Jack D. Moore

Jack D. Moore ( * April 15, 1906, † December 29, 1998 in Santa Monica, California ) was an American production designer, the 1950 Academy Award for Best Production Design and received a further five times was nominated for it.

Biography

Moore started in the mid 1930s as a production designer in the film industry in Hollywood and worked first as associate set decorator in the film The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934) by Sidney Franklin. Throughout his career, he was involved in the development of some 50 films.

At the Academy Awards in 1943 he was with Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duell first nominated and Edwin B. Willis years found for the black and white film (1942 ) by Mervyn LeRoy for an Oscar.

In 1950 he received then along with Cedric Gibbons, Paul Edwin B. Willis size and the Academy Award for Best Production Design in the color film Little Women ( 1949) by Mervyn LeRoy.

Subsequently, he was nominated more times for the Academy Award for Best Production Design, and indeed in 1952 together with Cedric Gibbons, Paul Size and Edwin B. Willis for the black and white film Too Young to Kiss (1951 ) by Robert Z. Leonard, and at the Academy Awards in 1954 for both the color film the Dauphin (1953 ) by George Sidney with Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary and Edwin B. Willis as well as for the color film Was it the great love? (1953 ) by Vincente Minnelli and Gottfried Reinhardt and Cedric Gibbons, E. Preston Ames, Edward C. Carfagno, Gabriel Scognamillo, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason and Arthur Krams. 1970 was a further nomination for Sweet Charity (1969 ) by Bob Fosse with Alexander Golitzen and George C. Webb.

His last nomination for an Academy Award for Best Production Design, he shared with Alexander Golitzen, E. Preston Ames and Mickey S. Michaels at the Academy Awards in 1971 for Airport ( 1970) by George Seaton, who was also his last film as a production designer.