Wiard you

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Wiard "Bill" you (born August 5, 1897 in New York City , New York , † June 22, 1979 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American art director and production designer who won two Oscar for best production design .

Life

Originally a painter and varnisher , she began his career as a production designer in the Hollywood film industry in 1919 for the film A Society Exile and was involved in setting up around sixty films by 1960.

At the Academy Awards in 1938 he received an Oscar nomination for best production design for the film Every Day's a Holiday (1937) by A. Edward Sutherland with Mae West , who also wrote the script , and Edmund Lowe in the lead roles.

In 1945 he won his first of two Oscars for best production design with Thomas Little, namely for the color film Wilson (1944), a film adaptation of the life of US President Woodrow Wilson with Alexander Knox as Wilson and Charles Coburn directed by Henry King and Geraldine Fitzgerald in other leading roles.

He received a second Oscar in the category of best production design at the following Academy Awards in 1946 with A. Roland Fields for the black and white film Spionage in Farost (Blood in the Sun, 1945), a war and espionage film directed by Frank Lloyd with James Cagney , Sylvia Sidney and Porter Hall in the lead roles.

From September 8, 1940, until his death, Bill Sie was married to the famous costume designer Edith Head , who provided around 1,000 films with costumes , was nominated 35 times for the Oscar for best costume design and won eight Oscars in this category.

Filmography (selection)

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