J. McMillan Johnson
Joseph McMillan "Mac" Johnson (born September 15, 1912 in Los Angeles , California , † April 17, 1990 in Napoopoo , Kona , Hawai'i ) was an American production designer , art director and film technician who specialized in visual effects and Received the Oscar for Best Visual Effects at the 1949 Oscars for Jenny (1948) .
Life
After attending school, Johnson studied architecture at the University of Southern California (USC) and later at the Art Center School in Los Angeles . After completing his studies, he worked in the office of the well-known architect Kem Weber before he joined the film production company Selznick International , founded by David O. Selznick in 1938 . In 1939 he worked as a sketch artist at Gone With the Wind for the first time in the creation of a film and was mentioned twice in the book David O. Selznick's Hollywood for his services there .
At the 1949 Academy Awards, he was next to Paul Eagler , Russell Shearman , Clarence Slifer , Charles L. Freeman and James G. Stewart with the Oscar for best visual effects in the film Jenny ("Portrait of Jennie", 1948). During the anti-communist McCarthy era , during which numerous filmmakers were blacklisted and banned from professions , he temporarily withdrew from the film industry and worked again as an architect in the architecture offices of former fellow students , before returning to the mid-1950s was active in the film industry.
In the following years he was nominated several times for the Oscar for best production design. In 1956 he received the nomination together with Hal Pereira , Sam Comer and Arthur Krams for the production design in Above the Roofs of Nice , in 1961 together with Kenneth A. Reid and Ross Dowd for Such an Affair and in 1963 with George W. Davis , Henry Grace and Hugh Hunt for Mutiny on the Bounty .
Most recently, Johnson was nominated twice for the Oscar for the best visual effects: firstly in 1966 for The Greatest Story of All Time (1965), and secondly at the 1969 Academy Awards with Hal Millar for the film Eisstation Zebra .
Other well-known films that Johnson helped create include Das Fenster zum Hof (1954), Goldgräber-Molly (1964), Point Blank (1967) and The "sharpest" of all bandits (1970). Most recently he worked in the television film Earth II in 1971 .
Web links
- J. McMillan Johnson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Johnson, J. McMillan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Johnson, Joseph McMillan (full name); Johnson, Mac (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American art director, production designer and film technician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 15, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Los Angeles , California |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 17, 1990 |
| Place of death | Napoopoo , Kona , Hawaii |