Henry Grace
Henry Grace Wooten ( born March 20, 1907 in Kern County, California, † September 16, 1983 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American decorators and art director, who once won the Academy Award for Best Production Design and twelve times more for these Oscar was nominated.
Life
Grace began his career as an art director and set designer in the film industry in Hollywood 1934 the film The Merry Widow (1934 ) and worked throughout his career lasted until 1970 at the scenic features of around 200 films and television series with.
At the Academy Awards in 1956, he received along with Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duell and Edwin B. Willis his first of twelve Oscar nominations for Best Production Design in the black and white movie The Blackboard Jungle (1955 ) by Richard Brooks with Glenn Ford, Anne Francis and Louis Calhern.
His only Oscar won Grace 1959 William A. Horning, E. Preston Ames and F. Keogh Gleason for Gigi (1958 ), a musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli with Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier and Louis Jourdan.
At the Academy Awards in 1960, he was nominated by William A. Horning, Robert F. Boyle, Merrill Pye and Frank R. McKelvy for the production design in the color film North by Northwest (1959 ) by Alfred Hitchcock with Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. Another Oscar nomination for Best Production Design, he received Academy Awards in 1961 with George W. Davis, Addison Hehr, Hugh Hunt and Otto Siegel for the color film Cimarron (1960), one directed by Anthony Mann western with Glenn Ford, Maria Schell and Anne Baxter.
Due to its extraordinary great resemblance to General Dwight D. Eisenhower Grace 1962, in the war film The Longest Day made a guest appearance in the role of the later U.S. president.
At the Academy Awards in 1963 Grace was nominated three times: first with George W. Davis, Edward C. Carfagno and Richard Pefferle for the color film The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm ( 1962) by Henry Levin and George Pal starring Laurence Harvey, Karlheinz Böhm and Claire Bloom, on the other, with Davis, Hugh Hunt and J. McMillan Johnson for the color film mutiny on the Bounty (1962 ) directed by Lewis Milestone with Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard and Richard Harris, and thirdly with Davis, Carfagno and Pfefferle for the black and white film era of the adaptation ( Period of Adjustment, 1962) by George Roy Hill with the main actors Anthony Franciosa, Jane Fonda and Jim Hutton.
Two other Academy Award nomination for Best Production Design, he got in 1964: One hand with Davis, Hehr, William Ferrari, Don Greenwood Jr. and Jack Mills for the color film The Wilde was the West ( 1962), a community directed work of John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall and Richard Thorpe with James Stewart, John Wayne and Gregory Peck and another star-studded, on the other hand, with Davis, Hunt and Paul size for the black and white film character assassination (1963 ) by Boris Sagal with Richard Chamberlain, Nick Adams and Claude Rains in the lead roles.
Also twice Grace was nominated for the Academy Awards in 1965, firstly with Davis, Ames and Hunt for the color film Gold Diggers Molly (1964 ), a musical film adaptation of Charles Walters with Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell and Ed Begley, and secondly with Davis, Hans O. Peters, Elliot Scott and Robert R. Benton for the black and white film of Emily ( 1964) by Arthur Hiller with the main actors James Garner, Julie Andrews and Melvyn Douglas. In 1966, he was with Davis, Urie McCleary and Charles S. Thompson for the Academy Award for Best Production Design in the black and white film A Patch of Blue ( 1965) by Guy Green with Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters and Elizabeth Hartman in the lead roles.
His twelfth and final Oscar nomination for Best Production Design Grace finally got together with Davis, size and Hunt at the Academy Awards in 1967 for the black and white film face without a name (1966 ), one directed by Delbert Mann film drama starring James Garner, Jean Simmons and Suzanne Pleshette.