E. Preston Ames
Edgar Preston Ames (born June 15, 1906 in San Mateo , California , † July 20, 1983 in Los Angeles , California) was an American art director and production designer who received two Oscar for best production design .
Life
Ames began working as a production designer and art director in the Hollywood film industry in the mid-1940s and was involved in setting up a film for The Caliph of Baghdad for the first time in 1944 . In the course of his career he was involved as a production designer in the creation of almost film and television productions.
At the Academy Awards in 1952 , he received his first Oscar for best production design in the color film An American in Paris (1951) together with Cedric Gibbons , Edwin B. Willis and F. Keogh Gleason .
Further Oscar nominations for best production design followed in 1954 with C. Gibbons, Edward C. Carfagno , Gabriel Scoganmillo , EB Willis, FK Gleason and Jack D. Moore for the color film Was it the great love? (The Story of Three Loves, 1953), 1955 with C. Gibbons, EB Willis and FK Gleason for the color film Brigadoon (1954) and in 1957 together with C. Gibbons, Hans O. Peters and FK Gleason for the color film Vincent van Gogh - A Life of Passion (1956).
He won his second Oscar in the category of best production design at the Academy Awards in 1959 together with William A. Horning , Henry Grace and FK Gleason for Gigi (1958).
After that Ames was nominated three more times for the Oscar for best production design, namely in 1965 with George W. Davis , Henry Grace and Hugh Hunt for the color film Goldgräber-Molly (1964), in 1971 with Alexander Golitzen , Jack D. Moore and Mickey S. Michaels for Airport (1970) and 1975 with A. Golitzen and Frank R. McKelvy for Earthquakes (1974).
Most recently he was nominated for an Emmy in 1983 with Bill Harp for the most outstanding equipment in a television series , namely for the episode "Jenny" of the five-part television series Casablanca (1983) produced by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC ).
Ames, who also created the set for episodes of television series such as Bonanza (1971-1972), worked with film directors such as Vincente Minnelli , Gottfried Reinhardt , Charles Walters , George Seaton and Mark Robson .
Web links
- E. Preston Ames in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ames, E. Preston |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ames, Edgar Preston (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American art director and production designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Mateo , California |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 1983 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California |