Martin Obzina

Obzina Martin ( born August 17, 1905 in Chicago, Illinois, † January 8, 1979 in New York City, New York) was an American editor, art director and production designer, the twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Production Design as well as an Emmy had.

Life

Obzina began his career in the film industry in Hollywood, first in 1929 as an editor in a few films before he worked for the movie When Tomorrow Comes (1939 ) as an art director and production designer on the equipment of almost 130 films.

At the Academy Awards in 1940, he was first nominated in common with Jack Otterson for the Academy Award for Best Production Design, and indeed for the film First Love (1939 ), one directed by Henry Koster musical comedy with Deanna Durbin, Robert Stack and Eugene Pallette in the lead roles. His second Oscar nomination in this category, he got together with Otterson and Russell A. Gausman for the production design of black and white film The Adventurer (1941 ), a romantic comedy directed by René Clair with Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot and Roland Young.

Since the 1950s, he worked as an art director and production designer mainly for television films and television series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents ( 1955-1962 ) and received in 1957 along with John Robert Lloyd, John J. Lloyd, John Meehan and George Patrick an Emmy nomination for best Art direction for the CBS television series produced by the General Electric theater ( 1953).

Filmography (selection)

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