Rudolph Sternad
Rudolph Sternad ( born October 6, 1906 in Bronx, New York City, New York, † April 1963 ) was an American art director and production designer, who worked on more than twenty films of the director and film producer Stanley Kramer and three times for the Academy Award for best Production Design was nominated.
Life
Sternad began his career as an art director and production designer in the film industry in Hollywood in 1936 with the film The message to Garcia and worked throughout his career with the production of over seventy films, which alone has more than twenty of these films under the direction or production Stanley Kramer created.
His first of three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Production Design, he received at the Oscar ceremony in 1943 with Lionel Banks and Fay Babcock for the black and white film prosecution witness, a film comedy starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur and Ronald Colman, directed by George Stevens from the year 1942. 1946 he was nominated for an Oscar in this category along with Stephen Goosson and Frank Tuttle for the color film a Thousand and One Nights (1945 ), an adventure film directed by Alfred E. Green with Evelyn Keyes, Phil Silvers and Adele Jergens. Last followed by a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Production Design and George Milo at the Oscar ceremony in 1962 under the title Judgment at Nuremberg (1961 ) created under the direction Kramers black and white film of the Nuremberg lawyers processes from 1947 with Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster and Richard Widmark in the lead roles.