Roy Pomeroy

Roy J. Pomeroy ( born April 20, 1892 in Darjeeling, India, † December 3, 1947 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American film technicians, director and producer, who at the first Oscar ceremony in 1929 the only Oscar ever awarded for the best technical effects ( best Engineering effects) in the war film Wings (1927 ) received.

Life

Pomeroy started in the mid 1920s, first as a film technician and began his career in 1923 as technical director in the movie The Ten Commandments (1923 ) Cecil B. DeMille.

After working as a technical director in DeMille's Feet of Clay (1924 ), he was responsible for the animation camera in the silent film Peter Pan ( 1924), the first film adaptation of the novel by JM Barrie as assistant director.

On May 4, 1927 Pomeroy was one of the 36 founding members of the AMPAS that performs the annual Oscar ceremonies since 1929.

According to employees at the movies Old Ironsides (1926 ) by James Cruze, The Rough Riders ( 1927) by Victor Fleming and the last silent film of Harold Lloyd, Speedy (1928 ) by Ted Wilde, he received the first Oscar ceremony in 1929 the only ever awarded Oscar for best technical effects ( best Engineering effects) in the war film Wings (1927 ) by William A. Wellman.

After that he was in some movies like Interference (1928 ), Inside the Lines (1930) and Shock ( 1934) as a director, and some also worked as a producer.