American art director
William A. Horning
Born (1904-11-09 ) November 9, 1904Died March 2, 1959(1959-03-02) (aged 54) Occupation Art director Years active 1931-1959 Employer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1931–1959)[ 1]
William Allen Horning (November 9, 1904 – March 2, 1959) was an American art director and two-time Academy Award winner.[ 2]
He joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1931 as a draftsman and became an assistant to the studio's supervising art director Cedric Gibbons in 1936.[ 1]
Together with Gibbons, he received his first Academy Award nomination in 1937 for Best Art Direction for Conquest . Two years later, he received another nomination for The Wizard of Oz . He waited 12 years for his next nomination for Quo Vadis .
Following Gibbons' retirement in 1956, he became the studio's supervising art director. His first Academy Award nominations without Gibbons was for Les Girls and Raintree Country in 1957.
The week before he died, Horning received another nomination for Best Art Direction for Gigi and at the 31st Academy Awards ceremony in April, he received a posthumous Academy Award .
The following year, he received two additional posthumous Oscar nominations (bringing his nominations total to eight), one for Alfred Hitchcock 's North by Northwest and another for the 1959 epic film Ben-Hur . At the 32nd Academy Awards ceremony, Horning won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for Ben-Hur , that year's Best Picture winner. Like producer Sam Zimbalist , Horning was awarded his second Oscar posthumously, as both he and Zimbalist had died while the movie was still being filmed. To date, Horning is the only person ever to win posthumous Academy Awards in consecutive ceremonies.
He was married to Esther Montgomery until his death. Together they had three sons.[ 1]
1927–1939 Interior Decoration 1940–1946 Black & White / Color separate 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 Art Direction - Set Decoration Black & White / Color separate 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 Black & White / Color separate 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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