Joseph Kish

Joseph Kish ( born June 14, 1899 in Sombor, Austria - Hungary, † March 14, 1969 in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California ) was an American art director and production designer, who at the Oscar ceremony 1966 Oscar for Best Production Design obtained.

Biography

Kish began his career as a set designer in the film industry in Hollywood in 1942 with the film Lucky Legs and was subsequently involved in equipping more than 130 films.

Kish was first nominated at the Oscar ceremony in 1945 with Lionel Banks and Walter Holscher for an Academy Award for Best Production Design, and indeed for the black and white film Address Unknown (1944). Other nominees in this category were followed in 1949 with Richard Day and Casey Roberts for the color film Joan of Arc (1948 ), 1960 with Lyle R. Wheeler, Franz Bachelin, Herman A. Blumenthal and Walter M. Scott for the color film Journey to the Center of the earth (1959) and in 1966 with Hal Pereira, Jack Poplin and Robert R. Benton for the black and white film voice on the phone (The Slender Thread, 1965).

Also in 1966 he finally got with Robert Clatworthy his only Academy Award for Best Production Design in the black and white movie The Ship of Fools (1965).

Other films in which Kish created the scene image, were the devil captain (1949 ), Planet of the horror of the Body Snatchers (1956 ), The Defiant Ones (1958), A totally, totally crazy world (1963 ) and A daredevil daredevil (1964 ). He worked throughout his career with film directors such as John Ford, Don Siegel, Stanley Kramer, Jack Arnold, William Cameron Menzies, Victor Fleming, Henry Levin and Sydney Pollack together.