Robert Priestley
Robert Willerton Priestley ( born June 12, 1901 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, † November 27, 1986 in San Diego, California ) was an American art director and production designer, who twice won the Academy Award for Best Production Design and a once again was nominated for the Oscar.
Life
Priestley began his career as an art director and production designer in the film industry in Hollywood in 1936 with the film Tell Your Children and worked until 1968 at the scenic features of around 110 films and television series with.
At the Academy Awards in 1956 he won both the Academy Award for Best Production Design in a color film and was also nominated for this award for an Academy Award for Best Production Design in a black and white film. The Oscar he won together with William Flannery and Jo Mielziner for the staged by Joshua Logan melodrama Picnic (1955 ) with William Holden, Kim Novak and Betty Field in the lead roles. He received the Oscar nomination together with Ted Haworth and Walter M. Simonds for the film drama Marty (1955 ) by Delbert Mann with the actors Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair and Esther Minciotti.
His second Academy Award for Best Production Design, he won in 1958 with Haworth for Sayonara (1957 ), the director Joshua Logan based on the novel by James A. Michener with Marlon Brando, Patricia Owen and Red Buttons staged.