Joseph McMillan Johnson
Joseph McMillan "Mac" Johnson ( born September 15, 1912 in Los Angeles, California, † April 17, 1990 in Napoopoo, Kona, Hawaii) was an American production designer, art director and film technician, who is specialized in visual effects and at the Academy Awards in 1949 for Jenny (1948 ) won the Oscar for best Visual Effects received.
Life
After schooling Johnson studied architecture at the University of Southern California (USC ) and later at the Art Center School in Los Angeles. After graduation, he was the famous architect Kem Weber office before he became an employee in 1938, founded by David O. Selznick film production company Selznick International. In 1939, he worked as a sketch artist for the first time with the Wind Gone with the creation of a movie with and was mentioned twice for local services in the book David O. Selznick 's Hollywood.
At the Academy Awards in 1949, he was next to Paul eagler, Russell Shearman, Clarence Slifer, Charles L. Freeman and James G. Stewart the Oscar for Best Visual Effects in the movie Jenny ( " Portrait of Jennie ", 1948) excellent. During the anti-communist McCarthy era, during which many filmmakers were on the black list and were covered with a prohibition, he withdrew temporarily from the film industry and worked again as an architect in the architectural offices of former classmates before he again mid-1950s in was the film industry operates.
In the following years he was repeatedly nominated for the Academy Award for Best Production Design and first in 1956 with Hal Pereira, Sam Comer and Arthur Krams for the production design in the color film About To Catch a Thief (1955 ), 1961, together with Kenneth A. Reid and Ross Dowd for equipping the black and white film the Facts of Life (1961 ) and in 1963 with George W.Davis, Henry Grace and Hugh Hunt for the production design in the color film mutiny on the Bounty (1962).
Recently Johnson was nominated twice for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects: For a 1966 The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965 ), on the other hand at the Oscar ceremony in 1969 with Hal Millar for the film Ice Station Zebra.
Other well-known films, was involved in the creation of Johnson, including Rear Window (1954 ), Gold Diggers Molly (1964) and Point Blank (1967). He last worked in 1971 with the TV movie Earth II.