Wiard Ihnen
Wiard "Bill" you ( * August 5, 1897 in New York City, New York, † June 22, 1979 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American art director and production designer who won the Academy Award for Best Production Design twice.
Life
You originally Painters and began his career as a set designer in the film industry in Hollywood in 1919 with the film A Society Exile and worked until 1960 at the facilities of around sixty films.
At the Academy Awards in 1938, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Production Design for the film Every Day 's a Holiday ( 1937) by A. Edward Sutherland with Mae West, who also wrote the screenplay, and Edmund Lowe in the lead roles.
In 1945 he won with Thomas Little his first of two Oscars for Best Production Design, and indeed for the color film Wilson ( 1944), which arose under the direction of Henry King film adaptation of the life of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson with Alexander Knox as Wilson and Charles Coburn and Geraldine Fitzgerald in other major roles.
A second Academy Award for Best Production Design, he received in the subsequent Oscar ceremony 1946 he was awarded with A. Roland Fields for the black and white film espionage in the Far East ( Blood in the Sun, 1945), one directed by Frank Lloyd war and spy film starring James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney and Porter Hall in the lead roles.
Bill you was married September 8, 1940 to his death with the famed costume designer Edith Head, equipped the 1000 movies with costumes and 35 times was nominated for an Oscar for Best Costume Design and won eight Oscars in this category.