Jack D. Moore

Jack D. Moore (born April 15, 1906 , † December 29, 1998 in Santa Monica , California ) was an American production designer who received the Oscar for best production design in 1950 and was nominated five more times for it.

Life

Moore began in the mid- 1930s as a set designer in the Hollywood film industry and first worked as an associate set decorator in the film The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) by Sidney Franklin . In the course of his career he was involved in the making of around 50 films.

At the Academy Awards in 1943 he was nominated for an Oscar for the first time for the black and white film Found Years (1942) by Mervyn LeRoy together with Cedric Gibbons , Randall Duell and Edwin B. Willis .

In 1950, together with Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse and Edwin B. Willis, he received the Oscar for best production design in the color film Little Brave Jo (1949) by Mervyn LeRoy.

He was then nominated several times for the Oscar for best production design, in 1952 together with Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse and Edwin B. Willis for the black and white film Too Young to Kiss (1951) by Robert Z. Leonard and at the 1954 Academy Awards for both the color film The Heir apparent (1953) by George Sidney with Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary and Edwin B. Willis as well as for the color film Was it the great love? (1953) by Vincente Minnelli and Gottfried Reinhardt together with Cedric Gibbons, E. Preston Ames , Edward C. Carfagno , Gabriel Scognamillo , Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason and Arthur Krams . 1970 was another nomination for Sweet Charity (1969) by Bob Fosse together with Alexander Golitzen and George C. Webb .

He received his last nomination for an Oscar for best production design together with Alexander Golitzen, E. Preston Ames and Mickey S. Michaels at the 1971 Academy Awards for Airport (1970) by George Seaton , who was also his last film as a production designer.

Web links

• Jack D. Moore in the Internet Movie Database (English)