Hugh Hunt
Hugh Hunt ( born March 8, 1902 in Tennessee; † September 1, 1988 in San Diego, California ) was an American production designer and art director, who won the Oscar for Best Production Design twice.
Biography
Hunt began as a decorator in film productions in Hollywood and was involved in the decoration of David Copperfield (1935 ).
His first nomination for an Academy Award for Best Production Design, he received at the Academy Awards in 1944 for the black and white film Madame Curie ( 1943), together with Cedric Gibbons, Paul Size and Edwin B. Willis. Another nomination in this category, followed in 1946 by Gibbons, Willis, Hans O. Peters and John Bonar for the black and white film The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1945).
Along with Gibbons, Peter Willis and he was also nominated for an Oscar in 1951, this time for the black and white film fate in Vienna ( The Red Danube, 1949). In the subsequent Oscar ceremony 1952 he was with Gibbons, William A. Horning and Edward C. Carfagno for an Academy Award for Best Production Design in the color film Quo Vadis? (1951 ) nominated.
His first Academy Award for Best Production Design, he received Gibbons, Carfagno and Willis 1954 for Julius Caesar ( 1953).
At the Academy Awards in 1956, he was together with Gibbons, Willis and Malcolm Brown for an Oscar for the scene image in black and white film and expectant tomorrow ' I cry ( I'll Cry Tomorrow, 1955) nominated. Another nomination followed in 1958 for the production design in The Land of rain tree ( 1957); time together with Willis, Horning and Urie McCleary.
His second Academy Award for Best Production Design, he received at the Academy Awards in 1960 for Ben Hur (1959 ) together with Horning and Carfagno, where Horning was posthumously awarded an Oscar.
1961 Hunt with George W. Davis, Addison Hehr, Henry Grace and Otto Siegel was nominated for the scene image in the color film Cimarron ( 1960). This was followed in 1963 along with Davis, Grace and J. McMillan Johnson an Oscar nomination for Production Design in the color film Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 )
1964 Davis, size and Grace for the black and white film character assassination ( Twilight of Honor, 1963) and in 1965 with Davis, and Grace E. Preston Ames for the color film Gold Diggers Molly (1965).
His last Oscar nomination for Best Production Design was Hugh Hunt at the Academy Awards in 1967 along with Davis, size and Grace for the black and white film face without a name ( Mister Buddwing, 1966).
Other well-known films with designed by Hunt scene images were Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) and Forbidden Planet (1956).
During his 35 - year career in the film industry, he worked with such famous film directors such as Mervyn LeRoy, Albert Lewin, George Sidney, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Daniel Mann, Edward Dmytryk, William Wyler, Anthony Mann, Lewis Milestone, Boris Sagal, Charles Walters, Delbert Mann and Stanley Donen together.