American motion picture set designer & decorator (1893-1963)
Edwin Booth Willis
Born (1893-01-28 ) January 28, 1893Died November 26, 1963(1963-11-26) (aged 70) Occupation Motion picture set designer & decorator Years active 1925–1957 Relatives Verna Willis (sister)Lionel Lindon (nephew)
Edwin Booth Willis (January 28, 1893 – November 26, 1963) was an American motion picture set designer and decorator.
Willis worked exclusively at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios for his entire career. During his career as a set designer Willis worked on over 600 separate productions. The Internet Movie Database lists his 577 film credits as set decorator, 163 credits as interior decorator and 24 credits as art director.
He was nominated for the Academy Award in his profession 32 times, in certain years receiving multiple nominations. Willis won the Oscar Decatur, Illinois and died of cancer in Hollywood, in 1963.
Willis was romantically linked to Sydney Guilaroff , who was known as the first single man to adopt children in America (two sons named Jon and Eugene).[ 1]
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Art direction/Set decoration (Black & white)
Academy Award nominations [ edit ] Interior decoration
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^ Bowers, Scotty (2012). Full service : my adventures in Hollywood and the secret sex lives of the stars (2d ed.). Grove press UK. p. 31. ISBN 978-1-61185-580-7
1927–1939 1940–1946 1940 (bw): Cedric Gibbons , Paul Groesse / (c): Vincent Korda 1941 (bw): Richard Day , Nathan Juran , Thomas Little / (c): Cedric Gibbons , Urie McCleary , Edwin B. Willis 1942 (bw): Richard Day , Joseph C. Wright , Thomas Little / (c): Richard Day , Joseph C. Wright , Thomas Little 1943 (bw): James Basevi , William S. Darling , Thomas Little / (c): Alexander Golitzen , John B. Goodman , Russell A. Gausman , Ira S. Webb 1944 (bw): Cedric Gibbons , William Ferrari , Paul Huldschinsky , Edwin B. Willis / (c): Wiard Ihnen , Thomas Little 1945 (bw): Wiard Ihnen , A. Roland Fields / (c): Hans Dreier , Ernst Fegté , Samuel M. Comer 1946 (bw): William S. Darling , Lyle R. Wheeler , Thomas Little , Frank E. Hughes / (c): Cedric Gibbons , Paul Groesse , Edwin B. Willis 1947–1956 renamed 1947 (bw): John Bryan , Wilfred Shingleton / (c): Alfred Junge 1948 (bw): Roger K. Furse , Carmen Dillon / (c): Hein Heckroth , Arthur Lawson 1949 (bw): Harry Horner , John Meehan , Emile Kuri / (c): Cedric Gibbons , Paul Groesse , Edwin B. Willis , Jack D. Moore 1950 (bw): Hans Dreier , John Meehan , Samuel M. Comer , Ray Moyer / (c): Hans Dreier , Walter Tyler , Samuel M. Comer , Ray Moyer 1951 (bw): Richard Day , George James Hopkins / (c): Cedric Gibbons , E. Preston Ames , Edwin B. Willis , F. Keogh Gleason 1952 (bw): Cedric Gibbons , Edward Carfagno , Edwin B. Willis , F. Keogh Gleason /(c): Paul Sheriff , Marcel Vertès 1953 (bw): Cedric Gibbons , Edward Carfagno , Edwin B. Willis , Hugh Hunt / (c): Lyle R. Wheeler , George Davis , Walter M. Scott , Paul S. Fox 1954 (bw): Richard Day / (c): John Meehan , Emile Kuri 1955 (bw): Hal Pereira , Tambi Larsen , Samuel M. Comer , Arthur Krams / (c): William Flannery , Jo Mielziner , Robert Priestley 1956 (bw): Cedric Gibbons , Malcolm F. Brown , Edwin B. Willis , F. Keogh Gleason / (c): Lyle R. Wheeler , John DeCuir , Walter M. Scott , Paul S. Fox 1957–1958 1959–1966 1959 (bw): Lyle R. Wheeler , George Davis , Walter M. Scott , Stuart A. Reiss / (c): William A. Horning (posthumous award ), Edward Carfagno , Hugh Hunt 1960 (bw): Alexandre Trauner , Edward G. Boyle /(c): Alexander Golitzen , Eric Orbom (posthumous award ), Russell A. Gausman , Julia Heron 1961 (bw): Harry Horner , Gene Callahan / (c): Boris Leven , Victor A. Gangelin 1962 (bw): Alexander Golitzen , Henry Bumstead , Oliver Emert /(c): John Box , John Stoll , Dario Simoni 1963 (bw): Gene Callahan / (c): John DeCuir , Jack Martin Smith , Hilyard M. Brown , Herman A. Blumenthal , Elven Webb , Maurice Pelling , Boris Juraga , Walter M. Scott , Paul S. Fox , Ray Moyer 1964 (bw): Vassilis Photopoulos /(c): Gene Allen , Cecil Beaton , George James Hopkins 1965 (bw): Robert Clatworthy , Joseph Kish /(c): John Box , Terence Marsh , Dario Simoni 1966 (bw): Richard Sylbert , George James Hopkins / (c): Jack Martin Smith , Dale Hennesy , Walter M. Scott , Stuart A. Reiss 1967–1980 1967: John Truscott , Edward Carrere , John W. Brown 1968: John Box , Terence Marsh , Vernon Dixon , Ken Muggleston 1969: John DeCuir , Jack Martin Smith , Herman A. Blumenthal , Walter M. Scott , George James Hopkins , Raphaël Bretton 1970: Urie McCleary , Gil Parrondo , Antonio Mateos , Pierre-Louis Thévenet 1971: John Box , Ernest Archer , Jack Maxsted , Gil Parrondo , Vernon Dixon 1972: Rolf Zehetbauer , Jurgen Kiebach , Herbert Strabel 1973: Henry Bumstead , James W. Payne 1974: Dean Tavoularis , Angelo P. Graham , George R. Nelson 1975: Ken Adam , Roy Walker , Vernon Dixon 1976: George C. Jenkins , George Gaines 1977: John Barry , Norman Reynolds , Leslie Dilley , Roger Christian 1978: Paul Sylbert , Edwin O'Donovan , George Gaines 1979: Philip Rosenberg , Tony Walton , Edward Stewart , Gary J. Brink 1980: Pierre Guffroy , Jack Stephens 1981–2000 2001–present
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