John Bryan (art director)
John Bryan ( born August 12, 1911 in London, † June 10, 1969 in Surrey, England ) was a British art director, production designer and film producer, who won both an Oscar and a BAFTA Film Award for Best Production Design.
Life
Bryan began his career as an art director and production designer in 1934 in the film as well as Colonel Blood in 1937, produced by Alexander Korda and directed by William Cameron Menzies sci-fi film Things to Come. Later, he was also active as a film producer and altogether seemed in the production of 45 films.
His first Oscar nomination for Best Production Design, he received in 1947 for the color film Caesar and Cleopatra (1946 ), one directed by Gabriel Pascal with Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh and Stewart Granger incurred in the lead roles film adaptation of the play by George Bernard Shaw.
At the Academy Awards in 1948 he won jointly with Wilfred Shingleton the Oscar in this category namely mysterious for the black and white film inheritance (1946 ), a staged based on the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Drama by David Lean with John Mills, Valerie Hobson and Tony Wager.
Another success was Bryan, who in 1959 was a member of the jury at the International Film Festival in Berlin, with the scenic features of the ink film Becket ( 1964) by Peter Glenville after the stage work Becket or the Honour of God by Jean Anouilh starring Richard Burton, Peter O ' Toole and John Gielgud in the lead roles: for this he won along with Maurice Carter, Patrick McLoughlin and Robert Cartwright BAFTA film Award for best Production Design, and was also presented at the Oscar ceremony in 1965 his second nomination for an Academy Award for best Production Design in a color film.