Anton Grot
Anton Grot born Antoni Franciszek Groszewski, ( born January 18, 1884 in Kelbasin, Poland, † March 21, 1974 in Stanton, California ) was an American art director and production designer of Polish descent, the five times for an Oscar in the category best Production Design, and was nominated in 1941 an honorary Oscar, the Technical Achievement Award was given.
Life
After immigrating to the United States, he began a career as a production designer and art director in the film industry and made his debut in 1916 in the silent film The Light at Dusk. Throughout its nearly 35 - year career, he was involved in the development of over 110 films. He also managed to win Carl Jules Weyl to work as an art director in Hollywood.
For his screenshots and equipment he was nominated five times for an Oscar, and indeed at the Academy Awards in 1931 for Svengali (1931 ) by Archie Mayo, 1937 Anthony Adverse (1936 ) by Mervyn LeRoy, 1938 The Life of Emile Zola (1937 ) by William Dieterle, 1940 the Private Lives of Queen (1939 ) by Michael Curtiz and Oscar award in 1941 for the black and white film the Lord of the Seven Seas by Michael Curtiz.
For his outstanding services he was awarded an honorary Oscar at the Academy Awards in 1941 with the Technical Achievement Award. Were the honored its design and improve the illusion machine for waves and waves in the film studio Warner Bros..
Other films in which Grot had worked as a production designer or art director include The Volga Boatmen (1926 ), The new home (1928 ), Little Caesar (1931 ), The Man with the Axe (1932 ), The Mysterious Dr. X ( 1932) more than 20,000 years in Sing Sing ( 1932), the Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933 ), Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933 ), Baby Face ( 1933), the Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935 ), A Midsummer night's Dream (1935 ), sub- jolly Roger (1935 ), Anthony Adverse (1936 ), The Sea Wolf (1941 ), Mildred Pierce (1945 ), Possessed (1947 ) and magic nights in Rio (1948 ).
His last work in a film he had in 1950 in the film noir crime film Lawless by Vincent Sherman.