Stuart A. Reiss

Stuart A. Reiss ( born July 15, 1921 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American art director and production designer, who twice won the Academy Award for Best Production Design and more was four times nominated for the Oscar.

Life

Reiss began his career as an art director and production designer in the film industry in Hollywood in 1947 with films like Nightmare Alley and The Ghost and Mrs. feet and worked until 1986 in the production of almost 100 films.

At the Academy Awards in 1954 he received along with Lyle R. Wheeler and Maurice Ransford his first of four Academy Award nomination for Best Production Design, and indeed for the black and white film sinking of the Titanic (1953 ) by Jean Negulesco with Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Wagner in the lead roles. In 1957 another Oscar nomination with Wheeler, Jack Martin Smith and Walter M. Scott for the scene image in the black and white film Modern Youth ( Teenage Rebel, 1956), a film drama directed by Edmund Goulding with Ginger Rogers, Michael Rennie and Mildred Natwick.

1960 won Reiss along with Wheeler, Scott and George W. Davis his first Oscar for Best Production Design in the black and white film The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 ) by George Stevens with the main actors Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, and Shelley Winters.

In 1965 he was again nominated for an Oscar, this time with Smith, Scott and Ted Haworth for the color film Always with another (1964 ), which arose under the direction of J. Lee Thompson film comedy starring Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman and Robert Mitchum.

His second Oscar won Reiss with Smith, Scott and Dale Hennesy in 1967 for the production design in the color film Fantastic Voyage (1966 ), a science fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer with Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch and Edmond O'Brien in the lead roles.

The fourth and final nomination for an Academy Award for Best Production Design, he got the Oscar ceremony in 1968, along with Smith, Scott, Mario Chiari and Ed Graves for the film musical Doctor Dolittle (1967 ) directed by Richard Fleischer with Rex Harrison, Anthony Newley and William Dix.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

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