Cedric Gibbons

Art

Born 1893-03-23 Died 1960-07-26 Dublin, Ireland 897 credits Academy Awards 11

Awards

Won 11 Academy Awards

Academy Awards 11 won · 24 nominated

1957 Best Art Direction, Color Nominated Lust for Life
1957 Best Art Direction, Black and White Won Somebody Up There Likes Me
1956 Best Art Direction, Black and White Nominated Blackboard Jungle, I'll Cry Tomorrow
1955 Best Art Direction, Color Nominated Brigadoon
1955 Best Art Direction, Black and White Nominated Executive Suite
1954 Best Art Direction, Color Nominated Young Bess, Lili, The Story of Three Loves
1954 Best Art Direction, Black and White Won Julius Caesar
1953 Best Art Direction, Color Nominated The Merry Widow
1953 Best Art Direction, Black and White Won The Bad and the Beautiful
1952 Best Art Direction, Color Won An American in Paris
1952 Best Art Direction, Black and White Nominated Too Young to Kiss
1951 Best Art Direction, Black and White Nominated The Red Danube
1951 Best Art Direction, Color Nominated Annie Get Your Gun
1950 Best Art Direction, Color Won Little Women
1950 Best Art Direction, Black and White Nominated Madame Bovary
1947 Best Art Direction, Color Won The Yearling
1946 Best Art Direction, Black and White Nominated The Picture of Dorian Gray
1946 Best Art Direction, Color Nominated National Velvet
1945 Best Art Direction, Black and White Won Gaslight
1945 Best Art Direction, Color Nominated Kismet
1944 Best Art Direction, Color Nominated Thousands Cheer
1944 Best Art Direction, Black and White Nominated Madame Curie
1943 Best Art Direction, Black and White Nominated Random Harvest
1942 Best Art Direction, Black and White Nominated When Ladies Meet
1942 Best Art Direction, Color Won Blossoms in the Dust
1941 Best Art Direction, Black and White Won Pride and Prejudice
1941 Best Art Direction, Color Nominated Bitter Sweet
1940 Best Production Design Nominated The Wizard of Oz
1939 Best Production Design Nominated Marie Antoinette
1938 Best Production Design Nominated Conquest
1937 Best Production Design Nominated Romeo and Juliet, The Great Ziegfeld
1935 Best Production Design Won The Merry Widow
1934 Best Production Design Nominated When Ladies Meet
1930 Best Production Design Won The Bridge of San Luis Rey
— Best Production Design Nominated The Bridge of San Luis Rey

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Austin Cedric Gibbons (March 23, 1893 – July 26, 1960) was an Irish art director and production designer for the film industry. He also made a significant contribution to motion picture theater architecture from the 1930s to 1950s. He is credited as the designer of the Oscar statuette in 1928. Gibbons was born in Dublin, Ireland and studied at the Art Students League of New York and worked for his architect father. While at Edison Studios from 1915, he first designed a set for a film released in 1919, assisting Hugo Ballin. But, after this first foray, the studio closed, and he signed with Samuel Goldwyn in 1918. This evolved to working for Louis B. Mayer at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1924 to 1956—a 32-year career. Gibbons was one of the original 36 founding members of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and oversaw the design of the Academy Awards statuette in 1928, a trophy for which he himself would be nominated 39 times, winning 11. He retired in 1956 with about 1,500 films credited to him: however, his contract with MGM dictated that he receive credit as art director for every MGM film released in the United States, even though other designers may have done the bulk of the work. Even so, his actual hands-on art direction may have been on about 150 films. In 1930, Gibbons married actress Dolores del Río and co-designed their house in Santa Monica, an intricate Art Deco residence influenced by Rudolf Schindler. They divorced in 1941; three years later he married actress Hazel Brooks with whom he remained until his death at the age of 67. Gibbons's grave is in the Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles.

Cedric Gibbons

Awards

Academy Awards 11 won · 24 nominated

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