Stuart A. Reiss

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Stuart A. Reiss (born July 15, 1921 in Chicago , Illinois ; † December 21, 2014 ) was an American art director and production designer who won two Oscar for best production design and was nominated four times for this Oscar.

Life

Reiss began his career as art director and production designer in the Hollywood film industry in 1947 for films such as Nightmare Alley and A Ghost on Free Feet and worked on the production of nearly 100 films until 1986.

At the 1954 Academy Awards , he and Lyle R. Wheeler and Maurice Ransford received his first of four Academy Award nominations for best production design, namely for the black and white film Downfall of the Titanic (1953) by Jean Negulesco with Clifton Webb , Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Wagner in the lead roles . 1957 followed another Oscar nomination with Wheeler, Jack Martin Smith and Walter M. Scott for the production design in the black and white film Modern Youth (Teenage Rebel, 1956), a film drama by Edmund Goulding with Ginger Rogers , Michael Rennie and Mildred Natwick .

In 1960 Reiss won his first Oscar for best production design together with Wheeler, Scott and George W. Davis in the black and white film The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) by George Stevens with the leading actors Millie Perkins , Joseph Schildkraut and Shelley Winters .

In 1965 he was nominated again for an Oscar, this time with Smith, Scott and Ted Haworth for the color film Always With Another (1964), a film comedy directed by J. Lee Thompson with Shirley MacLaine , Paul Newman and Robert Mitchum .

Reiss won his second Oscar in 1967 with Smith, Scott and Dale Hennesy for the production design in the color film Die Fantastische Reise (1966), a science fiction film by Richard Fleischer with Stephen Boyd , Raquel Welch and Edmond O'Brien in the leading roles.

He received the fourth and final nomination for an Oscar for best production design at the Academy Awards in 1968 together with Smith, Scott, Mario Chiari and Ed Graves for the musical Doctor Dolittle (1967) by Richard Fleischer with Rex Harrison , Anthony Newley and William Dix .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 1960 : Oscar for best production design in a black and white film
  • 1967 : Oscar for best production design in a color film

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personal data
SURNAME Reiss, Stuart A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art director and production designer
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 2014