Arthur Lawson (designer)

Arthur Lawson ( born July 28, 1908 in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, † 1970 in London - Hammersmith ) was a British art director and production designer who won an Oscar for Best Production Design at the Academy Awards in 1949.

Life

Lawson began his career as an art director and production designer in the film industry in 1942 with the film A dangerous business and worked until shortly before his death at the scenic features of almost forty films.

At the Academy Awards in 1949, he received together with Hein Heckenroth the Oscar for Best Production Design in the color film The Red Shoes (1948 ), a staged by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger ballet film with Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook and Marius Goring.

In 1966, he was also responsible for a British Academy Film Award ( BAFTA Film Award ) nominated for best art direction in a black and white film, and indeed for the Drama incident in the Atlantic ( 1965) by James B. Harris with Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier and Martin Balsam.

Filmography (selection)

Awards