Cedric Gibbons
Birthday: March 23, 1893 in Dublin, Ireland
Birth Name: Austin Cedric Gibbons
Height: 183 cm
After graduating from New York's Art Students League he worked for his architect father, then started film work at Edison Studios in 1915 assisting Hugo Ballin. In 1918 he moved to Goldwyn as art director and, in 1924, began his 32 year stint as supervising art director for some 1500 MGM films, with direct responsibility in well over 150 of th...
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After graduating from New York's Art Students League he worked for his architect father, then started film work at Edison Studios in 1915 assisting Hugo Ballin. In 1918 he moved to Goldwyn as art director and, in 1924, began his 32 year stint as supervising art director for some 1500 MGM films, with direct responsibility in well over 150 of those. He designed the Oscar itself, winning it 11 of the 37 times he was nominated for it. Some of his designs influenced American interiors, and it has been argued that he was the most important art director in the history of American cinema. Show less «
[to Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon, who wrote Madame porte la culotte (1949), when they went to Gibbon...Show more »
[to Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon, who wrote Madame porte la culotte (1949), when they went to Gibbons' office to discuss the sets for that film] You know, this is an historic day. I've been at the studio [MGM] for 25 years and this is the first time writers have ever been in my office. Show less «
When I find things I like I see no reason to change them. Except women.
When I find things I like I see no reason to change them. Except women.
Cedric Gibbons's FILMOGRAPHY
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Annabelle: Creation
IMDb: 7
2017
109 min
Country: United States
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into ...