Ernest Archer
Ernest " Ernie " Archer ( born July 26, 1910 in England; † 27 July 1990) was a British art director and production designer, the one time each won an Academy Award and the British Academy Film Awards ( BAFTA Film Award ) for Best Production Design and the once again was nominated for this film awards.
Life
Archer began his career as an art director and production designer in the film industry in 1947 with the film The perfect killer and worked until 1983 at the scenic features of over forty films such as several James Bond films.
In 1965 he was award for Best Production Design in a color film nominated specifically for the war film Zulu ( 1964) by Cyril Endfield with Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins and Michael Caine, a cinematic presentation of the Battle of Rorke 's Drift in 1879 for his first BAFTA film.
For the science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 ) by Stanley Kubrick with Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood and William Sylvester, he won along with Anthony Masters and Harry Lange in 1969 with the BAFTA Film Award for the best art direction and was also those nominated at the Academy Awards in 1969 for the Academy Award for best Production Design.
In 1972 he won with John Box, Vernon Dixon, Jack and Gil Parrondo Maxsted an Academy Award for Best Production Design, and indeed for the staged by Franklin J. Schaffner historical film Nicholas and Alexandra (1971 ) about Czar Nicholas II of Russia and his wife Alexandra Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman and Roderic Noble in the lead roles.