designing sets for silent films....
       - Wuthering Heights
      Wuthering Heights (1939 film)

      Wuthering Heights is a film, directed by William Wyler and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. It is based on the celebrated novel, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront?, although the film only depicts sixteen of the novel's thirty-four chapters....


With the awards for 1940 the award was divided into separate awards for black-and-white and color movies.

1940s

  • 1940 Black-and-white Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons

    Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
    , Paul Groesse
    Paul Groesse

    Paul Groesse was a Hungarian-born American art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for another eight in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
     - Pride and Prejudice
    Pride and Prejudice (1940 film)

    Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice has been the List of artistic depictions of and related to Pride and Prejudice. This Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood Hollywood version was released in 1940 in film....
    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier

      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen , Dreier began his career in Cinema of Germany in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood, California....
      , Robert Usher
      Robert Usher

      Robert Usher was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
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      Arise, My Love
      Arise, My Love

      Arise, My Love is a 1940 in film film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Mitchell Leisen, written by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett and Jacques Th?ry, and starring Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland....
    • Lionel Banks
      Lionel Banks

      With over 200 films to his credit, Lionel Banks was a hard-working art director from 1935 to 1949. In that time he worked on such films as Leo McCarey?s ?The Awful Truth? , Howard Hawks? South American set ?Only Angels Have Wings? and his rapid fire comedy classic the following year ?His Girl Friday?, most of the Blondie B-movies, Alexande...
      , Robert Peterson
      Robert Peterson (art director)

      Robert Peterson was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Arizona ....
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      Arizona
      Arizona (1940 film)

      Arizona is a 1940 in film western film starring Jean Arthur, William Holden and Warren William. It was directed by Wesley Ruggles.Victor Young was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Music Score, while Lionel Banks and Robert Peterson were considered for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black-and-White....
    • John Otterson - The Boys from Syracuse
      The Boys from Syracuse (film)

      The Boys from Syracuse is a 1940 in film musical film directed by A. Edward Sutherland, based on the play The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare....
    • John Victor Mackay
      John Victor Mackay

      John Victor Mackay was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
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      Dark Command
      Dark Command

      Dark Command is a 1940 in film western film loosely based on Quantrill's Raiders in the American American Civil War. Directed by Raoul Walsh from the novel by W.R....
    • Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen

      Alexander Golitzen, oversaw art director on more than 300 movies.Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution of 1917....
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      Foreign Correspondent
      Foreign Correspondent (film)

      Foreign Correspondent is a Cinema of the United States Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock which tells the story of an American reporter who tries to expose enemy spies in United Kingdom, a series of events involving a continent-wide conspiracy that eventually leads to the events of a fictionalized Second World War....
    • Richard Day
      Richard Day (art director)

      Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 in film and 1970 in film....
      , Joseph C. Wright
      Joseph C. Wright

      Joseph C. Wright was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
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      Lillian Russell
      Lillian Russell (film)

      Lillian Russell is a 1940 in film biographical film of the life of the Lillian Russell. The screenplay was by William Anthony McGuire. The film was directed by Irving Cummings and produced by Darryl F....
    • Van Nest Polglase
      Van Nest Polglase

      Van Nest Polglase was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 333 films between 1925 in film and 1957 in film....
      , Mark-Lee Kirk
      Mark-Lee Kirk

      Mark-Lee Kirk was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 52 films between 1936 in film and 1959 in film....
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      My Favorite Wife
      My Favorite Wife

      My Favorite Wife is a 1940 in film screwball comedy starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant that tells the story of a woman returning home to her husband and children after being shipwrecked on a tropical island for seven years....
    • John DuCasse Schulze
      John DuCasse Schulze

      John DuCasse Schulze was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
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      My Son, My Son
    • Lewis J. Rachmil
      Lewis J. Rachmil

      Lewis J. Rachmil was an American film producer and art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Our Town ....
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      Our Town
    • Lyle Wheeler - Rebecca
      Rebecca (film)

      Rebecca is a psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock as his first United States project, and his first film produced under his contract with David O....
    • Anton Grot
      Anton Grot

      Anton Grot was a cinema of Poland art director.He was born in Kelbasin, Poland and died in Stanton, California....
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      The Sea Hawk
      The Sea Hawk (1940 film)

      The Sea Hawk is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Errol Flynn in a story about an English privateer defending his nation's interests on the eve of the Spanish Armada....
    • James Basevi
      James Basevi

      James Basevi was a British born art director and special effects expert.He began his career in 1924 with MGM, designing sets for silent films....
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      The Westerner
  • 1940 Color Vincent Korda
    Vincent Korda

    Vincent Korda was a Hungarian art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another three in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
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    The Thief of Bagdad
    The Thief of Bagdad (1940 film)

    The Thief of Bagdad is a British 1940 in film fantasy film directed by Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell and Tim Whelan, with uncredited contributions by Alexander Korda, his brother Zoltan Korda and William Cameron Menzies....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
      , John S. Detlie
      John S. Detlie

      John Stewart Detlie was a motion picture art director/set designer in Hollywood from 1937 thru 1942.He was the first husband of actress Veronica Lake although he was 14 years older than she; they had two children, one of whom died shortly after birth....
       - Bitter Sweet
      Bitter Sweet (1940 film)

      Bitter Sweet is a 1940 in film musical film directed by W. S. Van Dyke, based on the Bitter Sweet by Noel Coward. It was nominated for two Academy Awards, one for Academy Award for Best Cinematography and the other for Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Cedric Gibbons and John S....
    • Richard Day
      Richard Day (art director)

      Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 in film and 1970 in film....
      , Joseph C. Wright
      Joseph C. Wright

      Joseph C. Wright was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - Down Argentine Way
      Down Argentine Way

      Down Argentine Way is a 1940 in film Technicolor musical film made by Twentieth Century Fox. It made a star of Betty Grable in her first leading role for the studio, and introduced USA audiences to Carmen Miranda....
    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier

      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen , Dreier began his career in Cinema of Germany in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood, California....
      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson

      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Awards nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms "....
       - North West Mounted Police
  • 1941 Black-and-White Richard Day
    Richard Day (art director)

    Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 in film and 1970 in film....
    , Nathan H. Juran, Thomas Little
    Thomas Little

    Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Academy Awards for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category....
     - How Green Was My Valley
    How Green Was My Valley (film)

    How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 in film United States drama film directed by John Ford. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, written by Philip Dunne, and based on the Richard Llewellyn How Green Was My Valley....
    • Perry Ferguson
      Perry Ferguson

      Perry Ferguson was an American art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He was born in Texas and died in Los Angeles, California....
      , Van Nest Polglase
      Van Nest Polglase

      Van Nest Polglase was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 333 films between 1925 in film and 1957 in film....
      , Al Fields, Darrell Silvera
      Darrell Silvera

      Darrell Silvera was an American set decorator. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 356 films between 1934 in film and 1978 in film....
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      Citizen Kane
      Citizen Kane

      Citizen Kane is a 1941 in film United States dramatic film and the first feature film directed by Orson Welles. It was nominated for an Academy Award in nine categories, but won only for Best Original Screenplay by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles....
    • Martin Obzina
      Martin Obzina

      Martin Obzina was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and died in New York, New York....
      , Jack Otterson
      Jack Otterson

      Jack Otterson was an American art director. He was nominated for eight Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 300 films between 1934 in film and 1953 in film....
      , Russell A. Gausman
      Russell A. Gausman

      Russell A. Gausman was an American set decorator. He was won two Academy Awards and was nominated for five more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
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      The Flame of New Orleans
      The Flame of New Orleans

      The Flame of New Orleans is a romantic comedy film directed by Ren? Clair. It was nominated an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Martin Obzina, Jack Otterson and Russell A....
    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier

      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen , Dreier began his career in Cinema of Germany in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood, California....
      , Robert Usher
      Robert Usher

      Robert Usher was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer

      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
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      Hold Back the Dawn
      Hold Back the Dawn

      Hold Back the Dawn is a 1941 romantic film in which a Romanian gigolo marries an United Statesn woman in Mexico in order to gain entry to the United States, but winds up falling in love with her....
    • Lionel Banks
      Lionel Banks

      With over 200 films to his credit, Lionel Banks was a hard-working art director from 1935 to 1949. In that time he worked on such films as Leo McCarey?s ?The Awful Truth? , Howard Hawks? South American set ?Only Angels Have Wings? and his rapid fire comedy classic the following year ?His Girl Friday?, most of the Blondie B-movies, Alexande...
      , George Montgomery
      George Montgomery (set decorator)

      George Montgomery was an American set decorator. He was nominated an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Ladies in Retirement....
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      Ladies in Retirement
      Ladies in Retirement

      Ladies in Retirement is a 1941 in film film starring Ida Lupino and Louis Hayward. It is based on a 1940 Broadway play of the same title by Reginald Denham and Edward Percy Smith which starred Flora Robson in the lead role....
    • Stephen Goosson
      Stephen Goosson

      Stephen Goosson was an Academy Award-winning United States film set designer.Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Goosson was an architecture in Detroit before starting his film career as art director for producer Lewis J....
      , Howard Bristol
      Howard Bristol

      Howard Bristol was an American set decorator. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 56 films between 1936 in film and 1968 in film....
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      The Little Foxes
      The Little Foxes (film)

      The Little Foxes is a 1941 in film United States drama film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Lillian Hellman is based on her The Little Foxes....
    • John Hughes
      John Hughes (art director)

      John Hughes was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 91 films between 1921 in film and 1951 in film....
      , Fred M. MacLean
      Fred M. MacLean

      Fred M. MacLean was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 60 films between 1941 in film and 1965 in film....
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      Sergeant York
      Sergeant York

      Sergeant York is a 1941 in film biographical film about the life of Alvin York, the most-decorated American soldier of World War I. It was directed by Howard Hawks and was the highest-grossing film of the year....
    • John DuCasse Schultze, Edward G. Boyle
      Edward G. Boyle

      The career of set decorator Edward G. Boyle really kicked off in the early 30s, when he started working on the first of over 100 films. His successful filmography includes such interesting credits as an uncredited assist on the wartorn old South in Victor Fleming's classic Gone with the Wind , the Nazi-influenced designs for Charles Cha...
       -
      Son of Monte Cristo
    • Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen

      Alexander Golitzen, oversaw art director on more than 300 movies.Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution of 1917....
      , Richard Irvine
      Richard Irvine

      Richard Irvine was an American art director.He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Sundown ....
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      Sundown
      Sundown (film)

      Sundown is a 1941 in film war film directed by Henry Hathaway. It was nominated for three Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Academy Award for Original Music Score and Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Alexander Golitzen and Richard Irvine....
    • Vincent Korda
      Vincent Korda

      Vincent Korda was a Hungarian art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another three in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Julia Heron
      Julia Heron

      Julia Heron was an American set decorator. She won an Academy Award and was nominated for four more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
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      That Hamilton Woman
      That Hamilton Woman

      That Hamilton Woman -- the original British title was simply Lady Hamilton -- is a historical film drama, produced and directed by Alexander Korda for Alexander Korda Films....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
      , Randall Duell
      Randall Duell

      Randall Duell was an American architect and art director. Duell attended the University of Southern California School of Architecture and graduated in 1925....
      , Edwin B. Willis
      Edwin B. Willis

      Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
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      When Ladies Meet
      When Ladies Meet (1941 film)

      When Ladies Meet is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor , Greer Garson, and Herbert Marshall, and Spring Byington in a story about a novelist in love with her publisher....
  • 1941 Color Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons

    Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
    , Urie McCleary
    Urie McCleary

    Urie McCleary was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for four more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
    , Edwin B. Willis
    Edwin B. Willis

    Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
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    Blossoms in the Dust
    Blossoms in the Dust

    Blossoms in the Dust is a 1941 film which tells the story of Edna Gladney who takes it upon herself to help orphaned children to find homes, despite the opposition of the "good" citizens who think that illegitimate children are beneath their interest....
    • Richard Day
      Richard Day (art director)

      Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 in film and 1970 in film....
      , Joseph C. Wright
      Joseph C. Wright

      Joseph C. Wright was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little

      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Academy Awards for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category....
       - Blood and Sand
      Blood and Sand (1941 film)

      Blood and Sand is a Technicolor produced by 20th Century Fox, directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth, and Alla Nazimova....
    • Raoul Pene Du Bois
      Raoul Pene Du Bois

      Raoul Pene Du Bois was an American costume designer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Stephen A. Seymour - Louisiana Purchase
      Louisiana Purchase (film)

      Louisiana Purchase is a 1941 in film film adaptation of the musical theater play, Louisiana Purchase . A Paramount Pictures production, the film was directed by Irving Cummings with Robert Emmett Dolan serving as musical director as he had done for the play....
  • 1942 Black-and-White Richard Day
    Richard Day (art director)

    Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 in film and 1970 in film....
    , Joseph Wright, Thomas Little
    Thomas Little

    Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Academy Awards for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category....
     - This Above All
    This Above All

    This Above All is a 1942 in film romance film set in World War II adapted from the Eric Knight novel of the same name and directed by Anatole Litvak....
    • Max Parker
      Max Parker

      Max Parker was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film George Washington Slept Here....
      , Mark-Lee Kirk
      Mark-Lee Kirk

      Mark-Lee Kirk was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 52 films between 1936 in film and 1959 in film....
      , Casey Roberts
      Casey Roberts

      Casey Roberts was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
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      George Washington Slept Here
      George Washington Slept Here

      George Washington Slept Here is a comedy film starring Jack Benny and Ann Sheridan as New Yorkers who purchase a dilapidated farmhouse where, according to rumors, George Washington spent the night....
    • Albert S. D'Agostino
      Albert S. D'Agostino

      Albert S. D'Agostino was an American art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Al Fields, Darrell Silvera
      Darrell Silvera

      Darrell Silvera was an American set decorator. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 356 films between 1934 in film and 1978 in film....
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      The Magnificent Ambersons
      The Magnificent Ambersons (film)

      The Magnificent Ambersons is a Cinema of the United States drama film written and directed by Orson Welles. His second feature film, it is based on the The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington and stars Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead and Ray Collins....
    • Perry Ferguson
      Perry Ferguson

      Perry Ferguson was an American art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He was born in Texas and died in Los Angeles, California....
      , Howard Bristol
      Howard Bristol

      Howard Bristol was an American set decorator. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 56 films between 1936 in film and 1968 in film....
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      The Pride of the Yankees
      The Pride of the Yankees

      The Pride of the Yankees is a 1942 biographical film directed by Sam Wood about the New York Yankees baseball player, first baseman Lou Gehrig, who had his career cut short at 36 years of age when he was stricken with the fatal disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
      , Randall Duell
      Randall Duell

      Randall Duell was an American architect and art director. Duell attended the University of Southern California School of Architecture and graduated in 1925....
      , Edwin B. Willis
      Edwin B. Willis

      Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
      , Jack Moore -
      Random Harvest
    • Boris Leven
      Boris Leven

      Boris Leven was a Russian-born Academy Award-winning art director and production designer whose Hollywood career spanned fifty-three years.Born in Moscow, Leven emigrated to the United States in 1927 and became a Naturalization in 1938....
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      The Shanghai Gesture
      The Shanghai Gesture

      The Shanghai Gesture is a United Artists film noir film starring Gene Tierney and Walter Huston, with Victor Mature and Ona Munson.It was adapted for the screen by Josef von Sternberg, based on the stage play by John Colton, produced by Arnold Pressburger for United Artists, and directed by von Sternberg....
    • Ralph Berger
      Ralph Berger

      Ralph Berger was an American art director. He was nominated an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Silver Queen....
      , Emile Kuri
      Emile Kuri

      Emile Kuri was a Mexican-born American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for six more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
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      Silver Queen
      Silver Queen

      Silver Queen is a 1942 in film Western directed by Lloyd Bacon. It was nominated for two Academy Awards for Academy Award for Original Music Score and Academy Award for Best Art Direction ....
    • John B. Goodman
      John B. Goodman

      John B. Goodman was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Jack Otterson
      Jack Otterson

      Jack Otterson was an American art director. He was nominated for eight Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 300 films between 1934 in film and 1953 in film....
      , Russell A. Gausman
      Russell A. Gausman

      Russell A. Gausman was an American set decorator. He was won two Academy Awards and was nominated for five more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Edward R. Robinson
      Edward R. Robinson

      Edward R. Robinson was an American set decorator. He was nominated an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film The Spoilers ....
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      The Spoilers
      The Spoilers (1942 film)

      The Spoilers is a 1942 film directed by Ray Enright. The movie is set in Nome, Alaska during the 1898 Gold Rush, with Marlene Dietrich as Cherry Malotte, Randolph Scott as Alexander McNamara, and John Wayne as Roy Glennister, and culminates in a spectacular saloon fistfight between McNamara and Glennister....
    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier

      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen , Dreier began his career in Cinema of Germany in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood, California....
      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson

      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Awards nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms "....
      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer

      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
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      Take a Letter, Darling
      Take a Letter, Darling

      Take a Letter, Darling is a 1942 in film comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen. It was nominated for three Academy Awards; Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Academy Award for Original Music Score and Academy Award for Best Art Direction ....
    • Lionel Banks
      Lionel Banks

      With over 200 films to his credit, Lionel Banks was a hard-working art director from 1935 to 1949. In that time he worked on such films as Leo McCarey?s ?The Awful Truth? , Howard Hawks? South American set ?Only Angels Have Wings? and his rapid fire comedy classic the following year ?His Girl Friday?, most of the Blondie B-movies, Alexande...
      , Rudolph Sternad
      Rudolph Sternad

      Rudolph Sternad was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
      , Fay Babcock
      Fay Babcock

      Fay Babcock was a Hollywood set decorator, and one of the first women to have much success in the profession. She earned an Academy Awards nomination for 1942's The Talk of the Town and 1944's Cover Girl ....
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      The Talk of the Town
  • 1942 Color Richard Day
    Richard Day (art director)

    Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 in film and 1970 in film....
    , Joseph Wright, Thomas Little
    Thomas Little

    Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Academy Awards for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category....
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    My Gal Sal
    My Gal Sal

    My Gal Sal is a 20th Century Fox musical starring Rita Hayworth and Victor Mature. The film is a biopic of 1890s composer and songwriter Paul Dresser and singer, Sally Elliot....
    • Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen

      Alexander Golitzen, oversaw art director on more than 300 movies.Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution of 1917....
      , Jack Otterson
      Jack Otterson

      Jack Otterson was an American art director. He was nominated for eight Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 300 films between 1934 in film and 1953 in film....
      , Russell A. Gausman
      Russell A. Gausman

      Russell A. Gausman was an American set decorator. He was won two Academy Awards and was nominated for five more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Ira S. Webb
      Ira S. Webb

      Ira S. Webb was an American film producer, set decorator, screenwriter, art director and film director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for two more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - Arabian Nights
      Arabian Nights (1942 film)

      Arabian Nights is a 1942 adventure film starring Sabu Dastagir, Maria Montez, Jon Hall and Leif Erickson and directed by John Rawlins . The film is derived from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights but owes more to the imagination of Universal Pictures than the original Arabian stories....
    • Ted Smith
      Ted Smith (art director)

      Ted Smith was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
      , Casey Roberts
      Casey Roberts

      Casey Roberts was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
       - Captains of the Clouds
      Captains of the Clouds

      Captains of the Clouds is a Warner Bros. war film, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney. It was produced by William Cagney , with Hal B....
    • Vincent Korda
      Vincent Korda

      Vincent Korda was a Hungarian art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another three in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Julia Heron
      Julia Heron

      Julia Heron was an American set decorator. She won an Academy Award and was nominated for four more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - Jungle Book
      Jungle Book (1942 film)

      Jungle Book is an United States color 1942 in film action/adventure film based on the Rudyard Kipling novel, The Jungle Book. The film was directed by Zolt?n Korda based on a screeplay adaptation by Laurence Stallings....
    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier

      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen , Dreier began his career in Cinema of Germany in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood, California....
      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson

      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Awards nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms "....
      , George Sawley
      George Sawley

      George Sawley was an American set decorator and art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - Reap the Wild Wind
      Reap the Wild Wind

      Reap the Wild Wind is a serialized story written by Thelma Strabel in 1940 for The Saturday Evening Post. It was the basis for the 1942 in film directed by Cecil B....
  • 1943 Black-and-White James Basevi
    James Basevi

    James Basevi was a British born art director and special effects expert.He began his career in 1924 with MGM, designing sets for silent films....
    , William S. Darling
    William S. Darling

    William S. Darling was a Hungarian-born art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for a further four in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 61 films between 1921 in film and 1954 in film....
    , Thomas Little
    Thomas Little

    Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Academy Awards for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category....
     - The Song of Bernadette
    The Song of Bernadette (film)

    The Song of Bernadette is a 1943 film which tells the story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who, from February to July 1858 in Lourdes, France, reported 18 visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary....
    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier

      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen , Dreier began his career in Cinema of Germany in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood, California....
      , Ernst Fegte
      Ernst Fegté

      Ernst Fegt? was a German art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Bertram Granger -
      Five Graves to Cairo
      Five Graves to Cairo

      Five Graves to Cairo is a 1943 World War II film by Billy Wilder, starring Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter....
    • Albert S. D'Agostino
      Albert S. D'Agostino

      Albert S. D'Agostino was an American art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Carroll Clark
      Carroll Clark

      Carroll Clark was an American art director. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 173 films between 1927 in film and 1968 in film....
      , Darrell Silvera
      Darrell Silvera

      Darrell Silvera was an American set decorator. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 356 films between 1934 in film and 1978 in film....
      , Harley Miller
      Harley Miller

      Harley Miller was an American set decorator. He was nominated an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Flight for Freedom....
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      Flight for Freedom
      Flight for Freedom

      Flight for Freedom is a 1943 in film drama film directed by Lothar Mendes. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Art Direction ....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
      , Paul Groesse
      Paul Groesse

      Paul Groesse was a Hungarian-born American art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for another eight in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Edwin B. Willis
      Edwin B. Willis

      Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
      , Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt

      Hugh Hunt was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for eleven more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
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      Madame Curie
      Madame Curie (film)

      Madame Curie is a 1943 in film biographical film made by MGM. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sidney Franklin from a screenplay by Paul Osborn, Paul H....
    • Carl Weyl, George J. Hopkins - Mission to Moscow
      Mission to Moscow

      Mission to Moscow is a 1943 in film drama directed by Michael Curtiz, and book of the same name by Ambassador Joseph E. Davies.The movie, starring Walter Huston, was made in response to a request by Franklin D....
    • Perry Ferguson
      Perry Ferguson

      Perry Ferguson was an American art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He was born in Texas and died in Los Angeles, California....
      , Howard Bristol
      Howard Bristol

      Howard Bristol was an American set decorator. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 56 films between 1936 in film and 1968 in film....
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      The North Star
      The North Star (1943 film)

      The North Star is a 1943 war film produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by Lewis Milestone and written by Lillian Hellman....
  • 1943 Color Alexander Golitzen
    Alexander Golitzen

    Alexander Golitzen, oversaw art director on more than 300 movies.Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution of 1917....
    , John B. Goodman
    John B. Goodman

    John B. Goodman was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
    , Russell A. Gausman
    Russell A. Gausman

    Russell A. Gausman was an American set decorator. He was won two Academy Awards and was nominated for five more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
    , Ira S. Webb
    Ira S. Webb

    Ira S. Webb was an American film producer, set decorator, screenwriter, art director and film director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for two more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
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    Phantom of the Opera
    Phantom of the Opera (1943 film)

    Phantom of the Opera is a Universal horror starring Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster and Claude Rains, directed by Arthur Lubin, and filmed in Technicolor....
    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier

      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen , Dreier began his career in Cinema of Germany in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood, California....
      , Haldane Douglas
      Haldane Douglas

      Haldane Douglas was an American art director. He was nominated an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film For Whom the Bell Tolls ....
      , Bertram Granger - For Whom the Bell Tolls
      For Whom the Bell Tolls (film)

      For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1943 in film film in Technicolor based on the For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. It stars Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff and Katina Paxinou....
    • James Basevi
      James Basevi

      James Basevi was a British born art director and special effects expert.He began his career in 1924 with MGM, designing sets for silent films....
      , Joseph C. Wright
      Joseph C. Wright

      Joseph C. Wright was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little

      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Academy Awards for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category....
       - The Gang's All Here
    • John Hughes
      John Hughes (art director)

      John Hughes was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 91 films between 1921 in film and 1951 in film....
      , George J. Hopkins - This Is the Army
      This Is the Army

      This Is the Army is a 1943 in film United States motion picture produced by Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner, and directed by Michael Curtiz, and a wartime musical designed to boost morale in the U.S....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
      , Daniel Cathcart, Edwin B. Willis
      Edwin B. Willis

      Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
      , Jacques Mersereau
      Jacques Mersereau

      Jacques Mersereau was a set decorator. He was nominated an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Thousands Cheer....
       - Thousands Cheer
      Thousands Cheer

      Thousands Cheer was an United States musical film-comedy released by MGM in 1943.Produced at the height of the Second World War, the film was intended as a morale booster for American troops and their families....
  • 1944 Black-and-White Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons

    Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
    , William Ferrari
    William Ferrari

    William Ferrari was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
    , Paul Huldschinsky
    Paul Huldschinsky

    Paul Huldschinsky was a German set decorator. He won an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Gaslight . ...
    , Edwin B. Willis
    Edwin B. Willis

    Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
     - Gaslight
    Gaslight (1944 film)

    Gaslight is a 1944 in film Mystery film-Thriller adapted from Patrick Hamilton 's play Angel Street. It was the second version to be filmed; the Gaslight , released in United Kingdom, had been made a mere four years earlier....
    • Lionel Banks
      Lionel Banks

      With over 200 films to his credit, Lionel Banks was a hard-working art director from 1935 to 1949. In that time he worked on such films as Leo McCarey?s ?The Awful Truth? , Howard Hawks? South American set ?Only Angels Have Wings? and his rapid fire comedy classic the following year ?His Girl Friday?, most of the Blondie B-movies, Alexande...
      , Walter Holscher
      Walter Holscher

      Walter Holscher was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
      , Joseph Kish
      Joseph Kish

      Joseph Kish was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for four more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       -
      Address Unknown
      Address Unknown (1944 film)

      Address Unknown is a 1944 in film drama film directed by William Cameron Menzies. It was nominated for two Academy Awards; for Academy Award for Original Music Score and Academy Award for Best Art Direction ....
    • John Hughes
      John Hughes (art director)

      John Hughes was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 91 films between 1921 in film and 1951 in film....
      , Fred M. MacLean
      Fred M. MacLean

      Fred M. MacLean was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 60 films between 1941 in film and 1965 in film....
       -
      The Adventures of Mark Twain
      The Adventures of Mark Twain

      The Adventures of Mark Twain is a 1944 live action biographical film.The film stars Fredric March as Samuel Clemens and Alexis Smith as his wife, Olivia....
    • Perry Ferguson
      Perry Ferguson

      Perry Ferguson was an American art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He was born in Texas and died in Los Angeles, California....
      , Julia Heron
      Julia Heron

      Julia Heron was an American set decorator. She won an Academy Award and was nominated for four more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       -
      Casanova Brown
      Casanova Brown

      Casanova Brown is a 1944 in film film starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, and Frank Morgan. The film was written by Thomas Mitchell , Floyd Dell, and Nunnally Johnson, and directed by Sam Wood....
    • Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller
      Leland Fuller

      Leland Fuller was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 48 films between 1943 in film and 1962 in film....
      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little

      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Academy Awards for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category....
       -
      Laura
      Laura (1944 film)

      Laura is an United States film noir directed by Otto Preminger and starring Gene Tierney as Laura, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, and Judith Anderson....
    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier

      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen , Dreier began his career in Cinema of Germany in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood, California....
      , Robert Usher
      Robert Usher

      Robert Usher was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer

      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       -
      No Time for Love
      No Time for Love (film)

      No Time for Love is a 1943 film directed by Mitchell Leisen, and starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray.It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White ....
    • Mark-Lee Kirk
      Mark-Lee Kirk

      Mark-Lee Kirk was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 52 films between 1936 in film and 1959 in film....
      , Victor A. Gangelin
      Victor A. Gangelin

      Victor A. Gangelin was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       -
      Since You Went Away
      Since You Went Away

      Since You Went Away is a 1944 film distributed by United Artists. It was directed by John Cromwell and adapted and produced by David O. Selznick from the novel Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Margaret Buell Wilder....
    • Albert S. D'Agostino
      Albert S. D'Agostino

      Albert S. D'Agostino was an American art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Carroll Clark
      Carroll Clark

      Carroll Clark was an American art director. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 173 films between 1927 in film and 1968 in film....
      , Darrell Silvera
      Darrell Silvera

      Darrell Silvera was an American set decorator. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 356 films between 1934 in film and 1978 in film....
      , Claude Carpenter -
      Step Lively
      Step Lively (1944 film)

      Step Lively is a 1944 in film musical film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Frank Sinatra. It was nominated an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Art Direction ....
  • 1944 Color Wiard Ihnen
    Wiard Ihnen

    Wiard Ihnen was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He was born in New York City, New York and died in Los Angeles, California....
    , Thomas Little
    Thomas Little

    Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Academy Awards for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category....
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    Wilson
    Wilson (film)

    Wilson is a 1944 biographical film in Technicolor about President Woodrow Wilson. It stars Charles Coburn, Alexander Knox, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell , Ruth Nelson , Eddie Foy Jr., Cedric Hardwicke, Matthew Moore and Vincent Price....
    • John B. Goodman
      John B. Goodman

      John B. Goodman was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen

      Alexander Golitzen, oversaw art director on more than 300 movies.Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution of 1917....
      , Russell A. Gausman
      Russell A. Gausman

      Russell A. Gausman was an American set decorator. He was won two Academy Awards and was nominated for five more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Ira S. Webb
      Ira S. Webb

      Ira S. Webb was an American film producer, set decorator, screenwriter, art director and film director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for two more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - The Climax
    • Lionel Banks
      Lionel Banks

      With over 200 films to his credit, Lionel Banks was a hard-working art director from 1935 to 1949. In that time he worked on such films as Leo McCarey?s ?The Awful Truth? , Howard Hawks? South American set ?Only Angels Have Wings? and his rapid fire comedy classic the following year ?His Girl Friday?, most of the Blondie B-movies, Alexande...
      , Cary Odell
      Cary Odell

      Cary Odell was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He was born in Indiana and died in San Luis Obispo, California....
      , Fay Babcock
      Fay Babcock

      Fay Babcock was a Hollywood set decorator, and one of the first women to have much success in the profession. She earned an Academy Awards nomination for 1942's The Talk of the Town and 1944's Cover Girl ....
       - Cover Girl
      Cover Girl (1944 film)

      Cover Girl is a 1944 in film United States musical film starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly. The film tells the story of a chorus girl given a chance at stardom when she's offered an opportunity to be a highly-paid cover girl....
    • Charles Novi
      Charles Novi

      Charles Novi was an American art director. He was nominated an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film The Desert Song ....
      , Jack McConaghy
      Jack McConaghy

      Jack McConaghy was an American set decorator. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
       - The Desert Song
      The Desert Song (1943 film)

      The Desert Song is a 1943 in film musical film directed by Robert Florey and starring Dennis Morgan. It is based on the famous The Desert Song with music by Sigmund Romberg....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
      , Daniel B. Cathcart
      Daniel B. Cathcart

      Daniel B. Cathcart was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
      , Edwin B. Willis
      Edwin B. Willis

      Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
      , Richard Pefferle
      Richard Pefferle

      Richard Pefferle was an American set decorator. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
       - Kismet
      Kismet (1944 film)

      Kismet is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture in Technicolor starring Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Joy Page, and Florence Bates. James Craig played the young Caliph of Baghdad, and Edward Arnold was the treacherous but likeable Grand Vizier....
    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier

      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen , Dreier began his career in Cinema of Germany in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood, California....
      , Raoul Pene du Bois
      Raoul Pene Du Bois

      Raoul Pene Du Bois was an American costume designer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Ray Moyer
      Ray Moyer

      Ray Moyer was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for nine more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - Lady in the Dark
      Lady in the Dark (film)

      Lady in the Dark is a 1944 in film musical film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Ginger Rogers. It was nominated three Academy Awards; for Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Academy Award for Original Music Score and Academy Award for Best Art Direction ....
    • Ernst Fegte
      Ernst Fegté

      Ernst Fegt? was a German art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Howard Bristol
      Howard Bristol

      Howard Bristol was an American set decorator. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 56 films between 1936 in film and 1968 in film....
       - The Princess and the Pirate
      The Princess and the Pirate

      The Princess and the Pirate is a 1944 comedy film released by Samuel Goldwyn, starring Bob Hope and Virginia Mayo. This was the only appearance in a Goldwyn film by Paramount Pictures star Hope....
  • 1945 Black-and-White Wiard Ihnen
    Wiard Ihnen

    Wiard Ihnen was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He was born in New York City, New York and died in Los Angeles, California....
    , A. Roland Fields
    A. Roland Fields

    A. Roland Fields was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another two in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
     - Blood on the Sun
    Blood on the Sun

    Blood on the Sun is a film starring James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney. The film is based on the history behind the Tanaka Memorial document....
    • Albert S. D'Agostino
      Albert S. D'Agostino

      Albert S. D'Agostino was an American art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Jack Okey
      Jack Okey

      Jack Okey was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the films Sally and Experiment Perilous ....
      , Darrell Silvera
      Darrell Silvera

      Darrell Silvera was an American set decorator. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 356 films between 1934 in film and 1978 in film....
      , Claude Carpenter -
      Experiment Perilous
      Experiment Perilous

      Experiment Perilous is a 1944 melodrama/film noir set at the turn of the century. The film is based on a novel by Margaret Carpenter and directed by Jacques Tourneur....
    • James Basevi
      James Basevi

      James Basevi was a British born art director and special effects expert.He began his career in 1924 with MGM, designing sets for silent films....
      , William S. Darling
      William S. Darling

      William S. Darling was a Hungarian-born art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for a further four in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 61 films between 1921 in film and 1954 in film....
      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little

      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Academy Awards for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category....
      , Frank E. Hughes
      Frank E. Hughes

      Frank E. Hughes was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       -
      The Keys of the Kingdom
      The Keys of the Kingdom (film)

      The Keys of the Kingdom is a 1944 in film American film based on the 1941 in literature novel, The Keys of the Kingdom, by A. J. Cronin....
    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier

      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen , Dreier began his career in Cinema of Germany in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood, California....
      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson

      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Awards nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms "....
      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer

      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Ray Moyer
      Ray Moyer

      Ray Moyer was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for nine more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       -
      Love Letters
      Love Letters (1945 film)

      Love Letters is a 1945 film adapted by Ayn Rand from the novel Pity My Simplicity by Christopher Massie. It was directed by William Dieterle and stars Jennifer Jones , Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards , Cecil Kellaway, Gladys Cooper and Anita Louise....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
      , Hans Peters
      Hans Peters (art director)

      Hans Peters was an English art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
      , Edwin B. Willis
      Edwin B. Willis

      Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
      , John Bonar
      John Bonar

      John Bonar was an American set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film The Picture of Dorian Gray ....
      , Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt

      Hugh Hunt was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for eleven more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       -
      The Picture of Dorian Gray
      The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945 film)

      The Picture of Dorian Gray is an United States horror film-drama film film based on the 1891 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, his only novel....
  • 1945 Color Hans Dreier
    Hans Dreier

    Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen , Dreier began his career in Cinema of Germany in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood, California....
    , Ernst Fegte
    Ernst Fegté

    Ernst Fegt? was a German art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
    , Samuel M. Comer
    Samuel M. Comer

    Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
     -
    Frenchman's Creek
    Frenchman's Creek (film)

    Frenchman's Creek is a 1944 adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier novel , released by Paramount Pictures. The film starred Joan Fontaine, Arturo de C?rdova, Basil Rathbone, Cecil Kellaway, and Nigel Bruce....
    • Lyle Wheeler, Maurice Ransford
      Maurice Ransford

      Maurice Ransford was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little

      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Academy Awards for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category....
       - Leave Her to Heaven
      Leave Her to Heaven

      Leave Her to Heaven is a 1945 in film 20th Century Fox color film noir film starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, with Vincent Price, Darryl Hickman, and Chill Wills....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
      , Urie McCleary
      Urie McCleary

      Urie McCleary was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for four more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Edwin B. Willis
      Edwin B. Willis

      Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
      , Mildred Griffiths
      Mildred Griffiths

      Mildred Griffiths was an American set decorator. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film National Velvet ....
       - National Velvet
      National Velvet (film)

      National Velvet is a 1944 in film film based on the National Velvet by Enid Bagnold, first published in 1935. It stars a very young Elizabeth Taylor ....
    • Ted Smith
      Ted Smith (art director)

      Ted Smith was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
      , Jack McConaghy
      Jack McConaghy

      Jack McConaghy was an American set decorator. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
       - San Antonio
      San Antonio (film)

      San Antonio is a 1945 western film starring Errol Flynn and Alexis Smith. The movie was written by W. R. Burnett and Alan Le May, and directed by David Butler as well as uncredited Robert Florey and Raoul Walsh....
    • Stephen Goosson
      Stephen Goosson

      Stephen Goosson was an Academy Award-winning United States film set designer.Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Goosson was an architecture in Detroit before starting his film career as art director for producer Lewis J....
      , Rudolph Sternad
      Rudolph Sternad

      Rudolph Sternad was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
      , Frank Tuttle
      Frank Tuttle (set decorator)

      Frank Tuttle was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
       - A Thousand and One Nights
      A Thousand and One Nights (film)

      A Thousand and One Nights is a tongue-in-cheek Technicolor fantasy film set in the Bagdad of the One Thousand and One Nights, starring Cornel Wilde as Aladdin, Evelyn Keyes as the genie of the magic lamp, Phil Silvers as Aladdin's larcenous sidekick, and Adele Jurgens as the princess Aladdin loves....
  • 1946 Black-and-White William S. Darling
    William S. Darling

    William S. Darling was a Hungarian-born art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for a further four in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 61 films between 1921 in film and 1954 in film....
    , Lyle Wheeler, Thomas Little
    Thomas Little

    Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Academy Awards for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category....
    , Frank E. Hughes
    Frank E. Hughes

    Frank E. Hughes was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
     - Anna and the King of Siam
    • Hans Dreier
      Hans Dreier

      Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen , Dreier began his career in Cinema of Germany in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood, California....
      , Walter Tyler
      Walter H. Tyler

      Walter H. Tyler was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for eight more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer

      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Ray Moyer
      Ray Moyer

      Ray Moyer was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for nine more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       -
      Kitty
      Kitty (1945 film)

      Kitty is a 1945 film directed by Mitchell Leisen, based on the novel by Rosamond Marshall, with a screenplay by Karl Tunberg. It stars Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Constance Collier , Patric Knowles, Reginald Owen, and Cecil Kellaway as the English painter Thomas Gainsborough....
    • Richard Day
      Richard Day (art director)

      Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 in film and 1970 in film....
      , Nathan H. Juran, Thomas Little
      Thomas Little

      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Academy Awards for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category....
      , Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox

      Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       -
      The Razor's Edge
      The Razor's Edge (1946 film)

      The Razor's Edge is the first film version of W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge. It was released in 1946 and stars Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne , Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, Herbert Marshall, supporting cast Lucile Watson, Frank Latimore and Elsa Lanchester....
  • 1946 Color Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons

    Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
    , Paul Groesse
    Paul Groesse

    Paul Groesse was a Hungarian-born American art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for another eight in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
    , Edwin B. Willis
    Edwin B. Willis

    Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
     -
    The Yearling
    • John Bryan
      John Bryan (art director)

      John Bryan was an Academy Award-winning art director, and later a movie producer.He won the Oscar for Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Great Expectations ....
       - Caesar and Cleopatra
      Caesar and Cleopatra (1945 film)

      Caesar and Cleopatra is a 1945 in film film starring Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh, produced and directed by Gabriel Pascal from the Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw....
    • Paul Sheriff
      Paul Sheriff

      Paul Sheriff was Russian-born British art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Carmen Dillon
      Carmen Dillon

      Carmen Dillon was a United Kingdom film and production designer who won an Academy Award. ...
       - Henry V
      Henry V (1944 film)

      Henry V is a 1944 in film film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Henry V . The on-screen title is The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France ....
Beginning with 1947 movies the name of the award was changed to Art Direction - Set Decoration.
  • 1947 Black-and-White John Bryan
    John Bryan (art director)

    John Bryan was an Academy Award-winning art director, and later a movie producer.He won the Oscar for Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Great Expectations ....
    , Wilfred Shingleton
    Wilfred Shingleton

    Wilfred Shingleton was an English art director. He enjoyed a distinguished career in the British film industry from his debut in 1937. Some of his early assignments were several George Formby, Jr....
     - Great Expectations
    Great Expectations (1946 film)

    Great Expectations is a 1946 in film British film directed by David Lean and based on the Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. It stars John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Finlay Currie, Martita Hunt, and Alec Guinness....
    • Lyle Wheeler, Maurice Ransford
      Maurice Ransford

      Maurice Ransford was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little

      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Academy Awards for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category....
      , Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox

      Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
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      The Foxes of Harrow
      The Foxes of Harrow

      The Foxes of Harrow is an adventure film directed by John M. Stahl and produced by William A. Bacher. The film Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara, Richard Haydn with Victor McLaglen, Vanessa Brown, Patricia Medina, Gene Lockhart, and Hugo Haas....
  • 1947 Color Alfred Junge
    Alfred Junge

    Germany-born production designer Alfred Junge had wanted to be an artist from childhood. Dabbling in theatre in his teenage years he joined the G?rlitz Stadttheater at eighteen and was involved in all areas of production....
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    Black Narcissus
    Black Narcissus

    Black Narcissus is a film by the United Kingdom director-writer team of Powell and Pressburger, based on the novel of the same name by Rumer Godden....
    • Robert M. Haas
      Robert M. Haas

      Robert M. Haas was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 120 films between 1920 in film and 1950 in film....
      , George James Hopkins - Life with Father
      Life with Father (film)

      Life with Father is a 1947 in film comedy film....
  • 1948 Black-and-White Roger K. Furse
    Roger K. Furse

    Roger Kemble Furse was the son of Lieutenant General William Furse, and was educated at Eton College and then the Slade School of Fine Arts in London....
    , Carmen Dillon
    Carmen Dillon

    Carmen Dillon was a United Kingdom film and production designer who won an Academy Award. ...
     - Hamlet
    Hamlet (1948 film)

    Hamlet is a British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier. Hamlet was Olivier's second film as director, and also the second of his three Shakespeare films....
    • Robert Haas, William O. Wallace
      William O. Wallace

      Set decorator William Wallace worked throughout the 40s and 50s on several Hollywood productions. He was Academy Award-nominated in 1948 for Jean Negulesco?s Johnny Belinda , and also worked on Young Man with a Horn , Battle Cry and Nicholas Ray?s seminal Rebel Without a Cause in 1956....
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      Johnny Belinda
      Johnny Belinda (1948 film)

      Johnny Belinda is a 1948 in film drama film based on the Play of the same name by Elmer Blaney Harris. The movie was adapted to the screen by Allen Vincent and Irma von Cube, and film director by Jean Negulesco....
  • 1948 Color Hein Heckroth
    Hein Heckroth

    German art director Hein Heckroth began his career working with the German national ballet. He later moved to Great Britain and worked as a set and costume designer in films such as A Matter of Life and Death and 1948's The Red Shoes , for which he won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction)....
    , Arthur Lawson
    Arthur Lawson (designer)

    Arthur Lawson was an UK art director. He had a long association with film directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, beginning in 1943 when he was floor manager on The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp....
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    The Red Shoes
    The Red Shoes (film)

    The Red Shoes is a United Kingdom feature film about ballet, written, directed and produced by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, known collectively as Powell and Pressburger....
    • Richard Day
      Richard Day (art director)

      Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 in film and 1970 in film....
      , Edwin Casey Roberts, Joseph Kish
      Joseph Kish

      Joseph Kish was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for four more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - Joan of Arc
      Joan of Arc (1948 film)

      Joan of Arc is a 1948 in film Technicolor film directed by Victor Fleming; starring Ingrid Bergman as the Joan of Arc. It was produced by Walter Wanger....
  • 1949 Black-and-White Harry Horner
    Harry Horner

    Harry Horner was an Austrian art director who made a successful career in Hollywood. He was born in the town of Holice, Pardubice District, which now belongs to the Czech Republic, to parents of the Germans in Czechoslovakia in Austria-Hungarys crown land Bohemia....
    , John Meehan
    John Meehan

    John Meehan was an American art director and production designer.He was born in Tehachapi, California and attended the University of Southern California....
    , Emile Kuri
    Emile Kuri

    Emile Kuri was a Mexican-born American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for six more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
     - The Heiress
    The Heiress

    The Heiress is a 1949 drama film by Ruth Goetz and Augustus Goetz adapted from their 1947 The Heiress that was based on the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James....
    • Lyle Wheeler, Joseph C. Wright
      Joseph C. Wright

      Joseph C. Wright was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little

      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Academy Awards for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category....
      , Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox

      Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
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      Come to the Stable
      Come to the Stable

      Come to the Stable is a 1949 film which tells the story of two France nuns who come to a small New England town and involve the townsfolk in helping them to build a children's hospital....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
      , Jack Martin Smith
      Jack Martin Smith

      Jack Martin Smith was a highly successful Hollywood art director with over 130 films to his credit and nine Academy Award nominations which ultimately yielded three Academy Awards....
      , Edwin B. Willis
      Edwin B. Willis

      Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
      , Richard A. Pefferle -
      Madame Bovary
      Madame Bovary (1949 film)

      Madame Bovary is a 1949 in film film adaptation of the classic Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. It stars Jennifer Jones , James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin billed as Christopher Kent, Gene Lockhart, Frank Allenby and Gladys Cooper....
  • 1949 Color Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons

    Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
    , Paul Groesse
    Paul Groesse

    Paul Groesse was a Hungarian-born American art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for another eight in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
    , Edwin B. Willis
    Edwin B. Willis

    Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
    , Jack D. Moore
    Jack D. Moore

    Jack D. Moore was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated six times in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
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    Little Women
    Little Women (1949 film)

    Little Women directed by Mervyn LeRoy is based on Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. The WGA screenwriting credit system Sally Benson, Victor Heerman, Sarah Y....
    • Edward Carrere
      Edward Carrere

      Born in Mexico, Edward Carrere first hit Hollywood in 1947, making his debut as an art director on "My Wild Irish Rose". He garnered his first Academy Award nomination two years later for the Errol Flynn epic "The Adventures of Don Juan"....
      , Lyle Reifsnider
      Lyle Reifsnider

      Leif B. Reifsnider was a set decorator who worked in Hollywood movies from 1946 to 1962. Nominated for an Academy Award for his work on the Errol Flynn swashbuckler Adventures of Don Juan in 1949, he was also responsible for the set dressings on films such as My Wild Irish Rose , The Flame and the Arrow and April in Paris ....
       - Adventures of Don Juan
      Adventures of Don Juan

      Adventures of Don Juan, known in the UK as The New Adventures of Don Juan, is a 1948 in film adventure film romance film made by Warner Bros.....
    • Jim Morahan
      Jim Morahan

      'Jim Morahan' was a British art director. He began his career in film in 1936. He worked in a number of prominent British productions in the 1940s and 1950s, such as Scott of the Antarctic , Whisky Galore! , The Blue Lamp , The Man in the White Suit , The Cruel Sea , The Ladykillers and Those Magnificent Men in...
      , William Kellner
      William Kellner

      William Kellner was an Austrian-born art director who worked primarily on British films in the 1940s and 1950s. He began his career as a drawing working for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger on their films A Canterbury Tale and I Know Where I'm Going! and on David Lean's Brief Encounter in 1946....
      , Michael Relph
      Michael Relph

      Michael Relph was a Hollywood art director and film producer. He began his film career in 1933 as an assistant art director with Michael Balcon who was working as an art director at MGM and Warner Brothers....
       - Saraband for Dead Lovers
      Saraband for Dead Lovers

      Saraband for Dead Lovers is a 1948 in film costume drama film starring Stewart Granger and Joan Greenwood. It is based on the novel by Helen de Guerry Simpson...


1950s

  • 1950 Black-and-White Hans Dreier
    Hans Dreier

    Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen , Dreier began his career in Cinema of Germany in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood, California....
    , John Meehan
    John Meehan

    John Meehan was an American art director and production designer.He was born in Tehachapi, California and attended the University of Southern California....
    , Samuel M. Comer
    Samuel M. Comer

    Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
    , Ray Moyer
    Ray Moyer

    Ray Moyer was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for nine more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
     - Sunset Boulevard
    • Lyle Wheeler, George Davis
      George Davis (art director)

      George Davis was a celebrated art director....
      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little

      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Academy Awards for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category....
      , Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott

      Walter M. Scott was an Academy Awards-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....
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      All About Eve
      All About Eve

      All About Eve is an Cinema of the United States drama film, written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the short story "The Wisdom of Eve," by Mary Orr....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
      , Hans Peters
      Hans Peters (art director)

      Hans Peters was an English art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
      , Edwin B. Willis
      Edwin B. Willis

      Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
      , Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt

      Hugh Hunt was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for eleven more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
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      The Red Danube
      The Red Danube

      The Red Danube is a 1949 in film drama film directed by George Sidney and starring Walter Pidgeon. It was nominated an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Art Direction ....
  • 1950 Color Hans Dreier
    Hans Dreier

    Hans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen , Dreier began his career in Cinema of Germany in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood, California....
    , Walter Tyler
    Walter H. Tyler

    Walter H. Tyler was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for eight more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
    , Samuel M. Comer
    Samuel M. Comer

    Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
    , Ray Moyer
    Ray Moyer

    Ray Moyer was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for nine more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
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    Samson and Delilah
    Samson and Delilah (1949 film)

    Samson and Delilah is a film made by Paramount Pictures, produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr as the title characters....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
      , Paul Groesse
      Paul Groesse

      Paul Groesse was a Hungarian-born American art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for another eight in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Edwin B. Willis
      Edwin B. Willis

      Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
      , Richard A. Pefferle - Annie Get Your Gun
      Annie Get Your Gun (film)

      Annie Get Your Gun is a 1950 United States musical film loosely based on the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley. The Metro Goldwyn Mayer release, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and a screenplay by Sidney Sheldon based on the Annie Get Your Gun , was directed by George Sidney....
    • Ernst Fegte
      Ernst Fegté

      Ernst Fegt? was a German art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , George Sawley
      George Sawley

      George Sawley was an American set decorator and art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - Destination Moon
      Destination Moon (film)

      Destination Moon is a 1950 United States science fiction feature film produced by George P?l, who later produced When Worlds Collide , The War of the Worlds , and The Time Machine ....
  • 1951 Black-and-White Richard Day
    Richard Day (art director)

    Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 in film and 1970 in film....
    , George James Hopkins - A Streetcar Named Desire
    • Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller
      Leland Fuller

      Leland Fuller was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 48 films between 1943 in film and 1962 in film....
      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little

      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Academy Awards for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category....
      , Fred J. Rode
      Fred J. Rode

      Fred J. Rode was an American set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Fourteen Hours....
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      Fourteen Hours
      Fourteen Hours

      Fourteen Hours is a 1951 in film film about the efforts of a New York City police officer to stop a despondent man from jumping from a building ledge....
    • Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir
      John DeCuir

      John DeCuir was a Hollywood art director.He studied at the Chouinard Art School, joined Universal Studios in the late 1930s, and by the mid-1940s was designing sets....
      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little

      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Academy Awards for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category....
      , Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox

      Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       -
      House on Telegraph Hill
    • Jean d'Eaubonne
      Jean d'Eaubonne

      Jean d'Eaubonne was a France art director. Over the course of his career he worked with some of his country's most distinguished directors, including Jean Cocteau on such productions as "Le Sang d'un Poete" ....
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      La Ronde
      La Ronde (1950 film)

      La Ronde is a 1950 film, directed by Max Oph?ls based on Arthur Schnitzler's 1897 La Ronde .The film was nominated for two Academy Awards; for Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay and Academy Award for Best Art Direction ....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
      , Paul Groesse
      Paul Groesse

      Paul Groesse was a Hungarian-born American art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for another eight in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Edwin B. Wills, Jack D. Moore
      Jack D. Moore

      Jack D. Moore was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated six times in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
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      Too Young to Kiss
      Too Young to Kiss

      Too Young to Kiss is a 1951 in film comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring June Allyson. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Art Direction ....
  • 1951 Color Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons

    Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
    , E. Preston Ames
    E. Preston Ames

    E. Preston Ames first made inroads into Hollywood when he was a drawing working on The Wizard of Oz in 1939. Within five years he had become a fully fledged art director....
    , Edwin B. Willis
    Edwin B. Willis

    Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
    , Keogh Gleason -
    An American in Paris
    An American in Paris (film)

    An American in Paris is a MGM musical film inspired by the An American in Paris by George Gershwin. Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, and Oscar Levant, the film is set in Paris, and was directed by Vincente Minnelli from a script by Alan Jay Lerner....
    • Lyle Wheeler, George Davis
      George Davis (art director)

      George Davis was a celebrated art director....
      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little

      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Academy Awards for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category....
      , Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox

      Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - David and Bathsheba
      David and Bathsheba

      David and Bathsheba is a 1951 in film historical film epic film about King David made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Henry King, produced by Darryl F....
    • Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller
      Leland Fuller

      Leland Fuller was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 48 films between 1943 in film and 1962 in film....
      , Joseph C. Wright
      Joseph C. Wright

      Joseph C. Wright was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little

      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Academy Awards for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category....
      , Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott

      Walter M. Scott was an Academy Awards-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....
       - On the Riviera
      On the Riviera

      On the Riviera is a 1951 in film comedy musical film made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Walter Lang, produced by Sol C. Siegel from a screenplay by Valentine Davies and Phoebe and Henry Ephron, based on the play The Red Cat by Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler....
    • William A. Horning
      William A. Horning

      William A. Horning is a multiple Academy Award winner. He was born on November 9, 1904, in Missouri, and died of cancer on March 2, 1959, in Los Angeles, California....
      , Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
      , Edward Carfagno
      Edward Carfagno

      Edward Carfagno was an art director who established himself in the 1950s with his Academy Awards-winning work on such films as Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful , Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar and William Wyler's Ben-Hur ....
      , Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt

      Hugh Hunt was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for eleven more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - Quo Vadis
      Quo Vadis (1951 film)

      Quo Vadis is an epic 1951 film made by MGM. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sam Zimbalist, from a screenplay by John Lee Mahin, S....
    • Hein Heckroth
      Hein Heckroth

      German art director Hein Heckroth began his career working with the German national ballet. He later moved to Great Britain and worked as a set and costume designer in films such as A Matter of Life and Death and 1948's The Red Shoes , for which he won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction)....
       - The Tales of Hoffmann
      The Tales of Hoffmann (film)

      The Tales of Hoffmann is a Cinema of the United Kingdom adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's opera Les contes d'Hoffmann, written, produced and directed by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger working under the umbrella of their production company, Powell and Pressburger....
  • 1952 Black-and-White Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons

    Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
    , Edward Carfagno
    Edward Carfagno

    Edward Carfagno was an art director who established himself in the 1950s with his Academy Awards-winning work on such films as Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful , Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar and William Wyler's Ben-Hur ....
    , Edwin B. Willis
    Edwin B. Willis

    Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
    , Keogh Gleason - The Bad and the Beautiful
    The Bad and the Beautiful

    The Bad and the Beautiful is a MGM melodramatic film which tells the story of a film producer who alienates all around him. It stars Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan , and Gloria Grahame....
    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira

      Hal Pereira was an USA art director and production designer.In the 1940s through the 1960s he worked on more than 200 films as an art director and production designer....
      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson

      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Awards nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms "....
      , Emile Kuri
      Emile Kuri

      Emile Kuri was a Mexican-born American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for six more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
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      Carrie
      Carrie (1952 film)

      Carrie is a 1952 feature film based on the novel Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser.Directed by William Wyler, the film stars Jennifer Jones in the title role and Laurence Olivier as Hurstwood....
    • Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir
      John DeCuir

      John DeCuir was a Hollywood art director.He studied at the Chouinard Art School, joined Universal Studios in the late 1930s, and by the mid-1940s was designing sets....
      , Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott

      Walter M. Scott was an Academy Awards-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....
       -
      My Cousin Rachel
    • So Matsuyama
      So Matsuyama

      , a.k.a. So Matsuda and So Matsuyama, was a Japanese people production designer and art director. He was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction: the first time for his work in Rashomon , and the second time for his work in Seven Samurai ....
      , H. Motsumoto
      H. Motsumoto

      is a Japanese people set decorator. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction along with So Matsuyama for their work in Rashomon ....
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      Rashomon
      Rashomon (film)

      is a 1950 in film Cinema of Japan directed by Akira Kurosawa, working in close collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. It stars Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori and Minoru Chiaki....
    • Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller
      Leland Fuller

      Leland Fuller was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 48 films between 1943 in film and 1962 in film....
      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little

      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Academy Awards for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category....
      , Claude Carpenter -
      Viva Zapata!
      Viva Zapata!

      Viva Zapata! is a 1952 in film biographical film directed by Elia Kazan. The screenplay was written by John Steinbeck, using as a guide Edgcomb Pinchon's book, 'Zapata the Unconquerable', a fact that is not credited in the titles of the film....
  • 1952 Color Paul Sheriff
    Paul Sheriff

    Paul Sheriff was Russian-born British art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
    , Marcel Vertes
    Marcel Vertès

    Marcel Vert?s was a Hungarian costume designer. He won two Academy Awards for his work on the 1952 film Moulin Rouge . ...
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    Moulin Rouge
    Moulin Rouge (1952 film)

    Moulin Rouge is a film directed by John Huston, produced by Sir John Woolf and James Woolf of Romulus Films and released by United Artists....
    • Richard Day
      Richard Day (art director)

      Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 in film and 1970 in film....
      , Antoni Clavé
      Antoni Clavé

      Antoni Clav? was a Spanish costume designer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for his work on the 1952 film Hans Christian Andersen ....
      , Howard Bristol
      Howard Bristol

      Howard Bristol was an American set decorator. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 56 films between 1936 in film and 1968 in film....
       - Hans Christian Andersen
      Hans Christian Andersen (film)

      Hans Christian Andersen is a 1952 in film Hollywood musical film directed by Charles Vidor, with words and music by Frank Loesser. It is a fictionalised, romanticised story revolving around the life of the Denmark poet and story-teller Hans Christian Andersen....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
      , Paul Groesse
      Paul Groesse

      Paul Groesse was a Hungarian-born American art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for another eight in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Edwin B. Willis
      Edwin B. Willis

      Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
      , Arthur Krams
      Arthur Krams

      Arthur Krams was an United States set designer. He first made a name for himself working for MGM on films such as Holiday in Mexico, Easter Parade and The Student Prince in the mid 40s....
       - The Merry Widow
      The Merry Widow (1952 film)

      The Merry Widow is a 1952 in film film adaptation of the The Merry Widow by Franz Leh?r. It starred Lana Turner and Fernando Lamas.The film received two Academy Award nominations: for Best Art Direction - Set Decoration, Color and Best Costume Design, Color....
    • Frank Hotaling
      Frank Hotaling

      Frank Hotaling was an United States art director, born in New York City, whose career encompassed over 100 films, mostly B movies. His association with famed director John Ford led to an Academy Awards nomination, shared with John McCarthy, Jr....
      , John McCarthy, Jr.
      John McCarthy, Jr.

      John McCarthy, Jr is a set decorator with an extensive filmography of over 600 films that began in 1935, when he dressed the set for His Fighting Blood....
      , Charles S. Thompson
      Charles S. Thompson

      Charles S. Thompson was Hollywood set decorator, with nearly 200 films to his credit in a career that lasted 30 years. He cut his teeth on a string of B movies in the early 40s, before breaking into John Ford's inner circle of regulars....
       - The Quiet Man
      The Quiet Man

      The Quiet Man is a United States Romantic film drama film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen and Barry Fitzgerald....
    • Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir
      John DeCuir

      John DeCuir was a Hollywood art director.He studied at the Chouinard Art School, joined Universal Studios in the late 1930s, and by the mid-1940s was designing sets....
      , Thomas Little
      Thomas Little

      Thomas Little was a United States set decorator on more than 450 Hollywood movies between 1932 and 1953. He won a total of 6 Academy Awards for art direction and received 21 nominations in the same category....
      , Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox

      Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - The Snows of Kilimanjaro
      The Snows of Kilimanjaro (film)

      The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a 1952 film based on the short story of the The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway. The film version of the short story was directed by Henry King , and starred Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, and Susan Hayward....
  • 1953 Black-and-White Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons

    Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
    , Edward Carfagno
    Edward Carfagno

    Edward Carfagno was an art director who established himself in the 1950s with his Academy Awards-winning work on such films as Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful , Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar and William Wyler's Ben-Hur ....
    , Edwin B. Willis
    Edwin B. Willis

    Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
    , Hugh Hunt
    Hugh Hunt

    Hugh Hunt was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for eleven more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
     - Julius Caesar
    Julius Caesar (1953 film)

    Julius Caesar is an MGM film adaptation of the Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who also wrote the uncredited screenplay, and produced by John Houseman....
    • Fritz Maurischat
      Fritz Maurischat

      Fritz Maurischat was a German people production designer. He made his film debut in 1924. Over the next 38 years, he worked on over 70 films, all of them in his native Germany....
      , Paul Markwitz
      Paul Markwitz

      Paul Markwitz was an German production designer, art director and set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Martin Luther ....
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      Martin Luther
    • Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller
      Leland Fuller

      Leland Fuller was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 48 films between 1943 in film and 1962 in film....
      , Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox

      Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       -
      The President's Lady
    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira

      Hal Pereira was an USA art director and production designer.In the 1940s through the 1960s he worked on more than 200 films as an art director and production designer....
      , Walter Tyler
      Walter H. Tyler

      Walter H. Tyler was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for eight more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       -
      Roman Holiday
    • Lyle Wheeler, Maurice Ransford
      Maurice Ransford

      Maurice Ransford was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
      , Stuart Reiss -
      Titanic
      Titanic (1953 film)

      'Titanic' is a 1953 in film drama film directed by Jean Negulesco. The film is not to be confused with Films about the RMS Titanic. Its plot is centered around an estranged couple sailing on the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, which took place in April 1912....
  • 1953 Color Lyle Wheeler, George Davis
    George Davis (art director)

    George Davis was a celebrated art director....
    , Walter M. Scott
    Walter M. Scott

    Walter M. Scott was an Academy Awards-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....
    , Paul S. Fox
    Paul S. Fox

    Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
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    The Robe
    The Robe (film)

    The Robe is a 1953 in film Bible epic film that tells the story of a Roman Empire military tribune who commands the unit that crucifies Jesus....
    • Alfred Junge
      Alfred Junge

      Germany-born production designer Alfred Junge had wanted to be an artist from childhood. Dabbling in theatre in his teenage years he joined the G?rlitz Stadttheater at eighteen and was involved in all areas of production....
      , Hans Peters
      Hans Peters (art director)

      Hans Peters was an English art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
      . John Jarvis
      John Jarvis (set decorator)

      John Jarvis was a set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Knights of the Round Table ....
       - Knights of the Round Table
      Knights of the Round Table (film)

      Knights of the Round Table is a 1954 in film historical film made by MGM. Directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Pandro S. Berman, it was the first film in Cinemascope made by that studio....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
      , Paul Groesse
      Paul Groesse

      Paul Groesse was a Hungarian-born American art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for another eight in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Edwin B. Willis
      Edwin B. Willis

      Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
      , Arthur Krams
      Arthur Krams

      Arthur Krams was an United States set designer. He first made a name for himself working for MGM on films such as Holiday in Mexico, Easter Parade and The Student Prince in the mid 40s....
       - Lili
      Lili

      Lili is an United States film. Considered one among many classic MGM releases, it stars Leslie Caron as a touchingly na?ve French girl, whose emotional relationship with a carnival puppeteer is conducted through the medium of four puppets....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
      , E. Preston Ames
      E. Preston Ames

      E. Preston Ames first made inroads into Hollywood when he was a drawing working on The Wizard of Oz in 1939. Within five years he had become a fully fledged art director....
      , Edward Carfagno
      Edward Carfagno

      Edward Carfagno was an art director who established himself in the 1950s with his Academy Awards-winning work on such films as Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful , Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar and William Wyler's Ben-Hur ....
      , Gabriel Scognamillo
      Gabriel Scognamillo

      Gabriel Scognamillo was an Italian art director. One of the first films he worked on was Jean Renoir's provocative 1931 film "La Chienne". Two years later he had moved to Hollywood where one of his first films there was MGM's production of "The Merry Widow" with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald....
      , Edwin B. Willis
      Edwin B. Willis

      Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
      , Keogh Gleason, Arthur Krams
      Arthur Krams

      Arthur Krams was an United States set designer. He first made a name for himself working for MGM on films such as Holiday in Mexico, Easter Parade and The Student Prince in the mid 40s....
      , Jack D. Moore
      Jack D. Moore

      Jack D. Moore was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated six times in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - The Story of Three Loves
      The Story of Three Loves

      The Story of Three Loves, also known as Equilibrium, is a 1953 in film romantic anthology film film made by MGM. It consists of three loosely linked separate stories, The Jealous Lover, Mademoiselle and Equilibrium....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
      , Urie McCleary
      Urie McCleary

      Urie McCleary was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for four more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Edwin B. Willis
      Edwin B. Willis

      Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
      , Jack D. Moore
      Jack D. Moore

      Jack D. Moore was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated six times in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - Young Bess
      Young Bess

      Young Bess is a 1953 in film biographical film made by MGM about the early career of Queen Elizabeth I of England, focusing primarily on her romance with Thomas Seymour, uncle of King Edward VI....
  • 1954 Black-and-White Richard Day
    Richard Day (art director)

    Richard Day was a Canadian art director. He won seven Academy Awards and was nominated for a further 13 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 in film and 1970 in film....
     - On the Waterfront
    On the Waterfront

    On the Waterfront is a United States drama film about mob violence and corruption among stevedore. The film was directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg....
    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira

      Hal Pereira was an USA art director and production designer.In the 1940s through the 1960s he worked on more than 200 films as an art director and production designer....
      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson

      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Awards nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms "....
      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer

      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Grace Gregory
      Grace Gregory

      Grace Gregory was an American set decorator. She was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
       -
      The Country Girl
      The Country Girl (1954 film)

      The Country Girl is a 1954 in film drama film adapted by George Seaton from a Clifford Odets play of the same name, which tells the story of a wikt:has-been singer/actor who is given one last chance to star in a musical, only to have his alcoholism hinder his chances....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
      , Edward Carfagno
      Edward Carfagno

      Edward Carfagno was an art director who established himself in the 1950s with his Academy Awards-winning work on such films as Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful , Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar and William Wyler's Ben-Hur ....
      , Edwin B. Willis
      Edwin B. Willis

      Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
      , Emile Kuri
      Emile Kuri

      Emile Kuri was a Mexican-born American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for six more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
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      Executive Suite
      Executive Suite

      Executive Suite is a 1954 in film MGM drama film depicting the transfer of power in a corporation in trouble. The film stars William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, and Walter Pidgeon....
    • Max Ophüls
      Max Ophüls

      Max Oph?ls was an influential German-born film director who worked in Germany, the United States, and France....
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      Le Plaisir
      Le Plaisir

      Le Plaisir is a French comedy/drama genre film directed by Max Oph?ls. The film was nominated an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Art Direction ....
    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira

      Hal Pereira was an USA art director and production designer.In the 1940s through the 1960s he worked on more than 200 films as an art director and production designer....
      , Walter Tyler
      Walter H. Tyler

      Walter H. Tyler was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for eight more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer

      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Ray Moyer
      Ray Moyer

      Ray Moyer was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for nine more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
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      Sabrina
      Sabrina (1954 film)

      Sabrina is a 1954 film directed by Billy Wilder, adapted for the screen by Wilder, Samuel A. Taylor, and Ernest Lehman from Taylor's play Sabrina Fair ....
  • 1954 Color John Meehan
    John Meehan

    John Meehan was an American art director and production designer.He was born in Tehachapi, California and attended the University of Southern California....
    , Emile Kuri
    Emile Kuri

    Emile Kuri was a Mexican-born American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for six more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
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    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film)

    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1954 in film film starring Kirk Douglas as Ned Land, James Mason as Captain Nemo, Paul Lukas as Professor Pierre Aronnax and Peter Lorre as Conseil....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
      , E. Preston Ames
      E. Preston Ames

      E. Preston Ames first made inroads into Hollywood when he was a drawing working on The Wizard of Oz in 1939. Within five years he had become a fully fledged art director....
      , Edwin B. Willis
      Edwin B. Willis

      Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
      , Keogh Gleason - Brigadoon
      Brigadoon (film)

      Brigadoon is an MGM musical film feature film based on the Broadway theatre Brigadoon by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli and stars Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, and Cyd Charisse....
    • Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller
      Leland Fuller

      Leland Fuller was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 48 films between 1943 in film and 1962 in film....
      , Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott

      Walter M. Scott was an Academy Awards-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....
      , Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox

      Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - Désirée
    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira

      Hal Pereira was an USA art director and production designer.In the 1940s through the 1960s he worked on more than 200 films as an art director and production designer....
      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson

      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Awards nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms "....
      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer

      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Ray Moyer
      Ray Moyer

      Ray Moyer was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for nine more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - Red Garters
      Red Garters (film)

      Red Garters is a 1954 in film film starring Rosemary Clooney, Guy Mitchell, and Jack Carson. It was a musical spoof of Western . The director was George Marshall ....
    • Malcolm Bert, Gene Allen
      Gene Allen

      Eugene Allen is an American art director.He followed his father, and became a Los Angeles Police officer after he was laid off from his first job as a sketch artist....
      , Irene Sharaff
      Irene Sharaff

      Irene Sharaff was an award-winning USA costume designer....
      , George James Hopkins - A Star Is Born
      A Star Is Born (1954 film)

      A Star Is Born is a 1954 in film Cinema of the United States musical film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Moss Hart is an adaptation of the A Star Is Born , which was based on a story by William A....
  • 1955 Black-and-White Hal Pereira
    Hal Pereira

    Hal Pereira was an USA art director and production designer.In the 1940s through the 1960s he worked on more than 200 films as an art director and production designer....
    , Tambi Larsen
    Tambi Larsen

    Tambi Larsen was a Denmark born in Bangalore, India. He emmigrated to the United States at the age of 20, where he attended Yale Drama School. He married Barbara Dole in 1941 and became an American citizen in 1943....
    , Samuel M. Comer
    Samuel M. Comer

    Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
    , Arthur Krams
    Arthur Krams

    Arthur Krams was an United States set designer. He first made a name for himself working for MGM on films such as Holiday in Mexico, Easter Parade and The Student Prince in the mid 40s....
     - The Rose Tattoo
    The Rose Tattoo (film)

    The Rose Tattoo is a 1955 film adaptation of the Tennessee Williams The Rose Tattoo. It was adapted by Williams and Hal Kanter and directed by Daniel Mann, with stars Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan and Jo Van Fleet....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
      , Randall Duell
      Randall Duell

      Randall Duell was an American architect and art director. Duell attended the University of Southern California School of Architecture and graduated in 1925....
      , Edwin B. Willis
      Edwin B. Willis

      Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
      , Henry Grace
      Henry Grace

      Henry Grace was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for twelve more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
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      Blackboard Jungle
      Blackboard Jungle

      Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 in film social commentary film about teachers in an inner-city school. It is based on the Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
      , Malcolm Brown
      Malcolm Brown (art director)

      Malcolm Brown was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Edwin B. Willis
      Edwin B. Willis

      Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
      , Hugh B. Hunt -
      I'll Cry Tomorrow
      I'll Cry Tomorrow

      I'll Cry Tomorrow is a 1955 in film MGM biographical film which tells the story of Lillian Roth, a Broadway theatre star who rebels against the pressure of her domineering mother and reacts to the death of her fianc? by becoming an alcoholic....
    • Joseph C. Wright
      Joseph C. Wright

      Joseph C. Wright was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Darrell Silvera
      Darrell Silvera

      Darrell Silvera was an American set decorator. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 356 films between 1934 in film and 1978 in film....
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      The Man with the Golden Arm
      The Man with the Golden Arm

      The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 drama film, based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Algren, which tells the story of a morphine addict who gets clean while in prison, but struggles to stay that way in the outside world....
    • Edward S. Haworth, Walter Simonds, Robert Priestley
      Robert Priestley

      Robert Priestley was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       -
      Marty
      Marty

      Marty is a 1955 in film romance film based on a teleplay by the same name. It was directed by Delbert Mann, starring Ernest Borgnine in the title role, and Betsy Blair as the female lead....
  • 1955 Color William Flannery
    William Flannery

    William Flannery was an American art director. He won an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Picnic . ...
    , Jo Mielziner
    Jo Mielziner

    Jo Mielziner was an United States theatrical scenic design, costume design, and lighting design designer born in Paris, France. He was considered one of the most influential theatre designers of the 20th century, designing the scenery and often the lighting for over 200 productions, many of which became American classics....
    , Robert Priestley
    Robert Priestley

    Robert Priestley was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
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    Picnic
    Picnic (film)

    Picnic is a 1955 Cinemascope film in Technicolor which tells the story of an ex-college football star turned drifter who arrives in a small Kansas town on Labor Day and is drawn to a girl who's already spoken for....
    • Lyle Wheeler, John DeCuir
      John DeCuir

      John DeCuir was a Hollywood art director.He studied at the Chouinard Art School, joined Universal Studios in the late 1930s, and by the mid-1940s was designing sets....
      , Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott

      Walter M. Scott was an Academy Awards-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....
      , Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox

      Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - Daddy Long Legs
      Daddy Long Legs (film)

      Daddy Long Legs is a 1955 Hollywood Musical film comedy film set in France, New York City, and the fictional college town of "Walston" in Massachusetts....
    • Oliver Smith
      Oliver Smith (designer)

      Oliver Smith was one of the most distinguished and prolific Tony Award-winning scenic designers in United States theatre history.Born in Waupun, Wisconsin, Smith attended Penn State, after which he moved to New York City and began to form friendships that blossomed into working relationships with such talents as Leonard Bernstein, Jerome R...
      , Joseph C. Wright
      Joseph C. Wright

      Joseph C. Wright was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Howard Bristol
      Howard Bristol

      Howard Bristol was an American set decorator. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 56 films between 1936 in film and 1968 in film....
       - Guys and Dolls
      Guys and Dolls (film)

      Guys and Dolls is a 1955 in film musical film starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine. The movie was made by the Samuel Goldwyn Company, released by MGM, directed by Joseph L....
    • Lyle Wheeler, George Davis
      George Davis (art director)

      George Davis was a celebrated art director....
      , Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott

      Walter M. Scott was an Academy Awards-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....
      , Jack Stubbs
      Jack Stubbs

      Jack Stubbs was an American set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing ....
       - Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
      Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (film)

      Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing is a 1955 film. Set in 1950s in Hong Kong, it tells the story of a married but separated American reporter , who falls in love with a Eurasian doctor originally from Mainland China , only to encounter prejudice from her family and from Hong Kong society....
    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira

      Hal Pereira was an USA art director and production designer.In the 1940s through the 1960s he worked on more than 200 films as an art director and production designer....
      , Joseph McMillan Johnson
      Joseph McMillan Johnson

      Joseph McMillan Johnson was a leading Hollywood art director born in Los Angeles.He was graduated from University of Southern California with a degree in architecture before attending Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California....
      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer

      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Arthur Krams
      Arthur Krams

      Arthur Krams was an United States set designer. He first made a name for himself working for MGM on films such as Holiday in Mexico, Easter Parade and The Student Prince in the mid 40s....
       - To Catch a Thief
      To Catch a Thief (film)

      To Catch a Thief is a 1955 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis and John Williams , and released by Paramount Pictures....
  • 1956 Black-and-White Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons

    Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
    , Malcolm F. Brown, Edwin B. Willis
    Edwin B. Willis

    Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
    , F. Keogh Gleason
    F. Keogh Gleason

    Francis Keogh Gleason was a resident set decorator at MGM studios for over 40 years. In that time he won 4 Academy Awards and was nominated an additional 3 times....
     - Somebody Up There Likes Me
    Somebody Up There Likes Me (film)

    Somebody Up There Likes Me is a 1956 in film drama film based on the life of middleweight boxing legend Rocky Graziano. Joseph Ruttenberg was awarded a 1956 in film Academy Awards in the category of Academy Award for Best Cinematography#1950s....
    • So Matsuyama
      So Matsuyama

      , a.k.a. So Matsuda and So Matsuyama, was a Japanese people production designer and art director. He was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction: the first time for his work in Rashomon , and the second time for his work in Seven Samurai ....
       -
      Seven Samurai
    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira

      Hal Pereira was an USA art director and production designer.In the 1940s through the 1960s he worked on more than 200 films as an art director and production designer....
      , A. Earl Hedrick
      A. Earl Hedrick

      A. Earl Hedrick was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film The Proud and Profane....
      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer

      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Frank R. McKelvy
      Frank R. McKelvy

      Frank R. McKelvy was an American set decorator. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       -
      The Proud and Profane
      The Proud and Profane

      The Proud and Profane is a 1956 in film dramatic war romance made by William Perlberg-George Seaton Productions for Paramount Pictures. It was directed by George Seaton and produced by William Perlberg, from a screenplay by George Seaton, based on the novel The Magnificent Bastards by Lucy Herndon Crockett....
    • Ross Bellah
      Ross Bellah

      Ross Bellah was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film The Solid Gold Cadillac....
      , William R. Kiernan, Louis Diage
      Louis Diage

      Louis Diage was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
       -
      The Solid Gold Cadillac
      The Solid Gold Cadillac

      The Solid Gold Cadillac is a 1956 film film director by Richard Quine and written by Abe Burrows, Howard Teichman and George S. Kaufman. It was adapted from the hit Broadway theatre play of the same name by Teichman and Kaufman, in which they pillory big business and corrupt businessmen....
    • Lyle R. Wheeler
      Lyle R. Wheeler

      Lyle Reynolds Wheeler, , was an Academy Award-winning United States motion picture art director.Wheeler studied at the University of Southern California, then worked as a magazine artist and industrial designer....
      , Jack Martin Smith
      Jack Martin Smith

      Jack Martin Smith was a highly successful Hollywood art director with over 130 films to his credit and nine Academy Award nominations which ultimately yielded three Academy Awards....
      , Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott

      Walter M. Scott was an Academy Awards-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....
      , Stuart A. Reiss
      Stuart A. Reiss

      Stuart A. Reiss is an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for four more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       -
      Teenage Rebel
      Teenage Rebel

      Teenage Rebel is a 1956 in film drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Ginger Rogers. It was nominated for two Academy Awards; for Academy Award for Best Costume and Academy Award for Best Art Direction ....
  • 1956 Color Lyle R. Wheeler
    Lyle R. Wheeler

    Lyle Reynolds Wheeler, , was an Academy Award-winning United States motion picture art director.Wheeler studied at the University of Southern California, then worked as a magazine artist and industrial designer....
    , John DeCuir
    John DeCuir

    John DeCuir was a Hollywood art director.He studied at the Chouinard Art School, joined Universal Studios in the late 1930s, and by the mid-1940s was designing sets....
    , Walter M. Scott
    Walter M. Scott

    Walter M. Scott was an Academy Awards-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....
    , Paul S. Fox
    Paul S. Fox

    Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
     -
    The King and I
    The King and I (1956 film)

    The King and I is a 1956 in film musical film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F....
    • James W. Sullivan
      James W. Sullivan

      James W. Sullivan was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Around the World in 80 Days ....
      , Ken Adam
      Ken Adam

      Sir Kenneth Adam is a production designer most famous for his set designs for the early films in the James Bond series....
      , Ross J. Dowd - Around the World in 80 Days
      Around the World in Eighty Days (1956 film)

      Around the World in 80 Days is a 1956 in film adventure film produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists. It was directed by Michael Anderson ....
    • Boris Leven
      Boris Leven

      Boris Leven was a Russian-born Academy Award-winning art director and production designer whose Hollywood career spanned fifty-three years.Born in Moscow, Leven emigrated to the United States in 1927 and became a Naturalization in 1938....
      , Ralph S. Hurst
      Ralph S. Hurst

      Ralph S. Hurst was an American set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Giant ....
       - Giant
      Giant (film)

      Giant is a drama film directed by George Stevens from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from the novel by Edna Ferber. It stars Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean and features Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Chill Wills, Mercedes McCambridge, Dennis Hopper, Sal Mineo, Rod Taylor and Earl Holliman....
    • Cedric Gibbons
      Cedric Gibbons

      Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
      , Hans Peters
      Hans Peters (art director)

      Hans Peters was an English art director. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
      , E. Preston Ames
      E. Preston Ames

      E. Preston Ames first made inroads into Hollywood when he was a drawing working on The Wizard of Oz in 1939. Within five years he had become a fully fledged art director....
      , Edwin B. Willis
      Edwin B. Willis

      Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
      , F. Keogh Gleason
      F. Keogh Gleason

      Francis Keogh Gleason was a resident set decorator at MGM studios for over 40 years. In that time he won 4 Academy Awards and was nominated an additional 3 times....
       - Lust for Life
      Lust for Life (film)

      Lust for Life is a MGM biographical film about the life of the Netherlands painter Vincent Van Gogh, based on the 1934 Lust for Life by Irving Stone and adapted by Norman Corwin....
    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira

      Hal Pereira was an USA art director and production designer.In the 1940s through the 1960s he worked on more than 200 films as an art director and production designer....
      , Walter H. Tyler
      Walter H. Tyler

      Walter H. Tyler was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for eight more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Albert Nozaki
      Albert Nozaki

      Albert Nozaki , was born in Tokyo, Japan, was an art director who worked on various films. He is perhaps best known for his memorable design of the Martian war machines from the 1953 film The War of the Worlds ....
      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer

      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Ray Moyer
      Ray Moyer

      Ray Moyer was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for nine more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - The Ten Commandments
      The Ten Commandments (1956 film)

      The Ten Commandments is a 1956 in film Film that dramatized the story of Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince-turned deliverer of the Hebrews Slavery....
For 1957 films this award became a single award.
  • 1957 Ted Haworth
    Ted Haworth

    Ted Haworth was an American production designer and art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated five more times in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
    , Robert Priestley
    Robert Priestley

    Robert Priestley was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
     - Sayonara
    Sayonara

    Sayonara is a film which tells the story of an United States United States Air Force flier who was a fighter "Ace" during the Korean War. The film's screenplay was adapted by Paul Osborn from the novel by James Michener, and the film was produced by William Goetz and directed by Joshua Logan....
    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira

      Hal Pereira was an USA art director and production designer.In the 1940s through the 1960s he worked on more than 200 films as an art director and production designer....
      , George Davis
      George Davis (art director)

      George Davis was a celebrated art director....
      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer

      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Ray Moyer
      Ray Moyer

      Ray Moyer was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for nine more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       -
      Funny Face
      Funny Face

      Funny Face is an United States musical film released in 1957 in film in Technicolor, with assorted songs by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin....
    • William A. Horning
      William A. Horning

      William A. Horning is a multiple Academy Award winner. He was born on November 9, 1904, in Missouri, and died of cancer on March 2, 1959, in Los Angeles, California....
      , Gene Allen
      Gene Allen

      Eugene Allen is an American art director.He followed his father, and became a Los Angeles Police officer after he was laid off from his first job as a sketch artist....
      , Edwin B. Willis
      Edwin B. Willis

      Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
      , Richard Pefferle
      Richard Pefferle

      Richard Pefferle was an American set decorator. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
       -
      Les Girls
      Les Girls

      Les Girls, also known as Cole Porter's Les Girls, is a 1957 in film comedy film Musical film made by MGM. It was directed by George Cukor, produced by Sol C....
    • Walter Holscher
      Walter Holscher

      Walter Holscher was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
      , William Kiernan
      William Kiernan

      William Kiernan was an American set decorator. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
      , Louis Diage
      Louis Diage

      Louis Diage was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
       -
      Pal Joey
      Pal Joey (film)

      Pal Joey is a 1957 film, loosely adapted from the Pal Joey ; it stars Rita Hayworth , Frank Sinatra, and Kim Novak. The director is George Sidney and the choreographer is Hermes Pan ....
    • William A. Horning
      William A. Horning

      William A. Horning is a multiple Academy Award winner. He was born on November 9, 1904, in Missouri, and died of cancer on March 2, 1959, in Los Angeles, California....
      , Urie McCleary
      Urie McCleary

      Urie McCleary was an American art director. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for four more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Edwin B. Willis
      Edwin B. Willis

      Edwin Booth Willis was an award-winning motion picture set designer and decorator. Willis worked exclusively at MGM studios for his entire career....
      , Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt

      Hugh Hunt was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for eleven more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       -
      Raintree County
      Raintree County (film)

      Raintree County is a 182 minute 1957 in film drama film about the American Civil War. It was directed by Edward Dmytryk.It was adapted from the novel of the Raintree County by Ross Lockridge, Jr....
  • 1958 William A. Horning
    William A. Horning

    William A. Horning is a multiple Academy Award winner. He was born on November 9, 1904, in Missouri, and died of cancer on March 2, 1959, in Los Angeles, California....
     (posthumous award
    List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees

    This is a list of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually presents Academy Awards in both competitive and honorary categories....
    ), E. Preston Ames
    E. Preston Ames

    E. Preston Ames first made inroads into Hollywood when he was a drawing working on The Wizard of Oz in 1939. Within five years he had become a fully fledged art director....
    , Henry Grace
    Henry Grace

    Henry Grace was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for twelve more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
    , F. Keogh Gleason
    F. Keogh Gleason

    Francis Keogh Gleason was a resident set decorator at MGM studios for over 40 years. In that time he won 4 Academy Awards and was nominated an additional 3 times....
     -
    Gigi
    Gigi (1958 film)

    Gigi is a 1958 in film Cinema of the United States musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner is based on the 1944 novella Gigi by Colette....
    • Malcolm Bert, George James Hopkins - Auntie Mame
      Auntie Mame (film)

      Auntie Mame is a 1958 in film film based on the Auntie Mame of the same name, starring Rosalind Russell and directed by Morton DaCosta. The screenplay was adapted by Betty Comden and Adolph Green from the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee and the Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis....
    • Cary Odell
      Cary Odell

      Cary Odell was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He was born in Indiana and died in San Luis Obispo, California....
      , Louis Diage
      Louis Diage

      Louis Diage was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
       - Bell, Book and Candle
      Bell, Book and Candle

      Bell, Book and Candle is a 1958 romantic comedy directed by Richard Quine and starring James Stewart and Kim Novak in their second on-screen pairing ....
    • Lyle R. Wheeler
      Lyle R. Wheeler

      Lyle Reynolds Wheeler, , was an Academy Award-winning United States motion picture art director.Wheeler studied at the University of Southern California, then worked as a magazine artist and industrial designer....
      , John DeCuir
      John DeCuir

      John DeCuir was a Hollywood art director.He studied at the Chouinard Art School, joined Universal Studios in the late 1930s, and by the mid-1940s was designing sets....
      , Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott

      Walter M. Scott was an Academy Awards-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....
      , Paul S. Fox
      Paul S. Fox

      Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - A Certain Smile
      A Certain Smile (film)

      A Certain Smile is a 1958 in film drama film directed by Jean Negulesco, based on the book of the A Certain Smile. It was nominated for three Academy Awards; for Academy Award for Best Costume, Academy Award for Best Original Song and Academy Award for Best Art Direction ....
    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira

      Hal Pereira was an USA art director and production designer.In the 1940s through the 1960s he worked on more than 200 films as an art director and production designer....
      , Henry Bumstead
      Henry Bumstead

      Lloyd Henry Bumstead was an United States cinematic Art director#Film and production designer. In a career that spanned over fifty-five years he won two Academy Awards: the first for To Kill a Mockingbird , and the second for The Sting....
      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer

      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Frank McKelvy - Vertigo
      Vertigo (film)

      Vertigo is a psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak and featuring Barbara Bel Geddes and Tom Helmore....
With the 1959 films this category was again divided in two
  • 1959 Black-and-White Lyle R. Wheeler
    Lyle R. Wheeler

    Lyle Reynolds Wheeler, , was an Academy Award-winning United States motion picture art director.Wheeler studied at the University of Southern California, then worked as a magazine artist and industrial designer....
    , George Davis
    George Davis (art director)

    George Davis was a celebrated art director....
    , Walter M. Scott
    Walter M. Scott

    Walter M. Scott was an Academy Awards-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....
    , Stuart A. Reiss
    Stuart A. Reiss

    Stuart A. Reiss is an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for four more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
     - The Diary of Anne Frank
    The Diary of Anne Frank (film)

    The Diary of Anne Frank is a 1959 in film film based on the Pulitzer Prize winning The Diary of Anne Frank , which was based on the The Diary of a Young Girl of Anne Frank....
    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira

      Hal Pereira was an USA art director and production designer.In the 1940s through the 1960s he worked on more than 200 films as an art director and production designer....
      , Walter Tyler
      Walter H. Tyler

      Walter H. Tyler was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for eight more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer

      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Arthur Krams
      Arthur Krams

      Arthur Krams was an United States set designer. He first made a name for himself working for MGM on films such as Holiday in Mexico, Easter Parade and The Student Prince in the mid 40s....
      , -
      Career
      Career (1959 film)

      Career is a 1959 in film film drama about actor Sam Lawson bent on breaking into the big time at any cost, braving World War II, the Korean War and even the more recent blacklist, something that writer Dalton Trumbo knew all too well from being blacklisted himself....
    • Carl Anderson
      Carl Anderson (art director)

      Carl Anderson was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
      , William Kiernan
      William Kiernan

      William Kiernan was an American set decorator. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
       -
      The Last Angry Man
      The Last Angry Man

      The Last Angry Man is a 1959 in film film which tells the story of a television producer who profiles the life of a physician. It stars Paul Muni, David Wayne, Betsy Palmer, Billy Dee Williams and Godfrey Cambridge....
    • Ted Haworth
      Ted Haworth

      Ted Haworth was an American production designer and art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated five more times in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Edward G. Boyle
      Edward G. Boyle

      The career of set decorator Edward G. Boyle really kicked off in the early 30s, when he started working on the first of over 100 films. His successful filmography includes such interesting credits as an uncredited assist on the wartorn old South in Victor Fleming's classic Gone with the Wind , the Nazi-influenced designs for Charles Cha...
       -
      Some Like It Hot
      Some Like It Hot

      Some Like It Hot is an Cinema of the United States comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon....
    • Oliver Messel
      Oliver Messel

      Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel was an England artist and one of the foremost stage designers of the 20th century.Messel was born in London, the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Messel and Maud, the only daughter of Linley Sambourne, the eminent illustrator and contributor to Punch magazine....
      , William Kellner
      William Kellner

      William Kellner was an Austrian-born art director who worked primarily on British films in the 1940s and 1950s. He began his career as a drawing working for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger on their films A Canterbury Tale and I Know Where I'm Going! and on David Lean's Brief Encounter in 1946....
      , Scot Slimon -
      Suddenly, Last Summer
      Suddenly, Last Summer (film)

      Suddenly, Last Summer is a 1959 in film drama film made by Columbia Pictures, based on Suddenly, Last Summer by Tennessee Williams. The film was directed by Joseph L....
  • 1959 Color William A. Horning
    William A. Horning

    William A. Horning is a multiple Academy Award winner. He was born on November 9, 1904, in Missouri, and died of cancer on March 2, 1959, in Los Angeles, California....
     (posthumous award
    List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees

    This is a list of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually presents Academy Awards in both competitive and honorary categories....
    ), Edward Carfagno
    Edward Carfagno

    Edward Carfagno was an art director who established himself in the 1950s with his Academy Awards-winning work on such films as Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful , Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar and William Wyler's Ben-Hur ....
    , Hugh Hunt
    Hugh Hunt

    Hugh Hunt was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for eleven more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
     -
    Ben-Hur
    Ben-Hur (1959 film)

    Ben-Hur is a 1959 in film movie directed by William Wyler, and is the third film version of Lew Wallace's novel Ben-Hur . It premiered at Loews Cineplex Entertainment in New York City on November 18, 1959....
    • John De Cuir, Julia Heron
      Julia Heron

      Julia Heron was an American set decorator. She won an Academy Award and was nominated for four more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - The Big Fisherman
      The Big Fisherman

      The Big Fisherman is a 1959 in film United States film directed by Frank Borzage about the later life of Saint Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus....
    • Lyle R. Wheeler
      Lyle R. Wheeler

      Lyle Reynolds Wheeler, , was an Academy Award-winning United States motion picture art director.Wheeler studied at the University of Southern California, then worked as a magazine artist and industrial designer....
      , Franz Bachelin
      Franz Bachelin

      Franz Bachelin was a German art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Journey to the Center of the Earth ....
      , Herman A. Blumenthal
      Herman A. Blumenthal

      Herman Allen Blumenthal was an American Art director#Film and production designer for films.He shared in two Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Art Direction, for his work on Cleopatra and Hello, Dolly! ....
      . Walter M. Scott
      Walter M. Scott

      Walter M. Scott was an Academy Awards-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....
      , Joseph Kish
      Joseph Kish

      Joseph Kish was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for four more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - Journey to the Center of the Earth
      Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 film)

      Journey to the Center of the Earth is a 1959 adventure film adapted by Charles Brackett Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne. It stars Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Peter Ronson, Diane Baker, Thayer David, Alan Napier, and Gertrude the Duck....
    • William A. Horning
      William A. Horning

      William A. Horning is a multiple Academy Award winner. He was born on November 9, 1904, in Missouri, and died of cancer on March 2, 1959, in Los Angeles, California....
       (posthumous nomination
      List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees

      This is a list of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually presents Academy Awards in both competitive and honorary categories....
      ), Robert F. Boyle
      Robert F. Boyle

      Robert F. Boyle is an Academy Award-winning United States art director and production designer. He is the oldest living recipient of an Academy Award....
      , Merrill Pye
      Merrill Pye

      Merrill Pye was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film North by Northwest....
      , Henry Grace
      Henry Grace

      Henry Grace was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for twelve more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Frank McKelvy - North by Northwest
      North by Northwest

      North by Northwest is an Cinema of the United States Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason, and featuring Leo G....
    • Russell A. Gausman
      Russell A. Gausman

      Russell A. Gausman was an American set decorator. He was won two Academy Awards and was nominated for five more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Ruby R. Levitt
      Ruby R. Levitt

      Ruby R. Levitt was an American set decorator. She was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
      , Richard H. Riedel
      Richard H. Riedel

      Richard H. Riedel was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Pillow Talk ....
       (posthumous nomination
      List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees

      This is a list of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually presents Academy Awards in both competitive and honorary categories....
      ) - Pillow Talk


1960s

  • 1960 Black-and-White Alexander Trauner, Edward G. Boyle
    Edward G. Boyle

    The career of set decorator Edward G. Boyle really kicked off in the early 30s, when he started working on the first of over 100 films. His successful filmography includes such interesting credits as an uncredited assist on the wartorn old South in Victor Fleming's classic Gone with the Wind , the Nazi-influenced designs for Charles Cha...
     - The Apartment
    The Apartment

    The Apartment is a Cinema of the United States comedy film-drama film produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray....
    • Joseph McMillan Johnson
      Joseph McMillan Johnson

      Joseph McMillan Johnson was a leading Hollywood art director born in Los Angeles.He was graduated from University of Southern California with a degree in architecture before attending Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California....
      , Kenneth A. Reid
      Kenneth A. Reid

      Kenneth A. Reid was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film The Facts of Life ....
      , Ross Dowd
      Ross Dowd

      Ross Dowd was an American set decorator. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
       -
      The Facts of Life
      The Facts of Life (film)

      The Facts of Life is a 1960 romantic comedy starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball as middle-aged people who have an affair despite being married to other people....
    • Joseph Hurley
      Joseph Hurley (art director)

      Joseph Hurley was an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Psycho . ...
      , Robert Clatworthy
      Robert Clatworthy

      Robert Clatworthy was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated four more times in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , George Milo
      George Milo

      George Milo was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
       -
      Psycho
      Psycho (1960 film)

      Psycho is an Cinema of the United States Thriller /thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, from the screenplay by Joseph Stefano. It is based on the Psycho by Robert Bloch, which was in turn inspired by the crimes of Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein....
    • Tom Morahan, Lionel Couch
      Lionel Couch

      Lionel Couch was a British art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
       -
      Sons and Lovers
      Sons and Lovers (1960 film)

      Sons and Lovers is a 1960 in film film adaptation of the D. H. Lawrence novel Sons and Lovers. It was adapted by T. E. B. Clarke and Gavin Lambert and directed by Jack Cardiff....
    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira

      Hal Pereira was an USA art director and production designer.In the 1940s through the 1960s he worked on more than 200 films as an art director and production designer....
      , Walter Tyler
      Walter H. Tyler

      Walter H. Tyler was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for eight more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer

      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Arthur Krams
      Arthur Krams

      Arthur Krams was an United States set designer. He first made a name for himself working for MGM on films such as Holiday in Mexico, Easter Parade and The Student Prince in the mid 40s....
       -
      Visit to a Small Planet
      Visit to a Small Planet

      Visit to a Small Planet is a 1960 Paramount Pictures film starring Jerry Lewis, based on a play by Gore Vidal. It was released on February 4, 1960....
  • 1960 Color Alexander Golitzen
    Alexander Golitzen

    Alexander Golitzen, oversaw art director on more than 300 movies.Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution of 1917....
    , Eric Orbom
    Eric Orbom

    Eric Orbom was an American art director. He won List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Spartacus ....
     (posthumous award
    List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees

    This is a list of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually presents Academy Awards in both competitive and honorary categories....
    ), Russell A. Gausman
    Russell A. Gausman

    Russell A. Gausman was an American set decorator. He was won two Academy Awards and was nominated for five more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
    , Julia Heron
    Julia Heron

    Julia Heron was an American set decorator. She won an Academy Award and was nominated for four more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
     -
    Spartacus
    Spartacus (film)

    Spartacus is a 1960 in film historical film drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on the Spartacus by Howard Fast about the historical life of Spartacus and the Third Servile War....
    • George Davis
      George Davis (art director)

      George Davis was a celebrated art director....
      , Addison Hehr
      Addison Hehr

      Addison Hehr was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
      , Henry Grace
      Henry Grace

      Henry Grace was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for twelve more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt

      Hugh Hunt was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for eleven more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Otto Siegel
      Otto Siegel

      Otto Siegel was an American set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Cimarron ....
       - Cimarron
      Cimarron (1960 film)

      Cimarron is a 1960 in film western film based on the Edna Ferber novel Cimarron, featuring Glenn Ford and Maria Schell. It was directed by Anthony Mann, known for his westerns and film noirs....
    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira

      Hal Pereira was an USA art director and production designer.In the 1940s through the 1960s he worked on more than 200 films as an art director and production designer....
      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson

      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Awards nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms "....
      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer

      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Arrigo Breschi
      Arrigo Breschi

      Arrigo Breschi was an Italian set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film It Started in Naples....
       - It Started in Naples
      It Started in Naples

      It Started in Naples is an United States romantic comedy film made by Paramount Pictures and released in August 1960. It was directed by Melville Shavelson and produced by Jack Rose from a screenplay by Suso Cecchi d'Amico based on the story by Michael Pertwee and Jack Davies....
    • Ted Haworth
      Ted Haworth

      Ted Haworth was an American production designer and art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated five more times in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , William Kiernan
      William Kiernan

      William Kiernan was an American set decorator. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
       - Pepe
      Pepe (film)

      Pepe is a 1960 movie starring Cantinflas in the title role, directed by George Sidney. A multitude of cameo appearances attempted to replicate the success of Mario Moreno's American debut, Around the World in Eighty Days , produced by Mike Todd in 1956....
    • Edward Carrere
      Edward Carrere

      Born in Mexico, Edward Carrere first hit Hollywood in 1947, making his debut as an art director on "My Wild Irish Rose". He garnered his first Academy Award nomination two years later for the Errol Flynn epic "The Adventures of Don Juan"....
      , George James Hopkins - Sunrise at Campobello
      Sunrise at Campobello

      Sunrise at Campobello is a 1960 in film biographical film made by Dore Schary Productions and Warner Bros. It tells the story of the initial struggle by future President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his family when he was stricken with paralysis at the age of 39 in August 1921....
  • 1961 Black-and-White Harry Horner
    Harry Horner

    Harry Horner was an Austrian art director who made a successful career in Hollywood. He was born in the town of Holice, Pardubice District, which now belongs to the Czech Republic, to parents of the Germans in Czechoslovakia in Austria-Hungarys crown land Bohemia....
    , Gene Callahan
    Gene Callahan (production designer)

    Eugene F. Callahan was an United States film art director, set designer and production designer.Callahan began his career in the 1940s as a student at Louisiana State University....
     - The Hustler
    The Hustler (film)

    The Hustler is a 1961 in film American drama film. It tells the story of small-time pool Hustling, "Fast Eddie" Felson, and his desire to prove himself the best player in the country by beating legendary pool player "Minnesota Fats." After initially losing to Fats and getting involved with unscrupulous manager Bert Gordon, Eddie returns t...
    • Carroll Clark
      Carroll Clark

      Carroll Clark was an American art director. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction He worked on 173 films between 1927 in film and 1968 in film....
      , Emile Kuri
      Emile Kuri

      Emile Kuri was a Mexican-born American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for six more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Hal Gausman
      Hal Gausman

      Hal Gausman was an American set decorator. He was nominated for five Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
       -
      The Absent-Minded Professor
      The Absent-Minded Professor

      The Absent-Minded Professor is a 1961 Walt Disney Pictures film based on the short story A Situation of Gravity, by Samuel W. Taylor. The film was reissued to theaters in 1967 and 1975, and released to video in 1981, 1986, and 1992....
    • Fernando Carrere
      Fernando Carrere

      Fernando Carrere was a Mexican art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film The Children's Hour ....
      , Edward G. Boyle
      Edward G. Boyle

      The career of set decorator Edward G. Boyle really kicked off in the early 30s, when he started working on the first of over 100 films. His successful filmography includes such interesting credits as an uncredited assist on the wartorn old South in Victor Fleming's classic Gone with the Wind , the Nazi-influenced designs for Charles Cha...
       -
      The Children's Hour
      The Children's Hour (1961 film)

      The Children's Hour is a 1961 in film film adaptation of The Children's Hour written by Lillian Hellman. It was directed by William Wyler and stars Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, and James Garner in the leading roles....
    • Rudolf Sternad, George Milo
      George Milo

      George Milo was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
       -
      Judgment at Nuremberg
      Judgment at Nuremberg

      Judgment at Nuremberg is a fictionalized film account of the post-World War II Nuremberg Trials, written by Abby Mann and directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, Werner Klemperer, and William Shatner....
    • Piero Gherardi
      Piero Gherardi

      Piero Gherardi was the Costume and Set Designer of Federico Fellini's La dolce vita and 8 1/2 for which he won two Academy Award for Costume Design....
       -
      La dolce vita
      La Dolce Vita

      La dolce vita is a 1960 film directed by Federico Fellini. It is usually cited as the film that signals the split between Fellini's earlier Italian neorealism films and his later art films....
  • 1961 Color Boris Leven
    Boris Leven

    Boris Leven was a Russian-born Academy Award-winning art director and production designer whose Hollywood career spanned fifty-three years.Born in Moscow, Leven emigrated to the United States in 1927 and became a Naturalization in 1938....
    , Victor A. Gangelin
    Victor A. Gangelin

    Victor A. Gangelin was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
     -
    West Side Story
    West Side Story (film)

    West Side Story is a 1961 in film Cinema of the United States film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. It is an adaptation of the Broadway musical West Side Story, which itself was adapted from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet....
    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira

      Hal Pereira was an USA art director and production designer.In the 1940s through the 1960s he worked on more than 200 films as an art director and production designer....
      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson

      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Awards nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms "....
      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer

      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Ray Moyer
      Ray Moyer

      Ray Moyer was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for nine more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - Breakfast at Tiffany's
      Breakfast at Tiffany's

      Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 in film United States film starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, and featuring Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and Mickey Rooney....
    • Veniero Colasanti
      Veniero Colasanti

      Veniero Colasanti is an Italian costume designer, set decorator and art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film El Cid ....
      , John Moore
      John Moore (movie production designer)

      John Moore is a costume designer, set decorator, and production designer for films. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for El Cid ....
       - El Cid
      El Cid (film)

      El Cid is a 1961 in film List of historical drama films epic film made by Samuel Bronston Productions in association with The Rank Organisation and released by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation....
    • Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen

      Alexander Golitzen, oversaw art director on more than 300 movies.Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution of 1917....
      , Joseph Wright, Howard Bristol
      Howard Bristol

      Howard Bristol was an American set decorator. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 56 films between 1936 in film and 1968 in film....
       - Flower Drum Song
      Flower Drum Song (film)

      Flower Drum Song is a 1961 Academy Award nominated film adaptation of the 1958 Broadway theatre musical theatre play Flower Drum Song, written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II....
    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira

      Hal Pereira was an USA art director and production designer.In the 1940s through the 1960s he worked on more than 200 films as an art director and production designer....
      , Walter Tyler
      Walter H. Tyler

      Walter H. Tyler was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for eight more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer

      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Arthur Krams
      Arthur Krams

      Arthur Krams was an United States set designer. He first made a name for himself working for MGM on films such as Holiday in Mexico, Easter Parade and The Student Prince in the mid 40s....
       - Summer and Smoke
      Summer and Smoke (film)

      Summer and Smoke is a drama film directed by Peter Glenville and was based on the play of the Summer and Smoke.It starred Laurence Harvey and Geraldine Page with Rita Moreno, Una Merkel, John McIntire, Thomas Gomez, Pamela Tiffin, Malcolm Atterbury, Lee Patrick and Earl Holliman....
  • 1962 Black-and-White Alexander Golitzen
    Alexander Golitzen

    Alexander Golitzen, oversaw art director on more than 300 movies.Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution of 1917....
    , Henry Bumstead
    Henry Bumstead

    Lloyd Henry Bumstead was an United States cinematic Art director#Film and production designer. In a career that spanned over fifty-five years he won two Academy Awards: the first for To Kill a Mockingbird , and the second for The Sting....
    , Oliver Emert
    Oliver Emert

    Oliver Emert was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film To Kill a Mockingbird ....
     - To Kill a Mockingbird
    To Kill a Mockingbird (film)

    To Kill a Mockingbird is an Cinema of the United States drama film based on the To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It was directed by Robert Mulligan and stars Gregory Peck in the role of Atticus Finch ....
    • Joseph Wright, George James Hopkins - Days of Wine and Roses
      Days of Wine and Roses (film)

      Days of Wine and Roses is a drama film directed by Blake Edwards with a screenplay by JP Miller adapted from his own critically acclaimed 1958 in television teleplay for Playhouse 90 of the same name ....
    • Ted Haworth
      Ted Haworth

      Ted Haworth was an American production designer and art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated five more times in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Léon Barsacq
      Léon Barsacq

      L?on Barsacq was a Russian production designer, art director and set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film The Longest Day ....
      , Vincent Korda
      Vincent Korda

      Vincent Korda was a Hungarian art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another three in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Gabriel Bechir
      Gabriel Béchir

      Gabriel B?chir was a set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film The Longest Day ....
       -
      The Longest Day
      The Longest Day (film)

      The Longest Day is a 3-hour-long Academy Award-winning war film with a very large cast, based on the 1959 in literature history book The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan, about "D-Day", the Battle of Normandy on 6 June 1944, during World War II....
    • George Davis
      George Davis (art director)

      George Davis was a celebrated art director....
      , Edward Carfagno
      Edward Carfagno

      Edward Carfagno was an art director who established himself in the 1950s with his Academy Awards-winning work on such films as Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful , Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar and William Wyler's Ben-Hur ....
      , Henry Grace
      Henry Grace

      Henry Grace was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for twelve more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Dick Pefferle -
      Period of Adjustment
      Period of Adjustment (film)

      Period of Adjustment is a 1962 in film drama film directed by George Roy Hill and based on the play of the Period of Adjustment. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Art Direction ....
    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira

      Hal Pereira was an USA art director and production designer.In the 1940s through the 1960s he worked on more than 200 films as an art director and production designer....
      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson

      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Awards nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms "....
      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer

      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Frank R. McKelvy
      Frank R. McKelvy

      Frank R. McKelvy was an American set decorator. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
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      The Pigeon That Took Rome
      The Pigeon That Took Rome

      The Pigeon That Took Rome is a 1962 film directed and written by Melville Shavelson and starring Charlton Heston. The film was based upon the novel "The Easter Dinner", written by Donald Downes....
  • 1962 Color John Box
    John Box

    John Allan Hyatt Box Order of the British Empire, , was a United Kingdom film production designer and art director. During his career he won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction on four occasions and won its BAFTA equivalent three times, making him the most decorated member of his profession of all time....
    , John Stoll
    John Stoll

    John Stoll was a British art director. He won an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Lawrence of Arabia ....
    , Dario Simoni
    Dario Simoni

    Dario Simoni was a set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another two in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
     -
    Lawrence of Arabia
    Lawrence of Arabia (film)

    Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 in film UK epic film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Austrian Sam Spiegel , from a script by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson ....
    • Paul Groesse
      Paul Groesse

      Paul Groesse was a Hungarian-born American art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for another eight in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , George James Hopkins - The Music Man
      The Music Man (1962 film)

      The Music Man is a 1962 film musical starring Robert Preston as Harold Hill and Shirley Jones as Marian Paroo. The film is based on the 1957 The Music Man of the same name by Meredith Willson....
    • George Davis
      George Davis (art director)

      George Davis was a celebrated art director....
      , J. McMillan Johnson, Henry Grace
      Henry Grace

      Henry Grace was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for twelve more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt

      Hugh Hunt was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for eleven more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - Mutiny on the Bounty
      Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)

      Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1962 in film film starring Marlon Brando, based on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall....
    • Alexander Golitzen
      Alexander Golitzen

      Alexander Golitzen, oversaw art director on more than 300 movies.Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution of 1917....
      , Robert Clatworthy
      Robert Clatworthy

      Robert Clatworthy was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated four more times in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , George Milo
      George Milo

      George Milo was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
       - That Touch of Mink
      That Touch of Mink

      That Touch of Mink is a romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Doris Day. The film co-stars Gig Young, John Astin, Audrey Meadows, and Dick Sargent....
    • George Davis
      George Davis (art director)

      George Davis was a celebrated art director....
      , Edward Carfagno
      Edward Carfagno

      Edward Carfagno was an art director who established himself in the 1950s with his Academy Awards-winning work on such films as Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful , Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar and William Wyler's Ben-Hur ....
      , Henry Grace
      Henry Grace

      Henry Grace was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for twelve more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Dick Pefferle - The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
      The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

      The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm is a Cinerama film directed by Henry Levin. George P?l was the producer and was also in charge of the stop motion animation....
  • 1963 Black-and-White Gene Callahan - America America
    • Piero Gherardi
      Piero Gherardi

      Piero Gherardi was the Costume and Set Designer of Federico Fellini's La dolce vita and 8 1/2 for which he won two Academy Award for Costume Design....
       -

      8? is a 1963 in film directed by Italy film director Federico Fellini. Co-scripted by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, and Brunello Rondi, it stars Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi, a famous Italian film director....
    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira

      Hal Pereira was an USA art director and production designer.In the 1940s through the 1960s he worked on more than 200 films as an art director and production designer....
      , Tambi Larsen
      Tambi Larsen

      Tambi Larsen was a Denmark born in Bangalore, India. He emmigrated to the United States at the age of 20, where he attended Yale Drama School. He married Barbara Dole in 1941 and became an American citizen in 1943....
      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer

      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Robert R. Benton
      Robert R. Benton

      Robert R. Benton was an American set decorator. He was nominated for four Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
       -
      Hud
      Hud (film)

      Hud is a 1963 film which tells the story of a self-centered, modern-day cowboy. It stars Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde and Whit Bissell....
    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira

      Hal Pereira was an USA art director and production designer.In the 1940s through the 1960s he worked on more than 200 films as an art director and production designer....
      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson

      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Awards nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms "....
      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer

      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Grace Gregory
      Grace Gregory

      Grace Gregory was an American set decorator. She was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
       -
      Love with the Proper Stranger
      Love with the Proper Stranger

      Love with the Proper Stranger is a romantic comedy drama film made by Alan Pakula-Robert Mulligan Productions and Boardwalk Productions and released by Paramount Pictures....
    • George Davis
      George Davis (art director)

      George Davis was a celebrated art director....
      , Paul Groesse
      Paul Groesse

      Paul Groesse was a Hungarian-born American art director. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for another eight in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Henry Grace
      Henry Grace

      Henry Grace was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for twelve more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Hugh Hunt
      Hugh Hunt

      Hugh Hunt was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for eleven more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       -
      Twilight of Honor
      Twilight of Honor

      Twilight of Honor is a 1963 in film film starring Richard Chamberlain , Nick Adams , Claude Rains, and featuring Joey Heatherton and Linda Evans in their film debuts....
  • 1963 Color John DeCuir
    John DeCuir

    John DeCuir was a Hollywood art director.He studied at the Chouinard Art School, joined Universal Studios in the late 1930s, and by the mid-1940s was designing sets....
    , Jack Martin Smith
    Jack Martin Smith

    Jack Martin Smith was a highly successful Hollywood art director with over 130 films to his credit and nine Academy Award nominations which ultimately yielded three Academy Awards....
    , Hilyard Brown, Herman Blumenthal, Elven Webb
    Elven Webb

    Elven Webb was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
    , Maurice Pelling
    Maurice Pelling

    Maurice Pelling was an American art director. He won an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Cleopatra . ...
    , Boris Juraga
    Boris Juraga

    Boris Juraga was an American art director. He won an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film Cleopatra . ...
    , Walter M. Scott
    Walter M. Scott

    Walter M. Scott was an Academy Awards-winning set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid....
    , Paul S. Fox
    Paul S. Fox

    Paul S. Fox was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for ten more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
    , Ray Moyer
    Ray Moyer

    Ray Moyer was an American set decorator. He won three Academy Awards and was nominated for nine more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
     -
    Cleopatra
    Cleopatra (1963 film)

    Cleopatra is a 1963 in film film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The screenplay was adapted by Sidney Buchman, Ben Hecht, Ranald MacDougall, and Joseph L....
    • Lyle Wheeler, Gene Callahan - The Cardinal
      The Cardinal

      The Cardinal is a 1963 in film film which was produced independently and directed by Otto Preminger, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was written by Robert Dozier, based on the novel by Henry Morton Robinson....
    • Hal Pereira
      Hal Pereira

      Hal Pereira was an USA art director and production designer.In the 1940s through the 1960s he worked on more than 200 films as an art director and production designer....
      , Roland Anderson
      Roland Anderson

      Roland Anderson was an acclaimed movie art director, famous for receiving 15 Academy Awards nominations but never winning an Oscar. Anderson's fist Oscar nomination was for his first film in 1933, "A Farewell to Arms "....
      , Samuel M. Comer
      Samuel M. Comer

      Sam Comer was a set decorator who worked on almost 300 films during a career spanning four decades. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 22 in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , James W. Payne
      James W. Payne

      James W. Payne was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for two more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       - Come Blow Your Horn
      Come Blow Your Horn (film)

      Come Blow Your Horn is a 1963 in film comedy film directed by Bud Yorkin and based on the play of the Come Blow Your Horn. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Art Direction ....
    • George Davis
      George Davis (art director)

      George Davis was a celebrated art director....
      , William Ferrari
      William Ferrari

      William Ferrari was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
       (posthumous nomination
      List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees

      This is a list of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually presents Academy Awards in both competitive and honorary categories....
      ), Addison Hehr
      Addison Hehr

      Addison Hehr was an American art director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. ...
      , Henry Grace
      Henry Grace

      Henry Grace was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for twelve more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
      , Don Greenwood Jr., Jack Mills
      Jack Mills (art director)

      Jack Mills was an American set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film How the West Was Won ....
       - How the West Was Won
      How the West Was Won (film)
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