Howard Bristol
Howard Bristol ( born August 14, 1902 in Iowa, USA, † February 11, 1971 in Santa Barbara, California, United States) was an American art director and production designer, who was nominated nine times for an Academy Award for Best Production Design.
Life
Bristol began his career as an art director and production designer in the film industry in Hollywood in 1933 as a decorator in the film When Ladies Meet (1933 ) and worked until 1968 in the scenic features of 65 films.
His first nomination for an Academy Award for Best Production Design, he received at the Academy Awards in 1942 along with Stephen Goosson for the decoration in black and white film The Little Foxes (1941 ) by William Wyler Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall and Teresa Wright after the play by Lillian Hellman. In 1943 he was nominated together with Perry Ferguson for the equipment of the black and white film Giant Step (1942 ), which was filmed on a story by Paul Gallico by Sam Wood with Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright and Babe Ruth. 1944 was followed by another nomination with Ferguson for this Oscar and indeed for the equipment of the black and white film The North Star (1943 ), which originated from a story by Lillian Hellman directed by Lewis Milestone with Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, and Walter Huston.
At the Academy Awards in 1945 Bristol was awarded with Ernst swept an Oscar nomination for Best Production Design in the color film The corsair (1944 ) by David Butler with Bob Hope, Virginia Mayo and Walter Slezak in the lead roles. The next Oscar nomination in this category, followed in 1953 with Richard Day and Clavé for the color film Hans Christian Andersen and the Showgirl (1952 ) by Charles Vidor with Danny Kaye as " Hans Christian Andersen " and Farley Granger and Zizi Jean Maire in other roles. In 1956 he was awarded with Oliver Smith and Joseph C. Wright an Oscar nomination for the furnishing of the ink film Stealing Harvard - and Dolls (1955), a musical comedy film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, with Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons and Frank Sinatra.
The next Oscar nomination for Best Production Design got Bristol in 1962 with Alexander Golitzen and Joseph C. Wright for the color film almond eyes and lotus flowers (1961 ), one under the direction of Henry Koster with Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta and Jack Soo took place in the lead roles film after the novel Flower Drum song by CY Lee, and in 1957 it incurred musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. In 1968 he was nominated along with Golitzen and George C. Webb for an Oscar for the scene in Thoroughly Modern Millie Image (1967 ), a musical comedy by George Roy Hill starring Julie Andrews, James Fox and Mary Tyler Moore. His ninth and final nomination for Best Production Design Bristol received at the Academy Awards in 1969 with Boris Leven and Walter M. Scott for under the title Star! (1968 ) filmed by Robert Wise life story of actress Gertrude Lawrence starring Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna and Michael Craig.