George R. Nelson

George R. Nelson (born May 27, 1927 , † August 25, 1992 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American production designer who received both the Oscar for best production design and an Emmy .

biography

Nelson began working as a production designer on television series such as Climax! In the mid- 1950s ! and Dr. Kildare , before he also increasingly designed the sets for films such as The Graduation (1967) in the mid- 1960s . In addition, however, he continued to work for television series and was most recently responsible for the production design in The Streets of San Francisco from 1972 to 1973 .

At the Academy Awards in 1975 he received the Oscar for best production design in The Godfather - Part II (1974) together with Dean Tavoularis and Angelo P. Graham . Together with Tavoularis and Graham, he was nominated for this Oscar in 1979 and 1980 , first for The Big Thing at Brinks (1978) and then for Apocalypse Now (1979). Most recently, he was nominated for the Oscar for best production design at the Academy Awards in 1984 together with Geoffrey Kirkland , Richard Lawrence , W. Stewart Campbell , Peter R. Romero and Jim Poynter for the film The Stuff the Heroes are Made of (1983).

Nelson, who designed the sets for 66 films and television series, then returned to television production and, together with James Hulsey, won an Emmy for outstanding art direction in 1984 in Endstation Sehnsucht (1984) produced by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC ). The last film he worked on was The Real Bosses: A Devilish Empire (1991).

Web links

• George R. Nelson at the Internet Movie Database (English)