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Oscar for Best Art Direction
The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures. The Academy Award for Best Art Direction recognizes achievement in art direction 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...
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William Cameron Menzies
William Cameron Menzies (July 29, 1896 - March 5, 1957) 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. He earned...
Cedric Gibbons
Austin Cedric Gibbons (March 23, 1893 – July 26, 1960) 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...
Herman Rosse
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Max Rée
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Gordon Wiles
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William S. Darling
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Richard Day
Richard Day is an American writer, producer, director and occasional actor. He has worked as a writer/producer for several television programs including Arrested Development, Spin City, Ellen, Roseanne, and Mad About You.
In addition to his work in...
Stephen Goosson
Stephen Goosson (1889 - 1973) 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. He eventually...
Carl J. Weyl
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Lyle R. Wheeler
Lyle Reynolds Wheeler, (b. February 2, 1905 in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA. d. January 10, 1990 in Woodland Hills, California, USA), was an Academy Award-winning American motion picture art director.
Wheeler studied at the University of Southern...
Vincent Korda
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James Basevi
James Basevi (1890 – 1962) was a British born art director and special effects expert.
He began his career in 1924 with MGM, designing sets for silent films. After the advent of talkies, Basevi became the head of MGM's special effects department,...
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John B Goodman
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Hans Dreier
Hans Dreier (August 21, 1885 – October 24, 1966) 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.
He made contributions to nearly 500 films...
Alfred Junge
Alfred Junge (29 January 1886, Görlitz, Silesia (now Saxony), Germany – 16 July 1964, London) was a German-born production designer.
Junge had wanted to be an artist from childhood. Dabbling in theatre in his teenage years, he joined the Görlitz...
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John Bryan
John Bryan (1911 – 10 June 1969) was an Academy Award-winning art director and movie producer.
John Bryan was born in London, England. He won the Oscar for Best Art Direction for the film Great Expectations in 1946. He was nominated twice more, for...
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Roger K. Furse
Roger Kemble Furse (11 September 1903 - 19 August 1972) was a English art director and costume designer of stage and film.
The son of Lieutenant General Sir William Furse, Roger Furse was educated at Eton and the Slade School of Fine Arts.
A...
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Hein Heckroth
German art director Hein Heckroth (1901 in Gießen - 1970 in Amsterdam) 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 ...
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Harry Horner
Harry Horner (July 24, 1910 - December 5, 1994) was an Austrian art director who made a successful career in Hollywood. He was born in the town of Holitz, which now belongs to the Czech Republic, to parents of the German speaking minority in Austria...
Paul Sheriff
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John Meehan
John Meehan (June 13, 1902 – May 15, 1963) was an American art director and production designer.
He was born in Tehachapi, California and attended the University of Southern California. Meehan won three Academy Awards for his art direction: William...
Hal Pereira
Hal Pereira (April 29, 1905, Chicago, Illinois - December 17, 1983, Los Angeles, California) was an American art director and production designer.
In the 1940s through the 1960s he worked on more than 200 films as an art director and production...
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William Flannery
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Ted Haworth
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William A. Horning
William A. Horning (November 9, 1904 – March 2, 1959) (birth name: William Allen Horning) is a multiple Academy Award winner. . Horning was married to Esther Montgomery until his death.
At the 31st Academy Awards ceremony for 1958, Horning received...
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Alexander Golitzen
Alexander Golitzen, (Moscow, February 28, 1908 - San Diego, July 26, 2005) oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies.
Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution. Travelling...
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Alexander Trauner
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Boris Leven
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John Box
John Allan Hyatt Box OBE, (January 27, 1920—March 7, 2005), 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...
John DeCuir
John DeCuir (1918 – 1991) 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...
Gene Callahan
Gene Callahan (November 7, 1923—December 26, 1990) was an American art director as well as set and production designer who contributed to over fifty films and more than a thousand TV episodes. He received nominations for the British Academy Film...
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Vassilis Photopoulos
Vassilis Photopoulos (Greek: Βασίλης Φωτόπουλος) (1934, Kalamata – January 14, 2007, Athens, Greece) was an influential Greek painter, film director, art director and set designer.
He was an Academy Award winner for the film Zorba the Greek for art...
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Robert Clatworthy
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Jack Martin Smith
Jack Martin Smith (1911 - 1993) was a highly successful Hollywood art director with over 130 films to his credit and nine Academy Award nominations which ultimately yielded three Oscars.
He made his debut in 1937 and two years later found himself...
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John Truscott
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John Barry
John Barry, OBE (born John Barry Prendergast on 3 November 1933 in York, England) is an English film score composer. He is best known for composing 11 James Bond soundtracks and was hugely influential on the 007 series' distinctive style.
Barry was...
Urie McCleary
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Gene Hackman
Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is an American actor and currently a novelist.
Hackman has made 80 films. He came to fame in 1967 when his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde earned him his first Oscar nomination. His...
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Rolf Zehetbauer
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Henry Bumstead
Lloyd Henry Bumstead (March 17, 1915 – May 24, 2006) was an American cinematic art director 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...
Dean Tavoularis
Dean Tavoularis (born May 18, 1932) is an American motion picture production designer whose work appeared in numerous box office hits such as The Godfather movies, Apocalypse Now, The Brink's Job, One from the Heart and Bonnie and Clyde.
Although...
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Ken Adam
Sir Kenneth Adam, OBE (born 5 February 1921 as Klaus Hugo Adam) is a production designer most famous for his set designs for the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s.
Adam was born in Berlin, Germany to a Jewish family, the son of a former...
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George Jenkins
George Clarke Jenkins (19 November 1908 – 6 April 2007) was an American Academy Award-winning production designer and three-time Tony Award nominee.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he studied architecture at University of Pennsylvania before leaving to...
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Paul Sylbert
Paul Sylbert (born 16 April 1928) is an American Academy Award-winning production designer, art director, and set designer who directed on occasion.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sylbert fought in the Korean War and attended the Tyler School of Art at...
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Philip Rosenberg
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Pierre Guffroy
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Norman Reynolds
Norman Reynolds is best known for being an Academy Award winning British art director and production designer for the original Star Wars trilogy. He was born in London, England, UK.
He directed a few episodes of the Emmy Award winning Amazing...
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Peter Brown
Peter Robert Lamont Brown (born 1935) is a historian and professor of history.
He was born in Dublin, Ireland to a Protestant family, and was educated at Shrewsbury School and New College, Oxford. He was a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford where...
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Stuart Craig
Norman Stuart Craig OBE (born April 14, 1942) is a noted British 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. At...
Anna Asp
Anna Asp (born 16 May 1946) is a production designer and art director. She won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction in 1983 for her work in Fanny & Alexander.
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Stephen B. Grimes
Stephen B. Grimes (18 April 1927 – 12 September 1988) was an English production designer and art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for two more in the category Best Art Direction.
Grimes won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction...
Gianni Quaranta
Gianni Quaranta (born August 30, 1943) is an Italian production designer and art director. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction and won the BAFTA Award for Best Production Design and the Nastro d'Argento for Best Production...
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Ferdinando Scarfiotti
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Anton Furst
Anton Furst (born Anthony Francis Furst) (May 6, 1944 – November 24, 1991) was a distinguished production designer who won an Oscar for designing the Batmobile and the noirish nightmare version of Gotham City in Tim Burton's Batman (1989).
Born in...
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Peter Young
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Richard Sylbert
Richard Sylbert (16 April 1928 – 23 March 2002) was an Academy Award-winning production designer and art director, primarily for feature films.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sylbert fought in the Korean War and attended the Tyler School of Art at...
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Dennis Gassner
Dennis Gassner (born 1948) is an art director. He has been nominated four times and has won once. The movies which he received nominations for are:
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