Angelo P. Graham

Angelo P. Graham is an American art director and production designer who won an Oscar for Best Production Design and a further three times for these Oscar and a British Academy Film Award ( BAFTA Film Award ) was nominated for best art direction.

Life

Graham began his career as an art director and production designer in the film industry in Hollywood in 1970 with the film Little Big Man and worked until 2000 at the scenic features of thirty films.

At the Academy Awards in 1975 he won along with Dean Tavoularis and George R. Nelson Oscar for Best Production Design in The Godfather - Part II ( 1974) by Francis Ford Coppola with Al Pacino, Diane Keaton and Robert De Niro in the lead roles.

Together with Tavoularis and Nelson 1979 he was also nominated for an Oscar in this category for the crime comedy The big thing at Brinks (1978 ) by William Friedkin with Peter Falk, Peter Boyle and Allen Garfield.

Another Academy Award nomination in this category, he received, Tavoularis and Nelson 1980 for war film Apocalypse Now (1979 ) by Francis Ford Coppola with the main actors Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando and Robert Duvall. In 1984, he was also responsible for the BAFTA Film Award for Best Production Design in WarGames - nominated War Games ( 1983) by John Badham with Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman and Ally Sheedy. Recently Graham was with Mel Bourne and Bruce Weintraub at the Academy Awards in 1985 for Best Production Design in the sports movie Cool Hand Luke (1984 ) by Barry Levinson starring Robert Redford, Glenn Close and Robert Duvall nominated in the lead roles.

Filmography (selection)

Awards