Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame
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The Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame was established in 2005 to recognize and honor the accomplishments and contributions of legendary art directors and production designers. As of 2009, 22 individuals have been inducted into the Hall of Fame.
2004 inductees
- Wilfred BucklandWilfred BucklandWilfred Buckland was an American art director. Buckland worked as an art director with Cecil B. DeMille and Jesse Lasky, and later with Alan Dwan, from 1914-1927...
(1866-1946) - Richard DayRichard 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 Best Art Direction He worked on 265 films between 1923 and 1970....
(1896-1972) - John Decuir, Sr.John DeCuirJohn DeCuir was a Hollywood art director.He studied at the Chouinard Art School, joined Universal in the late 1930s, and by the mid-1940s was designing sets. In 1949, he signed with 20th Century Fox where he worked on productions noted for their elaborate sets...
(1918-1991) - Anton GrotAnton GrotAnton Grot was a Polish art director. He was born in Kelbasin, Poland and died in Stanton, California.-Awards:Grot was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:* The Sea Hawk...
(1884-1974) - Boris LevenBoris LevenBoris Leven was a Russian-born Academy Award-winning art director and production designer whose Hollywood career spanned fifty-three years....
(1908-1986) - William Cameron MenziesWilliam Cameron MenziesWilliam Cameron Menzies was an Academy Award-winning American film production designer and art director who also worked as a director, producer, and screenwriter during a career spanning five decades...
(1896-1957) - Van Nest PolglaseVan Nest PolglaseVan Nest Polglase was an American art director. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. Best remembered as head of the design department at RKO Pictures, he worked on 333 films between 1925 and 1957.He was born in Brooklyn, New York and died in Los Angeles,...
(1898-1968)
2005 inductees
- John BoxJohn BoxJohn Allan Hyatt Box OBE, , was a British 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 film designer of all time...
(1920-2005) - Hans DreierHans DreierHans Dreier was a film art director.Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood....
(1885-1966) - Cedric GibbonsCedric GibbonsAustin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...
(1892-1960) - Jan Scott (1915-2003)
- Alexandre TraunerAlexandre TraunerAlexandre Trauner was a set designer.After studying painting at l'École des beaux-arts de Budapest, he emigrated to Paris in 1929, where he became the assistant of set designer Lazare Meerson, working on such films as À nous la liberté in 1932 and La Kermesse héroïque in 1935)...
(1906-1993)
2006 inductees
- Hilyard Brown (1910-1981)
- Henry Bumstead (1915-2006)
- Carroll ClarkCarroll ClarkCarroll Clark was an American art director. He was nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He worked on 173 films between 1927 and 1968...
(1894-1968) - Stephen GoossonStephen GoossonStephen Goosson was an Academy Award-winning American film set designer.Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Goosson was an architect in Detroit before starting his film career as art director for producer Lewis J. Selznick, and films for Fox Film Corporation such as New Movietone Follies of 1930...
(1889-1973) - Harry Horner (1910-1994)
2007 inductees
- Edward CarfagnoEdward CarfagnoEdward Carfagno was an art director who established himself in the 1950s with his Oscar-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...
(1907-1996) - Stephen Grimes (1927-1988)
- Dale HennesyDale HennesyDale Hennesy was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for two more in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...
(1926-1981) - James Trittipo (1928-1971)
- Lyle Wheeler (1905-1990)
2008 inductees
- John MeehanJohn MeehanJohn Meehan was an American art director and production designer.He was born in Tehachapi, California and attended the University of Southern California...
(1902-1963) - Joseph McMillan "Mac" JohnsonJoseph McMillan JohnsonJoseph McMillan Johnson was a leading Hollywood art director born in Los Angeles.He was graduated from USC with a degree in architecture before attending Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He was working for well-known architect Kem Weber when he was hired by David O. Selznick in 1938...
(1912-1990) - Ted HaworthTed HaworthTed Haworth was an American production designer and art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated five more times in the category Best Art Direction....
(1918-1993) - Romain Johnston (1929-1995)
- Harold MichelsonHarold MichelsonHarold Michelson was an American production designer and art director. In addition, he worked as an illustrator and/or storyboard artist on numerous films from the 1940s through the 1990s.-Biography:...
(1920-2007)