Angelo P. Graham

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Angelo P. Graham (* before 1970) is an American art director and production designer who won an Oscar for best production design and was nominated three more times for this Oscar and a British Academy Film Award (BAFTA Film Award) for best art direction.

Life

Graham began his career as an art director and production designer in the Hollywood film industry in 1970 with the film Little Big Man and was involved in the production of thirty films by 2000.

At the Oscar ceremony in 1975 , he won with Dean Tavoularis and George R. Nelson Oscar for Best Production Design in The Godfather - Part II (1974) by Francis Ford Coppola with Al Pacino , Diane Keaton and Robert De Niro in the lead roles .

Along with Tavoularis and Nelson, he was also nominated for an Oscar in this category in 1979 for the crime comedy The Big Thing at Brinks (1978) by William Friedkin with Peter Falk , Peter Boyle and Allen Garfield .

He, Tavoularis and Nelson received another Oscar nomination in this category in 1980 for the war film Apocalypse Now (1979) by Francis Ford Coppola with the leading actors Martin Sheen , Marlon Brando and Robert Duvall . In 1984 he was also nominated for the BAFTA Film Award for Best Production Design in WarGames (1983) by John Badham with Matthew Broderick , Dabney Coleman and Ally Sheedy . Most recently, Graham was nominated with Mel Bourne and Bruce Weintraub at the 1985 Academy Awards for Best Production Design in the sports film The Unyielding (1984) by Barry Levinson, starring Robert Redford , Glenn Close and Robert Duvall.

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SURNAME Graham, Angelo P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art director and production designer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1970