Hugh Hunt

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Hugh Hunt (born March 8, 1902 in Tennessee , † September 1, 1988 in San Diego , California ) was an American production designer and art director , who received two Oscar for best production design .

Life

Hunt first began as an outfitter for film productions in Hollywood and was involved in the equipment of David Copperfield (1935). He received his first nomination for an Oscar for best production design at the Academy Awards in 1944 for the black and white film Madame Curie (1943) together with Cedric Gibbons , Paul Groesse and Edwin B. Willis . Another nomination in this category followed in 1946 together with Gibbons, Willis, Hans O. Peters and John Bonar for the black and white film Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray (1945).

Together with Gibbons, Peter and Willis, he was also nominated for an Oscar in 1951 , this time for the black and white film Schicksal in Wien (1949). At the subsequent Academy Awards in 1952 he was with Gibbons, William A. Horning and Edward C. Carfagno for an Oscar for the best production design in the color film Quo vadis? (1951) nominated. He received his first Oscar for best production design with Gibbons, Carfagno and Willis in 1954 for Julius Caesar (1953). At the Academy Awards in 1956 he was nominated for the Oscar for production design in the black and white film And Tomorrow I'll Cry (1955) together with Gibbons, Willis and Malcolm Brown . Another nomination followed in 1958 for the production design in The Land of the Rain Tree (1957); this time together with Willis, Horning and Urie McCleary .

He received his second Oscar for best production design at the Academy Awards in 1960 for Ben Hur (1959) along with Horning and Carfagno, Horning receiving the Oscar posthumously . In 1961 Hunt was nominated for the production design in the color film Cimarron (1960) with George W. Davis , Addison Hehr , Henry Grace and Otto Siegel . This was followed by an Oscar nomination in 1963 together with Davis, Grace and J. McMillan Johnson for the set design in the color film Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), in 1964 with Davis, Groesse and Grace for the black and white film character assassination (Twilight of Honor, 1963) and in 1965 with Davis, Grace and E. Preston Ames for the color film Goldgräber-Molly (1965).

Hugh Hunt received his last Oscar nomination for best production design at the Academy Awards in 1967 together with Davis, Groesse and Grace for the black and white film Face Without a Name (Mister Buddwing, 1966).

Other well-known films with sets designed by Hunt were A Bride for Seven Brothers (1954) and Alarm in Space (1956). During his 35 year career in the film industry, he worked with such famous film directors as Mervyn LeRoy , Albert Lewin , George Sidney , Joseph L. Mankiewicz , Daniel Mann , Edward Dmytryk , William Wyler , Anthony Mann , Lewis Milestone , Boris Sagal , Charles Walters , Delbert Mann and Stanley Donen together.

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SURNAME Hunt, Hugh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American production designer and art director
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1988
Place of death San Diego , California