James W. Payne
James W. Payne is an American art director and production designer, who once won the Academy Award for Best Production Design and twice more was nominated for an Oscar in this category.
Life
Payne worked as an art director and production designer in the film industry in Hollywood 1960-1989 at the scenic and facilities for over sixty films and television series with.
At the Academy Awards in 1964, he was first nominated along with Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson and Sam Comer for an Academy Award for Best Production Design in a color film, and indeed for the comedy could If my bedroom talk (1963 ) by Bud Yorkin with Frank Sinatra, Lee J. Cobb and Molly Picon. His second Oscar nomination in this category, he got together with Pereira, Arthur Lonergan and Robert R. Benton for the color film ... because no one is without guilt (1966 ) by Russell Rouse with Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer and Milton Berle in the lead roles.
At the Academy Awards in 1974, he was finally honored with Henry Bumstead the Oscar for Best Production Design in the Rogue comedy film The Sting (1973 ) by George Roy Hill and Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Robert Shaw.