George R. Nelson

George R. Nelson ( * May 27, 1927; † August 25, 1992 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American production designer, who won both the Academy Award for Best Production Design as well as an Emmy.

Biography

Nelson began in the mid 1950s as a production designer for television series such as Climax! and Dr. Kildare before he also reinforces the screenshots for films such as The Graduate (1967 ) designed in the mid -1960s. In addition, however, he continued to work for television series, most recently from 1972 to 1973 responsible for the production design in The Streets of San Francisco.

At the Academy Awards in 1975, he received together Dean Tavoularis and Angelo P. Graham the Oscar for Best Production Design in The Godfather - Part II ( 1974). Together with Tavoularis and Graham 1979 and 1980 he was nominated for the Oscar and first for the big thing at Brinks (1978) and then for Apocalypse Now (1979). Most recently, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Production Design at the Academy Awards in 1984, together with Geoffrey Kirkland, Richard Lawrence, W. Stewart Campbell, Peter R. Romero and Jim Poynter for the film The stuff of which heroes are (1983).

Nelson, who designed the screenshots for 66 films and television series, was then doing it again in television productions worked and won in 1984 along with James Hulsey an Emmy for outstanding art direction in which the American Broadcasting Company (ABC ) produced Streetcar Named Desire (1984). The last film on which he worked, was the true bosses - A devilish Empire (1991).