William Ferrari
William Ferrari ( * April 21, 1901; † September 10, 1962 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American art director and production designer, who in 1945 won an Academy Award for Best Production Design as well as an Emmy in 1956 for best art direction in a TV series.
Life
Ferrari began his career as an art director and production designer in the film industry in Hollywood in 1942 with the film The Vanishing Virginian and worked until his death at the scenic features of almost sixty films and television series with.
At the Academy Awards in 1945 he won along with Cedric Gibbons, Edwin B. Willis and Paul Huldschinsky the Oscar for Best Production Design in the black and white movie The Gaslight (1944 ) by George Cukor starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer and Joseph Cotten in the lead roles. For 1953, produced by the CBS television series You Are There in 1956 he also won an Emmy for best art direction.
At the Academy Awards in 1964 he was posthumously nominated alongside George W. Davis, Addison Hehr, Henry Grace, Don Greenwood Jr. and Jack Mills for another Academy Award for Best Production Design, and indeed for the color film The West Was Won (1962), a Community directorial work of John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall and Richard Thorpe with James Stewart, John Wayne and Gregory Peck and another star-studded.