Cedric Gibbons
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Academy Award...represent the original branches of the Academy: Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers, and Technicians. MGM's art director Cedric Gibbons, one of the original Academy members, supervised the design of the award trophy by printing the... In this article: Academy Awards, Hollywood, Emmy Awards, Cedric Gibbons, Margaret Herrick, and Grammy Awards |
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Wikipedia | November 02, 2009
Dolores del Rio
...support of United Artists, she managed to escape Carewe and debuted in the talkies with The Bad One in 1930. In 1930, she married Cedric Gibbons, one of MGM's leading art directors and production designers, whom she met at a party...
In this article: Dolores del Rio, Orson Welles, Hollywood, Edwin Carewe, Bird of Paradise, and Mexico City
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L.A. Times - Movie News | October 30, 2009
Honored Horror: A century (sort of) of Oscar-nominated fright films
...of Dorian Gray" Nominations: Best Supporting Actress, Angela Lansbury, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"; Best Art Direction, Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, Edwin B. Willis, John Bonar and Hugh Hunt, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
In this article: The Silence of the Lambs, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Pan's Labyrinth, Oscar, Stan Winston, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Poltergeist
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Wikipedia | October 28, 2009
Irene Lentz
...her work, Irene Lentz met and married short story author and screenwriter Eliot Gibbons, brother of multi-Academy Award winning Cedric Gibbons, head of art direction at MGM Studios. Irene confided to her close friend Doris Day that the...
In this article: Irene Lentz, Doris Day, MGM, Mack Sennett, Gary Cooper, F. Richard Jones, Academy Award, Universal Studios, and Goldie Gets Along
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Wikipedia | October 02, 2009
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...
In this article: Austin Cedric Gibbons, MGM, Academy Awards, Art Students League of New York, Hugo Ballin, Hazel Brooks, Samuel Goldwyn, Born to Dance, and Louis B. Mayer
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L.A. Times - Asia | September 17, 2009
LACMA to spotlight Hong Sang-soo films
...Carroll Baker as the thumb-sucking child bride of a middle-aged cotton gin owner (Malden). The legendary MGM art director Cedric Gibbons is feted Saturday afternoon at the Egyptian Theatre by the American Cinematheque and the Art Deco...
In this article: Oscar, Karl Malden, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hong Sang-soo, Marlon Brando, The Freshman, Harold Lloyd, and UCLA
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Washington Times | August 16, 2009
VAULTS: After 70 years, 'The Wizard of Oz' still a classic
...Cutter, Paul Marquardt and Ken Darby. Musical numbers staged by Bobby Connolly. Cinematography by Harold Rosson. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons and William A. Horning, with set decorations by Edwin B. Williams. Costume design by Gilbert...
In this article: The Wizard of Oz, Victor Fleming, Oz, Gone with the Wind, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Academy Awards, Scarecrow, Judy Garland, and Mervyn LeRoy
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | August 04, 2009
The Oz odyssey: 'The Wizard of Oz' at 70
...peopled by a cast of thousands. It was unprecedented in size and ambition. 'The biggest set will be Munchkinland,' wrote Cedric Gibbons, the head of the art department, in a pre-production memo. 'On it will be 122 structures, one-fourth...
In this article: Oz, Judy Garland, The Wizard of Oz, Victor Fleming, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Dorothy Gale, Louis B Mayer, and Bert Lahr
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Wales Online | May 25, 2009
Dan O'Neill: Oscar added his golden touch
...weighing 8lb, showing a figure wielding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film. Its designer was the MGM art director Cedric Gibbons who sketched out the shape in a couple of minutes on a tablecloth in Hollywood's Biltmore Hotel. The...
In this article: Oscars, Jean Harlow, Hollywood, Gloria Swanson, Charlie Chaplin, William Holden, Bette Davies, and Mary Pickford
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New York Times | April 12, 2009
DVDs: The Music Men: Minnelli & Co.
...the film's city is almost entirely a back lot creation, devised by Minnelli and his art directors, Preston Ames and Cedric Gibbons. In this case the beauty of the Blu-ray edition lies in the meticulous re-creation of the original...
In this article: Joshua Logan, South Pacific, Gigi, Vincente Minnelli, Blu-ray, Leslie Caron, Gene Kelly, An American in Paris, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, and Louis Jourdan
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New Kerala | February 21, 2009
The man with the golden sword - the Oscar statuette's origins
...Feb 22 : In 1928, Mexican film director Emilio 'El Indio' Fernandez was approached by the art director of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Cedric Gibbons, with a most unusual request. Would Senor Fernandez be willing to pose naked for Gibbons's current...
In this article: Oscar, A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire, Milk, Richard Nixon, Harvey Milk, Frost/Nixon, and Brad Pitt
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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 architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater architecture. He is credited as the designer of the Oscar statuette in 1928.
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